The song comes along with its music video which sees the members of the Russian punk band donning the uniforms of Russia's riot police while getting buried alive.
- February 19, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Russian punk band Pussy Riot has released their first English song. Called "I Can't Breathe", the track was debuted on Wednesday, February 18 as a musical tribute to Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died last year in New York City when a cop put him in a chokehold.
The song was recorded by the group's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina last December in NYC during the protests following a grand jury's decision not to indict the cop over Garner's death. It was produced by a handful of musicians including Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt, Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner and Russian bands Scofferlane and Jack Wood.
"Pussy Riot's first English song is dedicated to those who can no longer breathe," the band explained the track in an accompanying statement. "Those words are his, but we hope they can also stand for us and for many around the world, for all who can't breathe because authorities act with impunity in using power to humiliate, intimidate, hurt, kill and oppress."
"I Can't Breathe" came along with a music video that sees the two members of Pussy Riots buried alive while donning the uniforms of Russia's riot police. "Illegal violence in the name of the state kills not only its victims, but those who are chosen to carry out these actions," the duo has explained to uniform choice to BuzzFeed. "Policemen, soldiers, agents, they become hostages and are buried with those they kill, both figuratively and literally."
