Monetochka

Monetochka (Russian: Моне́точка, lit. 'Little Coin') is the stage name of Elizaveta Andreevna Gyrdymova (Russian: Елизаве́та Андре́евна Гырды́мова, born 1 June 1998), a Russian singer-songwriter.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Andreevna and the family name is Gyrdymova.
Monetochka
Монеточка
Monetochka, 2018
Background information
Birth nameElizaveta Andreevna Gyrdymova
Also known asmonetochka, Liza Monetochka
Born (1998-06-01) 1 June 1998
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Genresindie-pop, alternative pop, russian rock
Instrumentskeyboards
Years active2016–present

Biography

Gyrdymova was born on 1 June 1998 in Yekaterinburg. From childhood, Gyrdymova enjoyed writing poetry and published her work on the site Stihi.ru as a teenager.[1]

In 2014, she entered tenth grade at the Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of the Ural Federal University. In 2016, she enrolled in correspondence courses in film production at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. She chose the school because of her love of classic cinema.[2]

Since September 2016, Gyrdymova has continued her studies, and her first internship was at the ETV channel in her native Yekaterinburg, where she released joint projects with the poet Alexandra Aksyonova.[3] She then worked for some time as a producer at ETV.[1]

Musical career
Monetochka performing at VK Fest 2018 in Saint Petersburg
Monetochka performing at A2 in Saint Petersburg

At the end of 2015, Gyrdymova uploaded her first album, Psychedelic Cloud-Rap (Russian: «Психоделический клауд рэп», romanized: Psihodeličeskij klaud rèp), to the social network VKontakte under the pseudonym Monetochka. She recorded the songs at home on a synthesizer.[4][5] Soon after, she began uploading videos of her live performances to YouTube.[6]

On 22 January 2016, she officially released Psychedelic Cloud Rap. The album was posted in one of the popular social network communities and quickly went viral.[1][6] By the end of February, she had over 20,000 followers on her VKontakte page and received offers to give concerts and interviews.[7]

In January 2017, Monetochka released the video for the song "Ushla k realistu" (Russian: «Ушла к реалисту»).[2] On 1 June 2017 the video for the song "Childfree" (Russian: «Чайлдфри»), recorded with Noize MC, was released. The song and video became the subject of a scandal. The Moscow lawyer Sergei Afanasyev wrote to the prosecutor's office to check "Childfree" for legal violations, claiming that the lyrics promoted teen suicide.[8]

In 2017, Monetochka began to collaborate with the alternative R&B musician and producer Viktor "BTsKh" Isaev.[4][9] Their first collaboration, the single "Poslednyaya diskoteka" (Russian: «Последняя дискотека», lit. 'The Last Disco'), was released on 31 October 2017.[1]

On 25 May 2018, Monetochka released her first studio album, Coloring for Adults (Russian: «Раскраски для взрослых», romanized: Raskraski dlâ vzroslyh), produced by Isaev. According to the press release, Coloring for Adults marked a new sound for Monetochka, "containing musical references to the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary club music, music from cartoons, and even folklore."[10] The album contains multiple references to the late Soviet rock musician Viktor Tsoi, including a musical quote from the Kino song "Khochu peremen!" (Russian: «Хочу перемен!», lit. 'I Want Change!') and lyrics mentioning a "weary Tsoi".[11][4]

On 28 May 2018, Monetochka performed the song "Kazhdyi raz" (Russian: «Каждый раз», lit. 'Every Time') on the late-night talk show Evening Urgant. In his introduction, the host, Ivan Urgant, said that some critics considered Monetochka's new album "one of the major Russian-language albums of this year." On 1 June 2018, a concert presentation of the new album took place in Moscow.[12]

On 2 October 2020, Monetochka released the studio album Arts and Crafts (Russian: «Декоративно-прикладное искусство», romanized: Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo).[13]

Critical reception

In a review of Psychedelic Cloud Rap on the InterMedia website, the music critic Alexei Mazhaev wrote that "in Liza's music, stiob is combined with sanity on the verge of cynicism", and "excellent command of words, a sense of language and accurate orientation in the signs of the times are seasoned with charming naivety."[14]

According to music journalist Alexander Gorbachev (Meduza), despite the fact that Monetochka started off as an Internet meme, she did not share the formulaic path of short-lived celebrity. Comparing the singer's songs from Psychedelic Cloud Rap to the new songs of Coloring for Adults, Gorbachev notes that "the toylike childishness of Monetochka’s early music has grown into something far more complex in this album."[4]

The poet Vera Polozkova spoke about Monetochka's success in the following way: “This is absolutely a child telling you about what is happening around you, with such irreconcilability which you would never have dared to use yourself."[15]

Maria Engström claims that "Monetochka’s album [Coloring for Adults] today is the only intelligible manifesto of the aesthetics of Putin’s fourth term in office."[11]

The singer Zemfira called Monetochka's lyrics "excellent", but said she considered the singer's voice "repulsive".[16]

Boris Barabanov named "Kazhdyi raz" one of the 16 top songs of 2018 and wrote that by releasing Coloring for Adults, Monetochka "managed to break the framework of the independent scene and break into the mainstream."[17]

Charts

In December 2016, Monetochka's track "Gosha Rubchinskiy" (Russian: «Гоша Рубчинский») was ranked 11th in The Flow's "50 Best Tracks of 2016."[18]

In January 2017, Psychedelic Cloud Rap was ranked 6th in The Flow's "33 Best Russian Albums of 2016".[19] Psychedelic Cloud Rap was 14th in the list of the 20 best Russian albums in Afisha Daily's "40 Albums of the Year" for 2016.[20] In December 2017, "Poslednyaya diskoteka" was ranked 17th in The Flow's "50 Best Tracks of 2017."[21]

In 2018, at the Jager Music Awards, Monetochka won in categories "Group of the Year" and "Single of the Year" with the song "Kazhdyi raz".[22] All 10 songs from Coloring for Adults entered the Yandex Music's Top-100 chart within three days of the album's release. The song "Nimfomanka" received the highest ranking, reaching number one in the chart.[23] In summing up the music of 2018, Yandex Music named Monetochka as the breakthrough artist of the year and noted that "Kazhdyi raz" was one of the most streamed tracks across their markets.[24] The Flow ranked Monetochka's tracks "90" and "Kazhdyi raz" in the 20th and first places, respectively, in their list of the 50 best tracks of 2018,[25][26] and according to the results of popular vote, the Coloring for Adults came third among the best albums of 2018 and first among pop albums of the year.[27]

Discography

Albums
  • 2016 — Psychedelic Cloud Rap (Russian: Психоделический клауд рэп)
  • 2018 — Coloring for Adults (Russian: «Раскраски для взрослых», romanized: Raskraski dlâ vzroslyh)
  • 2020 —Arts and Crafts (Russian: «Декоративно-прикладное искусство», romanized: Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo)

Mini-albums
  • 2017 — Ya Liza (Russian: Я Лиза, lit. 'I'm Liza')

Singles
  • 2016 — "Gosha Rubchinskiy" (Russian: «Гоша Рубчинский»)
  • 2016 — "Kapital" (Russian: «Капитал»)
  • 2016 — "Kozyrnyi tuz" (Russian: «Козырный туз»)
  • 2016 — "Ushla k realistu" (Russian: «Ушла к реалисту»)[28]
  • 2016 — "Zavod" (Russian: «Завод»)
  • 2016 — "Zdravstvuite, Angelina" (Russian: «Здравствуйте, Анджелина»)
  • 2017 — "Papochka, prosti" (Russian: «Папочка, прости»)
  • 2017 — "Risa-chan" (Russian: «Риса-чан»)
  • 2017 — "Poslednyaya diskoteka" (Russian: «Последняя дискотека»)
  • 2018 — "Ne khochu nichego znat'" (Russian: «Не хочу ничего знать»)
  • 2018 — "Na Zare" (Russian: «На заре») (Alyans cover)
  • 2019 — "Padat' v gryaz'" (Russian: «Падать в грязь»)
  • 2019 — "Gori gori gori" (Russian: «Гори гори гори»)

Collaborations
  • 2016 — Noize MC — "Childfree" (Russian: «Чайлдфри»)
  • 2016 — Khan Zamai (Russian: Хан Замай) & Slava KPSS (Russian: Слава КПСС) — Hype Train («Гоша Рубчинский» feat. СД, Zoo in Space, Букер Д. Фред, Овсянкин, «Покемоны» feat. Овсянкин)
  • 2017 — Satana Pechet Bliny (Russian: Сатана Печёт Блины) — "Selfie" (Russian: «Селфи»)
  • 2018 — Satana Pechet Bliny — "Son Studentki" (Russian: «Сон Студентки»)
  • 2018 — Noize MC, Swanky Tunes — "Lyudi s avtomatami" (Russian: «Люди с автоматами»)
  • 2018 — Kurtki Cobaina (Russian: Куртки Кобейна) — "Niti DNK" (Russian: «Нити ДНК») (Bi-2 and Monetochka)

Videos
  • 2017 — "Ushla k realistu" (Russian: «Ушла к реалисту»)[29]
  • 2017 — "Childfree" (Russian: «Чайлдфри») (feat. Noize MC)
  • 2017 — "Proshchai, moi Yekaterinburg!" (Russian: «Прощай, мой Екатеринбург!»)
  • 2017 — "Poslednyaya diskoteka" (Russian: «Последняя дискотека»)
  • 2018 — "Zaprozhets" (Russian: «Запорожец»)
  • 2018 — "90"
  • 2018 — "Niti DNK" (Russian: «Нити ДНК») (feat. Bi-2)
  • 2019 — "Nimfomanka" (Russian: «Нимфоманка», lit. 'Nymphomaniac')
  • 2019 — "Padat' v gryaz'" (Russian: «Падать в грязь»)
  • 2019 — "Net monet" (Russian: «Нет монет»)

References
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  3. Demekhina, Irina (2 January 2017). "Лиза Монеточка спелась с поэтессой Сашей Аксеновой". ЕТВ (in Russian). Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. Gorbachev, Aleksandr (3 May 2018). "A 19-year-old musician just released the best Russian pop album of the year. Seriously". meduza.io. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  5. Lee, Julia (2 July 2018). "Живущая в сети. Как Монеточка построила музыкальную карьеру нового типа". Forbes.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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  7. Raspopina, Sasha. "Meet Monetochka: this teenager's songs went viral. Don't be fooled by her sweet voice". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  8. Bobylev, Roman (2 June 2018). "Адвокат потребовал проверить песню "Чайлдфри" Noize MC и Монеточки на призыв к детскому суициду". Afisha Daily (in Russian). Retrieved 7 August 2020.
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