Nastia Kamenskykh shared a snippet of an upcoming song dedicated to Kyiv and received a wave of negative feedback. One of the main complaints from users was the language: the singer performs the song about longing for her hometown and returning home entirely in Russian. It was reported.
Potap and Nastia Kamenskykh shared the snippet on their YouTube channel. In a video filmed at a recording studio, the artist sings a few lines from the new song. It was written by Potap.
The snippet tells of returning to one’s hometown and meeting someone close. The lines translate into English as follows:
“Home, I’m coming home to see you. Home, I’m coming home, where churches stand above the water.”
The singer broke down in tears while performing. Calling the song awful, she explained that it was because of its emotional content:
“I mustn’t cry… This is such a terrible song… We came up with this kind of show for this song. I can’t sing it at all; I cry the whole time. Every word here is a memory,” said Nastia Kamenskykh.
According to the artist, the song is dedicated to memories of the Kyiv of the past:
“I miss Kyiv as it was when my dad was alive, when there were still tokens in the Metro… Only Kyiv residents will understand this song. I know a few Kyiv residents who will definitely cry when they hear it,” Kamenskykh emphasized.
However, many social media users were not convinced by the singer’s emotions. In the comments, they accused her of being insincere, criticized her acting, and mocked her tears. They also brought up the cyst that had previously been discussed in connection with the artist.
The post received comments including:
“Has the cyst gone away? Such mixed emotions.”
“Stanislavski would say, ‘I don’t believe it.’ A bad little actress.”
“My dog cries like that every day when it asks for food. It says it’s never eaten in its life. I believe it even more.”
“It didn’t even affect her. Maybe the cyst is contagious.”
“I’m ashamed that I ever listened to her.”
The full version of the song has not yet been released. The controversy over the snippet concerns both the artist’s professed nostalgia and her decision to sing about her hometown in Russian.
We previously reported:
- “Hop-hop-hop”: Verka Serduchka sings in Russian — Kremin doesn’t mind
- “He sang old hits in Russian”: How Danylko responded to a complaint from a TV host in Mykolaiv
- Shocking truth: Why Potap cannot return to Ukraine
- Language scandal: Arestovych defended the young man who performed a Tsoi song in Lviv (video)
- In Mykolaiv, nationalists tried to disrupt Potap and Nastia’s concert — police had to intervene
