The song “O Grzegorz Braun” takes first place in the “Music” category in the “Na Czas” tab on YouTube, collecting over a million views in three days. There is no doubt that there will be even more. So Internet users like it and it’s no wonder.
The team behind this work is Letni (known to the oldest highlanders as Letni Chamski Podryw) and the YouTuber MichuM4K. Letni are known for their catchy parodies of popular songs. This is the case this time: “O Grzegorz Braun” is sung to the melody of “O Peggy Brown” by the Myslovitz group. There is no major controversy in the text. It is impossible to accuse YouTubers of approving the act of a Confederate politician who decided to spray Hanukkah candles lit in the Sejm building with a powder fire extinguisher. At the same time, he used the same fire extinguisher to attack a woman who was trying to stop him. The woman ended up in hospital, so the whole story is actually extremely funny. Nothing to do but tear up and write songs.
Back to the text. There are only three verses, the whole content is that Braun saw the candles, saw the fire extinguisher, connected the facts, set off the fire extinguisher, and the end was seen by all of Poland and the entire EU. And that’s it. To be fair: nowhere in the text does it say that Braun’s behavior was okay. Nor is it condemned. The whole incident was described as if it were an aunt’s name day. And every now and then there’s a catchy refrain: “Oh Grzegorz Braun, oh Grzegorz Braun, who can put out candles like that?” Seriously, you only have to listen to it once and there’s no way you’ll be able to get it out of your head, where it will play on a loop for the rest of the day.
Except it’s not a nice foundation at all. Because the effect is that a lively song normalizes an act of violence. We can sing about the fact that Braun “played Fireman Sam” and “knew fire protection regulations well” until we stop remembering that it was no “performance” (and this is the term used in the text), but aggression, a brutal attack for something that doesn’t fit into Mr. Braun’s worldview. And if Mr. Braun gives an outlet to his emotions in this way, it’s scary to think what else he doesn’t like in the modern world and what he plans to do about it.
Of course, satire reaches for current events, comments on them and ridicules them. And well, that’s how it should be. Except this isn’t the case. Just look at the comments on the YouTube video. And these are clear. “Bravo Braun!”, “Who would have expected that Braun would become a hero and people would sing about him”, “Bravo, Mr. Braun!!! You are the only Pole in the Jewish Parliament!!!”. Little? And also: “Maybe Poles will finally realize who rules us, greetings to Mr. Braun”, “They will write about him in history books!”
After all, a lot has been written in history books about various chosen people of the nation who thought they had a monopoly on being right. I recommend reading.
Source: Gazeta
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