This is one of Jinjer’s most heart wrenching songs. War as seen through the eyes of a child. Seldom do you see such raw emotion in a metal song. Jinjer has the ability to create such art out of an emotional pain that they experienced.
This song represents their first refugee experience during the 2014 conflict with Russian imagined through the eyes of a child. The three straw figures at the tea party are all characters from an Ukrainian folktale. The dissonance in the opening was placed there to give the listener the same sense of unease as a child would when confronted with the reality of war. Good reaction
For Ukrainians the war started in 2014 with Russian occupation of Crimea and Russian controlled fighting in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine where the band is from. Many people outside of Ukraine think the conflict began with the full scale invasion of Russian military forces but in reality it was never a civil war so much as Russia manipulating, directly participating and inflaming the situation in Eastern Ukraine. The band fled from the fighting in 2014 so though this song is highly relevant to what is happening now it was originally inspired by the fighting prior to that which caused them to flee their homes.
Yeah the war has been going on since 2014, but at a lower intensity with Russian"little green men" operating without insignia insteadof an open invasion. Still cities were devastated and interational passenger airline flights were shot down by Russian heavy SAM batteries even during the "low intensity" phase of the war.
@HereWeGo-Philly yeah it's easy to forget how long it's been going on. Actually the war for them wasn't Crimea but in the Donbass. They come from a city called Horlivka just north of Donetsk city that's been on the front line ever since 2014, with their parents trapped on the other side. For a while, there was a cease-fire and they could visit which is the meaning of the line "I came back home, now I want my home back." Since the full-scale invasion the song has taken on a wider meaning so I'm incredibly glad they did a video release. Also because its so rare that we get any anti war media from the millions of ordinary people trapped in any war which IMO makes the song important far beyond the scope of the war in Ukraine. It could as easily be about people in Bagdad during the insurgency or Gaza, or whatever war one wants to point to. Retrospection is originally about missing their families, though the video turns it into a homage to the found family of their band and the extended family of their fans.
This is one of Jinjer’s most heart wrenching songs. War as seen through the eyes of a child. Seldom do you see such raw emotion in a metal song. Jinjer has the ability to create such art out of an emotional pain that they experienced.
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This song represents their first refugee experience during the 2014 conflict with Russian imagined through the eyes of a child. The three straw figures at the tea party are all characters from an Ukrainian folktale. The dissonance in the opening was placed there to give the listener the same sense of unease as a child would when confronted with the reality of war. Good reaction
For Ukrainians the war started in 2014 with Russian occupation of Crimea and Russian controlled fighting in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine where the band is from. Many people outside of Ukraine think the conflict began with the full scale invasion of Russian military forces but in reality it was never a civil war so much as Russia manipulating, directly participating and inflaming the situation in Eastern Ukraine. The band fled from the fighting in 2014 so though this song is highly relevant to what is happening now it was originally inspired by the fighting prior to that which caused them to flee their homes.
Yeah the war has been going on since 2014, but at a lower intensity with Russian"little green men" operating without insignia insteadof an open invasion. Still cities were devastated and interational passenger airline flights were shot down by Russian heavy SAM batteries even during the "low intensity" phase of the war.
I am sorry, I forgot Crimea. I apologize to Ukraine.
@HereWeGo-Philly yeah it's easy to forget how long it's been going on. Actually the war for them wasn't Crimea but in the Donbass. They come from a city called Horlivka just north of Donetsk city that's been on the front line ever since 2014, with their parents trapped on the other side. For a while, there was a cease-fire and they could visit which is the meaning of the line "I came back home, now I want my home back." Since the full-scale invasion the song has taken on a wider meaning so I'm incredibly glad they did a video release. Also because its so rare that we get any anti war media from the millions of ordinary people trapped in any war which IMO makes the song important far beyond the scope of the war in Ukraine. It could as easily be about people in Bagdad during the insurgency or Gaza, or whatever war one wants to point to.
Retrospection is originally about missing their families, though the video turns it into a homage to the found family of their band and the extended family of their fans.