Friend project. Frend's group

"Friends" is a group from Russia, a youth musical production project of the actor and composer Alexei Vorobyov.

The emergence of an unusual team

The Friends group, whose photo can be easily found in glossy periodicals, began in 2013 as a joint project of two friends Alexei Vorobyov and Sergei Romanovich, who decided to joke about modern pop music on the stage. "Musical banter" - that's what they called this group, and the official name was "Gop Friend Y".

Alexey Vorobyov was not only a producer, but also a composer, lyricist and arranger of the project. High-quality musical material was the result of his painstaking work. The word "gop" in the name of the group began to look stupid and pretentious, not corresponding to the musical aesthetics. Therefore, the first filmed clip "First" belongs to a group called "Friends".

Group, composition and members

Since its inception, the project has not had a permanent composition. Various vocalists took part in the recording of the first songs.

At the end of 2013, the project began to undergo changes. could not fully deal with it and left the post of producer. Alexei began to take his project more seriously and, in cooperation with the center of Yana Rudkovskaya, found soloists for the updated group - Nastya Dvoryanskaya and Pasha Korolev. Aleksey began to call the soloists of the group jokingly “my beloved kindergarten”, because Nastya was 13 at that time, and Pasha was 16 years old. By January 2014, the guys recorded five new songs in a club style: “She and I and YEAH”, “Samba”, “Everything suits the scoundrel”. The production project was a great success on

The video "I Will Always Be With You", released in the spring of 2014, featured new soloists and their producer.

The departure of Pavel Korolev

But in 2015, Pasha had to take final exams, and he left Friends. Alexey Vorobyov with the help of "Love Radio" and "Music of the First" conducts a casting. He auditions more than two hundred or even three hundred gifted guys. And in February, a message about the new composition appeared on his page on the social network. Now there are three performers in the musical group: Maxim Matsyshyn, Roman Larin and Nastya Dvoryanskaya.

The composition of the production project of A. Vorobyov today

Romeo - Roman Larin, was born on August 19, 1997 in Kursk. Favorite musical instruments are piano and guitar. Writes poetry and music. Alexei Vorobyov characterizes him as the romance of our time.

Andy - Anastasia Dvoryanskaya, was born on October 25, 2000. She is a Muscovite. Anastasia loves and knows how to dance thanks to classes at the GallaDance and Todes studios. A visit to the theater studio "Square" allowed Nastya to study acting. She played in 46 performances of this studio. Currently studying at the Academy of Film Business and Show Business.

Nastya is the holder of the title "Model of the World 2013" in the nomination under 16 years of the World Championship in Performing Arts. She has several prizes at the Kinder MUZ Awards 2013, the Discovery of the Year 2014 award at the Young Star of Russia competition-festival. The head of the "Friends" project speaks about her: "Today, her goal - to sing and dance all the time - has become her specialty, and" Friends "is a group whose composition is unthinkable without her."

MaksMan - Maxim Matsyshyn, was born in 1991 in Saratov. Since childhood, he has been fond of music. He graduated from arts and became a vocalist of the Saratov Regional Philharmonic. Maxim is the winner of many competitions, the owner of the Grand Prix of the projects "City of Stars" and "On the Wings of Talent", as well as a gold medal for vocals in tenths. He has the title of the best European singer according to the results of the Bulgarian competition "Sarandev". Max's friends consider him the soul of the company.

Boss - Alexei Vorobyov, was born on January 19, 1988 in Tula. The musician, actor and director writes texts, music, creates arrangements for the songs of Friends. It is he who is the author of the script and director of all the videos of the guys.

Creativity at present

In the fall of 2015, Alexey Vorobyov arranged the premiere of the new video "Best Friend's Girl". The performers have just returned from Los Angeles, where they were filming two more videos. The studio is currently working on the band's album. Members of "Friends" allow fans to watch the rehearsals in real time, broadcasting them in one of the social networks. It must be said that many fans of this musical group were happy with this decision.

The team of musicians does not have many songs, but most of them are known and recognizable. The popularity of Vorobyov's works was brought by the humorous series of the TNT channel "Deffchonki". All soundtracks for this sitcom were recorded by Friends. The group, whose members are still working hard on their next album, is gaining more and more popularity. Their musical works are broadcast not only on radio stations, but also on television. Increasingly, young guys are invited to various parties and concerts. Therefore, this musical group has a great future ahead of it.

The Friendzone is a school pop-punk band from the city of N, saturated with teenage dreams and the smell of cheap cigarettes. You can’t get out of this friend zone - we love you, but as a friend. This text hangs on the Friendzone group on VKontakte, which has almost 150,000 subscribers.

This is surprisingly large and surprisingly fast: the first post on the page appeared only three months ago. For comparison: in VK at Grechka, despite the fact that the informational noise around her continues much longer.

Another testament to the unprecedented interest in the "Friendzone" in the VK music ecosystem: this playlist of their debut album with the telling title "Flirting on the Invitation" has 2 million plays.

What are they

All five members of the "Friendzone" are fictional cartoon characters with corresponding names: the face-hidden lyricist and outsider Make Love, the rapper, hooligan and drug dealer Kroki Boy, the most noticeable and spoiled girl in Mayby Baby's class, DJ Valera Deejakin, who is passionate about music "it is possible that is gay, ”and the cat Kisyosh Pisyosh is the producer of the team. Each of them has its own VK account.

Musically, the "Friendzone" was clearly repulsed. But if another new group, "Tomorrow I'll Throw", the appearance of which could not but be dictated by the popularity of Kirill Bledny, clearly plays on the same field with the "inspirers", then the creators of the "Friendzone" went further. There is not only synthpunk, but also trap beats, and neo-RʼnʼB instrumentals, pop songs inspired by Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, and even emo-cons in the spirit of the late Lil Peep. In general, the full range of music is involved, for which schoolchildren in middle and high school go crazy. Moreover, the sound of the songs is studio, but insipid, leaving a slight feeling of home amateur performance. This, obviously, should also add "toughness".

Track "Virgin"

The roles are divided according to the images: Maybe Baby intones past the notes with a stereotypical "girl" pronunciation to the songs, Make Love pulls sweet-voiced vocalizations, and Kroki in a hoarse voice, distorted by the sound effect (we'll talk about why this was needed, we'll talk further), reads rap verses.

They sing and read about what, as it were, by default should excite today's teenager most of all: sex, alcohol and drugs, a slight interest in same-sex relationships and other joys of adult life. Which side by side with chaste compositions about embarrassment in the first kiss or an invitation to dance at the school disco. One and the same character Make Love in one track is afraid to kiss the girl he likes, in the other he confidently declares that he needs a virgin.

Sung by "Propaganda" and "Factor-2" teenage nihilism, straightforwardness, indecision and hooliganism are found in modern times with the expression of Kirill Bledny. Plus endless topical namedropping, also aimed at the intended listener: the lyrics feature Face, Rick and Morty, K-pop stars BTS, The Weeknd, Britney, Dorn, Supreme, Leviʼs, as well as swipes, instagram, twitter, VK and shipperings in fan fiction.

Having released the debut video "Boychik", the cartoon group burst into the real world, immediately declaring a tour of 20 cities of Russia

The plan worked for a part of the target audience - in the comments to "Boychik", for example, they seriously discuss the relationship between the members of the group or look for clothes in the style of each of the characters. It turns out that "Friendzone" is a project that tries to use all the keys to a young listener. There is a serial line of character relationships, and all the popular musical archetypes at once, and a teenage cry of the soul, and stylish attributes, and forbidden fruits.

In the recent musical history of Russia, this seems to be the first example of such an obvious production project, with clear targeting and taking into account all the realities of music promotion in social networks.

Who is behind them

They are already trying to figure out the real participants in the "Friendzone" - in particular, a funny investigation has appeared on YouTube. Interestingly, it was quickly blocked for using fragments of the "Friendzone" tracks - at the request of the copyright holders. This is rather atypical and looks like an attempt to prevent the distribution of the video, the creators of which reveal the identities of the project participants. Now the video has been re-uploaded, removing the songs "Friendzones" from there, and it.

The video claims that the voices of the project are rappers from St. Petersburg Galat, Trippi and Emelevskaya, and the producer is Mikhail Panshin, the creator of the popular youth public VK "Rhymes and Punches". And although no evidence is given, there is a lot of circumstantial evidence in favor of this theory.

As for Galat, the timbre of the voice of the most famous member of the "Friendzone" and a veteran of rap battles is too recognizable to hide it with sound effects. It is impossible to confuse, to believe in a coincidence - even more so. It is significant that Galat has not released new material for a long time.

As for Trippi, he completely cleaned up and renamed, but reposts from there can be found in Galata and Trippi (what a coincidence!). And here, too, it is easy to notice a strong similarity - both the voice and the singsong manner of Trippi and Make Love.

It’s more difficult to say something about Emelevskaya with confidence: the mournful “girlish” pronunciation of Maebi Baby interferes.

It is worth noting that the releases of the Friendzone receive the most significant support in the public (2.5 million subscribers), where all the premieres of the Friendzone take place. Which of the rap community on VKontakte has grown into what would previously be called a production center: RiP actively pushes ward artists on social networks (you can recall the so-called repost records on VK, which were set by Face and Lieser), has been organizing tours for a long time and hosts the Rhymes Show music festival for the second year. Where, by the way, the first performances of the "Friendzone" will take place.

Autumn tour "Friendzone" called "The main entry of your life" includes 20 concerts. The venues are small by today's standards. But as we know, the distance from small stages to soldouts in halls with thousands of people these days is overcome in a very short time.

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Interviews with stars. Frend's group

To be ready! Use every chance! Always work on yourself!

Visiting the magazine Women's Time Frendy group, produced by Alexey Vorobyov. Maxim Matsyshyn and Roman Larin started their career together in a recording studio in Los Angeles. Now the guys are met by crowds of fans in every city, and the video for the song "I'll Always Be With You", recorded with the famous blogger Sasha Spielberg, has already gained more than 6 million views. And this is all just the beginning. Pretty good start in my opinion.

Maria Q: What steps are required on the path to success?

Maksim: You have to be on top every minute. Because if you sang somewhere, performed somewhere, someone noticed you, recommended you to someone, advised you, as in the case of Roma or me.

You must use every chance you have. To use it, you must be ready. To be ready, you must always work on yourself.

Roma: The most important thing is self-development. You have to mold yourself into the artist that the producer wants to promote.

Maria Q: How did you choose your path?

Maxim: I think that since childhood, both for me and for Roma, from the age of two or three we sang in kindergarten, school, music school, institute and after training. We've been down this path since we were kids. The track, of course, changed somehow along the way, the vector changed, but I personally never stopped singing. Despite the fact that there were other professions in my life, for example, television.

Roma: I have the same situation, all since childhood. I remember when I saw Philip Kirkorov on television, I thought: I will grow up and become like Philip Kirkorov. Then I saw Nikolai Baskov, and everyone started calling me Nikolai Baskov, because I sang the song "Bar-organ". Then Dima Bilan came on stage, and I decided that I would become like Dima Bilan. Then I saw Justin Bieber, I thought I would be like Justin. And then I came to Moscow, got into the Friends group and wanted to become Alexei Vorobyov. In the end, I am who I am.

Maria: "I will always be with you" - I think a lot of girls want to hear this phrase from you. What kind of girl does she have to be to hear her?

Maksim: Personally, I like girls with a sense of humor, kind, patient.

Roma: What kind of girl should be? Beloved, I think. And the rest, of course, are also important points, but the most important thing is to be loved. After all, they love the soul, not the shell.

Maria: Our female audience is very interested in what external factors do you pay special attention to?

Maksim: I have always loved well-groomed girls. Despite her wealth, if a girl has an innate sense of style and taste, then she can even dress in inexpensive stores and look amazing at the same time, and men will turn to her. I even have such an example in my life. In general, I have always loved well-groomed girls who take care of their hands, hair, smell delicious. You know, there is a saying - a smart woman will not allow herself to be ugly. I am sure about that. Of course, you need to lead a sports lifestyle. Alcohol, smoking - all this affects the skin, the condition of the head, hair, and so on.

A smart woman will not allow herself to be ugly! A girl should make you want to strive to be close to her, that she is some kind of diamond, not framed by your charisma.

Maria: And finally, what do you wish women?

Maksim: Forgive men for some jumps and weaknesses. We do all this for you. We joke, we smile, sometimes we even somehow act up and wait for your attention, just because we like you.

Roma: Girls, stay as beautiful as Sasha Spielberg in the video "I will always be with you." And most importantly, love and be loved.

Interview with Maria Prokopchenko

"Friendzone" is a group designed to break stereotypes about how modern music is made. This is a school team from a certain city in the country, which began its ascent to fame through promotion on the VKontakte network.

• Date of foundation: May 3, 2018.
• Founding city: N.
• Zodiac sign: Taurus.
• Height and weight: unknown.

The Friendzone group at first seemed like the whole embodiment of simple amateur performances of high school students. But time passed, everyone realized that this team did not appear on the Olympus of fame in order to quickly disappear. Her appearance and rapid rise to fame once again proves that in the electronic world and digital economy, emerging artists no longer need solid record labels. If the public is interested in the work of the team, it will notice it in social networks.

Fame

The group has five fictional characters drawn in a "cartoon" style.

• Make Love in black and white, hiding his face behind a mask.
• Croky Boy, rapper and bully.
• Maby Baby is the first beauty of the class. A blue-haired girl who isn't shy about talking (and singing) about things that everyone around her cares about.
• Valera DJKIN is just a DJ whose life is only music.
• Kisesh Pisesh is a producer who tries to keep order in the group.

All heroes have their own account on the VKontakte network. But the main reason for the success lies not in unusual animated musicians, but in a mixture of the most popular rhythms among young people: trap beat, city punk, rhythm and blues instrumental, pop and emo songs.

The real members of the group are considered unknown. And yet, the circle of names that pop up next to this project is narrow: Galat, Trippi, Emelevskaya. And the producer cat is Mikhail Panshin. In the clip "Bottle" rapper Galat appeared in a recognizable form.

The group sings about topical issues for teenagers: relationships with each other, with parents, self-determination, attitudes towards same-sex couples, first feelings and complexes that interfere with them. The songs resonated with thousands of teenagers in just a matter of months.

Teenagers see the Friendzone group as a manifesto of their main themes and problems in life. Adult journalists note that the team has a strong production team on support, which amateur teams rarely have. T-shirts and other commercial merchandise bearing the group's merchandise could be bought almost from the first days of its appearance on the networks.

Personal life

The personal life of the group members is shrouded in obscurity. While fans are figuring out who could sing there, it's hard to predict what kind of relationship these people might have.

Such closeness allows the group to sing and shoot clips about various problems. In the clip "Boychik" a beauty with blue hair is looking for a kiss from a boy. And in the video for the track "Bottle", her goal is to be in the arms of a girl.

Apparently, the personal lives of the team members will be kept even tighter secret than their names.

• The video for the song "Boychik" was watched by about 4 million people in a short time.
• The group's first tour was to cover 20 cities.
• During the first 3 months of the team's existence, its public on the VKontakte network gathered about 150 thousand subscribers. Now their number exceeds 270 thousand.
• There are suggestions on the network that the production project "Friendzone" is created in such a way that various artists can appear in different clips and tracks under the guise of characters. Will these be the same personalities or will they be replaced from clip to clip? This question is not yet certain.
• The video for the song "Bottle" gained a million views in just 2 days from the moment of release.

• vk.com/friendzone
• instagram.com/friendzonaa