Alika Bogatyreva: “Prisoners of Time” is my first song in the chanson style.”

Multifaceted performing talent Aliki Bogatyreva @alika_bogatyreva today shone with a new facet - the singer presented a composition in the chanson style - “Prisoners of Time”, about the transience of life and the labyrinths of fate.

“I absolutely love listening to chanson and can do it all the time,” comments Alika, “at home, in the car, at karaoke, I happily sing the songs of Rada Rai, Elena Vaenga, Irina Krug, Timur Mutsuraev and many others. Indiscriminately into women's and men's parties. And one day the songwriter Artur Kencheshaov and I thought, shouldn’t I record something in the same style? Many people said that it wouldn’t suit me, that the genre wasn’t mine, that nothing good would come of it, but we decided not to listen to anyone and made the first track. So with today's release I have become one step closer to chanson.
“Prisoners of Time” is a song with deep meaning. I hope it will make listeners think and draw useful conclusions for themselves. It would be better for the author himself to tell you about the main message of the composition.”

“The theme of the single touches on the eternal question that has long worried mankind: how to subjugate time? In search of an answer to it, people often, instead of using time to good use, have time to do more good deeds, are engaged in trying to circumvent this law of time. Of course, they do not succeed.
The song tells the story of a young man who seeks advice from an old man. The same one, recognizing himself young in him, is trying to reason with him, explaining that it is better to live today, trying to have more time. But the guy, of course, does not listen to him, even chuckles somewhere, but in the end he leaves and spends his life searching, repeating the fate of the old man. Together with the gray-haired song’s hero comes wisdom, and then he returns to the hill where he once communicated with the old man. Unfortunately, understanding comes to people, most often, too late. And so from generation to generation.
I myself often think about these issues, because in this bustle and eternal pursuit of some profit, in working days we just forget to think about time. Looking back, we understand that a week, a month, a year, a year flew by ... And the main message of the song is precisely that we need to value time and try to spend it with maximum benefit for ourselves and for those around us. ”

Listen and download Alika Bogatyreva’s song “Prisoners of Time”