“We’re rootin’ for Putin” tops Russian pop charts for ninth month in a row. “We don’t want to go to Siberia,” says band

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“We’re rootin’ for Putin” tops Russian charts! “We don’t want to go to Siberia,” say band!

Doggy Riot is Russia’s latest top boy band and has topped the Russian charts for over 9 months with their hit single “We’re rootin’ for Putin.”

Inspiration for their name came from the ill-fated Pussy Riot, a punk rock protest group that sang songs about Putin being a dictator and who Putin sent to the Siberian salt mines for a very long time until they realised he wasn’t.

Founder member, Ivan Ivanov, 21, said: “We want edgy name like Pussy Riot but we are boys so we are Dogs. We don’t want to go to salt mines so why protest against Putin? He is leader and can do all he likes. We sing how great he is. Maybe he won’t send us to Siberia.

“We also inspired by US President Donald Trump to make America great again. We tell everyone how great Russia is, especially President Putin, and maybe he won’t send us to salt mines.” Ivanov took a swig from a vodka bottle.

The Doggy Riot’s hit song, “We’re all rootin’ for Putin” contains lyrics in both Russian and English. The chorus goes:

We’re rootin’ for Putin
We’re rootin’ for Putin
There ain’t no disputin’
We’re rootin’ for Putin

Ivanov explained: “Russian difficult language for songs. There are no rhymes for ‘Putin’ so we must use English. ‘Putin’ like your word ‘orange’. Only rhyme for ‘orange’ is ‘door hinge’ and we don’t want to say Putin is like any hinge. We don’t want go to Siberia.”

One of the verses contains these lines:

Let’s go to the Crimea and watch Putin put the boot in
He’s really got his foot in
We don’t need no Rasputin
With Vladimir Putin

When asked if they were concerned their lyrics might be construed as warmongering Ivanov shrugged and drank more vodka.

President Putin was unavailable for comment.

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