Dancers wearing Chechen national costumes perform to celebrate the reelection of Chechnya's regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov in Grozny, Russia in September 2021.
Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya are banning music they consider either too fast or too slow, effectively criminalizing many genres."Musical, vocal and choreographic" works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute to"conform to the Chechen mentality and sense of rhythm," said Dadayev, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS..
Some songs that would fit the bill include Beyonce's"Texas Hold 'Em" , the Bee Gees'"Stayin' Alive" , Led Zeppelin's"Stairway to Heaven" , ABBA's"Dancing Queen" and Taylor Swift's 10-minute version of"All Too Well" , among others."Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles Rachel Treisman is a writer and editor for the Morning Edition live blog, which she helped launch in early 2021.