Greedy Orbán? Why a song about corruption dominates the charts in Hungary

“Csurran, Cseppen”, the Hungarian rapper sings Peteralias Mother. Literally translated this means “it runs, it drips”. That Money. In the music video you can see the Prime Minister of the fictional country Bindschistan, who for the first time gives a live interview after eight years of rule.

Shortly before the conversation, a waiter gives him a truth serum. Under his influence, the Prime Minister, presented by Majka himself, uninhibits corruption, greed for money and stupid people.

On YouTube If the mid -January was called up more than seven million times within a week – given the 9.6 million inhabitants in Hungary, an enormous number. Also in Austria If the clip is at the top of the trend charts, in Germany it is among the top 10.

The listeners see an unmistakable in the music video criticism At the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbanthat is regularly accused of corruption and self -enrichment. Many users also believe in the waiter who mixes the truth serum in the video to the fictional prime minister Hungary’s opposition leader Peter is a Hungarian to recognize.

“We got bigger and bigger, like a community. Everything I had to do was talk about gays,” is a song line. And further: “Then it became clear that we need a plan. So I regulated everything with my childhood friends.” One of them, according to the text, “we washed in, did everything right with him, so I later made him the finance minister.”

Die LGBTQI hostility The Orbán government has been documented as well as the enormous increase in wealth of people from Orbán’s close environment since he took office.

Video collages and AI-generated scenes are now spreading on social media that let Orbán and its ministers dance to the rap song.

“I survive everything, the laws are tailored to me. Damn, I love money so much!” This is how the music video ends.

Song on YouTube: “No political side”

So far, Majka had hardly said politically, he was more considered a figure that tried to adapt, remembered commentators. After the clip was published, the rapper of the media and people, that of the government party Fidesz close to Orbán, immediately attacked publicly. So it is emphasized Whe is irrelevant the music video and the artist. Also the state television station TV2in whose program Majka often appeared, has distanced itself from the rapper – officially because this is critical in the past Donald Trumps Re -election in the USA would have expressed that Orbán sees as “allies”.

Majka herself tried due to the violent reactions to smooth waves. He “does not want to join any political side”, but see the entire elite critically, he said on Facebook.

By Editor

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