Written by Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
Jovanovic and Odzic – the first as a representative of the ultra Serbian, the latter as a representative of the Montenegrin-patriotic bloc – together sang the song of the Neo-Chetnik trash folk singer Baja Mali Knindza, called ‘Cuvaj mi se, sine’ (eng. Take care of yourself, my son).
After that, we witnessed famous Montenegrin comedy devoid of humour. Those who wanted to form a coalition with Jovanovic but failed in that attempt, and now condemn the DPS for uniting with Jovanovic, are being horrified because representatives of the civic parties know the lyrics of nationalistic songs. Admittedly, if they kicked out from their party all those who love Baja, and don’t hate Ratko Mladic either, the number of members of that party would be cut in half.
However, those who allegedly represent the civic bloc and who harshly criticized everyone, particularly the ethnic minority parties that entered into coalition with nationalists, only to do the same as soon as they got the chance, seem to have no objections when it comes to Baja. His songs are being sung by those people who were horrified to hear that some other people played Baja’s song in Tivat. As a folk poet would say:
Whoever doesn’t like Mali Baja,
let the Turks pray for them.
If people were to die from hypocrisy, there wouldn’t be a single person alive here.
The Montenegrin moral police – whose eagerness even the Iranian one would envy – find nothing wrong with singing Baja’s songs although they searched for collaborationist syntax and treacherous punctuation in my texts.
And in Montenegro, everything makes more sense than being surprised at something. Who hasn’t understood by now that politics in this country has no morals, let alone ethics; who is not clear that not only everyone can, but also wants to be with everyone; who has not noticed that the Montenegrin political elite is nothing more than a mixture of Farma participants and swinger orgy – will never be able to understand anything.
So, Baja. The biggest Chetnik among the thrashers and the biggest thrash among the Chetniks. As Schopenhauer also noted: he who speaks to fools always has a large audience. That’s why Baja is a megastar.
However, the importance of Baja for Montenegro following religious processions shouldn’t be underestimated.
Baja is a part of the initiation rite that precedes stepping into the government after the 2020 elections.
The initiation rite is an old practice. In ancient times, a young man could not join the ranks of hunters until he had killed and brought a bear as a gift to the tribe.
You cannot become a member of a street gang until you kill an innocent bystander.
Until Baja sings about you (like in the case of Dritan) or you sing Baja’s song (like Odzic did), you can’t enter the government – at least not in the period after 30 August.
Once you accept Baja, you’ve accepted all the values of a winner. By singing Baja’s songs, you publicly demonstrate that you and the one who sings with you can be politically different; you can also be ethnically diverse; but you are, most importantly, culturally the same.
Thus, Baja unites people of various religions and nations. Serbian war criminals, as well as Montenegrin criminals, like to sing his song ‘Cuvaj mi se, sine’. And police officers, too.
Mhm, I’d bet that Bosniak opportunists also wouldn’t mind singing that song.
In the past, people in Montenegro used to mark important events by quoting Njegos. Whatever happened, there was an adequate quote from Njegos for that. For example: “The die is cast”. Or “A healthy mind in a healthy body”. That Montenegro seems to have breathed its last.
Today’s Montenegrins do not recognize their life, suffering and struggle in Njegos’s verses, but in Baja’s verses. When there’s joy and when it’s difficult – Baja is there. That’s why I ask – is it, my brothers, that Baja has become your new Njegos?
Just to make one thing clear: singing Baja’s songs is symbolically the same as the chapel on Lovcen, like Joanikije on the throne of St Petar Cetinjski or Mandic presiding the parliament. It’s also called – assimilation. And assimilation has never been fought against by someone who fought against it by singing the assimilator’s songs.
P.S.
Since the general reconciliation in Montenegro is unfortunately inevitable, and it’s clear that it’ll be implemented based on the highest principles of universal rubbishness, I propose that the national flag be a tricolor with a cross: two crossed cocaine lines. Two crossed lines to symbolize two peoples, two languages, two churches and two clans. And for the national anthem that would be the only song that can rival Baja: Zoka Bosanac.
This:
Firstly: Sekula Drljevic didn’t write this song, which is sufficient in itself. Secondly, the song is stupid and misogynistic, so it meets all the standards of a petrified patriarchy. Thirdly, Trump abolished USAID, so there will be no one who would protest because of the political incorrectness of this song.
And finally – following the election victory in Niksic, they should stop singing Baja, and rather turn to Gavranovi – Crni ep: Pjevanija prva, because that would be in the spirit of the warring Niksic and is a great black metal song played with gusle (a Montenegrin single-string instrument). Listen:
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