Начинаем oтмечать! Ленинград, Шнуров - Let's Start Celebrating! Leningrad, Shnurov

This is a video of 2016 Leningrad song "[Let's] Start Celebrating!" (Начинаем отмечать!). The song was written for "Yolki 5" (Fir Trees 5), a New Year's Eve comedy directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It is rarely performed live, and few videos of it have been posted on Youtube, none of them with translated descriptions or tags. This means Leningrad's non-Russian-speaking fans have so far missed out on this little masterpiece (the song, not the movie clip). Hopefully this video fixes it. =) Celebration doesn’t happen by itself. Even New Year’s Doesn’t come by the clock, that’s the compote.* And what goes with compote? A decanter of vodka! No MinFin** can spoil our New Year’s! The important thing is to start, The important thing is to start Celebrating something. Chorus: Let’s start celebrating! Let’s start celebrating! Let’s start celebrating! Let’s start celebrating! Screw the distance, festivity is hurrying To visit us. It’s the state of our souls Or our bodies – depends on the situation. Before your life flies by, just celebrate! The important thing is to start, The important thing is to start Celebrating something. [Chorus] * Slang for “deal”. **Short for Ministry of Finance. In the film (featuring a penguin), the word was “penguin”.