How a slip, which may not have been, revealed that in the entire macho heritage of rock music, the Partybreakers stand as a shining example of fair and honorable treatment of women, all on the occasion of the exhibition Party breakers - Just be yourself.
This story about the first and every subsequent album of the Partibrejkers group is based on one thing - a female slip. Writing a text about the opening of the exhibition Party breakers - Just be yourself., Sonja Ćirić and I mechanically wrote "yours" instead of "yours", and laughed sweetly at that. Now, whether it was Freud, eye fatigue or the Lord God himself, is totally irrelevant. Be that as it may, very important. But, from that moment on, some worm in my head continued to do its work, and hardly a day has passed since then, without the question immediately appearing to me upon waking: "Wait, and from where to at all?”.
Pusti struju kroz mene / I biću kao nekad / Ako si dovoljno luda /Ako si dovoljno hrabra.
(Partybreakers, If you are)
It turned out that this typo shed light on a much more significant fact than simple finger carelessness. It probably wouldn't occur to anyone, but overall macho to the legacy of local and world rock music in general, Partibrejkers stand as a bright example of honest and honorable treatment towards women. And that in absolutely all cases. If you listen carefully to the songs of this group, you will be surprised to what extent they appreciate the female point of view on things and female existence as such. Not only in an extremely fair, almost proto-feminist way, but also with a corresponding awe and, let's put it bluntly, fascination before something free, elusive, almost magical.
The Partybreakers sang such a true ode to womanhood every time they touched it. Do I see a sneer on your faces, while you wink joyfully at A ring because of those rhymes: "I bought a ring, I bought a gun/ I'll throw one of those two in the river"? Well, John Lennon also borrowed Elvis' lyrics in his time: "I'd rather see you dead, little girl/ Than to be with another man" in the song Run for Your Life, but he admired women no less for that. Party breakers and women, in a word, are totally okay. And much more - they are natural partners in an equal relationship. Therefore, this band definitely has nothing to do with misogyny.
Uvek kad čujem odjek tvojih štikli, odmah se pretvorim u tvoju pticu /
Nećeš da budem kao svi /
Krotiš mene kao psa. /
Pazi da te ne ujedem.
(Partybreakers, You must be mine.)
Making an exhibition Party breakers - Just be yourself. - currently underway in front of the "Cvijeta Zuzorić" Art Pavilion on Kalemegdan, organized by Dom omladine Belgrade and with the enormous support of director Andrija Bojanić - Dragan Ambrozić and I confronted our different views on the first album of Partibrejkers from 1985, the anniversary of which was also a concrete reason for our exhibition. Dragan's insight is typically masculine and has been officially established over four decades since the release of this legendary record for the then Jugoton. Within that worldview, tracks 1000 years, Stop, Johnny i Street walker without any doubt they are the most significant for the state of spirits in the male order of the world, then as now. Great songs, nothing. The moment they appeared, an entire generation enjoyed each of them with all their might, singing along to everything Cane said in them. Amen.
But the girls looked at this event a little differently. On that same album, they liked having someone provoke their boldness, notice their eyes and applaud their independence. They really liked it when someone shouted that they had to be "his" at this time or when that certain "he" threatened to bite them, even though he changed his mind to the sound of their heels. And only when the naughty young man from the song at the end of the record invites them to come alone after midnight and knock on his door because he immensely wants them to be with him... ah, the whole young man's longing met here with equally hot girlish fantasies, and there was really nothing vulgar, humiliating and tasteless. Pure passion from the bottom of the heart, without feigning naivety and euphemisms, but also without cynicism and insincerity. That's all - a young man meets a girl and everything that has to come from that.
Ona ima lepe oči / I igra celu noć / Njenu igru samo zna / Put do njenog brda.
(Partybreakers, She lives on a hill.)
The women in the Partibrekkers songs are unusual and their own too. They are like an irresistible force that just exists out there somewhere, with all the wisdom, beauty and finesse, magnetically beautiful, but also inexorable in its own way. The main character, in short, is never clean OSU. He can declare his love for her, caress her with his burning desire, hang around her neck longing to invite him to "his ship", but ona it remains undisturbed in dignity, no matter how you turn it. Sexism does not dwell here, no matter how much in the songs Cane passionately aimed at the subject of his desire and quite bluntly demanded love communication. His hat should be taken off for that alone.
It was therefore understandable that a special woman must have a place at the exhibition. Her name is Goranka Matić. Goranka caught the Partibrejkers with her lens every time it was really crucial. Let's say, at their probably first big performance in SKC at the end of 1982. And then in the space where they practiced in 1984, with special reference to Zoran Kostić Canet. Well, he clearly broke through Goranka's professional shield with his indomitability, remaining immortalized in her photos as an attractive XNUMX-year-old, wild-eyed, impregnated in jeans and a leather jacket, in the seemingly extremely sparse interiors of the Student Cultural Center.
But the hot blood of the Partibrejkers line-up shines within those reduced, gray socialist backdrops and grabs you by the hand in Goranka's videos from 1985. On them, the originality of the physiognomy and the special personal style of clothing of Anton, Canet, Ljuba and Manzanera still fascinates to this day. As wicked as they sound on their record, Partibrekkers are still boys on these black and white records, with gentle faces and delicate sensibilities. And while posing, they are natural and unobtrusive. In the middle of nowhere – the band is on fire.
Partibrejkers blues-rock may grind you inside and out, but their views already eloquently testify to the spiritual growth of everyday life. The band members step out of these photos, fueled by punk electricity, and you from somewhere else you know that in front of you are larger-than-life people, which usually goes around.
Večeras, ako želiš saznati / Dođi sama posle ponoći/ Večeras, kad lutke šetaju / saznaćeš, saznaćeš istinu. / Kako se osećam, kako se osećam
(Partybreakers, Tonight)
It was from this point that Aleksandar Kujučev started in his consideration of Zoran Kostić Canet and Nebojša Antonijević Anton, during his famous photo-session for the album Sweet and sour from 1994. On these recordings, the two of them unequivocally radiate that spiritual aura, fueled by Kujučev's sophisticated interventions, which are almost accompanied by golden halos around their heroic circumstances. It can be said, without any exaggeration, that Cane and Anton in these photos are canonized in the rank of rock and roll saints. Kudos to Alexander Kuyučev for this mystical transformation.
Stanislav Milojković has followed the Partibrejkers since his professional beginnings. Taking, as an adult citizen, that iconic photo of the band in the RTB studio in Košutnjak in 1984, which was also on the cover of the first album, Stanislav has since photographed many different eras and lineups of the Partibrejkers group, recording unforgettable moments on their impressive multi-decade journey through rock and roll. Even if we were to ignore that legendary recording, which is, of course, completely impossible, there are still many reasons to carefully follow Milojković's detection of the fine metamorphoses of the Partibrejkers group at the turn of the century, from black and white records to the fireworks of the latest days.
What makes this exhibition a truly exciting discovery is that almost all of the photographs have been publicly exhibited for the first time, so that we can recognize in them the soul of this unique band.
Hiljadu zvezda na nebu sja / Znaj da ćes biti moja sva / Stanujem na spratu ne zna mu se broj / Ali kada siđem biću tvoj / Biću tvoj, biću tvoj, / Samo tvoj
(Partybreakers, 1000 stars/I will be yours.)
And maybe, to return to the beginning of the text, Sonja and I are simple too many holes and insensibly moved on to the second Partibrejkers album. Because there, for all the girls, a thousand stars in the sky still shine. And let it be so forever.
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