Kazimierz Staszewski (also known as Kazik) is polish musician and frontman of the band “Kult”. He is known from commenting in his song society and politics, often with strong words. Also as one of first in Poland experimented with rap music.
Name of his main band is unrelated with tabletop game.
Kazik provides examples of the following tropes:
- Author Tract: Kazik’s songs are strongly commenting politics. But actually it’s not bad, as it allows him to comment current events from his point of view.
- Bread and Circuses: Song “Po co nam wolność” (Who needs freedom) is about government of Communist Poland asking why someone need freedom if they have prosperity and entertainment.
- In My Language, That Sounds Like...: Title of song and album "Bar La Curva" works on this as this was based on bar he known which name in Spanish meant bar near the curve, but in polish…
- Naughty by Night: Song "Gdy nie ma dzieci" (When there are no children) is about parents partying when their children are away on holydays.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: In music video for “12 groszy” (12 pennies) is showed parody of Wojciech Cejrowski
referred in song as Cowboy Chacha.- Neither left nor liberal even not a fascist. Cowboy Chacha is a normal communist.
- Phrase Salad Lyrics: Song "Mars napada" (Mars Attacks) is ostensibly about an Alien Invasion... but half of the lyrics are random musings or out-of-context inside jokes that have nothing to do with the alien invasion story. There’s also "12 groszy" (12 pennies) in which every verse is about different thing.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Many of his songs are based on political events
to the point where songs are outliving popularity. Examples are “100 000 000” note , “Panie Waldku” (“Mr. Waldek”) also known as “Lewy Czerwcowy” (“Left June”) note , “Łysy jedzie do Moskwy” (“Bald goes to Moscow”)note or "Twój ból jest lepszy niż mój" ("Your pain is better than mine") note . - Shout-Out:
- Chorus of “Baranek” (Ram) is quote from second part of Dziady.
- “Nie mam na nic czasu bo oglądam seriale” (I have no time cause I’m watching serials) references many serials like Game of Thrones, Money Heist, House, Breaking Bad or The Sopranos.
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Streisand Effect: On April 10, 2020, soon after the breakout of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country's ruling Law and Justice party, decided to visit the grave of his twin brother Lech to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his death in the Smolensk disaster, while the COVID-related restrictions imposed by his government forbade the rest of the Polish people from doing the same for their loved ones. A month later, Kazik released a single about the incident, titled "Twój ból jest lepszy niż mój" ("Your pain is better than mine"). While it reached the top of the state-run Polish Radio Station III's music chart (which has for years been the most notable of its kind), it didn't attract much attention beyond that, with the music video sitting around a couple hundred thousand views on YouTube. That is, until the station's editor-in-chief Tomasz Kowalczewski nullified that week's chart (which was widely interpreted as having been done on the insistence of Law and Justice's top brass), claiming that the vote was rigged somehow. This controversy led to the song skyrocketing in popularity, reaching almost 8.3 million views a week after the initial Station III chart. It also led to Marek Niedźwiecki, one of Poland's most respected radio broadcasters and the station's biggest draws, leaving to start his own Internet radio station, with plenty of his colleagues following suit. Without most of its top talent, Station III later experienced a massive ratings decline, dropping to 50% of its share of radio listeners from a year prior. - Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell: Song "Jeszcze Polska" (Poland still) is about poverty of Polish ‘90.
- Businessmen are getting richer, but toilets are dirtier.
