“You Cannot Grow Accustomed to Happiness”: Language, Voice, and the Fate of a Song

(Based on the song “Ведь нет другой такой” by Mikhail Shufutinsky, 2016) Introduction There are songs where a single line becomes destiny.In Mikhail Shufutinsky’s «Ведь нет другой такой», the line that defines the entire composition is: «К счастью привыкнуть нельзя.»You cannot grow accustomed to happiness. This thought works on three levels: When sung by Shufutinsky, […]