"Ibiza" is a song by the Russian singers
Philipp Kirkorov and
Nikolay Baskov. It premiered on July 25, 2018. It attracted criticism for its bizarre and vulgar music video.
Background
This was the first time that Kirkorov and Baskov had recorded a duet in 20 years.
Music video
On September 8, 2018, the ''StarPro'' YouTube channel released a video clip for the song. It starred such celebrities as
Sergey Shnurov
Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov (russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Шну́ров; born 13 April 1973) is a Russian musician and songwriter, best known as ''Shnur'' (lit. cord), of the ska-punk band Leningrad which he formed in ...
,
Valery Leontiev,
Andrey Malakhov
Andrey Nikolayevich Malakhov (russian: Андре́й Никола́евич Мала́хов; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian television personality and presenter on the main Russian television channel, Russia-1.
Biography
Born on 11 Januar ...
,
Garik Kharlamov
''Comedy Club'' is a Russian stand-up comedy TV show broadcast by the Russian TNT channel since April 23, 2005.
Long-time residents of the club are Garik Martirosyan, Timur Batrutdinov, Garik Kharlamov, Pavel Volya, Alexandr Revva, Marina Kravets ...
, and
Anita Tsoy
Anna Sergeyevna "Anita" Tsoy (russian: Анна Серге́евна "Анита" Цой; born Kim, russian: Ким; 7 February 1971, Moscow) is a Russian singer-songwriter of Korean descent. She is a Meritorious Artist of Russia (2003).
Early l ...
.
Reception
The song took first place in the Russian
iTunes
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chart the day after its release.
Shortly before the release of the clip, Kirkorov showed the reaction of show business stars to his work.
Dima Bilan noted the self-irony of Kirkorov and Baskov and said that now he "had seen everything." Netizens had a variety of reactions to the video clip. Writing for ''
RIA Novosti
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'',
Dmitry Kiselyov
Dmitry Konstantinovich Kiselyov ( rus, Дмитрий Константинович Киселёв; born April 26, 1954), is a Russian propagandist. In 2013, Kiselyov was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to head ''Rossiya Segodnya' ...
called the music video "a disgusting abomination".
On September 19, 2018, the ''Чикен Карри'' YouTube channel released a video in which Kirkorov and Baskov sing an ironic apology for "Ibiza" and at the same time parody
Kanye West and
Lil Pump's "
I Love It".
The song "Ibiza" took seventh place in the list of the top 10 most popular queries in 2018, compiled according to the data of the search service "
Yandex".
Charts
References
External links
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*{{YouTube, zPZXbaGqnDI, "Извинение за Ibiza (Kanye West & Lil Pump parody)"
2018 songs
2018 singles
Russian songs
Songs about Ibiza