About the eccentric people from the St. Petersburg underground Little Big, which managed to break through from the underground to the big stage, not heard just lazy. Their hits spinning on all Russian radio stations, dance Skibidi dancing crowd at the flash mobs, and in the spring the boys were supposed to represent Russia at the Eurovision song contest if the contest this year is not canceled in connection with the pandemic. In General, the “Bigi” have become national heroes, like suddenly in the network there was a scandal a few million hits scored live with the accusation of the group of plagiarism.
“Investigation” conducted blogger Arina Rostov. On a short 20-second video, she offers to compare excerpts from three tracks team with the compositions of the famous American group The Black Eyed Peas. The song “Uno”, composed especially for “Eurovision”, and “Go Bananas” she compared with “My Humps”, and the melody of the hit “I’m OK” recalled the sound of their “Scream & Shout”. I must admit that the sound motives really are painfully similar. But, as usual, people’s love is sometimes so strong that loyal fans willing to turn a blind eye to such pranks. The opinion of fans was divided. “Hands off Little Big!”, – wrote some. “That’s it! Does not bother anyone that we have only seven notes? Avoid borrowing almost impossible,” — he supported them more. “Even if they do, somewhere, stole, that doesn’t make their music worse,” said the third. “You deaf or what? You listen. 90 percent of the sound of the blueprint. It’s just mediocrity,” was outraged by their opponents.
the Group Little Big very quickly rushed to the top of show business. Now the centre of attention, new videos gaining tens of millions of views. But the fact that their work is secondary, the children were charged more than once. The current situation was commented on St. Petersburg musician and composer, Otto Notman, author of songs for many Russian pop stars (among them – “Intuition” Anna Pletneva, “Just where are you”, Vladimir Presnyakov Jr., “Close friends” of Vera Brezhneva): “Guys, this is the mAh. If you rely on powerful hits of foreign performers, you do it once, so it wasn’t so much like. We can take any track and on the basis of groove’s, melody and harmony to create their own, but just a blueprint to take the melody and impose on him a similar voice — this should not be the artists that have proven themselves.” The executors refused to comment on the incident, neither in interview nor in their social networks.
speaking of the Eurovision song contest, many viewers were outraged that the organizers do not even have to conduct absentee voting, although they could be. But activists not stopped: many countries have organised alternative. In different countries on different resources conducted mass surveys. Of course, the results did not match, so it is difficult to deduce the arithmetic mean. However, among the largest in scope listeners can be called surveys, carried out on 11 large national network of resources and 4 international. Also vote live held TV stations in Australia, Denmark and Switzerland. According to the Australian, informal, virtual winner of the Icelandic group Daði & Gagnamagnið, and Little Big was in second place.
