Little Big
Skibidi

THE REVIEW

Unfortunately, it often happens that artistic personalities born from a deliberately playful spirit are unjustly categorized in the most vulgar trash.

This review is about a band that dives into trash up to their elbows and then their head, but with full awareness.

Ilya Prusikin is a Russian guy who leveraged the hard and raw meme-image of his country to create something epic and characteristic. He succeeded in giving a face to a movement that, if I had to compare it to another entity, would be the Die Antwoord. DJ and sampler Sergey Makarov is at the console.

It so happens that in 2018, an idea brought the band a fame that had, until then, been more prevalent at home. Now their listenership is worldwide.

The idea is called Skibidi. A particularly catchy dance track accompanied (thanks to the video clip) by an official choreography that has now become a cult.

In previous years, Little Big had introduced practically everything to the big audience; extreme sexual exuberance with Big Dick, strong Russian stereotyping with Give Me Your Money, and even a parodic Lolly Bomb aimed at dictator Kim Jong-Un, among their successes.

But Skibidi raises the bar of ambition, and you notice from the details, from the care in the operation. The response is, of course, immediate, with millions of people even participating in the online challenge by submitting their versions of the dance.

Little Big videos are beautiful; a bit like when Tarantino inserts B movie special effects in films as a tribute to the masters of the past. They are not masters, but they are well aware of what they have created. Let's leave aside the battle of genre labels; in terms of personality, they are one of the best offerings of this millennium.