Lolly Bomb

"Lolly Bomb"
Single by Little Big
from the album Antipositive, Pt. 1
Published	8 December 2017
Genre	Dance EDM
Label	Little Big Family
Songwriter(s)	Ilya Prusikin Lubim KhomcHuck Sergey Makarov

"Lolly Bomb"[a][2][3][4] is a song by the Russian punk-pop-rave group Little Big. It was released on 8 December 2017 as the lead single from the group's third studio album Antipositive, Pt. 1.

History

In an interview with Knife, the directors said the following about the song:[5]

We came up with the clip somehow by accident, sitting in a cafe - I, Ilyich and Tatarka . We sat, inflated and realized that we really like the idea of Kim and the tender relationship with the bomb.

— Aline Pyazok

In the song, the play on words lollypop and lollybomb refers to a beautiful woman. Her beauty is as explosive as a bomb. I had a sketch for a long time. And we did the song with our team: we wrote the music with Lyubim, the text was written by Fami.

— Ilya Prusikin

The release of the music video was 8 December 2017 on the group's official YouTube channel. The video was directed by Ilya Prusikin and Aline Pyazok.

The clip is set in North Korea, where Kim Jong-Un falls in love with a nuclear missile. Kim and the missile go on dates and make love. Just as Kim proposes, army men take the missile away from him and launch it into the sky. Kim is very upset about this, but as the video ends, he encounters another rocket and falls in love again.

The group searched for an actor for the role of Kim Jong-Un for a long time. They looked at Russian actors, then Kazakh actors. In the end, they found an Australian actor of Hong Kong origin, Howard X, to play Kim in the video.[6]

Awards and nominations

Year	Country	Prize	Category	Result	References
2018	US	Global Film Festival Awards	Best Music Video	Victory	[7][8]
	Germany	Berlin Music Video Awards	Most Trashy		[9]

Note

1. Also written "LollyBomb" or "Lollybomb".[1]

References

1. Finnis, Alex (16 May 2020). "Russia Eurovision 2020 entry: Meet Little Big, whose song 'Uno' is tipped to win the Song Contest". i. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
2. "Группа Little Big выпустила клип "LollyBomb" — о любви диктатора к атомной бомбе". Афиша. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
3. "Little Big "LollyBomb"". The-Flow.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-15.
4. Корвель, Дариуш (2017-12-09). "Little Big сняли трогательный клип о любви Ким Чен Ына к бомбе". Интернет-издание «Сова» (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-15.
5. "Фоторепортаж. Как снимали Lollybomb — самый интересный клип года в России". Нож (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-15.
6. "Hong Kong's Kim Jong-un lookalike stars in Russian rave-pop video". South China Morning Post. 2017-12-12. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
7. "GFF Awards Winners of Monthly Competitions". gffawards. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
8. "Наш клип LollyBomb выиграл в номинации "Best.. | LITTLE BIG | VK". vk.com. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
9. ""Ленинград" стал дважды победителем Berlin Music Video Awards (Видео)". www.intermedia.ru (in Russian). 2018-05-29. Retrieved 2022-01-15.