Single art, other artist photos by Karim Belkasemi and Alina Pasok, tour flyer (download assets here)
The influential punk-pop-rave band Little Big are going full force, gearing up for their new music era. Today they’re releasing their wild track and music video “PENDEJO” HERE, which will be part of a brand new album (details tba!).
The smart and fun video is directed by Alina Pasok and Ilya Prusikin (see full video credits below) and it follows a slew of hyper-viral music videos, with over 3 billion views in total. After celebrating their 10-year anniversary on April 1st, the band is eager to commemorate this joyous occasion live on the upcoming 16-date American tour. Known for their super-viral iconic music videos, Little Big’s front people Ilya "Ilich" Prusikin and Sonya Tayurskaya are thrilled to bring their spectacular live shows to USA, starting in Miami on June 9th (see dates below).
Ilya Prusikin elaborates “PENDEJO”: “Our life turned into TikTok. This track and video are about this TikTok phenomena. People are making bullshit 24/7 and that’s totally ok, because life is rather pointless. Just make fun and do whatever you want to (whatever is legal, of course).
The fact is that we treat life as something fun. We do not believe that life should be lived hard, through some difficult obstacles. Life should be fun, because there is no meaning in life, and the only thing a person can do is to endow his existence with his own meaning.
And we want to endow our lives and listeners with fun so that a person does not live in some morality. In our opinion, it is moralizers who arrange wars and so on. They (moralizers) are trying to endow human life with some super ideas of what needs to be done for us to be great. No, there is nothing like that. We are people, and we want to live this life the way we want, and we want to live this life with fun. And this song is about that. That we can be "Pendejho" and there's nothing wrong with that. People can be dumb and act stupid - nothing is wrong with that. There is no meaning in life - we have fun and wish everyone the same."
And about the video: “We filmed the video for three days - in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree. Those were sweltering days. I (Ilya) almost fainted while filming a scene “dancing on an ellipsoid”. The heat was, in my opinion, 48 degrees Celsius. The scene was filmed in one take because I couldn't take it anymore. Everyone was under awnings, and I was in direct sun. This is the fastest scene in my life, we filmed it for one and a half minutes, and that’s all - the stop, rec is off.
As for the fails, there were none. The team is excellent, assembled of mega-professionals: Russians, Ukrainians, and Americans altogether.
And I will say that in America, we have assembled a team that is on the same level as the team we had in Russia. Only there, it took us ten years to do it, but here we managed to assemble it in half a year."
The Saint Petersburg-born band has an avid worldwide fanbase and is known for its collaborations with international artists such as Oliver Tree, Tommy Cash, Finch Asozial, Dillon Francis, Clean Bandit and Sacha Baron Cohen.
“Skibidi” became their most popular video with more than 676 million views, and their single “UNO” is also a record breaker — it became the most viewed video in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest with an impressive 268 million views.
Last year, on March 3rd, 2022, Little Big packed up their bags and left their Moscow homes and moved to Los Angeles. All because of their moral conviction and position against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Little Big USA tour 2023:
6.09 - Miami, FL @ Sport of Kings
6.10 - Orlando, FL @ Level13
6.11 - Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
6.14 - Washington, DC @ Karma Lounge
6.15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Admore Hall
6.16 - New York, NY @ Melrose Ballroom
6.17 - Boston, MA @ Royale
6.18 - Chicago, IL @ Joe’s Live
6.22 - Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
6.23 - Austin, TX @ Come & Take It Live
6.25 - Denver, CO @ Oriental Theatre
6.27 - Phoenix, AZ @ tba
6.28 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
6.29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Avalon Hollywood
6.30 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
7.01 - San Francisco, CA @ Roccapulco “PENDEJO” music video credits HERE
“PENDEJO” credits:
Music: Ilya Prusikin , Viktor Sibrinin, Aryay
Lyrics: Ilya Prusikin, Sofia Taiurskaia, Ale Alberti
Mixing, mastering: Viktor Sibrinin
Co-production: Aryay “PENDEJO” lyrics:
Wake up in the middle of the night just to check the phone
Counting all my likes like it’s money
Im a ticking bomb
Dancing to the camera duck face
Mmmmhm
Looking dumb
Im crazy and i know it but its so damn fun Pendejo
What the f***
Pendejo
Tick tock
Time is up
We goin’ harder
Going’ louder
Till the beat goes drop
Tick tock
Make it stop
I’m lazy and i know it but i’m still so hot
Pendejo
What the f***
Pendejo
Top music videos:
Little Big “SKIBIDI” (676M)
Little Big “FARADENZA” (407M)
Little Big “HYPNODANCER” (330M)
Little Big “UNO” (268M)
Little Big “I’M OK”(215M)
Oliver Tree & Little Big “The Internet”
Oliver Tree & Little Big “Turn It Up” feat. Tommy Cash
Little Big “Give Me All Your Money” feat. Tommy Cash
https://www.youtube.com/c/littlebig (7.1M)
https://www.tiktok.com/@littlebig (5M)
https://www.instagram.com/littlebigband/ (870K)
https://twitter.com/littlebig_band
https://www.instagram.com/iliyaprusikin/
https://www.instagram.com/sonyatayurskaya
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