Listeners demanded the release with a hashtag: DOROFEEVA has put out ‘Japan’ after a viral challenge
The artist says she wrote the song in a single day.
DOROFEEVA has released the single ‘Japan’ together with a video.
The outlet RBC-Ukraine told the story.
The song came out at the listeners’ demand
The release came only a few months after a live version of the song went viral on TikTok and set off a wave of challenges under a hashtag demanding she put it out. In effect, listeners forced the release.
As on the earlier hit ‘Smak-pechal’, the track was written with Misha Katsurin and Ivan Klymenko.
“We wrote this song in one day. Japan and Antarctica are a metaphor for people who are very far from each other. And the Ross Sea is the coldest sea in the world. That happens in relationships. This song is about exactly that kind of person — close and at the same time distant and cold,” the artist explained.
She separately decoded the line about ships.
“‘The ships that lie at your bottom’ is about past loves, about people, about the traumas hidden deep inside everyone. And the lyrical heroine says: ‘I will not be among them’.”
Marie Antoinette in eighties aesthetics
The video was directed by Indy Hait — the same director who made the ‘Murakami’ clip. The action is styled as an eighties television performance: a vintage café and a local TV crew. The image of a modern Marie Antoinette — a rococo wig, velvet, lace and an embroidered sakura branch — was created by costume designer Daria Bila.
“I had a playful, light and at moments audacious role. I had long dreamed of a look with a wig like that, and the image of Marie Antoinette always drew me. So when the director suggested exactly that heroine, I was delighted. And we ended up with a modern, audacious Marie Antoinette,” the artist admits.
The release had a charitable purpose too — the artist joined a fundraiser by the Serhiy Prytula Foundation.
We reported earlier that DOROFEEVA and POSITIFF reunited on the duet ‘Smak-pechal’.
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