Last Monday, Little Big were revealed as Russia’s representatives for Eurovision 2020. And over the past week and a half, fans have been left impatiently waiting for the band to reveal their competing song. Now, that wait has finally come to and end. Little Big have premiered their Eurovision entry “UNO”.
The reveal was made on late-night Russian talk show Vecherniy Urgant (Evening Urgant).
Little Big – “UNO”
The Russian band are known for their lively songs that use rave styles, punk, satire and humour. Their Eurovision entry certainly fits in well with that description.
The song is fun, upbeat and has an infectious hook. It will certainly stand out on the Eurovision stage and Little Big will no doubt be hoping to get the entirety of Europe dancing along with them in May.
With the reveal of Little Big’s Eurovision 2020 entry, we now know all 41 competing songs for the contest.
Little Big will perform “UNO” in the first half of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2020 on 12th May.
Who are Little Big?
Little Big are a pop-punk rave band from Saint Petersburg. The group is currently formed of members Ilya Prusikin, Sonya Tayurskaya, Anton Lissov and Sergey Makarov.
The group started off back in 2013 and their first song was “Everyday I’m Drinking“. Little Big have toured across much of Russia and Europe, and collected numerous nominations and awards. For example, they won the award for the most trashy music video twice at the Berlin Music Video Awards with “Big Dick” and “LollyBomb“.
In 2018, they caught viral success with their song “Skibidi”, which has scored more than 360 million views on YouTube. Their songs are there for a good laugh. It is a satire, they are making fun of things. One thing’s for certain, at Eurovision they will be remembered.
What do you make of Little Big’s song for Eurovision 2020? Do you think Russia have a strong chance of climbing the scoreboard, or even winning? Let us know in the comments below!
The voices are too edited, and the song is too ridiculous to take seriously. After Sergei Lazarev’s awesome song, this is a bad parody of what they’ve done. The only thing I do rescue is the Spanish pronunciation. Still, Russia, WTF?!
There’s already a couple of live performances on YouTube, you can check what their unedited live vocals sound like. Sonya (female lead) is known for her ability to sing in a high-pitched voice like a “Barbie-girl”, so there isn’t much effects applied. Lazarev’s song was hugely despised then in Russia however this year almost everyone seems to be happy with the artist and song choice. I can’t see anything wrong with a country sending its best option instead of something conventional and predictable. But you’re right. It’s a parody on how seriously Russians used to take Eurovision in previous years.… Read more »
I do not agree. Little Big are super-talented. Don’t take this performance too serious, have some sense of humor 😉
Exactly my thought! 🙂
Ok so the song is wacky and fun, very Verka Serdryushka, quite catchy and with stupid lyrics, just perfect for Eurovision. I do like the song. However how is nobody talking about the gay culture appropriation in the video? I really don’t know what to think, I don’t know what the band’s intentions were or their stances but what I see in the video is a guy clearly vogueing and death dropping without any nod to being gay, while representing famously anti-gay homophobic Russia. Are they being ironic and pro-gay by smuggling gay culture into representation of Russia? Or is… Read more »
it might be a tongue-in-cheek nod to gay culture rather than appropriation since little big seems to be known for being a bit outrageous, but I dunno
Music degradation.
Yes, it’t because of ESC has degrade. And we try to show it.
Excellent. This is what this political contest deserves.
Uno Dos ??Cuatro!
Do not say “no” until you watch it several times. Just relax and stop thinking critically. This thing formats the mind. And then: welcome to the zombie world!
And I see a sort of Russian dark humor (or message) here: Even if only the puffy coronavirus remains in the end, we will still sing, dance and make these movements with hips.
……. how did you link this to coronavirus?
I dont WANT to watch it several times.
I love the lack of smiles. It’s so Russian. Serious face party legs.
We don’t need any place from ESC))) this year we go there for fun. EU sent Conchita Wurst – Russia send Little Big!!
Except Conchita had a good song and a message. Russia has neither this year.
The message is just perfect: missing finger number 3!! 1, 2, … 4; 1, 2, … 4. Brilliant!
Its unique and ctachy, I’m into it! Good luck from Israel!
My initial reaction was meh but after some thought this is a top 5 for sure and can easily win. This is another Toy except even more because Russia has built in votes. It’s much more interesting and fun than Bulgaria or Iceland.
The last song to be released and it is just a rehash of Dancing Lasha Tombai bit in spanish instead of German and without the accordion. I’m sorry but who thought this was a good idea?
Over 8M views in less than 24h. Crazy
More than 500k likes
A lot of young people in Russia (millions of them) will watch the Eurovision this year for the first time. The competition has lost its popularity recently, because… Well it is not the best experience when you watch how you representative is booed not because of the bad performance, but just because (s)he is your representative. That is painful.
A bit ridiculous. The novelty factor is ridiculous. That coming from someone from a country that sent a turkey
No, is a song you expect from Little Big… A funny cheer-up dance along song….
You’re being pretty insulting to a band. Little Big have created something, gave it their all, their artistry. You can like it or not like it, but don’t be so disrespectful. I abhor Russia as a country, but I don’t have to hate all Russians and anything any Russian creates. That’s prejudice.
Rubbish, sorry.
This is what you would expect from Little Big. A fun and a bit crazy song. I like it.
This is not a winner, but I am sure it will do well.
Don’t be so sure. Which song is more compelling? Iceland? Definitely not. Bulgaria? Nope. Not to mention that those countries don’t have built in votes like Russia.
Barthurt
There was nothing serious about that dramatic screaming ballad. In terms of real pop music in the real world, this is much more serious.
You see what you want to see, that´s ok. But don´t demand others to buy your paranoia
A gay guy doing all the moves from RuPauls drag race but in Russia you can not be openly gay. Uno points for Russia.
why do they get uno points
Thats why ESC NOT should go to Russia*
and having so hilarious open-minded representatives is a great experience for any homophobic society
Some people would’ve complained against any entry from Russia so I ignore those comments. Thanks to all who don’t take Little Big too seriously and like or dislike the song based on their feelings rather than biased views.
I don’t remember the same hate with the chicken song TOY. Imagine Russia sending this song 2 years ago it would have never won.
I had some time to think about it and hear all three entries once again, but I think I am one step closer in raking the ”guilty pleasure” category among Russia, Azerbaijan and San Marino. My current opinion is that Russia is amazingly over-the-top that I just *have* to enjoy it. It’s not something I usually listen to, but it’s kinda like if Gunther had a duo with Verka. It’s just gloriously nonsensical in a way not seen in ages. Azerbaijan has a *really* catchy hook paired with almost exquisitely bad lyrics. It’s also becoming my official guilty pleasure. On… Read more »
This chorus is so childish that even JESC songs seem more adult.
I just realised they can only be “seis” on stage. That means one will have to go. Hmm. Maybe the second man with moustache? What do you think?
It better not be the dancing guy in the blue! He’s a legend in the making! That death drop DANG! I felt it here in South Africa! #EpicDanceGuy
Yes, the dancing guy must stay
most Russian-language comments under the video on Youtube are about that guy. Justice for Poohlyash
Body positive all the way!! Inequality no more!!
This makes me think that if one rule should be changed this would in priority be the 6 people rule on stage. With stages getting bigger year after year and now allowing to hide backing vocalist this makes no sense having such big stages to see only one singer. Look at Armenia last year, it looked so empty. Bring 8 to 9 people max on stage should be a new option to consider.
BREAKING NEWS: A mere 16 hours following the release of Little Big’s ‘Uno’ music video, the video has amassed over 4.2 million views on the official Eurovision YouTube channel. In doing so, it becomes the first video from the ESC 2020 class to enter the all-time top 200 Eurovision videos list on the channel. With it’s entry into the top 200, we see the exit of Hatari’s live semi-final performance from the top 200 list. It’s going to be interesting watching this videos trajectory, and I will be certainly following it’s progress daily. Will it eventually surpass Netta’s ‘Toy’ to… Read more »
But Lithuania is coming up a close second Having just reached 4 million. I don’t deny that little big is hugely popular, but there’s one little problem. I don’t know what percentage of cyrillic Comments are Russian or other languages that use the cyrillic alphabet like Ukrainian, Belarusian, or Bulgarian, But if they are all Russian, They can’t vote for themselves! They have to vote for other countries, and I don’t know how much of an international appeal little big will have at Eurovision. I don’t expect the juries to love but will being a huge hit on YouTube mean… Read more »
They will get 6M in 24h, if I remember correctly Arcade took one month to reach 6M.
Youtube views doesn’t matter at all… The most important thing is the performance on the final night.. And besides that , they are immense popular in Russia, so you reach that amount of views very quickly in a big country as Russia.. (with so many inhabitants)
Hey… You were right!… In 20 hours, they reached the 6 million views milestone. They are now at #139 on the all-time most viewed videos on the official Eurovision channel, and climbing.
8 million now.
Yeah I know, the readers know what the writers intended. Little big wanted to make fun of you, I know it, they told me 😀
Also, I’m pretty sure the Little Big video was inspired by Scissor Sister’s ‘Let’s have a kiki’ (which is a good thing) https://youtu.be/eGCD4xb-Tr8
I like it, congratulations Russia !
My current ranking list
1. Switzerland
2. The Netherlands
3. Lithuania
4. Italy
5. Russia
6. Bulgaria
7. Denmark
8. Croatia
9. Spain
10. Ukraine
The bottom: San Marino, Poland, Ireland and Moldova.
I just love how much they are trolling the contest. They basically said ok songs get bonus points when they have cultural references so let’s just throw in the words uno dos cuatro that make no sense but technically count as spanish.
Lead singer is mix of Laka (Bosnia 2008) and Francis from ”Trainspotting” movie lol
Russia will cancel either Lithuania or Iceland . Even both of them. It’ s impossible that the 3 acts with similar tunes will be that high on the scoreboard .
similar audience yes. but similar tunes, what? russia, iceland, and lithuania are all different genres
It’s not about genres, it’s about tunes, the entertaining ones, the three songs give audience very positive vibes, but in the end only one or two will be remembered and voted
It’s my opinion,
Russia will probably receive the points that would go to Lithuania or Iceland.
Btw my personal favourite of this bunch is Lithuania
russia might be entertaining but it’s not mind intriguing at all and has no reasoning behind the song whatsoever. I feel Iceland and Lithuania just serves audience with higher IQ.
Iceland is in the another semi….
Iceland seems so bland compared to Russia. Russia has already totally destroyed the “fake” hype some fans where trying to create with Iceland. I still don’t understand how Iceland can still be in front of Russia on the betting odds.
So my mom likes Lithuania and I like Russia. We are certainly not the same audience, because Lithuania is very low on my personal chart, while my mom is just annoyed by Russia. Based on this, i don’t think the songs compete with the same audience
Iceland will drop.
This isn’t a bad entry, but I’m 100% sure that this song cannot win Eurovision. I even expect that in the finals, the song will be on the bottom five of the juries, as major support will come in Lithuanian and Azerbaijani entries (as of former USSR bloc). Sorry Russia, you spilled a good chance to win the competition…
This is a divisive entry, which means it is bound to do well in the televote. Personally, I am glad Russia is bringing the party, we need this!
im sorry i hate it so much
i’m sorry but this is the winner of Eurovision 2020, 21, 22, 23 and years to come. It’s too perfect!
It’s already trending in youtube in Spain.
It’s already on several Itunes and apple music countries as well
Not what we expected from Russia ! Soooo surrealistic, this could be from Belgium. I kind of like it. I love when Russian take things not too seriously
One Two Three Five?
Been reading some of the comments here. What were y’all expecting from a group ‘that use rave styles, punk, satire and humour’ in their songs?! This has a chance to go viral, as it a very meme-worthy song and could be a meme-worthy performance. Look, it’s not one my favourites, but it will be very memorable come Eurovision
Oh, you mean meme-orable?
The disklikes are just people who know their boring or generic song can’t just compete with UNO. Because of Coronavirus the rigged juries should be banned this year. We don’t want them to sit on the same room for 3 hours and contaminate people.
Dear comrade Ivanov, people like you are the reason why most of Europeans hate us—normal, friendly and open-minded Russians. Stop promoting this negative image and feeding those angry russophobic eurofanboys, don’t act like them.
I bet he is not Russian.
Awful , no final
Something makes me really sad: all russian trying to dislike hard all the songs this year – take a look at the Italian entry, full of dislike and comments of russian writing UNO – and destroying the repeat button of their song just to giving it a lot of views. You can’t vote for your own country, so this behaviour is meaningless. Get a life
The favorites are getting more dislikes when Russia was announced. That’s what fanatics do.
Hola Belgrade?
Already 2.4M views.
234k likes. 23k dislikes. Insane. I don’t remember a similar case. Even Sergey didn’t do that. It’s a love or hate entry but people will talk and it won’t be lost on the night
The most important thing is that we Russians approve this entry and don’t really care what place it will take. We want all of Europe to dance to this song! Party for everybody, dance!
23K losers to be ready to cry hardly when Little Big will explode the televote counters.
Dis -> like. The more you listen – the more you like. The same? Magic!
The Girls voice its awful. I got tinnitus off it. And rhe man looks angry. The song… NO. If another country have this song, Europé skuld hate it. But its Russia
So I have had time to think about it, and this is going to end up more towards the top than the bottom of my list. The reasons: 1. It is undeniably catchy – Eurovision is a three- minute impact competition – can your song create an emotion in a short space of time – this one definitely answers yes 2. It is fun – there is a very lively and welcoming tone to this song – it isn’t overtly being mean, it’s just saying here I am, come and join the fun. 3. It’s well done for what it… Read more »
EVERYTHING IS CLEAR:
1. Italy, 2. Germany, 3. Lithuania, 4. Belgium, 5. Norway, 6. Greece, 7. Malta, 8. Russia, 9. Austria, 10. Czech Republic,
11. Denmark, 12. Azerbaijan, 13. Estonia, 14. Belarus, 15. Spain, 16. Sweden, 17. Iceland, 18. Switzerland, 19. Cyprus, 20. Albania,
21. Poland, 22. Romania, 23. Serbia, 24. United Kingdom, 25. Georgia, 26. North Macedonia, 27. Ireland, 28. Israel, 29. Australia, 30. Ukraine,
31. Latvia, 32. Portugal, 33. Slovenia, 34. Armenia, 35. Croatia, 36. Finland, 37. France, 38. Netherlands, 39. Bulgaria, 40. Moldova, 41. San Marino.
Happy I don’t have this kind of taste.
SOME CHANGES:
1. Italy, 2. Germany, 3. Lithuania, 4. Belgium, 5. Norway, 6. Greece, 7. Malta, 8. Russia, 9. Austria, 10. Czech Republic,
11. Denmark, 12. Azerbaijan, 13. Estonia, 14. Belarus, 15. Spain, 16. Sweden, 17. Iceland, 18. Switzerland, 19. Cyprus, 20. Albania,
21. Romania, 22. Serbia, 23. United Kingdom, 24. North Macedonia, 25. Georgia, 26. Ireland, 27. Israel, 28. Australia, 29. Ukraine, 30. Latvia,
31. Poland, 32. Portugal, 33. Slovenia, 34. Armenia, 35. Croatia, 36. Finland, 37. France, 38. Netherlands, 39. Bulgaria, 40. Moldova, 41. San Marino.
15.03.2020
1. Italy, 2. Germany, 3. Lithuania, 4. Belgium, 5. Norway, 6. Greece, 7. Malta, 8. Russia, 9. Austria, 10. Czech Republic,
11. Denmark, 12. Azerbaijan, 13. Estonia, 14. Belarus, 15. Spain, 16. Sweden, 17. Iceland, 18. Switzerland, 19. Cyprus, 20. Albania,
21. Serbia, 22. United Kingdom, 23. North Macedonia, 24. Ireland, 25. Israel, 26. Georgia, 27. Romania, 28. Australia, 29. Ukraine, 30. Bulgaria,
31. Poland, 32. Latvia, 33. Armenia, 34. Portugal, 35. Slovenia, 36. Croatia, 37. Finland, 38. France, 39. Netherlands, 40. Moldova, 41. San Marino.
16.03.2020
1. Italy, 2. Germany, 3. Lithuania, 4. Belgium, 5. Norway, 6. Greece, 7. Malta, 8. Russia, 9. Austria, 10. Czech Republic,
11. Azerbaijan, 12. Denmark, 13. Estonia, 14. Belarus, 15. Spain, 16. Sweden, 17. Iceland, 18. Cyprus, 19. Switzerland, 20. Bulgaria,
21. Albania, 22. Georgia, 23. Romania, 24. Serbia, 25. North Macedonia, 26. Ireland, 27. Israel, 28. Australia, 29. Ukraine, 30. United Kingdom,
31. Poland, 32. Latvia, 33. Armenia, 34. Portugal, 35. Slovenia, 36. Croatia, 37. Finland, 38. France, 39. Netherlands, 40. Moldova, 41. San Marino.
17.03.2020
1. Italy, 2. Germany, 3. Lithuania, 4. Belgium, 5. Norway, 6. Greece, 7. Malta, 8. Russia, 9. Austria, 10. Czech Republic,
11. Azerbaijan, 12. Denmark, 13. Estonia, 14. Belarus, 15. Spain, 16. Sweden, 17. Iceland, 18. Switzerland, 19. Bulgaria, 20. Georgia,
21. Albania, 22. Romania, 23. Serbia, 24. North Macedonia, 25. Cyprus, 26. Ireland, 27. Israel, 28. Australia, 29. Ukraine, 30. United Kingdom,
31. Poland, 32. Latvia, 33. Armenia, 34. Portugal, 35. Slovenia, 36. Croatia, 37. Finland, 38. France, 39. Netherlands, 40. Moldova, 41. San Marino.
Russia sends a ballad – everyone loathes it
Russia sends catchy tunes – everyone loathes it
Russia sends a troll entry – everyone loathes it
*Put UK, France, Latvia, Spain instead and nothing will actually change*
When will people start to drive away from constant toxicity and avoid involving politics into a song contest? All you have to do is to get ready for some action now 😀 No offense to those who actually disliked the music, cause tastes differ.
ffs mates, you’re acting worse than goddamn SJWs
With all this wait, I thought the quirky guys would be wise enough to send a song about Coronavirus, which could have become a huge international hit. But instead it’s another song about nothing.
I believe EBU wouldn’t let that happen
Whether you like or not, troll acts like this are what makes people still be interested in Eurovision.