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| Single by P-Bros featuring DJ Trexx & Olga Pratilova |
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| Released | March 2009 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||||||||
| Label | NFM | |||||||||
| P-Bros featuring DJ Trexx & Olga Pratilova singles chronology |
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"Tingaliin" (full title "Tingaliin (Russian Bass-Lovers Remix)"), is the Russian Tingeling song credited to P-Bros featuring DJ Trexx & Olga Pratilova. It reached the top of the Swedish Singles Chart on 27 March 2009 and stayed for 4 weeks at the top of the charts.
"Tingaliin" was the last of the series of Tingeling songs performed at the intermissions of the Melodifestivalen 2009 in preparation to Eurovision Song Contest 2009 scheduled to be organized in Moscow.
So "Tingaliin", the Russian version, was designed as the final entrance in Melodifestivalen in Stockholm of the "Tingeling" series. The Russian segment consisted of a pre-recorded sketch followed by a musical anthem performed on-stage. It was performed by P-Bros featuring DJ Trexx & Olga Pratilova.
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It was set in Moscow, where the character Pål Potter, (performed by the actor Rikard Ulvshammar), and music director character called Rolf Pihlman, wearing a fur cap (performed by Henrik Dorsin) contact the Russian "Schlager mafia" and the Russian opera singer Olga Pratilova to get her to perform Tingeling, resulting in a stage appearance with a remix partly in Russian, called "Tingaliin (Russian Bass-Lovers Remix)".
The appearance is full of Russian clichés, for example, an army choir, matryoshka dolls, cossack dancers, tetris, the National Anthem of the Soviet Union and Korobeiniki all weaved in.
The text contains also Russian phrases such as "Do svidanija Putin" (’Bye bye Putin’) and "Na zdorovje Lenin" (’Cheers Lenin’).
The Russian performance "Tingaliin" led to protests from the Embassy of Russia in Stockholm. Anatolij Kargapolov, an embassy spokesman said in an interview with The Local newspaper that "it is for us, unimaginable that Sweden can show such an ignorance and misleading image of Russia. The depiction is disgusting."[1]
In the following days, the controversy made attention in TV-news, radio programs and morning- and evening newspapers. The project manager Ronnie Lans apologized later on and sent flowers to the Russian Embassy, but Sveriges Television withdrew the apology.
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
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| Swedish Singles Chart | 1[2] |
| Preceded by Baby Goodbye by E.M.D. |
Swedish Singles Chart number-one single March 27, 2009 - April 24, 2009 |
Succeeded by Emma-Lee by Johan Palm |