Last spring a raft of TikTokers with millions of followers, including Kimberly Loaiza (55.2m) and Karla Bustillos (20m), performed choreographed dances to the track. In early 2021 The Frog was reborn in the arms of a new generation of TikTok influencers.
Five top 20 hits later, #1 in over 30 countries, the biggest selling single of 2005, with over a million albums sold and in excess of six billion billion YouTube views, Crazy Frog remains a cultural phenomenon. Listen to ‘Tricky’ by Crazy Frog on the Shoot Music New Releases Playlist on Spotify.Ĭrazy Frog was spwaned in the mid noughties by Wolfgang Boss (now EVP A&R for Sony Music) together with production team VooDoo Music and animator Erik Wernquist from Kaktus Films, created the most unlikely of pop superstars.īack in 2005, The Frog rose to prominence by dominating the short-lived ringtone format with a combination of high-definition animation and less well defined creative provenance. The video, directed by Sigfrid Söderberg and Andreas Wicklund, hurls the amphibian over the gates of a ‘super rich space travel project’ Coupled with a new found fandom amid the TikTok generation, he returns with a wave of affection and nostalgia.įirst up, he puts a rocket under Run-DMC’s classic single ‘Tricky’, launching it beyond the dreams of the richest privateer space traveller. Recent rumours of ‘The Frog’ and his return prompted billions of views and comments across YouTube. Noughties virtual viral hit Crazy Frog makes his return with a typically anarchic single, ‘Tricky’, along with its accompanying video, out now via Mach 1/Sony Music.īeloved by many and reviled by some, but all millennials can recall a moment in history when ringtones ruled, downloads dominated and Crazy Frog was on everyone’s lips.
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