"Shadilay"
Cover art
Single by P.E.P.E.
A-side"Shadilay (Vocal)"
B-side"Shadilay (Instrumental)"
ReleasedMarch 3, 1986 (1986-03-03) (Italy)[1]
November 23, 2017 (2017-11-23) (U.S.)[2]
Genre
Length
  • 6:06 (vocal extended version)
  • 4:14 (italian version)
  • 4:18 (english version)
LabelMagic Sound
Songwriter(s)Manuele Pepe [it]
Music video
"Shadilay" on YouTube

"Shadilay" is an Italo disco song by the Italian band P.E.P.E.,[a] released in 1986 by the music label Magic Sound.[3] It was written by Italian singer-songwriter Marco Ceramicola, who sang under the pseudonym of Manuele Pepe.[4][5]

It gained attention in 2016 for the band name's similarity to the meme Pepe the Frog, the single's cover also featuring a drawing of a cartoon frog.[6][7] The album cover belongs to Magic Sound, and has been used in multiple songs produced by them, including "Babababo" by Bibox.[8] It has since been used as the anthem for the fictional country of Kekistan.[6][9][10] Ceramicola had since abandoned his career in the music industry. He felt that the newfound worldwide audience the song received online was unexpected.[5]

Composition

"Shadilay" is an electronic Italo disco song.[11] The song's verses are in the key of A minor, while its chorus is in the relative major key C major. It has a moderate tempo of 103 beats per minute.[12] The instrumentation consists of a DX7 Keyboard.[13]

Track listing

12" Single (Magic Sound – MASNP 007)
  1. "Shadilay" (Vocal) – 6:06
  2. "Shadilay" (Instrumental) – 6:05

Personnel

Notes

  1. ^ P.E.P.E. is an acronym for "Point Emerging Probably Entering"

References

  1. ^ "Shadilay (Instrumental) - P.E.P.E. Key and BPM". songdata.io.
  2. ^ "Shadilay — P.E.P.E." Last.fm.
  3. ^ "Un tube italo disco est devenu l'hymne des néo-nazis américains". 7sur7. 2017-09-11.
  4. ^ Nazione, La (2017-09-14). "Made in Viareggio l'inno di Trump. La seconda vita di 'Shadilay'". La Nazione (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  5. ^ a b Tortora, Francesco (11 September 2017). "L'inno dei suprematisti bianchi? È una hit italiana degli anni '80" [The anthem of the white supremacists? It is an Italian hit from the 1980s]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  6. ^ a b Don Caldwell (August 2017). "Shadilay". Know Your Meme. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
  7. ^ Kestenbaum, Sam (25 January 2017). "'Alt-Right' Disrupts Seemingly Clueless Shia LaBeouf's Live Broadcast". The Forward. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  8. ^ Magic Sound Records
  9. ^ "Comment l'alt-right s'est approprié un tube italo-disco oublié pour en faire son hymne". Slate.fr (in French). 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. ^ "Ecco a voi Big Man Tyrone, il presidente del Kekistan". Agi (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  11. ^ "P.E.P.E. - Shadilay mp3 download". music albums free - mp3.audi-tt.ru. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  12. ^ "Shadilay (Instrumental) - P.E.P.E. Key and BPM". songdata.io. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  13. ^ Asays (2016-10-05). "How I Remixed Point Emerging Probably Entering's Shadilay Track". Nova Spire. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  14. ^ P.E.P.E. – Shadilay (1986, Vinyl), retrieved 2021-12-04
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