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Posted on August 8, 2018byWilliam Lee Adams
Drunk love! Dima Bilan teams up with Eminem collaborator Polina on tragi-comic music video about 90s Russian weddings

He won the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and has gone on to become one of Russia’s most iconic pop stars. She co-wrote and provided vocals for Eminem’s “Legacy,” which was on his Grammy Award winning album The Marshall Mathers LP 2. And now Dima Bilan and Russian-born Polina Goudieva have come together in “Drunk Love”.

The music video is a 10-minute homage to the camp and over-the-top weddings held in Russia throughout the 1990s. We see the couple staging their own crazy nuptials with guests who include popular bloggers, actors, singers and even a real tiger. Filmed in Zelenograd — about 40 kilometres from Moscow — the motley crew take on a slew of colourful characters, including inebriated guests, a bride with a drinking habit, jilted ex-lovers, misbehaving bridesmaids and more.

This folksy tragicomedy was produced by VERSUS PICTURES studio, and the creative team was headed by Dasha Charusha — an actress, musician and producer considered the multicultural darling of the Moscow art scene. She collaborated with creative producer and famed comedian Alexander Gudkov.

Polina (not Gagarina) has several gold status records that have hit No. 1, including “Book of Love” and “Fade To Love”, both of which became massive hits in Russia. She’s worked with Tiesto, Steve Aoki and Felix Jaehn.

“When Dima first asked me to do a record collab, I could have not imagined how adventurous and unusual the video will be!” she says in a statement sent to wiwibloggs.