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"Shadilay"
Cover art
Single by P.E.P.E.
A-side	"Shadilay (Vocal)"
B-side	"Shadilay (Instrumental)"
Released	March 3, 1986 (1986-03-03) (Italy) November 23, 2017 (2017-11-23) (U.S.)
Genre	Electronic Italo disco
Length	6:06 (vocal extended version) 4:14 (italian version) 4:18 (english version)
Label	Magic 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., released in 1986 by the music label Magic Sound. It was written by Italian singer-songwriter Marco Ceramicola, who sang under the pseudonym of Manuele Pepe.

It gained attention in 2016 for the band name's similarity to the meme Pepe the Frog, as well as the single's label art also featuring a drawing of a cartoon frog. The label art belongs to Magic Sound, and has been used in multiple songs produced by them, including "Babababo" by Bibox. It has since been used as the anthem for the fictional country of Kekistan. Ceramicola, who had since abandoned his career in the music industry, felt the newfound worldwide audience the song received online to be unexpected.

Composition

"Shadilay" is an electronic Italo disco song. 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. The instrumentation consists of a DX7 Keyboard.

Track listing

12" Single (Magic Sound – MASNP 007)

1. "Shadilay" (Vocal) – 6:06
2. "Shadilay" (Instrumental) – 6:05

Personnel

• Written by Marco Ceramicola
• Lead vocals by Manuele Pepe
• Arranged by Massimo Marcolini

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.
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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. ^ 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. ^ 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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