Rapper Instasamka (Daria Zoteeva) covered Katya Lel’s hit song “My Marmalade”. She reported this on Instagram (its owner, Meta, is known as an extremist and has been banned in Russia).
Zoteeva released a video in which she sings a modified composition by Katya Lel. The singer replaced the lyrics in the original composition with his own words.
“I’m going to spend a lot of money, honey, don’t get bored. It feels like my head’s spinning again – yeah, I spent a lot of money,” the rapper sang.
Some users criticized Instasamka’s new composition, calling the song a “carbon copy”.
At the end of 2023, the song “My Marmalade”, recorded in 2004, went viral on the social network TikTok.
Producer Maxim Fadeev in February 2024 saidHe said that he allowed one of the foreign stars to cover the hit “My Marmalade”, which he wrote for Katya Lel.
Fadeev announced that in response to the worldwide popularity of the song “My Marmalade”, he received more than a hundred requests from the USA, Germany, England, China and other countries to create a cover. Many artists abandoned plans to record songs after learning that they would need to transfer funds to an account in Russian banks to redeem their copyrights.
Previously songwriter Rotaru criticized Zivert’s work.