Cried

The author of the words of the song, Sergey Lokshin, noted that he did not predict success for “Crying”, counting more on the song “Dances”. According to him, he plotted the plot of the song in real life: he met a friend who was sobbing crying after a quarrel with a guy, who, however, abruptly stopped 15 minutes later with the words “Okay, I'll think about it tomorrow ...” - and immediately appeared after the meeting first line - “cried and stop”: ^[2]

“Cried” is a story about the amazing ability of endlessly strong girls and women to cry and seem to “reboot”, to continue to struggle with circumstances that sometimes become more difficult every day. A single young mother or a girl with a broken heart - everyone has this magical process the same way. In the text I tried to fix this state.

- Lyricist Sergey Lokshin

The song broke many Ukrainian records in the field of music. Namely, the composition for the first time topped the Ukrainian YouTube chart and for 12 weeks confidently held the leadership of the Ukrainian YouTube clip chart. ^[3] As of September 2018, the song “Cried” has the largest number of views among authorized videos of the Ukrainian-language YouTube segment , over 90 million views.

As of September 26, 2018, the song also topped the iTunes charts of Ukraine and Russia, and also reached # 2 in Moldova, # 3 in Kazakhstan and # 18 in Bulgaria ^[4] .

The song takes 12th place in the Shazam Music Awards in the world, and many prizes in other countries. ^[5]

Also in August 2018, the song topped the rating of tracks that are often listened to in the online music service Deezer among users of Ukraine ^[6] . In November 2018, the song “Cried” took first place in the hit parade of the Russian music television channel “ Muz TV ” ^[7] .

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In December 2018, the song “Crying” was used for musical accompaniment by US figure skating champion Johnny Weir ^{[20] [21]}

Criticism was caused by the resemblance to the song "Reborn" by YOYA. Sergey Ranov, the author of the music, explained the similarities by using the same sample from the 2014 The Arabian Trap Man collection, which is freely available and the use of which cannot be considered theft ^[22] .