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Bassa Sababa
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Wikipedia article
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| EP = Goody Bag
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| next_title = Nana Banana
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"'Bassa Sababa'" (Hebrew transliteration: ) is a song recorded by Israeli singer Netta, and is the follow-up from her winning Eurovision Song Contest 2018 single "Toy". The track was written and produced by Netta, Avshalom Ariel and Stav Beger. The song was released on 1 February 2019 along with its official music video clip. 'Bassa' is used in Hebrew slang for the word bummer, but can relate to the context of the song as Bass rooted. The song means Fun Central or Source of Fun. As of September 2021, the official music video for "Bassa Sababa" has over 200,000,000 views on YouTube.
The song is featured in the 2019 dance rhythm video game 'Just Dance 2020'.
Background
In an interview with Israeli magazine At, Netta revealed that the sound of the animal in the song links back to her childhood and growing up in Nigeria. When Barzilai was around 6 years old, her family moved to Nigeria for her father's job. During her time there she fell in love with rhinos and featured their sound in the song, following the chicken sounds in Toy.
Track listing
Credits and personnel
'Recording and management'
*Recorded at Stav Beger and Bardo Studios (Tel Aviv)
*Published by Tedy Productions and Unicell
'Personnel'
*Netta vocals, production
*Stav Beger composition, production, percussion, keyboards, additional vocals, mixing and mastering
*Avshalom Ariel composition, production, percussion, additional vocals
*Ronen Hilel master and mixing engineer
*Shimon Yihye guitars
Charts
Weekly charts
References
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