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Kiss Kiss (Stella Soleil song)

"Şımarık"
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Single by Tarkan
from the album Tarkan & Ölürüm Sana
Released 1997
Format CD single, LP
Recorded 1997
Genre Turkish pop, dance-pop
Length
  • 3:10 ("Şımarık" radio edit only)
  • 3:57 (original version)
Label Urban/Polygram/Universal
Writer(s) Sezen Aksu, Tarkan
Producer(s) Mehmet Söğütoğlu, Dieter Rubach
Tarkan singles chronology
"Salına Salına Sinsice"
(1998)
"Şımarık"
(1998)
"Şıkıdım"
(1999)
Alternative cover
CD2 single cover
"Kiss Kiss"
Single by Stella Soleil
from the album Dirty Little Secret
Released April 24, 2001
Format CD single
Recorded 2000
Genre Dance-pop
Length 3:01 (radio edit)
Label Universal
Writer(s) Juliette Jaimes, Sezen Aksu, Tarkan, Steve Welton-Jaimes
Producer(s) Darren Bennett, Steve Welton-Jaimes
Stella Soleil singles chronology
"Torch"
(2001)
"Kiss Kiss"
(2001)
"Pretty Young Thing"
(2002)
"Kiss Kiss"
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Single by Holly Valance
from the album Footprints
Released April 29, 2002
Format CD single
Recorded 2002
Genre Dance-pop
Length 3:23
Label London
Writer(s) Juliette Jaimes, Sezen Aksu, Tarkan, Steve Welton-Jaimes
Producer(s) Darren Bennett, Steve Welton-Jaimes
Holly Valance singles chronology
"Kiss Kiss"
(2002)
"Down Boy"
(2002)

"Şımarık" (pronounced [ʃɯmaˈɾɯk], "Naughty" in Turkish) is a 1997 song by Turkish singer Tarkan. It was written by Sezen Aksu, with music credited as composed by Tarkan. However, Tarkan later admitted in a 2006 interview that this had been done without Aksu's consent, who was the true copyright owner. It formed part of Tarkan's album Ölürüm Sana (I'd Die for You) Şımarık was released in France in 1998 and the rest of the world in 1999, from the compilation album Tarkan, which was released in Europe. It has sold two million copies all across Europe.

As Tarkan's first major single, the song is generally considered his debut single. He had released three albums before this, but never released a song in single format due to the album-orientated nature of the Turkish music industry. The song has also appeared in soundtracks of various movies, including French film Beau travail and the American film XX/XY. It is generally considered Tarkan's signature song in Europe. Its chorus ends with two characteristic kiss sounds.

There are many other language versions, including a version sung by Hong Kong group E02 in Cantonese and an Egyptian cover version sung by Samy Mansour.

The music video is shot in France Marseille with narrow streets and cobbled roads, with Tarkan singing and jaywalking. Several females on the streets see him and start following him to try to kiss him, but he tries to avoid them by first changing direction and then later by walking faster. More and more women begin to follow him as the song proceeds, but Tarkan eventually starts running in order to avoid them. A big group of women then run after him and as the song finishes, Tarkan takes cover in a street corner. A young girl is there as well and Tarkan kisses her forehead.


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