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Allison Kove

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Allison Kove
Birth nameAllison Gorshkov
Also known as
Born (2002-05-09) May 9, 2002 (age 22)
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
GenresPop
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actress
Years active2011–present
LabelsPMW Live

Allison Gorshkov (born May 9, 2002),[1] known professionally as Allison Kove, and formerly as Alison Gold, is an American actress and former pop singer. She is best known for her music career under the stage name, "Alison Gold", in which she released the single "Chinese Food" in 2013 through PMW Live, which peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. She has since pursued an acting career under the alias, "Allison Kove", starring in several films such as Rotten (2016), The Experience (2019) and Continental Split (2024).

Career

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Kove was born Allison Gorshkov in Fairfax, Virginia.[1] She adopted the stage name Alison Gold in 2012 when she began working with producer Patrice Wilson, with whom she had worked on with on all of her songs. Her first single, "Skip Rope", was released as part of the musical duo Tweenchronic, which consisted of Kove and another young girl identified as "Stacey".[3]

Her first single as a solo artist, "Chinese Food", was written by Wilson; Kove stated that she "loved it right away" after Wilson demoed it for her, and recorded it soon after.[4] Wilson performs an uncredited verse on the song, in which he advertises Panda Express.[5][6] The song was released in 2013 and became a viral hit, charting at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2013 and reaching 14 million YouTube views by March 2014. The video for "Chinese Food" included images of Wilson dancing in a panda costume and dancers flanking Gold in (Japanese) geisha outfits.[7]

Despite its chart and viral success, both the song and music video received an overwhelmingly negative response from critics and audiences; it was mainly criticized for having simplistic portrayals of other cultures, with Billboard deeming it "outright racist" and ranking it second in their 2015 list of "The 10 Worst Songs of the 2010s (So Far)". The video was also the subject of reaction videos by YouTubers including LeafyIsHere and h3h3Productions.[8][9][10][11] The Chicago Reader thought it remarkable that the song's "having bugged millions of people in an interestingly annoying way has earned [it] a spot, however small, in pop's history books."[12] Both Kove and Wilson have discredited the song's accusations of racism, with Gold stating: "I don't really understand what that's all about... I mean, I'm not trying to criticize anyone – I just really love Chinese food!"[13] Wilson removed the video from his channel in 2018, although it was later re-uploaded by others on YouTube.

She later released another single with Wilson titled "ABCDEFG" later in 2013,[14] which did not chart. The song's music video was described by The Telegraph as "weird and creepy" and "slightly chilling", and it was also removed by Wilson in 2018.[15] The music video for her third and final single with Wilson was "Shush Up" in early 2014, which received backlash over the sexualization of Kove, who was eleven years old at the time. Pedestrian described Kove's portrayal in the video as "apes tropes of adult sexuality well beyond her years in a variety of outfits and makeup you wouldn’t wish on anyone, let alone a child" and called it highly offensive.[15][16][17][18] The original upload of the video was likewise removed from YouTube, and Kove has not released any new music since.[19][20]

She has since gone on to adopt the stage name, Allison Kove and has since appeared in multiple films such as the 2019 film, The Experience, which was directed by her relative, Katerina Gorshkov, Deadline described it as a "an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age drama".[21]

Discography

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Year Single Peak positions
US
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2013 "Chinese Food" 29
"ABCDEFG" —
2014 "Shush Up" —

Other releases

  • 2013: "Skip Rope" (credited to Tweenchronic)

Filmography

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Film

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Title Year Role Notes
2011 Life Fine Tuned Family Friend (as Allison Gold) Short film
2013 Monster & Me Mall Kid Interactive web film
2013 Rainy Nights Alice Short film
2014 Lovesick School student Interactive web film
2014 The Cheerleader Daughter Short film
2016 Rotten Lisa Short film
2019 The Experience Scarlet Feature film
2024 Continental Split Emily Weddle Feature film

Television

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Title Year Role Notes
2023 After divorced, I took over the wealthy family Rachel Short TV mini-series; 13 episodes

References

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  1. ^ a b c Alison Gold biography Archived April 27, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, AllMusic
  2. ^ "Random Media Experience Acquisition — The Experience (2019)". May 2019. Archived from the original on December 4, 2024.
  3. ^ "TweenChronic". pmwlive.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  4. ^ Tween Singer Alison Gold Doesn't Know Anything About "Chinese Food". Vice, November 15, 2013.
  5. ^ https://www.spin.com/2013/10/chinese-food-viral-video-fox-patrice-wilson-alison-gold/
  6. ^ 'Chinese Food' by Alison Gold: It could be the most annoying song ever. Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2013.
  7. ^ Alison Gold's 'Chinese Food' Is From The Guy Who Gave Us Rebecca Black's 'Friday,' Only It's Offensive. Huffington Post, October 15, 2013.
  8. ^ "Chinese Food Has Received the Incredible Prequel You've Been Waiting For". Junkee.com. November 5, 2013.
  9. ^ "The 10 Worst Songs of the 2010s (So Far)". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 14, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  10. ^ a b 10 Viral Video Hits that Charted on the Billboard Hot 100 Archived February 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. Billboard, March 21, 2014.
  11. ^ Wei, Clarissa (October 15, 2013). "Take It Down: Alison Gold's 'Chinese Food' Is Inaccurate And Racist | Commentary | Food". KCET. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  12. ^ "The Fox," "Chinese Food," and annoyance as a pop strategy. Chicago Reader, October 29, 2013.
  13. ^ Flanigan, Sarah (October 18, 2013). "Alison Gold Responds to 'Chinese Food' Racism Claims". Yahoo!. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2013.
  14. ^ Gilman, Greg (November 5, 2013). "Alison Gold Follows 'Chinese Food' Up With 'ABCDEFG' (Video)". TheWrap. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  15. ^ a b Power, Ed (February 13, 2020). "'They call me a paedophile...that I eat children': the strange saga of the man behind Rebecca Black's Friday". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on February 14, 2020. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  16. ^ "Five minutes of fame aren't worth the underage shame". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  17. ^ "Patrice Wilson's Latest Music Video Production Crosses Just About Every Line". UPROXX. February 11, 2014. Archived from the original on December 6, 2024. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  18. ^ PEDESTRIAN.TV (February 10, 2014). "Eleven-Year-Old Alison Gold's New Video 'Shush Up' Is Not Okay". PEDESTRIAN.TV. Archived from the original on May 18, 2022. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  19. ^ "Alison Gold's Controversial 'Shush Up' Video Is "Art", Says Patrice Wilson - Music News, Reviews, Interviews and Culture". Music Feeds. February 12, 2014. Archived from the original on March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  20. ^ "Where Are the Massively Viral YouTube Music Stars of 2010 Now?". thetab.com. January 25, 2021.
  21. ^ "Random Media Experience Acquisition — The Experience (2019)". May 2019.
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