Ibiza Is Not Happy with Mike Posner for Singing About Taking Pills in Ibiza

“Your Fave Song Is Problematic” news now, and Mike Posner’s “I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix)” is actually extremely bad, according to tourism chiefs in Ibiza, because it paints Ibiza as some sort of hedonistic pill paradise.

Imagine. Imagine such a thing.

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Here’s Ibiza’s tourism director Vincent Ferrer, speaking to the AFP news agency:

“We have invited the author of this song to discover Ibiza because we have much more to offer besides the nightlife which is known worldwide.

“We have museums, beaches, culture, gastronomy, we have a wide offer but unfortunately we have been typecast this way.

“Unfortunately someone who wants to consume pills or alcohol can be found in any tourist destination, the fact that it is only us who are pigeonholed does not seem fair.”

It’s cute, really, because the suggestion here is that Ibiza tourism chiefs are blithely unaware of any pill consumption in Ibiza – Ibiza famously a place where nobody has ever taken a pill before.

This song and the line “I took a pill in Ibiza / to show Avicii I was cool” is the first ever recorded instance of someone ever intimating they wanted to consume a pill on the island of Ibiza; nobody else had ever thought of it before that, let alone done it. Mike “two songs in six years” Posner is the real rot in the core of Ibiza: it is his fault that the streets are lined with open-until-4AM kebab shops and lads breaking each other’s legs with quad bikes; leafletters and 24-hour drop-in A&Es; morally dubious tattoo shops and weird vape goblins standing outside Pacha. This is all Mike Posner’s fault. And Seeb’s fault, too, a bit.

This isn’t the first time a party island has kicked off and gone: “We have museums, too! Come to our museums!” just because everyone thinks they are a party island. After the infamous-at-the-time “multiple-blowjob Magaluf Girl” incident, Magaluf went into a DEFCON that involved telling people not to do 24 blowjobs in a row, declaring a street drinking ban and generally trying to clamp down on fun.

So, to recap: Magaluf don’t want you street drinking and Ibiza don’t want you doing pills. If Zante declares a fatwa on tactical chundering or getting fingered on a pedalo, then that’s pretty much the end of fun as we know it.

@joelgolby

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