more commercial sound. “Funny Love” In 2015, Balan returned from his creative break to release another experimental single, “Funny Love”. The music video was directed by acclaimed Ukrainian director Alan Badoev, who has recorded hundreds of music videos, and several of Balan's songs. The music video took a whole 4 months to film, involving 20 different scenes. 13 models and 16 dancers had in total 120 costumes and 300 kg of luggage. Badoev used “unusual graphics” and novel editing techniques in the video, and was impressed by Balan's dedication to his music. The singer admitted he wanted to take his songs to a new level after Lendo Calendo, and worked more than any other on the sound design for Funny Love. “Plach” Balan also released a version of his song “Cry Cry”, originally written for his unreleased rock album in 2006, with different, experimental and complex sound, and new Russian lyrics, differing somewhat from the English, to appeal to an Eastern European audience. “Hold on Love” In 2017, Balan decided to return from his three-year creative break, in which he had been working on experimental music styles, to return with a more commercial sounding single which would not be featured on Freedom, Part 2. Balan felt that before releasing the new album he should return to the stage with a dance hit such as “Hold on Love”. To that end, he was invited performed the song at the popular M1 (Ukraine) Music Awards in 2017. The music video, Balan's fifth collaboration with Ukrainian director Alan Badoev was described by Badoev as a dark and mysterious David Fincher-style clip. Badoev decided on a theme of “do not be afraid of what is inside of you”, casting Balan as a Pastor tempted by his desires, and filmed in a district of Los Angeles. The director's team had to close off one quarter of the city to complete filming. “Nashe Leto” with Vera Brezhneva Dan Balan decided to re unite O-Zone in 2017 to have 2 concerts on 9 May 2017 in Chisinau and Bucharest. In March 2018, Dan Balan released a new single called "Allegro Ventigo", featuring Matteo. Successful in the likes of Romania, Ukraine, Russia, and Bulgaria, there was much talk around the language the lyrics are written in. Balan joked in an interview that this is "Old Moldavian", but the settled view is that the lyrics are written in a