Peut-être toi
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"Peut-être toi" is a 2005
song recorded by the French
artist Mylène Farmer
. It was the fifth single
from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre...
, and was released on 21 August 2006. The music video was produced as an animated feature and the lyrics deals with a love relationship. It was a top three hit in France, but its sales were rather modest.
" was chosen as the second single, as "Peut-être toi" was already broadcast on radio and then seemed to be a next single. Later, as of 22 May 2006, a rumor announced "Dans les rues de Londres" as the fifth single from the album. However, on 16 June 2006, it was officially announced that "Peut-être toi" would be the fifth and last single from Avant que l'ombre...
.
The song was broadcast for the first time in its radio edit version on 19 June on NRJ. On 26 June, the first remix, called the Miss Farmer's remix, was presented but not played. On 6 July, both versions - the radio edit and the Miss Farmer's remix - were available on digital download
websites. Twenty-one days later, the second remix - Cox's remix -, was officially announced. The single was eventually released on 21 August, in three limited editions: CD single
, CD maxi et 12" vinyl. The first remix was produced by Bionix, who also produced one of them for "L'amour n'est rien...
", and the two others were made by Chris Cox who also remixed "Désenchantée
" and "Q.I
".
"Peut-être toi" was performed during the 2006 Farmer's tour
as the first song of the concert, and thus it is available on the live album Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
.
by Production I.G, a famous Japan
ese anime company and was written by Katsuhiro Ôtomo after a strip cartoon by Osamu Tezuka, and was directed by Kusumi Naoko, Kazuchika Kise and Shuichi Hirata. It was originally intended to illustrate "Fuck Them All
", as the booklet of Music Video IV proves it, indicating that the video was produced in 2005.
On 7 July 2006, the music video was presented by Universal
in a twenty-second version on mobile phone, and in its full version by Orange, the day after. Then it was also presented on several websites : on Yahoo Music five days after, and on Orange website, on 21 July. This anime video depicts Farmer as a young and sexy woman with the bun she wore during her second series of concerts tour in 1996. Author Erwan Chuberre considered that the video was "certainly the most innovative one of the year." As the video ends with the death of two lovers who perish when entwined, pierced by a spear, Royer said that the message of this video is the same as in the story of Romeo and Juliet
, i.e. only death can guarantee the eternity of love. Major themes of the video are rebellion and love.
The video, presented on television on 19 July 2006, was the most broadcast of those from the album Avant que l'ombre...
. It was also available as download on I-tunes on 29 July. During a musical programme named Les 100 Meilleurs Clips du XXIè siècle aired on MCM
on 25 February 2007, this video reached number four (behind those of "Fuck Them All
" at number one, and "Redonne-moi
" at number three) thanks to the voters of the television viewers. On the Yahoo Music France site, the video was awarded "Best Animated Clip 2006".
suspended in the airs in which the singer was locked up appeared, went down to the central cross-shaped stage. Six men dressed in black moved it to the center of the stage and placed it on a pedestal. It bowed upright and opened. While the whole stage was then illuminated in red, Farmer, dressed in light brown, came out of it and began to perform the song, starting with the first verse, instead of the refrain.
where it debuted at number three on 26 August, selling a peak of 18,144 units. The next weeks, it dropped and remained for a total of nine weeks in top 50 and 15 weeks on the chart. According to the SNEP, "Peut-être toi" was the 97th best-selling singles from the first nine months of 2006.
The single went to number 24 on Belgian
(Wallonia) Ultratop 40
Single Chart on 2 September, and jumped to a peak of number 12 the week after, then dropped. It fell off the chart after seven weeks. In Switzerland
, "Peut-être toi" peaked at number 34 in the first week, on 3 September. Then, it crumbled very quickly and remained in the top 100 for seven weeks.
Full vocal Cox's remix
2005 in music
-Events:*During the year 2005, 12 rock music albums scored number 1 in the USA. This was the first time even ten albums have scored number 1 since 1996.-January:...
song recorded by the French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
artist Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer
Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
. It was the fifth single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre... is the sixth studio album by Mylène Farmer, released on April 4, 2005. Mainly composed of acoustic ballads, this album produced five singles which were all top ten hits in France, including "Fuck Them All" and "L'amour n'est rien..."...
, and was released on 21 August 2006. The music video was produced as an animated feature and the lyrics deals with a love relationship. It was a top three hit in France, but its sales were rather modest.
Background and release
In May 2005, the fans were disappointed when "Q.IQ.I
"Q.I" is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the second single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on 4 July 2005. Like all other tracks from the album, the lyrics were written by Farmer and the music was composed by Laurent...
" was chosen as the second single, as "Peut-être toi" was already broadcast on radio and then seemed to be a next single. Later, as of 22 May 2006, a rumor announced "Dans les rues de Londres" as the fifth single from the album. However, on 16 June 2006, it was officially announced that "Peut-être toi" would be the fifth and last single from Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre... is the sixth studio album by Mylène Farmer, released on April 4, 2005. Mainly composed of acoustic ballads, this album produced five singles which were all top ten hits in France, including "Fuck Them All" and "L'amour n'est rien..."...
.
The song was broadcast for the first time in its radio edit version on 19 June on NRJ. On 26 June, the first remix, called the Miss Farmer's remix, was presented but not played. On 6 July, both versions - the radio edit and the Miss Farmer's remix - were available on digital download
Music download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
websites. Twenty-one days later, the second remix - Cox's remix -, was officially announced. The single was eventually released on 21 August, in three limited editions: CD single
CD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
, CD maxi et 12" vinyl. The first remix was produced by Bionix, who also produced one of them for "L'amour n'est rien...
L'Amour n'est rien...
"L'amour n'est rien..." is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. The song was released as the fourth single from Farmer's sixth studio album Avant que l'ombre... on 27 March 2006...
", and the two others were made by Chris Cox who also remixed "Désenchantée
Désenchantée
"Désenchantée" is a 1991 song recorded by the French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. First single from her third studio album L'Autre..., it was released on 18 March 1991 and achieved a great success in France, topping the chart for more than two months...
" and "Q.I
Q.I
"Q.I" is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the second single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on 4 July 2005. Like all other tracks from the album, the lyrics were written by Farmer and the music was composed by Laurent...
".
"Peut-être toi" was performed during the 2006 Farmer's tour
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (tour)
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy is the Mylène Farmer's 2006 concert tour in support of her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre.... It was the fourth tour of the singer.More than 169,000 tickets were sold one about one year before the concert.-Set list:...
as the first song of the concert, and thus it is available on the live album Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy is the fourth live album by Mylène Farmer, released on December 4, 2006.- Background :Six years after her Mylenium Tour, Mylène Farmer came back on stage with a tour in 2006 which included 13 shows at Bercy, in Paris. This very successful series of concerts started on...
.
Lyrics and music
The author Benoît Cachin said the song's lyrics are optimistic, which is very rare in Farmer's career. In the refrain, the singer explains to her lover that he should prevent her from speaking "if her dark universe exceeded her love". The song is punctuated with several "Shut up" sung by Farmer and has dance and electro sonorities. The psychologist Hugues Royer believes that in this song, "there is some caution in the declaration [of love], a decency to say the passion that could be extinguished", which is expressed by the "Shut Up" in the chorus. Love is not seen as being eternal and is only related to the present. It seals the pact of "a requirement of absolute sincerity" in which no error must be committed by one of the lovers, and no routine must appear.Music video
The music video was produced as an animeAnime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
by Production I.G, a famous Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese anime company and was written by Katsuhiro Ôtomo after a strip cartoon by Osamu Tezuka, and was directed by Kusumi Naoko, Kazuchika Kise and Shuichi Hirata. It was originally intended to illustrate "Fuck Them All
Fuck Them All
"Fuck Them All" is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the lead single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on 14 March 2005. Like all tracks from the album, the lyrics were written by the singer with music composed by Laurent...
", as the booklet of Music Video IV proves it, indicating that the video was produced in 2005.
On 7 July 2006, the music video was presented by Universal
Universal Records
Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...
in a twenty-second version on mobile phone, and in its full version by Orange, the day after. Then it was also presented on several websites : on Yahoo Music five days after, and on Orange website, on 21 July. This anime video depicts Farmer as a young and sexy woman with the bun she wore during her second series of concerts tour in 1996. Author Erwan Chuberre considered that the video was "certainly the most innovative one of the year." As the video ends with the death of two lovers who perish when entwined, pierced by a spear, Royer said that the message of this video is the same as in the story of Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
, i.e. only death can guarantee the eternity of love. Major themes of the video are rebellion and love.
The video, presented on television on 19 July 2006, was the most broadcast of those from the album Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre...
Avant que l'ombre... is the sixth studio album by Mylène Farmer, released on April 4, 2005. Mainly composed of acoustic ballads, this album produced five singles which were all top ten hits in France, including "Fuck Them All" and "L'amour n'est rien..."...
. It was also available as download on I-tunes on 29 July. During a musical programme named Les 100 Meilleurs Clips du XXIè siècle aired on MCM
MCM (French TV)
MCM is a French music video TV channel owned by Groupe MCM. It was started in 1989 by Groupe Europe following the MTV model. MCM broadcasts 3 encrypted music TV channels "MCM France", "MCM Pop" and "MCM Top" as part of the "CanalSat France" subscription TV package from the Astra 19.2°E cluster of...
on 25 February 2007, this video reached number four (behind those of "Fuck Them All
Fuck Them All
"Fuck Them All" is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the lead single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on 14 March 2005. Like all tracks from the album, the lyrics were written by the singer with music composed by Laurent...
" at number one, and "Redonne-moi
Redonne-moi
"Redonne-moi" is a 2005 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. This pop ballad was the third single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on 2 January 2006. Like all other tracks of the parent album, it was written by Farmer and the music was composed by...
" at number three) thanks to the voters of the television viewers. On the Yahoo Music France site, the video was awarded "Best Animated Clip 2006".
Promotion and live performances
"Peut-être toi" was never performed on television, but was the opening song of the 2006 series of concerts. It began with a huge "Shut up!", then a cylindrical glass coffinCoffin
A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of dead people – either for burial or cremation.Contemporary North American English makes a distinction between "coffin", which is generally understood to denote a funerary box having six sides in plan view, and "casket", which...
suspended in the airs in which the singer was locked up appeared, went down to the central cross-shaped stage. Six men dressed in black moved it to the center of the stage and placed it on a pedestal. It bowed upright and opened. While the whole stage was then illuminated in red, Farmer, dressed in light brown, came out of it and began to perform the song, starting with the first verse, instead of the refrain.
Chart performances
The single obtained its highest position in FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
where it debuted at number three on 26 August, selling a peak of 18,144 units. The next weeks, it dropped and remained for a total of nine weeks in top 50 and 15 weeks on the chart. According to the SNEP, "Peut-être toi" was the 97th best-selling singles from the first nine months of 2006.
The single went to number 24 on Belgian
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
(Wallonia) Ultratop 40
Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...
Single Chart on 2 September, and jumped to a peak of number 12 the week after, then dropped. It fell off the chart after seven weeks. In Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, "Peut-être toi" peaked at number 34 in the first week, on 3 September. Then, it crumbled very quickly and remained in the top 100 for seven weeks.
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of single releases of "Peut-être toi":- CD single - Digipack - Limited edition
- CD maxi - Digipack - Limited edition
- CD single - Promo
- 7" maxi / 7" maxi - Promo
- Digital download
- DVD - Promo
Release history
| Date | Label | Region | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 2006 | Polydor | France, Belgium, Switzerland | CD single - Promo | 11 233 |
| July 2006 | 7" maxi - Promo | 11 234 | ||
| 21 August 2006 | 7" maxi | 984 206-8 | ||
| CD single | 984 206-9 | |||
| CD maxi | 984 207-0 | |||
Official versions
| Version | Length | Album | Remixed by | Year | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Album version | 4:55 | Avant que l'ombre... Avant que l'ombre... Avant que l'ombre... is the sixth studio album by Mylène Farmer, released on April 4, 2005. Mainly composed of acoustic ballads, this album produced five singles which were all top ten hits in France, including "Fuck Them All" and "L'amour n'est rien..."... |
— | 2005 | See the previous sections |
| Single version / Radio edit | 3:45 | — | Laurent Boutonnat Laurent Boutonnat Laurent Pierre Marie Boutonnat is a French composer and film and music video director, best known as the songwriting partner of Mylène Farmer and the director of moody, provocative and literature-inspired music videos.- Career :... |
2006 | This remixed version is shorter, more dynamic and with additional sonorities (sounds of bells, more synthesizer Synthesizer A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones... s and drum Drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a... ) than the album version. |
| Instrumental | 3:46 | — | Laurent Boutonnat | 2006 | All the lyrics, even the "Shut up" in the vocals, are deleted. |
| Miss Farmer's remix | 4:10 | — | The Bionix | 2006 | This remix had R&B sonorities and some "Shut the fuck up" repeated throughout the song. |
| Cox's remix - club mix | 6:58 | — | Chris Cox Chris Cox (DJ) Chris Cox is a dance music producer, remixer, and DJ from USA and has worked on over 400 records. He has had a total of 40 Billboard dance chart number ones as part of the hitmaking remix team Thunderpuss, and others with Pusaka and as a solo artist. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 for his... |
2006 | |
| Full vocal Cox's remix | 8:46 | — | Chris Cox | 2006 | |
| Music video | 4:19 | Music Videos IV Music Videos IV Music Video IV is a DVD recorded by the French singer Mylène Farmer, containing all the singer's videoclips from 2001 to 2006. It was released in October 2006 in France.... |
— | 2006 | |
| Live version (recorded in 2006) | 3:27 (audio) 3:22 (video) |
Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy is the fourth live album by Mylène Farmer, released on December 4, 2006.- Background :Six years after her Mylenium Tour, Mylène Farmer came back on stage with a tour in 2006 which included 13 shows at Bercy, in Paris. This very successful series of concerts started on... |
— | 2006 | See Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (tour) Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy (tour) Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy is the Mylène Farmer's 2006 concert tour in support of her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre.... It was the fourth tour of the singer.More than 169,000 tickets were sold one about one year before the concert.-Set list:... |
Credits and personnel
These are the credits and the personnel as they appear on the back of the single:- Mylène Farmer – lyrics
- Laurent Boutonnat – music
- Requiem Publishing – editions
- Polydor – recording company
- Kazuchika Kise (Production I.G) – illustration
- Henry Neu – design
Full vocal Cox's remix
- Chris Cox – producer
- Keith "KLM" Litman – additional arranging
- Chris Cox at Noho Porn Labs, Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, CA – all programming, engineering and mixing
Charts and sales
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart | 12 |
| Belgian Singles Chart (global) | 18 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 | 13 |
| French SNEP Singles Chart | 3 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 34 |
| Country | Certification | Physical sales |
|---|---|---|
| France | — | 50,000 |