Mylène Farmer: Cest Une Belle Journée (Live) [HD 1080px] Album: Avant que lombre... à Bercy Cest une belle journée (English: Its a Beautiful Day) is a 2001 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. It was the second single from her best of Les Mots and was released on 16 April 2002. The song deals with suicide on a dance music and was illustrated by a cartoon video produced by Farmers boyfriend. It achieved great success in France where it remained ranked for several months on the top 50. In this song, Farmer talks about her irresistible need to see the bad side of things, contrary to most people. This song is very similar in its structure to Je taime mélancolie : indeed, the two songs have heavy dance sounds and deal with the same gloomy themes. Concerning the lyrics, death and religious references are present, including the angels in the refrain. Expert of French charts Élia Habib considered that Cest une belle journée has an intro worthy of a 1980s opus of Pet Shop Boys and said it is a song with a tempo surprisingly cheerful; however, he maintained: Under this cover unusual are concealed again recurring themes of the Farmers anthology: death, nostalgia, vision of a world torn between good and evil, brevity of life. To author Erwan Chuberre, Cest une belle journée is a catchy and joyful song at the first hearing but that turns out to be, finally, rather dark, and has a lot of irony and humor. According to French magazine Instant-Mag, we find [in this song] all Farmer and Boutonnats art of the beautiful time, namely involve very delicately melancholy lyrics and skipping music, or even a bit commercial. Apology of suicide, sleep, pessimism, departure, the song is a call to sacrifice, to let go, to flee to a world of spiritual and physical peace. Behind the joyful and optimistic notes of the song, we can perceive stenchs much less happy and much more ambiguous. Farmer is in a pessimistic perspective, referring to the death behind the apparent sleep, the emptiness instead of the full, the completion instead of the beginning, and the flight as a reunion. There is also a parallel with Le Dormeur du val, written by French poet Arthur Rimbaud. About the lyrics, Farmer said: It would be indecent to directly address the topic of suicide. Too easy. Because I am protected by my family circle, by this success that gives me some strength. Those who listen to me do not always have them, that security. However, as noted by psychologist Hugues Royer, suicide evoked in the lyrics is intended to relieve a too heavy sadness, but to avoid, paradoxically, the horizon of a possible happiness. youtu.be/VBPullBJYmc
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