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| Single by Mylène Farmer from the album Avant que l'ombre... |
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| Released | June 4 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single CD maxi 7" maxi Digital download |
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| Recorded | 2005, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 5:20 (Single Version) 3:55 (Radio Edit) |
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| Label | Universal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer | Text : Mylène Farmer Music : Laurent Boutonnat |
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| Producer | Laurent Boutonnat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Q.I" is a 2005 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. It was the second single from her sixth studio album, Avant que l'ombre..., and was released on July 4, 2005.
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Background
The song was officially played for the first time on NRJ on May 13, in a short version without musical bridge and second chorus. A first remix was produced by Chris Cox in order to reach the general public and was first broadcast on NRJ, on June 15. It was a great success on radio, followed by another Cox's longer remix and a third even longer intended to the dancefloors. Cox had also remixed "Désenchantée" on album RemixeS released in 2003, and "Peut-être toi". Two other remixes were produced and broadcast : a techno remix with a slow ryhthm, 'CQFD R.Club', by Syd, who had already remixed two Farmer's other songs respectively in 2003 and 2005 ("Libertine" and "Fuck Them All"), and an electronical and slow remix, 'Rodin's Extended Club Mix', by Liquid Twins who had taken part in a remix of "L'Amour n'est rien..."[1]. Finally, the single was released in three editions (CD single, CD maxi, 7" maxi) on June 4, two months after it first broadcasting on radio[2]. The song is the fourth track on the studio album. It was sung at the time of the 2006 Farmer's tour, and is also present on the live album Avant que l’ombre... à Bercy (track 8, CD 1, 6:58).
Music and lyrics
The song's lyrics "mix sex and intellect with the way in which the women consider physical love"[3]. It contains many puns which can have a double understanding.
Music video
The videoclip was shot in Budapest (Hungry) by Benoît Lestang, a make up specialist - who had worked for Giorgino in 1993 - and scenarist in several French films (La Cité des enfants perdus, Le Hussard sur le toit, Le Pacte des loups, Arsène Lupin...). He had also created the doll which features in the videoclip "Sans contrefaçon"[4]. The scenario, very simple, was written by Mylène Farmer. This man who appears in it is Rafael Amargo (pseudonym used by Jesus Rafael Garcia Hernandez), a Spanish dancer and choreographer born in 1975[4]. In the videoclip, Farmer appears on a giant screen laid out on a building in a big city under the rain. At the same time, a man walks in his apartment, looks at the screen and touches it through the wet window pane. Then we can see Farmer in his apartment, wearing net stockings and needle heels and sat on a leather armchair. She looks at the man who reads a book near to her. With the end of her heels, she starts to take off his shirt to him and the man ends up stripped to the waist. Behind an blue pane, they start together a choreography of which we can see only the shades. These images intersect the videoclip until its end. Then, sat on a bed in the library, the singer clasps the man and makes love with him. She passes her hands in the man's back and buries them under his skin[5]. Many Farmer's fans were disappointed seeing the videoclip. This one was broadcast for the first time on June 29[4].
Chart performance
In France[6], the single debuted on July 2 at number 77, two days before its official release because some stores already sold it. As all the Farmer's singles since "L'Âme-stram-gram", "Q.I" entered in the top 10. Indeed, the following week, it made an enormous jump to #7, its peak position, with 20,551 sales. After that, the single kept on dropping and remained for eight weeks in the top 50 and 18 weeks on the chart. According to IFOP, it was the 99th best selling single in 2005[7]. In Switzerland[8], "Q.I" went to #33, its best position, on July 17, before dropping very quickly. It left the chart after it tenth week, on September 25. All merged countries, the single obtained its peak position in the Belgian (Wallonia) Ultratop Singles Chart[9] where it reached #4 on July 23, before debuting at 8 the preceding week. It stayed five weeks in the top 10 and eleven weeks in the chart. On 2005 annual chart, "Q.I" ranked number 50[10]. In 2005, it was also the eleventh francophone song the more broadcast worldwide[2].
Versions
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Formats and track listings
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Credits and personnel
- Text : Mylène Farmer
- Music : Laurent Boutonnat
- Editions : Requiem Publishing
- Photo : Dominique Issermann
- Design : Henry Neu
