Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 1984


Femme libre

Buy Femme libre now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




"'Femme libre'" is a successful song recorded by French band Cookie Dingler. Written in 1984, it achieved a huge success in France and became a popular song throughout the years. It was the band's sole hit.

Background and writing



Written in 1984 by Joelle Kopf and Christian Dingler under the label EMI Music, the song was a great success in the 1980s.

The song, released as a single on July 1, 1984,Cookie Dingler's singles, with dates of release [http://www.infodisc.fr/Artistes.php Infodisc] (Retrieved July 19, 2008) fell within the context of an era marked by the emergence of thoughtless songs which mocked some popular themes of society at the time. According to Elia Habib, an expert on French charts, the song reduced "freed women with a tender irony in an archetypal caricature" at a time when "the look is gaining importance and makes you 'in' or not".Elia Habib, 'Muz hit. tubes', 1998, p. 21,22

Charts performances and awards



In 1984, the song gained the price of the Union Nationale des Auteurs et Compositeurs awarded by the SACEM.

The single featured for 18 weeks on the French Singles Chart (Top 50), but this official chart began only on December 4, 1984, while the song was released five month earlier. It was #2 in the first edition of the chart, just behind Peter and Sloane's hit "Besoin de rien, envie de toi"; it stayed for two consecutive weeks at number 2. Then it dropped and totalled ten weeks in the top ten."Femme libre", French Singles Chart [http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?key=27120&cat=s Lescharts.com] (Retrieved July 19, 2008) In 1985, the single was certified Platinum disc by the SNEP.

Cover versions



The song was first covered in 1998 by Mireille Mathieu, Alain Souchon and Julien Clerc for an album of Les Enfoirs.

In 2005, Soma Riba band featuring DJ Fou covered the song but did not manage to reach success: The single peaked at #33 on the French singles chart on July 4, 2005 and remained on the top 100 chart for 16 weeks."Femme libre", by Soma Riba and DJ Fou, French singles chart [http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?key=192557&cat=s Lescharts.com] (retrieved July 19, 2008)

Track listings



; 7" single

A-side:

# "Femme libre" 3:40

B side:

# "Sexy Rock" 2:47

Certifications and sales



Charts



References



Category:1984 singles

Category:Songs with feminist themes

Category:1984 songs

Buy Femme libre now from Amazon

<-- Return to songs from 1984



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1085770398.