Je l'aime à mourir
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| Single by Francis Cabrel | ||||||||||
| from the album Les Chemins de traverse | ||||||||||
| Released | 1979 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Length | 2:42 | |||||||||
| Label | CBS | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Francis Cabrel | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jean-Jacques Souplet | |||||||||
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| Single by Francis Cabrel | ||||||||||
| Released | 1980 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1980 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Label | CBS | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Francis Cabrel (music) Luis Gómez Escolar (lyrics in Spanish) |
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| Single by Alliage | ||||||||||
| from the album Musics | ||||||||||
| Released | 1998 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1998 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Label | Polygram | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Francis Cabrel | |||||||||
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| Single by Shakira | ||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Live from Paris | ||||||||||||||||||
| Released | 29 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, CD single | |||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Pop, French pop | |||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:42 (studio version) 3:50 (live version) 3:45 (DVD live version) |
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| Label | Live Nation, Epic Records | |||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Francis Cabrel | |||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Shakira | |||||||||||||||||
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"Je l'aime à mourir" (English: I Love Her to Death) is a French-language song written by Francis Cabrel. It is taken from his second album Les Chemins de traverse released in 1979 that sold over 600,000 copies in France. The single "Je l'aime à mourir" became a hit single for Francis Cabrel in France, Quebec (Canada), Europe and internationally. This song was written for Mexican legendary movie star María Félix.
The original single contained "Les chemins de traverse" on the B-side
The song also appears on a number of Cabrel's compilations like Cabrel 77–87 (1987), Cabrel public (1984) and others.
In France the single sold 500,000 copies, making it to the top of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews, staying at number one for five consecutive weeks (charts of 7, 14, 21 and 28 September and 6 October 1979). The single became the most sold Cabrel single ever.
Based on the popularity of the song, Cabrel commissioned Luis Gómez Escolar to translate the song. Cabrel recorded the Spanish-language version of the song called "La Quiero A Morir" that was released in 1980 with the B-side containing a Spanish translation of the French B-side release "Les chemins de traverse" as "Los Caminos Que Cruzan":
The song also appeared in Cabrel's 1990 Spanish-language album Algo más de amor.
The French boy band Alliage recorded a cover of the song on their second album Musics. It proved popular on French radio reaching #1 in airplay charts in France. "Je l'aime à mourir" was the third and last single from the album after "Je sais" and "Cruel Summer" a bilingual take on the Ace of Base classic done by Alliage and Ace of Base.
The Alliage version of "Je l'aime à mourir" had relative chart success peaking at #30 in France and #39 in Belgium's francophone chart.
(2012)
"Je l'aime à mourir" is a bilingual Spanish and French cover version of the song by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira. She performed the song during her concerts in French-speaking countries on the second European leg of her The Sun Comes Out World Tour, dating 2011. Two of these concerts, in Paris-Bercy, were filmed for the tour's official DVD and Blu-ray. Shortly before the DVD/Blu-ray's release, a studio-recorded version of the song leaked, and was later officially released as the second single from Shakira: Live from Paris. It was very well received by critics and by all her fans. The song has over 5,000,000 views on different channels on YouTube as of June 2012. In early December, the song promoted a Google Plus campaign for Shakira.
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