Jeanny (song)
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| Single by Falco | ||||
| from the album Falco 3 | ||||
| Released | December 22, 1985 | |||
| Format | CD single, 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1985 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, pop, spoken word, synthpop, power pop | |||
| Length | 5:53 | |||
| Label | GIG | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Rob and Ferdi Bolland, Falco | |||
| Producer(s) | Rob and Ferdi Bolland | |||
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| "Jeanny" on YouTube | ||||
| "Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)" | ||||
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| Single by Falco | ||||
| from the album Emotional | ||||
| Released | October 12, 1986 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1985-1986 | |||
| Genre | Rock, pop, power pop | |||
| Length | 5:32 | |||
| Label | Teldec | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bolland & Bolland, Falco | |||
| Producer(s) | Rob and Ferdi Bolland | |||
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| "The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)" | |
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| Single by Falco | |
| from the album The Spirit Never Dies | |
| Released | December 4, 2009 |
| Recorded | 1987 |
| Genre | Pop |
| Label | Starwatch (Warner Music) |
| Songwriter(s) | Gunther Mende, Alexander C. Derouge |
| Producer(s) | Gunther Mende |
"Jeanny" is a song by the Austrian musician Falco, recorded in 1985 for Falco's album Falco 3.
It was the third song released as a single out of the album in 1986. Controversial due to its lyrics, it nonetheless became a number one hit in numerous European countries.
In 2008 the song re-entered the Austrian Single Charts.
The song is about a relationship between a man and a woman named Jeanny.
At the time when it reached number one, critics said that the song glorifies rape. German TV and radio personality Thomas Gottschalk made various negative remarks and called the song "rubbish". An outcry in German language markets caused the song to be banned by some radio broadcasters or played with a preceding warning by others.
Falco argued that it is about the musings of a stalker.
The part of the "news flash" in the track is spoken by German newsreader Wilhelm Wieben.
Several feminist associations called for a boycott of the song. Some TV and radio stations in West Germany agreed and didn't play the song "for ethical reasons", while others just played it on their charts shows. In East Germany the song was not on air and playing it in dance clubs was prohibited.
There were also demands to prohibit the song in West Germany, but officials denied the application in April 1986. This angered news presenter Dieter Kronzucker, who presented the daily news magazine heute-journal for the West German public TV station ZDF: his two teenage daughters, along with their cousin, had been kidnapped and briefly held captive in Tuscany several years earlier; this formed the basis of his anger about the song's release, which he discussed on heute-journal. Following this, further radio stations followed the boycott. In the German federal state of Hesse the song was aired accompanied by a warning. In the popular music show Formel Eins cutscenes were aired, but only whilst the song was at the top of the charts.
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