À Tout le Monde
| À Tout le Monde | |
|---|---|
| Megadeth | |
| publication | November 1, 1994 (album) February 1995 (single) 2007 (remake) |
| length | 4:22 (original) 4:11 (remake) |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal , ballad |
| Author (s) |
Dave Mustaine David Ellefson Marty Friedman Nick Menza |
| album | Youthanasia |
À Tout le Monde (. French for " to the world ") is a ballad of the US heavy metal - band Megadeth after Train of Consequences as the second and final single from the sixth studio album Youthanasia was extracted (1994) .
Creation and publication
Text and music for À Tout le Monde were co-authored by Dave Mustaine, Dave Ellefson, Marty Friedman and Nick Menza. Main composer Dave Mustaine later described the song as one of his most beautiful ("one of the most beautiful songs I've ever written"). It was created after a dream in which his late mother appeared to him. The text of the song refers to a conversation between both and therefore has nothing - as is often assumed - to do with suicide. The name of the song derives from its refrain " à tout le monde, à tout mes amis, je vous aime, je dois partir " (in German: "to the whole world, to all my friends, I love you, I have to go ") from.
The song was initially only part of the sixth studio album Youthanasia , but was also released as a single in 1994. It is also included on the compilations Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years , Greatest Hits: Back to the Start , Warchest and Anthology: Set the World Afire . In 2004 it appeared in a revised form as part of the re-release of Youthanasia .
In 2007 Megadeth recorded the new song with the cast of Dave Mustaine (vocals), Glen Drover (guitar), Shawn Drover (drums), James LoMenzo (bass) together with guest singer Cristina Scabbia from the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil on. This duet version, entitled À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free) appeared in the eleventh studio album.
À Tout le Monde could not place itself in the regular hit lists.
Controversy over the lyrics
After the text of the song was mistakenly interpreted as an invitation to suicide, Mustaine explained in his autobiography the circumstances that, in his opinion, had led to this misinterpretation:
“On the day the album was released, we let the piece run over the airwaves as part of their [MTV] special" Night of the Living Megadeth ". During a break, I messed up the setlist, which led to my mistakenly saying "Skin o 'My Teeth," saying, "The following track is about how many times I've almost killed myself." Of course we didn't because we wanted to play "A Tout Le Monde". This song only had something to do with the same subject in that its lyrics were about dying and dealing with death. I now had the choice of correcting my announcement or simply singing "A Tout Le Monde" as planned. We couldn't change the order and continue with "Skin o 'My Teeth" because the show was broadcast directly and the others had adjusted to "A Tout Le Monde". So we played it too and afterwards had the salad, which you could have guessed right away. "
On September 13, 2006, the student Kimveer Gill ran amok at Davson College in Montreal, Canada, at the end of which he took his own life. Gill previously referred to himself as a fan of Megadeth in his Interblog and made numerous references to À Tout le Monde before his rampage . The condoling Mustaine then corrected that the song had been misunderstood by Gill.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A Tout le Monde at Songfacts
- ^ Mustaines biography (German version, pp. 218-219)