La Passion
| La Passion | |
|---|---|
| Gigi D'Agostino | |
| publication | 1999 (album) October 8, 2000 (single) |
| length | 7:35 (Album Version) 3:34 (Radio Cut) 2:58 (New Radio Cut) |
| Genre (s) | Italo disco , Eurodance |
| Author (s) | Gigi D'Agostino, Jacno |
| Producer (s) | Gigi D'Agostino |
| Label | ZYX Music , Media Records |
| album | L'amour toujours |
La Passion is a song by the Italian music producer Gigi D'Agostino from 1999. The fourth single from his third studio album L'amour toujours was written and produced by the artist himself based on the melody of the instrumental piece Rectangle by the French musician Jacno , which is why it is also under known as La Passion (Medley with Rectangle) .
Music and lyrics
La Passion can be assigned to the styles Eurodance and Italo-Disco . A beat consisting of a bass drum pounding in four-four time, claps striking every second bar and various hi-hats underlay the song, which is dominated by two different, catchy synthesizers . A male voice sung by Adam Austin , which is provided with the autotune vocal effect throughout , plays a melody in F major .
The text of La Passion consists essentially of loosely connected clichés and phrases from pop music , which mostly revolve around love , emotional ties and freedom . Despite the title, the song is sung in English , and sometimes grammatically incorrectly worded lines appear.
The full version of the song, which can be found on the album L'amour toujours , lasts about seven and a half minutes in total and is characterized by a gradual build-up. At first only one of the synthesizers can be heard, before slowly the voice and then some hi-hats and claps join in. The bass drum only kicks in after about 3 minutes. At the end of the song the beat and the vocals fall silent, so that only the synthesizers are played, which ultimately fade out . There are also two radio versions , each over 4 minutes shorter than the album. The intro was cut very heavily on both , so that with the radio cut the bass drum can be heard after a little more than half a minute and with the new radio cut after less than 10 seconds. Cutbacks were also made from time to time in the further course.
Music video
The music video for La Passion , which uses a specially edited version of the song, begins in a record shop in which Gigi D'Agostino steals a CD from his own album L'amour toujours, puts it in his jacket and goes out of business. The seller is initially on his heels, which is why the thief hides now and then. During his escape, however, the musician was hit by a car and lay unconscious on the floor. A woman bends over him and takes the opportunity to steal his sunglasses . What follows is a seemingly incoherent cut into an apartment in which a woman is having fun with a male sex doll . Suddenly the spectacle thief appears, gets angry at the sight of the sexual process, grabs the doll and throws it from the balcony , although she loses her sunglasses. This lands right next to D'Agostino, who has meanwhile woken up again, whereupon he picks up the accessory and puts it on. He goes back to the store and steals the album again. The first and last moments of the video are completely identical in their recordings, so that the clip can be interpreted as a time loop . During the whole event there are always zooms and stillshots of largely uninvolved, randomly present people who have nothing to do with the course of the story.
success
La Passion was a great commercial success in some European countries. In Austria and Belgium , the title managed to climb to the top of the charts, with it being the seventh most successful song of 2000 in the former country. In Germany it reached second place on the hit parade, in Switzerland it took only a moderate position at 13th place. Despite the artist's origins and popularity, it could not prove itself in the Italian charts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ album. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Singles and Credits. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Sample. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ key. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Lyrics. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ music video. Accessed May 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Charts. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
- ^ Austrian annual charts 2000. Accessed on May 14, 2019 .