No who, no boisja
| No who, no boisja | |
|---|---|
| tATu | |
| publication | May 2003 |
| length | 3:03 min. |
| Genre (s) | Europop , dance-pop , electronica |
| text | Mars Lasar, Iwan Nikolajewitsch Schapovalov |
| music | Valery Polyenko |
| Producer (s) | Ivan Shapovalov |
| album | 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane , tATu Remixes |
Ne wer, ne boisja ( Russian Не верь, не бойся ; German: “Don't believe , fear not”), often also Ne wer, ne boisja, ne prosi (Russian Не верь, не бойся, не проси, German: “Don't believe , fear not, please not “), is a song by the Russian duo t.ATu from 2003. tATu performed with this song (using the English transcription Ne Ver ', Ne Boisia ) for Russia at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest in the Latvian capital Riga and reached 3rd place, just behind Belgium and the winning song from Turkey.
Emergence
Mars Lasar and Ivan Schapovalov wrote the lyrics to Ne wer, ne boisja , while Valeri Poljenko composed the music. According to Mars Lasar, he and Shapovalov produced the song without meeting. Instead, they sent each other MP3 files over the Internet - Shapovalov in Russia, Lasar in the United States.
The title of the song is derived from a saying by a Russian Gulag prisoner who found its way into general Russian usage through Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's The Archipelago Gulag . The phrase arose among Gulag prisoners in the 1930s and is still used today among prison inmates. The main intention of this saying is not to trust any other inmate or the prison administration, not to be afraid, as victimism leads to violence, and not to beg. Referring to the meaning of the song title, the music video for Ne wer, ne boisja also shows some scenes in which tATu singer Julija Wolkowa persists in a prison cell and is finally freed by Jelena Katina . Both singers said the song was meant to encourage people to be more confident.
publication
There is no official single for the song, it was only released as a promo CD and as a music video. The said music video shows video clips from the Yugoslav Wars , various demonstrations and traffic accidents as well as videos of the two singers Jelena Katina and Julija Wolkowa . In 2008 the music video was uploaded to the band's official Youtube channel. However, the song can be found on several other releases of the band, for example on the deluxe edition of their English-language debut album 200 km / h in the Wrong Lane , the maxi single for Not Gonna Get Us , the remix album tATu Remixes and the compilation album tATu The Best . To promote the band and the song, especially in the run-up to the Eurovision Song Contest , a promo version of the song was released. This was also broadcast by the Polish music channel VIVA , the music video is different for the two versions.
Success and criticism
The song reached second place on the Russian radio airplay charts and stayed in the top 10 for ten weeks. In the Belgian charts, Ne wer, ne boisja reached number 27 and was in the charts for six weeks. In Sweden, the song reached number six and was in the top 20 charts for three weeks.
The FAZ wrote about the song that it had a "melodic introduction", followed by "a refrain like a single, energetic scream". The ARD -Auslandsrundfunk Deutsche Welle described Ne wer, ne boisja as a "contemporary, well-made pop song". The Russian radio station Hit FM named the song a "100 Pound Hit". It was the third year in a row that tATu had received this award for one of their songs.
Eurovision Song Contest
The Russian television broadcaster Perwy kanal selected the song as a Russian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga, Latvia, without a preliminary decision. In the international competition, it was performed in eleventh place, behind Lou from Germany with Let's Get Happy and in front of the Spaniard Beth ( Dime ). The beginning and the end of the performance as well as ratings for Russia were acknowledged by the audience with boos . The reasons for this were the already tense relations between Russia and Latvia as well as negative comments by the two singers about the event at a previous press conference. ("Everything here is terrible. The stage, the light, everything is horrible.")
In the course of the narrow scoring, Ne wer, ne boisja received 164 points, was just three points behind the winning song from Turkey , Everyway That I Can by Sertab Erener , and one point behind the Belgian song, Sanomi by Urban Trad , and thus achieved place three. Only two countries - Ireland and the United Kingdom - gave Russia no points. The Russian television broadcaster Perwy kanal later failed with a lawsuit with the European Broadcasting Union and allegations that the telephone voting in these two countries had been manipulated. → See main article: Eurovision Song Contest 2003
| Points | countries |
|---|---|
| 12 | Estonia , Croatia , Latvia , Slovenia , Ukraine |
| 10 | Greece , Israel , Turkey , Cyprus |
| 8th | Germany , Austria |
| 7th | Belgium , France , Romania |
| 6th | Spain |
| 5 | - |
| 4th | Iceland , Poland , Portugal |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2 | Norway , Sweden |
| 1 | Malta , the Netherlands |
| 0 | Ireland , UK |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eurovision 2003 11 Russia * tATu * * Ne ver ', ne boysia * 16: 9 HQ . In: YouTube . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ^ The 2003 finalists . In: eurovision.de . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ^ Title as a phrase
- ↑ Ne Ver ', Ne Boisya, Ne Prosi . In: YouTube . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ↑ TATU - Hit Singles ( French ) In: Laurentpons.com . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/517937
- ↑ Chart placement in Belgium ( English ) In: acharts.us . Retrieved December 1, 2011.
- ↑ http://tsort.info/music/fv46xz.htm
- ↑ New braids - FAZ.net
- ↑ Deutsche Welle Kultur - "Deb du dubn da dap da" (May 24, 2003)
- ^ Polish television report on the tATu press conference . In: YouTube . Retrieved November 24, 2011.
- ^ Scoreboard 2003 . In: diggiloo.net . Retrieved November 22, 2011.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Northern Girl ( Prime Minister ) |
 Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 |
Believe Me ( Julija Sawitschewa ) |