Little princess (song)
| Princess | |
|---|---|
| LaFee | |
| publication | June 16, 2006 |
| length | 4:18 |
| Genre (s) | Gothic rock , pop rock |
| Author (s) | Bob Arnz , Gerd Zimmermann |
| Producer (s) | Bob Arnz |
| Label | EMI |
| album | LaFee |
Prinzesschen is a song by the German singer LaFee from 2006. The second single from her debut album LaFee was written by Bob Arnz and Gerd Zimmermann and produced by the former.
Music and lyrics
Prinzesschen is a pop rock song with clear influences on the Gothic Rock genre. The song is dominated by hard, distorted e-guitars that play a dark, deep melody and heavy drum rhythms . A choir and strings mixed in the background underpin the dark atmosphere as a soundscape. During the first verse, which is relatively calm compared to the rest of the song, harpsichords and soft, electronic drum computers are also used. The song follows a structure known from pop music with two stanzas , each followed by the chorus , and a bridge , on which the chorus sounds one and a half times. At the beginning and at the end of the song there is an instrumental part in which the main riff can be heard. During the Bridge LaFees voice is a flanger provided effect.
The text is about a superficial woman who enchants everyone with her attractive appearance and the wealth of her parents, but cannot build emotional ties. Neither friendships nor affairs are based on honest feelings and are either bought or purely physical. LaFee admits that she is the most beautiful, but emphasizes that she does not value her world views. References to the Snow White fabric and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute are also incorporated into the text.
Music video
In the music video directed by Bastien Francois, LaFee and her accompanying band can be seen several times on the black fields of a large chessboard in the middle of a dark forest, performing the song, moving rhythmically. You are noticeably darkly dressed or made up; the entire scenery is predominantly in black or gray tones . In contrast, there are recurring scenes that take place in an extremely brightly lit room and show women who correspond to the social ideal of beauty , as well as photographers . They handle several banknotes with which they fan themselves or which they spread around the room. These characters also stand rigidly on the white fields of the chess board. Both she and the musicians slide across the board. In some scenes one of the “perfect” women is sitting in front of a mirror , but tilts her gaze melancholy towards the floor. A tracking shot reveals that the forest and the room represent parallel worlds in which the mirror functions as a portal - LaFee is sitting on the other side. The band's guitarist appears behind the sad-looking woman and smashes the mirror with his instrument. Towards the middle of the video, LaFee can be seen in the forest, in a bright white dress that is reminiscent of fairytale princesses , lying in an open coffin that is initially carried by several men. Later she jerks up out of it and sings the song straight into the camera. Between the individual scenes there are always fade-ins that show LaFee with black wings sitting on a black unicorn .
The music video has more than 5.1 million views on YouTube . (As of April 2020)
success
Prinzesschen was a commercial success in German-speaking countries and was able to reach the top ten in Austria . In Germany and Switzerland the sales figures were enough for places 11 and 25 respectively.
Little Princess
On the album Shut Up, which was released in 2008, there is an English version of the song called Little Princess , which is musically identical to the German version. Although the basic theme, like in the original version, is that the sung about woman attracts men through superficial stimuli such as money and physical beauty, there is a difference: in this version the “little princess” tries to build love herself, but the men only become sexual desired. Nevertheless, LaFee is even harder with her and describes her, for example, as a “shallow bimbo bitch” (something like “superficial bitch”).
Individual evidence
- ↑ credits. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Designation of LaFee's earlier style as “a little bit Gothic”. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
- ^ Name of LaFee's earlier style as Goth-Pop. Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Lyrics. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ music video. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Charts. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Little Princess lyrics. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .