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Our SILVER medalist, very very closely is.....
#2
Mourir Sur Scene
Average Score: 9.107
Highest Score: 11 x 2 (@Ana Raquel @əʊæ)
10 x 6 (@pop3blow2 @Maki @vague @Riiiiiiiii @nnnumb @berserkboi)
Lowest Score: 4 x 1 (@Empty Shoebox)
#2
Mourir Sur Scene
Average Score: 9.107
Highest Score: 11 x 2 (@Ana Raquel @əʊæ)
10 x 6 (@pop3blow2 @Maki @vague @Riiiiiiiii @nnnumb @berserkboi)
Lowest Score: 4 x 1 (@Empty Shoebox)
So, from the fourth ballot up until Lady Of Shoeboxes’ this was your runaway winner of the Dalida Rate. The first track to receive multiple 11s and a multitude of high scores, nothing was coming close to beating Mourir Sur Scene for weeks (Soleil was inching a little closer than most but there was still a comfortable distance between them). Then came a Hail Mary grenade in the form of the Shoebox Extraordinnaire’s ballot – zeros aplenty! Low scores everywhere including a 4 for our winner BUT a trinity of high scores – one for Le Temps Des Fleurs (which was ever in the Top 5) changing the song at the top! The later voters repaired the gap between the two until we were down to only 1.1 point separating the two! That’s right voters – if we all changed our score by 0.1 to Le Temps Des Fleurs – we would be crowning Mourir Sur Scene, that’s how close they are on the leaderboard!
Mourir Sur Scene has a bit of fame in the PopJustice forum already, being Dalida’s best performer in a song contest when it came #6 in PJOPS 40 (Spotlight I wrote for it then). Funnily enough when chatting with the Lady Of Shoeboxes about that round, she told me Mourir Sur Scene was in her “Maybe” pile for points, and ends up giving it a 4/10 – I am not sure she was a particularly great fan of that round then ddddd. It was also the first taste of Dalida for now bonafide Mourir Sur Scene enthusiast @əʊæ (Lady Of Taste, who pretty much got her dream Top 4 here), and I really banked on its strength to have her preview the playlist and be my first voter. We also recently got it to chart in @ohnostalgia’s Monthly Charts – extending its appeal as far as possible.
All this goes to show that Mourir Sur Scene does possess a magnetism about it, since I never expected a song I have adored for decades in a foreign language to connect so strongly with so many who don’t speak said language. Once you break the surface of the gorgeous instrumental (which I always thought It’s A Sin by the Pet Shop Boys sampled in the instrumental breakdown, but there’s only a similarity) you have some of the most beautiful biographical lyrics put to music – except we had yet to know that when it first came out.
Released in 1983, Dalida reportedly did not like the track very much at all when she first heard it (Dalida having her own Ace Reject, almost winning a rate) but her brother Orlando convinced her to record it, feeling there was something special about this understated song. Since Mourir Sur Scene was never called to be the star of the show when it came to Dalida’s new album – it was relegated to B-Side treatment for single Les P’tits Mots (one of her smaller hits, though it did reach #10 in Monaco and #13 in France). However, once Dalida previewed the tracks from her new album live, Mourir Sur Scene connected with the audience massively! The extremely positive reception for her performance saw the track become a staple in her live shows for the rest of her life (up to her last concert in Turkey in 1987 before she committed suicide).
Lyrically depicting Dalida’s wish to die in the public eye, Mourir Sur Scene is one of the most eerie songs we have here. The poetry of a theatrical death which will resonate and make her a legend is a seductive proposal, which as we know she succumbs to a few years later. The sad thing is that Dalida already was legendary with the many doors she opened in the music industry for women, foreigners, and countless minorities; but the many losses that go along with the highs take a huge toll. The drama and poignancy of “Ma vie a brûlé sous trop de lumières, Je ne peux pas partir dans l'ombre” stays with me always, adding a layer of brutal honesty to how stars must keep topping each achievement with the next – the strain of the expectations that are placed on humans, intensified.
Mourir Sur Scene has left an immense legacy on French Music, now seen as an 80s standard (Dalida’s repertoire is filled to the brim with songs that are now deemed treasures of French music) many acts have performed it over the years and even Shirley Bassey tried her hand singing it in English to a tepid effect (and I say this as a general fan of Bassey, but nothing beats the original French lyrics). Mourir Sur Scene has become an emblematic song in Dalida’s repertoire due to how truly it depicts the event of her life and death, and as recently as 2017 – it has re-entered the French charts, and even charted in 2012 in Belgium! A legacy defining song of a legend!
@Sprockrooster (8) may regret being so stringent here if this was his pick to win out of the two tracks, had he upgraded the score to a 9.2 – Mourir Sur Scene would be the one! - This completely drowns in all the other stellar tracks. A bit downscored to prevent handing out one 9 or 10 after the other. @Disco Blister (8) may be in the same corner as Sprocky above - You can see that the 80’s were not a very good time for Dalida, like so many other 60’s or 70’s female artists. The sounds of the 80’s were rather cold in her genre. This is obviously a rather good track and chilling because of the title, even if the production is typical of the era and quite dated now.
@pop3blow2 (10) says it all in three words, though I am hoping appreciates my essay above! Ddddd — Well, this nice. @Maki (10) is all for the amazing drama here, how I wish and wish you were in those rounds of PJOPS with Mourir and Malade! - One of the best up-tempo songs I've heard from her so far, the delivery is really good. The lyrics are so eerily reflective and tragic, while the song is somewhat a mixture of uplifting and depressing moods, which exactly replicates the highs and lows of her life. The chorus is a complete ace. Deserves the title of one of her staple songs (oops, I just bumped its score to a 10).
@nnnumb (10) got his first taste of Dalida in a Song Contest with this one, and I think he still fondly remembers it! - Uptempo songs about death are always 10s. @Ana Raquel (11) uncovers one of my potential rate ideas! - This sounds like an anime opening from the 70s/80s. I dig it.
@WowWowWowWow (8) can visualise more TV shows that should have been afforded Dalida while alive – Like the theme song to a movie where Dalida plays a police officer trying to balance the pressure of the force with her home life! I swear I’m not high. I just saw that it was from 1983 and it sounds like the French-speaking cousin of Flashdance or Fame. @əʊæ (11) depicts just how powerfully Dalida delivers a Heartbreak On The Dancefloor classic, never to be bettered! - Just... triumphant. Makes me want to simultaneously fist pump and twirl pensively in a ball gown. Ms. Mort had made several points
Mourir Sur Scene has a bit of fame in the PopJustice forum already, being Dalida’s best performer in a song contest when it came #6 in PJOPS 40 (Spotlight I wrote for it then). Funnily enough when chatting with the Lady Of Shoeboxes about that round, she told me Mourir Sur Scene was in her “Maybe” pile for points, and ends up giving it a 4/10 – I am not sure she was a particularly great fan of that round then ddddd. It was also the first taste of Dalida for now bonafide Mourir Sur Scene enthusiast @əʊæ (Lady Of Taste, who pretty much got her dream Top 4 here), and I really banked on its strength to have her preview the playlist and be my first voter. We also recently got it to chart in @ohnostalgia’s Monthly Charts – extending its appeal as far as possible.
All this goes to show that Mourir Sur Scene does possess a magnetism about it, since I never expected a song I have adored for decades in a foreign language to connect so strongly with so many who don’t speak said language. Once you break the surface of the gorgeous instrumental (which I always thought It’s A Sin by the Pet Shop Boys sampled in the instrumental breakdown, but there’s only a similarity) you have some of the most beautiful biographical lyrics put to music – except we had yet to know that when it first came out.
Released in 1983, Dalida reportedly did not like the track very much at all when she first heard it (Dalida having her own Ace Reject, almost winning a rate) but her brother Orlando convinced her to record it, feeling there was something special about this understated song. Since Mourir Sur Scene was never called to be the star of the show when it came to Dalida’s new album – it was relegated to B-Side treatment for single Les P’tits Mots (one of her smaller hits, though it did reach #10 in Monaco and #13 in France). However, once Dalida previewed the tracks from her new album live, Mourir Sur Scene connected with the audience massively! The extremely positive reception for her performance saw the track become a staple in her live shows for the rest of her life (up to her last concert in Turkey in 1987 before she committed suicide).
Lyrically depicting Dalida’s wish to die in the public eye, Mourir Sur Scene is one of the most eerie songs we have here. The poetry of a theatrical death which will resonate and make her a legend is a seductive proposal, which as we know she succumbs to a few years later. The sad thing is that Dalida already was legendary with the many doors she opened in the music industry for women, foreigners, and countless minorities; but the many losses that go along with the highs take a huge toll. The drama and poignancy of “Ma vie a brûlé sous trop de lumières, Je ne peux pas partir dans l'ombre” stays with me always, adding a layer of brutal honesty to how stars must keep topping each achievement with the next – the strain of the expectations that are placed on humans, intensified.
Mourir Sur Scene has left an immense legacy on French Music, now seen as an 80s standard (Dalida’s repertoire is filled to the brim with songs that are now deemed treasures of French music) many acts have performed it over the years and even Shirley Bassey tried her hand singing it in English to a tepid effect (and I say this as a general fan of Bassey, but nothing beats the original French lyrics). Mourir Sur Scene has become an emblematic song in Dalida’s repertoire due to how truly it depicts the event of her life and death, and as recently as 2017 – it has re-entered the French charts, and even charted in 2012 in Belgium! A legacy defining song of a legend!
@Sprockrooster (8) may regret being so stringent here if this was his pick to win out of the two tracks, had he upgraded the score to a 9.2 – Mourir Sur Scene would be the one! - This completely drowns in all the other stellar tracks. A bit downscored to prevent handing out one 9 or 10 after the other. @Disco Blister (8) may be in the same corner as Sprocky above - You can see that the 80’s were not a very good time for Dalida, like so many other 60’s or 70’s female artists. The sounds of the 80’s were rather cold in her genre. This is obviously a rather good track and chilling because of the title, even if the production is typical of the era and quite dated now.
@pop3blow2 (10) says it all in three words, though I am hoping appreciates my essay above! Ddddd — Well, this nice. @Maki (10) is all for the amazing drama here, how I wish and wish you were in those rounds of PJOPS with Mourir and Malade! - One of the best up-tempo songs I've heard from her so far, the delivery is really good. The lyrics are so eerily reflective and tragic, while the song is somewhat a mixture of uplifting and depressing moods, which exactly replicates the highs and lows of her life. The chorus is a complete ace. Deserves the title of one of her staple songs (oops, I just bumped its score to a 10).
@nnnumb (10) got his first taste of Dalida in a Song Contest with this one, and I think he still fondly remembers it! - Uptempo songs about death are always 10s. @Ana Raquel (11) uncovers one of my potential rate ideas! - This sounds like an anime opening from the 70s/80s. I dig it.
@WowWowWowWow (8) can visualise more TV shows that should have been afforded Dalida while alive – Like the theme song to a movie where Dalida plays a police officer trying to balance the pressure of the force with her home life! I swear I’m not high. I just saw that it was from 1983 and it sounds like the French-speaking cousin of Flashdance or Fame. @əʊæ (11) depicts just how powerfully Dalida delivers a Heartbreak On The Dancefloor classic, never to be bettered! - Just... triumphant. Makes me want to simultaneously fist pump and twirl pensively in a ball gown. Ms. Mort had made several points
The exquisiteness!
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