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"Fuck Them All" is a 2005 song recorded by French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer. Released on 14 March 2005, it was the lead single from her sixth studio album, ''Avant que l'ombre...''. Like all tracks from the album, the lyrics were written by the singer with music composed by Laurent Boutonnat. "Fuck Them All" combines pop music elements with acoustic guitar, electronic beats and synths, with a musical bridge sung as a rap in English. As a result it is often compared to Madonna's early 2000s songs. Using both crude and colorful lyrics, including sex and vulgarity, the song deals with the war between the sexes and was often considered a feminist plea in which women are presented as warriors. The accompanying music video for the song, filmed by Agustí Villaronga in Romania over two days, shows Farmer portraying two women in a warehouse and many scarecrows made by Swiss artist Martial Leiter. Displaying many symbolic elements, it was the subject of many analyses on the Internet and in the press which generally praised its aesthetic qualities, but criticized for its lack of innovation. Farmer sang "Fuck Them All" during her 2006 series of concert at Bercy and the performance was released on the ''Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy'' DVD. The song received a mixed critical reception from fans and the general public, reviews ranging from "unconvincing" and "vulgar" to "bold" and "catchy". Despite this, the song was downloaded over 5,000 times from official download platforms during its first week of release, and over one million times illegally. It met some success on the French and Belgian (Wallonia) charts, where it reached number two and eventually became the album's best-selling single. In France, it earned a silver disc for over 100,000 units sold. ==Background and release== On 16 December 2004, Farmer gave a press conference to talk about her planned thirteen concerts at Paris-Bercy in January 2006 and the release of her new album in March 2005, but said nothing about the lead single of her next album. When this new single was announced in the media, persistent rumors claimed that the title would be "Aime". In January 2005, the exact title, "Fuck Them All", was eventually presented as a strong possibility by the French magazine ''Voici'', which also provided the theme of the song – the war of the sexes. As noted by author and expert of French charts Élia Habib, the song title was in "the language of Shakespeare, which the singer had not used since her 1992 single "Beyond My Control"". At the time, many fans, however, believed that this title was a joke or a rumor as it sounded too much like a direct provocation, even a scathing insult, which was rather unusual in Farmer's career.〔Novak, 2011, p. 236.〕 As with other singles from ''Avant que l'ombre...'', the lyrics were written by Mylène Farmer with the music composed by Laurent Boutonnat. The single was played for the first time on 8 February 2005 on many radio stations, including NRJ which broadcast it every 30 minutes,〔 preceded by a medley of Farmer's previous hits.〔Chuberre, 2009, p. 189.〕 The song was announced with the comment: "This is the new sound of Mylène Farmer".〔Chuberre, 2008, pp. 256-59.〕 It was also the singer's first song to be available as a digital download in February 2005,〔Rajon, 2005, p. 48.〕 and was also released as a single other two times: first, the CD single on 14 March 2005, then the CD maxi and the vinyl, which contain the remixes, on 18 April 2005. There were three official remix versions: 'mother f... vocal mix' and 'mother f... dub mix', by Joachim Garraud, as well as 'the martyr's remix', by Y-Front, who had already remixed "Libertine" on the album ''RemixeS''. The photo for the cover was taken by Robin and shows Farmer sitting on the roof of a building near the Gare du Nord in Paris. An international CD maxi version was also released but under the title "F * *k Them All" to avoid censorship, with a sticker "Parental advisory – Explicit content" attached. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fuck Them All」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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