Frozen

Frozen (Frozen) is a song pop of the American singer Madonna, resulting from her album Ray off Light, the song Co-written with Patrick Leonard and produced by William Orbit in individual in February 1998 was carried out.

Information on the title

The Frozen song is a radical change for Madonna, it has just put at the world its first child and she played what represents the greatest role of its career in " Evita" , the courses of song taken during turning confer a riper voice to him and its collaboration with William Orbit offers a her darker electronics and an increased sensitivity to him with arrangements of Craig Armstrong (already with Massive Attack for " I want you")

The song left on February 23rd for Europe and on March 4th in the United States, the promotion of individual was very original besides, WEA France had the original idea to send to some media (presses and radios) by a dispach rider, a promotional specimen of individual Cd accompanied by a true ice Häagen-Dazs. The box which contained it indicated " Frozen - the big chill of this beginning of année"

In spite of the extent which the compact disc has at that time, the individual vinyl fate also, one 45 turns leaves to the United States without small pocket and for the first time, the specimen promotion of individual CD contain an extract of the twelve second old piece in order to be used for the answering machines.

Video clip

It is in the rocky plains of the Désert of Mojaves in California that the video clip entirely was turned the January 7th and 8th 1998 and was directed by the British video-plastics technician Chris Cunningham, in a general way, the clip is strongly inspired by the films the English Patient and the in the Sahara. This clip does not have really history, one can see there Madonna vêtue of a dress black drawn by Jean-Paul Gaultier from where the air is engulfed before being transformed into Pinscher or Corvus, Madonna which makes her beginning in the Kabbale raises a red cord to the wrist for the first time in a audio-visual work, its hands are painted with the henné and the hollow of this one contains the inscription Om̐ (see illustration opposite) . The video which contains special effects and whose photography is carried out by the Franco-Iranian director Darius Khondji (Fever and Evita) gained the price of the best special effects at the time of MTV Video Music Awards 1998
The video was diffused on February 12th, 1998 in Europe and the 16 on MTV in the United States, there exist also two video versions remixées by DaN-O-Rowed productions with the remixes " Stereophony MC' S Mix" and " Calderone Mix" Club;.

Directing: Chris Cunningham
Producing: Nick Wrathall
Director of the photography: Darius Khondji
Assembly: Gary Knight
producing Company: Black Dog Films
Place: deserted of Mojaves
Costumes: Jean-Paul Gaultier

Appropriations

Lyric writer: Madonna and Patrick Leonard
Producing: Madonna, William Orbit and Patrick Leonard
Keyboards: Marius De Vries
Programming: Marius De Vries
Arrangements cords: Craig Armstrong
Arrangements: Patrick Leonard

Versions

Versions of " Frozen" include remixes by William Orbit, Stereo MC' S and Victor Calderone.

Radio operator Edict 5:09
Album Version 6:11
Hook For Cal Out Research 0:18
Stereo MC' S Remix Edict 4:52
Stereo MC' S Remix 5:45
Victor Calderone Extended Club Mix Edict 4:37
Victor Calderone Extended Club Mix 11:17
Victor Calderone Drumapella 5:08
William Orbit Meltdown Mix 8:09
William Orbit Widescreen Mix 6:32
William Orbit Drumapella 5:15

Classifications

The lawsuit

The charge

The October 22nd, 2005 , Madonna is shown of plagiarism by the Belgian type-setter Savatore Acquaviva with the Court of Mons against Warner, EMI and Sony,

The lawyer Victor-Vincent Dehin, harnessed himself to show that four measurements of " Frozen" , are similar to those of " My life fout the camp" , one opens made up in 1979 by its customer, Acquaviva. Moreover, Me Dehin, explained why Madonna, remaining with Mouscron at the end of the Seventies, had been approached, by the producer of Acquaviva and that it was then one of the dancers of the " Chocolat' S ".

The charge required so that the title be interdict of sale and diffusion under penalty of an obligation of 350.000 euros. The defense which regarded as not-founded the evidence advanced by the applicants, claimed of sound with dimensions 25.000 euros for vexatious and bold procedure. The lawyer, representing the interests of Madonna, and the production companies, Warner, EMI and Sony, interjeté call of the judgment returned the November 18th, 2005 . What will suspend consequently, the decision of prohibition for several months.

The ordinance of the court

In a letter addressed to the judge on June 23rd, 2005, Madonna had on her side indicated that it had never remained in Mouscron during this period, but well in Paris. For the judge, it was a lie, within sight of many testimonys making state of the presence of the singer with Mouscron in 1979, at the sides of Jean Vanloo and Patrick Hernandez. According to the ordinance of the court, Madonna had remained with the Elberg hotel, worked as dancer in a club of Lille and sang titles at the request of Vanloo. " She thus had well access to the musical information which was worked over again two decades later in Frozen" .

But, at the end of an investigation of several weeks, a Flemish magazine shows that Madonna had gone at the end of May to Paris, where it had remained a little more than one month and regained New York on July 8th on a flight of Capitol Air Lines. All the people who attended Jean Vanloo at the time explained that the star remained forever in Belgium.

Also, the witnesses who affirmed the opposite seem to confuse Madonna with another dancer, also discovered by the producer in 1979 in New York. It would be about certain Debbie, whose appearance and lifestyle coincide with descriptions. The council of the three recording companies concerned makes call of the ordinance

The action in call

As in first authority, Me Dehin pled the prohibition of sale and diffusion of " Frozen" in Belgium, and the notification of this measurement to the distributers and media, under penalty of single fines of 125.000 euros for the recording companies (one for the prohibition of sale, the other for the diffusion). In the same way, following the call introduced by these last, the lawyer claims one euro symbolic system for bold and vexatious procedure, request also formulated by Me Brison, for the first action and also proposes to reduce the obligation to 1 000 euros per day of delay.

October 17th, 2006, the parts made again the comparative analysis of the two titles and reconsidered the possibilities of access, for the American singer, with the work of the type-setter mouscronnois. The three recording companies on the initiative of this action in call, made available of the court the results of three reports/ratios of experts musicologists (of which a Belgian). By a technical method, supported former examples, those show that two litigious measurements are common in the field of the popular song.

New fact

December 7th, 2006, the court of Mons suspends its decision, by the judgment of November 18th, 2005. The court took note of a new fact. The two parts are shown of plagiarism per Edouard Scotto Di Suoccio, lodged complaint in front of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris by, the company Tabata Music and Atoll Music, asserting the originality and the anteriority of “Bloodnight” (1983) compared to “My life fout the camp “(1993) and “Frozen” (1998).

Following this action, brought by a quotation of October 20th, 2006, the recording companies on the initiative of the procedure in appeal, deposited a request in reopening of the debates. Request to which the court thus made right, considering that this new element affects “the appreciation of the originality and the anteriority of “My life fout the camp”, and consequently, on the appreciation of the base of the calls”.

According to lawyers of Salvatore Acquaviva, the business could be judged in Mons when it is submitted a report of the new elements, and without awaiting a decision of the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris. To note that the date of the lawsuit in the French capital is not fixed. It will be it only when the applicant appears with complete records.

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