Je m'appelle Bagdad

Infobox Single
Name = Je m'appelle Bagdad


Artist = Tina Arena
from Album = Un Autre Univers
Released = 22 May 2006
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:19
Label = Columbia
Writer = David Gategno
Elodie Hesme
Producer = David Gategno
Certification = Silver (France)
Last single = "Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible"
(2005)
This single = "Je m'appelle Bagdad"
(2006)
Next single = "Tu aurais dû me dire (Oser parler d'amour)"
(2006)

"Je m'appelle Bagdad" is the second single to be released from Tina Arena's fifth studio album "Un autre univers". It is a ballad with various orientalist themes. The song received significant airplay on French radio as did its predecessor "Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible".

Arena is quoted as saying the song's title, which roughly translates as "My Name Is Bagdad", is misleading. "This is not a political song and it’s not about a political subject. It’s a metaphor - like a poem. It’s a woman saying ... I was once beautiful and now I’m in ruins, I’m destroyed." [ [http://tinaarena.com/news.php Tina Arena.com News Article] 12 April 2006.]

Track listings

; CD single
#"Je m'appelle Bagdad" (David Gategno, Elodie Hesme) – 4:19
#"Si j'avais le temps" (Tina Arena, Patrick Fiori, Vincent Hare) – 4:11
#"Je m'appelle Bagdad (Remix)" (Gategno, Hesme) – 3:50

Music video

The video for the song was filmed in February 2006 in the Tunisian desert and the Palace of Tozeur by Thierry Vergnes, who also directed the video for "Aimer jusqu'à l'impossible". About the video, Arena said, "There’s always pressure to make a beautiful video but I really wanted tell the story of how complex humans are and how they can both create and destroy beautiful things." An Iraqi orthodontist living in France has also created a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRugtbQGA8 video, hosted on YouTube,] of the song.

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