"Femme libérée" is a successful song recorded by French band Cookie Dingler. Written in 1984, it achieved a huge success in France and became a popular song throughout the years. It was the band's sole hit.

Background and writing

Written in 1984 by Joelle Kopf and Christian Dingler under the label EMI Music, the song was a great success in the 1980s. The song, released as a single on July 1, 1984, fell within the context of an era marked by the emergence of thoughtless songs which mocked some popular themes of society at the time. According to Elia Habib, an expert on French charts, the song reduced "freed women with a tender irony in an archetypal caricature" at a time when "the look is gaining importance and makes you 'in' or not".Elia Habib, ''Muz hit. tubes'', 1998, p. 21,22 ()

Charts performances and awards

In 1984, the song gained the price of the Union Nationale des Auteurs et Compositeurs awarded by the SACEM. The single featured for 18 weeks on the French Singles Chart (Top 50), but this official chart began only on December 4, 1984, while the song was released five month earlier. It was #2 in the first edition of the chart, just behind

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's hit "Besoin de rien, envie de toi"; it stayed for two consecutive weeks at number 2. Then it dropped and totalled ten weeks in the top ten."Femme libérée", French Singles Char
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by the SNEP.

Cover versions

The song was first covered in 1998 by

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and

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for an album of

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. In 2005, Soma Riba band featuring DJ Fou covered the song but did not manage to reach success: The single peaked at #33 on the French singles chart on July 4, 2005 and remained on the top 100 chart for 16 weeks."Femme libérée", by Soma Riba and DJ Fou, French singles char
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Background and writing

Charts performances and awards

Cover versions

Track listings

Certifications and sales

Charts

References