- For the 2007 version featuring Cristina Scabbia, see À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free).
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| Single by Megadeth | |||||
| from the album Youthanasia | |||||
| Released | February, 1995 | ||||
| Recorded | 1994 | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock | ||||
| Length | 4:28 | ||||
| Label | Capitol | ||||
| Producer | Dave Mustaine | ||||
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"À Tout le Monde" is the fourth song on Megadeth's sixth studio album Youthanasia.
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Music and Lyrics
The music television channel, MTV, banned the music video for "A Tout Le Monde" claiming that it was pro-suicide. However,in an interview conducted around 1994, Dave Mustaine states:
It's not a suicide song. What it is, it's, you, it's when people have a loved one that dies and they end on a bad note, you know, they wish that they could say something to them. So this is an opportunity for the deceased to say something before they go. And it was my impression of what I would like to say to people, if I had say, 3 seconds to do so in life before I died I'd say to the entire world, to all my friends, I love you all, and now I must go. These are the last words I'll ever speak, and they'll set me free. I don't need to say I'm sorry, I don't have to say I'm going to miss you, or I'll wait for ya. You know, I'll just say I loved you all, good, bad and different, I loved you all.[1]
Title
"À tout le monde" is French for "To all the world" or "To everyone". The chorus of the song, "à tout le monde, à tous mes amis, je vous aime, je dois partir" translated to English is respectively: "To everyone, to all my friends, I love you, I must leave".
Connection to shooting
Kimveer Gill, the man behind the Dawson College shooting in September 2006 was a fan of the band and in his blog on VampireFreaks.com on the day of the attack, he had mentioned the song. This led Megadeth to be blamed by many watchdog groups for the shooting. In a performance in Montreal on September 27, shortly after the attack, Dave Mustaine said to the crowd:
The guy who went to Dawson College and shot everyone, it's terrible. Aside from the fact that what he did was wrong, we have a relationship with Montreal, and that really pissed us off.
Before the concert in an interview for CBC News Mustaine said:
"I was so angry that this guy would use my song, and that he would try and turn that beautiful song into something ugly and nasty. It's for those who lost their lives, and it's a gift to those who are in the process of healing (...) and Gill was not worthy of being a Megadeth fan."[2]
Track listing
CD A Tout Le Monde (USA)
- "A Tout Le Monde"
- "Problems"
- "New World Order" (demo)
CD A Tout Le Monde (Holland)
- "A Tout Le Monde"
- "Symphony of Destruction" (demo)
- "Architecture of Aggression" (demo)
- "New World Order" (demo)
References
- ^ Arsenal of Megadeth DVD Released by Capitol Records
- ^ ChartAttack.com Interview - Dave Mustaine's opinion of Gill
- ^ http://megadeth.rockmetal.art.pl/releases_singles.html#Monde
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