Life (Des'ree song)

Infobox Single
Name = Life


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Artist = Des'ree
Album = Supernatural
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Released = June 2 1998
Format = CD single
CD maxi
12" maxi
Recorded = 1998
Genre = Soul, Pop
Length = 3:28
Label = SSQ
Writer = Prince Sampson
Des'ree Weekes
Producer = Prince Sampson
Des'ree Weekes
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Certification = Platinum France, 1998
Last single = "Fire"
(1998)
This single = "Life"
(1998)
Next single = "What's Your Sing"
(1998)
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"Life" is a popular song recorded by the British pop and soul singer Des'ree. It was the third single from her third album "Supernatural" and was released on June 2, 1998. This song remains the biggest Des'ree's hit, peaking at #1 in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Lyrics and music video

On an "innocuous tone", this playful song mixes "stories about superstitions, phobias and travels around the world". The melody is "upbeat and jubilant" [Elia Habib, "Muz hit. tubes", p. 431 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)] . However, the banal lyrics and simplistic rhymes have been widely derided, with the song winning the "Worst Lyric in Pop" in a BBC poll. [BBC 6Music [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/05_may/04/lyrics.shtml] ]

In the music video, the singer is sitting on the back seat of a convertible car, led by a driver. The singer, initially sheltered from the sun by a black umbrella, which then flies away, is singing the song in the car travelling in the midst of cotton fields, in a landscape similar to that of Latin America. Above the car spends an airplane, and instead of throwing pesticides in the fields, it throws a multitude of butterflies. The video was directed by the director Mike Lipscombe.

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