California (Mylène Farmer song)
| "California" | ||||
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| Single by Mylène Farmer | ||||
| from the album Anamorphosée | ||||
| Released | 26 March 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop, pop rock, new jack swing | |||
| Length | 3:58 (single version) 4:59 (album version) | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Lyrics: Mylène Farmer Music: Laurent Boutonnat | |||
| Producer(s) | Laurent Boutonnat | |||
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"California" is a 1995 song recorded by the Canadian artist Mylène Farmer. It was the third single from her fourth studio album, Anamorphosée, and was released on 26 March 1996. The song marked her only collaboration with American movie screenwriter and director Abel Ferrara, who directed the very expensive music video in which Farmer appears both as a bourgeois woman and a prostitute. A tribute to California, the song is generally deemed one of Farmer's signature songs and has been performed during most of the singer's subsequent tours. It has met with relative success in France and Belgium, and became one of her hits in Russia.