J'en ai marre!

"J'en ai marre!"
Single by Alizée
from the album Mes Courants Électriques
Released	February 2003
Genre	French pop, dance-pop
Length	5:12
Label	Polydor
Writer(s)	Mylène Farmer
Producer(s)	Mylène Farmer Laurent Boutonnat
Alizée singles chronology
"Gourmandises" (2001) "J'en ai marre!" (2003) "J'ai pas vingt ans" (2003)

"J'en ai marre!" (English: "I'm fed up!") is Alizée's fifth single. Released in February 2003, it had the single version of the song followed by an instrumental version. Later on three remixes were made available in special editions of the single. Internationally, it was released as "I'm Fed Up!". In Japan, it was released as "Mon bain de mousse" ("My Foam Bath") along with a music video and a remix version of the song.

The title translates roughly as 'I'm fed up with it' and is an idiomatic french expression. Marre means to be fed up with. 'J'ai marre de x' would be a more conventional form where x is something one is fed up with. The j'en form leaves x implicit or to context, which changes during the song. En means roughly 'it' or 'that'. (Similar to the implicit and changing referents of 'that' in Meat Loaf's 'I won't do that'.) The same form is used in the verse 'j'en ris' = 'I am laughing about it'.

Music video

The video, filmed on 4 February 2003 and directed by Olivier Megaton, premiered 19 February 2003 on M6. It's the first video for a song from Alizée's second album.

In the video, Alizée, dressed in a red jumpsuit, is enclosed in a glass cubicle, big enough for her to move freely. Some scenes show her creeping against the glass wall, some show her throwing a tennis ball towards the wall; one particular scene shows her throwing a camera to the ground and smashing it in the process. Throughout the video, water is poured into the cubicle, making Alizée wet. In the middle of the video, i.e. towards the final chorus, Alizée punches the cubicle and it breaks.

Formats and track listings

French CD Single

1. "J'en ai marre !" – 4:35
2. "J'en ai marre !" (Instrumental Mix) – 5:05

French CD maxi single

1. "J'en ai marre !" (Single Version) – 4:35
2. "J'en ai marre !" (Soft Skin Club Mix) – 7:40
3. "J'en ai marre !" (Bubbly Club Remix) – 7:50
4. "J'en ai marre !" (My Goldfish is Under me Remix) – 3:40

French 12" vinyl single

A Side:

1. "J'en ai marre !" (Soft Skin Club Mix) – 7:40

B Side:

1. "J'en ai marre !" (Bubbly Club Remix) – 7:50
2. "J'en ai marre !" (My Goldfish is Under me Remix) – 3:40

Charts and sales

Chart (2003) Peak position Austrian Singles Chart 43 Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart 18 Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart 5 French Singles Chart 4 German Singles Chart 21 Hungary (Rádiós Top 40)[1] 40 Italian Singles Chart 23 Japan Singles Chart 2 Poland (Polish Airplay Charts)[2] 5 Swedish Singles Chart 57 Swiss Singles Chart 5 Taiwan Singles Chart[3] 5

Certifications Region Certification Certified units/Sales Belgium (BEA)[4] Gold 25,000^* France (SNEP)[5] Gold 256,000[6] ^*sales figures based on certification alone

References

1. "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Rádiós Top 40 játszási lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége. Retrieved 2010-12-08.
2. "Polish Airplay Charts - Lista krajowa 27/2003". PiF PaF Production. Archived from the original on October 22, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
3. http://spanishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Aliz%E9e&titel=Moi%2E%2E%2E+Lolita&cat=s
4. "Ultratop − Goud en Platina – 2003". Ultratop & Hung Medien / hitparade.ch.
5. "French single certifications – Alizée – J'en ai marre!" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
6. InfoDisc : Les Certifications (Singles) du SNEP (les Disques d'Or) Archived March 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.