Le Dernier qui a parlé...

"Le Dernier qui a parlé..."
Single by Amina
from the album Yalil
Language	French
Released	1991
Recorded	1991, France
Genre	World music
Length	3:10
Label	Philips
Composer(s)	Wasis Diop
Lyricist(s)	Amina Annabi
Producer(s)	Martin Meissonnier
Eurovision Song Contest 1991 entry
Country	France
Artist(s)	Amina
Language	French
Composer(s)	Wasis Diop
Lyricist(s)	Amina Annabi
Conductor	Jérôme Pillement
Finals performance
Final result	2nd
Final points	146
Entry chronology
◄ "White and Black Blues" (1990)
"Monté la riviè" (1992) ►

"Le Dernier qui a parlé..." (French pronunciation: [lə dɛʁnje ki a paʁle]; "The last to have spoken...") is a song recorded by singer-songwriter Amina, with music composed by Wasis Diop and lyrics by Amina herself. It represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1991, performed as "C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison" ("It's the last to have spoken who is right").

Background

Conception

"Le Dernier qui a parlé..." lyrics were written by Amina to music composed by Wasis Diop. Lyrically, she sings about the truth of the saying referenced in the title. She also extends it to "it's the loudest one to have spoken who is right".^[1]

Eurovision

Antenne 2 internally selected the song as its entrant for the 36th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

On 4 May 1991, the Eurovision Song Contest was held at Cinecittà studios in Rome hosted by Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), and broadcast live throughout the continent. In her introductory video postcard, Amina sang Rita Pavone's "La partita di pallone". She performed "C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison" ninth on the night, following Sweden's "Fångad av en stormvind" by Carola and preceding Turkey's by İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca & Can Uğurluer. Jérôme Pillement conducted the event's orchestra in the performance of the Swedish entry.^[2][3]

At the close of voting, the song had received 146 points, the same number of points as the Swedish entry. Both songs had received also the same number of twelve-point sets. However, Sweden was given the victory as it had received more ten-point votes than France, as that was the tie breaker procedure at the time.^[4] That rule had been introduced in order to avoid a split victory, as it had happened at the 1969 contest. This was the first and the last time that procedure was used. So France placed second in a field of twenty-two. It was the last time France finished in the top 3 until thirty years later in the 2021 contest.

The song was succeeded as French representative at the 1992 contest by "Monté la riviè" by Kali.

Track listings

CD single

1. "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." — 3:10
2. "Neila" — 4:25

CD maxi

1. "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." (remix) — 4:36
2. "Neila" — 4:25
3. "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." — 3:16

7" single

1. "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." — 3:10
2. "Neila" — 4:25

Chart history

Weekly charts

References

External links

• "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." at Discogs (list of releases)