It was a dark, rickety warren of five storeys, cut up by wooden partitions into forty rooms. My hotel was called the Hôtel des Trois Moineaux. It was quite a representative Paris slum. And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. At night the policemen would only come through the street two together. There was fighting over women, and the Arab navvies who lived in the cheapest hotels used to conduct mysterious feuds, and fight them out with chairs and occasionally revolvers. On Saturday nights about a third of the male population of the quarter was drunk. At the foot of the hotels were tiny bistros, where you could be drunk for the equivalent of a shilling. All the houses were hotels and packed to the tiles with lodgers, mostly Poles, Arabs and Italians. It was a very narrow street - a ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse. Quarrels, and the desolate cries of street hawkers, and the shouts of children chasing orange-peel over the cobbles, and at night loud singing and the sour reek of the refuse-carts, made up the atmosphere of the street. Not that quarrels were the only thing that happened there - but still, we seldom got through the morning without at least one outburst of this description. I sketch this scene, just to convey something of the spirit of the rue du Coq d’Or. They shut up abruptly ten minutes later, when a squadron of cavalry rode past and people stopped shouting to look at them.
CHUBBY BOA VALENTI WINDOWS
Thereupon a whole variegated chorus of yells, as windows were flung open on every side and half the street joined in the quarrel. The woman on the third floor: ‘Va donc, eh! vieille vache!’ Madame Monce: ‘Sacrée salope! How many times have I told you not to squash bugs on the wallpaper? Do you think you’ve bought the hotel, eh? Why can’t you throw them out of the window like everyone else? Espèce de traînée!’ Her bare feet were stuck into sabots and her grey hair was streaming down. Madame Monce, who kept the little hotel opposite mine, had come out on to the pavement to address a lodger on the third floor. A succession of furious, choking yells from the street. The Rue du Coq d’Or, Paris, seven in the morning. – via Naver.O scathful harm, condition of poverte! - Chauser ^ a b "Japanese single digital certifications – BoA – Valenti" (in Japanese).^ a b "Japanese single certifications – BoA – Valenti" (in Japanese).^ a b " 에스엠, 보아 日오리콘 차트 2위" SM, BoA ranked 2nd in Japan's Oricon chart].^ "Valenti (album) | BoA" (in Japanese).^ "Valenti – BoA | Oricon News" (in Japanese)." 'Queen of K-pop': celebrating Boa's 34th birthday and 20th anniversary". ^ "Valenti (single) | BoA" (in Japanese).On May 17, BoA performed the song along with "No. On March 27, 2003, BoA embarked on her 1st Live Tour: 2003 – Valenti, which spanned six shows in Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo. At her first Kōhaku Uta Gassen appearance on New Year's Eve of that year, BoA made a performance with the song. On November 10, 2002, she received a music program award on SBS's Inkigayo. Promotion įollowing the release of Miracle, BoA performed the song on several South Korean music programs. In December 2016, the digital version was certified gold for having surpassed 100,000 units in digital downloads. On the year-end Oricon Singles Chart, "Valenti" was ranked the 65th best-selling single in the country during 2002. The physical single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in September 2002 for shipments of over 200,000 units. The single peaked at number two on both the daily and weekly Oricon Singles Chart, making it her highest charting-single at the time, and would go on to become her highest-selling single in the country with over 202,000 physical copies sold. "Valenti" was a commercial success in Japan. The single "Valenti" serves as the title track for her second Japanese studio album of the same name, released on January 29, 2003.
A Korean version of the song was also recorded and was included in her special compilation album Miracle, which was made available on September 24, 2002, through SM Entertainment.
It is musically a dance-pop number according to South China Morning Post 's Lucy Jeong, the song is "rooted in Latin music with a funky and mesmerizing sound." The release includes the B-side "Realize (Stay With Me)", as well as an English and instrumental version. "Valenti" was released on Augas BoA's sixth Japanese single via Avex Trax.