Cerulean Tears
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| Single by Dahlia from the album Chasing Shadows |
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| Released | 07 April, 2014 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Recorded | 2012 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
| Label | Next Generation Records | ||||
| Writer | Dahlia | ||||
| Producer | Guy Chambers | ||||
| Chart position | #2 | ||||
| Certification | Gold | ||||
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"Cerulean Tears" is a song performed by Liechtensteinian singer-songwriter Dahlia. Released as the second single from her debut album, Chasing Shadows (2013). Dahlia wrote the song, with Guy Chambers acting as the songs producer. The song is about "a relationship coming to an end, but the love for one another still remaining."
The single was released via Next Generation Records in the United Kingdom on 07 April and debuted at #02 on the singles chart, giving Dahlia her highest charting single to date.
Composition[edit | edit source]
In an interview about the song, Dahlia revealed the song was about "falling in love, and that love remaining even after the relationship has ended." She added: "I suppose in a sense you could say the song is about love, after the love has gone. It's about falling in love with the right person at the wrong time. Falling in love when you're not ready for a relationship yet, and the emotions relating to saying goodbye to someone, when you both still feel powerful emotions towards one another."
The single release included a brand new track recorded by Dahlia as a B-side, titled "Ash In The Air".
Release and reception[edit | edit source]
On 28 February 2014, an announcement was made that Dahlia would be returning to the UK to release her second single from the album "Chasing Shadows", almost nine months after she released her debut single, "No Angels". Dahlia explained the long wait between singles was as she toured the rest of Europe in order to promote the album.
Digital Spy gave the song a positive review, stating: "Every star worries about being a one-hit wonder, but we imagine Dahlia's fears are due to be laid to rest when this painfully sad latest single hits the charts. The singer has chosen 'Cerulean Tears' as the follow-up to her wildly successful debut hit 'No Angels'; and while it has yet to reach the same rocketing peak, the track feels like the natural choice to continue her worldwide outreach.
"We both know it's for the best, That we lay our hearts to rest/But cerulean tears still start to pour, I'll be in your heart forever more," she muses about her heartbroken situation whilst her heart still remains intact, while serving up a tearjerking experience through her powerful piano playing and back-up violin sounds. It's a formula that thrives on Dahlia's angsty tones, with a hallowing voice we still can't quite believe belongs to someone form a country of only 40,000. Whether it performs better than her debut single on the charts is unsure, but it's certainly more than enough to herald Dahlia as an artist to invest in."
Music video[edit | edit source]
The official music video premièred on 02 April 2014.
The video begins with a dark lit empty looking planet. The planet appears dead, with nothing but a dying tree on it. The sunlight gradually appears and fills up the planet, and it is seen that a large cocoon-like plant is growing from the tree. It suddenly begins to open up and Dahlia crawls out of it.
She looks around at the dying land around her and looks upset. She walks away from the tree and scourers the land looking for any sign of life, love or hope. Eventually it becomes clear she is going to find nothing and stops wandering. Instead she begins to float in the sky instead.
Dahlia floats around in the clouds. Sprinkling hope from the heavens down onto the planet. The effects begin to pay off as slowly, wildlife begins to grow, and the planet begins to look a bit more presentable.
A floating platform is formed from the clouds and Dahlia lands upon it. Both Dahlia and the platform are then surrounded by clouds, so they are unable to be seen. As the clouds clear, Dahlia is shown to now appear as a geisha, acting as a somewhat Goddess of the planet, representing the goddess of love and purity.
Back on the planet, life has began to form. A second version of Dahlia, representing seduction takes away one of the planets females representing innocence and begins to seduce her, tempting her with her lips. Their lips finally touch and they form into a new version of Dahlia, with bright colours of hair, now the symbol of feminism.
The Geisha goddess Dahlia, comes down to confront the newly formed eccentric Dahlia, and the two create a glowing blue sphere via cerulean tears that begin to leak down their cheeks. The glowing sphere expands and takes them both into it.
The video ends with a final version of Dahlia looking like a more spooky geisha floating in place of the planet. The video fades out and words appear on the screen stating:
"Femininity takes many shapes and forms, but in the end, the union of love for ourselves and one another allows us all to become one. To coincide in a simplistic and humbling environment. End.
Performances[edit | edit source]
Dahlia performed the track on Week three of the third season of The Uraps Factor.
Chart performance[edit | edit source]
The song was released on 07 April 2014. It debuted at #2 on the UK singles chart, behind fellow Next Generation Records act Electra. With over 92,000 copies sold, it gave Dahlia her largest first week sales to date, as well as her highest charting single. On 09 March it debuted on the Airplay chart at #50 and first entered the top forty the week before it's release, at #33 before climbing into the top ten at #9 the next week. The song also became Dahlia's second consecutive #1 on the Digital chart with download sales of 26,807.
Chart Run[edit | edit source]
- Week 1: #2 - 92,764
- Week 2: #6 - 68,993
- Week 3: #8 - 44,928
- Week 4: #9 - 36,368
- Week 5: #17 - 14,132
- Week 6: #18 - 13,452
- Week 7: #39 - 4,320
TOTAL: 274,957
Charts[edit | edit source]
| Charts (2014) | Peak |
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| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| UK Downloads Chart | 1 |
| UK Airplay Chart | 9 |
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