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The original song title "Amoureuse" — which does not feature in its lyrics — is the French equivalent of the English adjective amorous and is also a feminine noun meaning "woman in love", lover.

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Sanson's lyric describes the contradictory feelings of passion and fear of a woman involved in a new love affair. I was constantly monitored The first evident recording of this version was by Sanson herself with UK and US single releases in respectively September and November Almost a year after her UK success with "Amoureuse", the track would afford Dee a chart hit in Australia with a 12 peak in the autumn of A reissue of Dee's "Amoureuse" reached 77 on the UK chart.

I carried the melody in my head for weeks and then one day the first line — 'Lonely women are the desperate kind' — just fell out as my key turned in the lock, and the lyric to 'Emotion' wrote itself very quickly. Dahlstrom's English rendering of "Amoureuse" was introduced on the singer's own album The Way I Am which was recorded in August the track re-entitled Sanson's composition as "Emotion", that word being prominently featured in Dahlstrom's lyrics which expressed the viewpoint of a woman whose relationship with an inconsiderate lover is redeemed by the passion of their periodic trysts.

Patti Dahlstrom was also a friend of Paul Williams whose own compositions were regularly recorded by Helen Reddy , and Reddy recorded "Emotion" for inclusion on her Free and Easy album from which an abridged edit was issued as a single in January to peak at 22, Reddy's first Top Twenty shortfall since before " I Am Woman " in In Barbara Dex reached 10 on the Ultratip chart with her version of Amoureuse with Osborne's lyrics: the track was also included on Dex's album Strong.

Ten years after Barbara, Véronique Sanson became one of the first French female singer-songwriters to break into stardom with her debut album "Amoureuse" in.

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