Cliché

A cliché or cliche (/ˈkliːʃeɪ/ or /klɪˈʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

In phraseology, the term has taken on a more technical meaning, referring to an expression imposed by conventionalized linguistic usage. The term is frequently used in modern culture for an action or idea that is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Typically pejorative, "clichés" may or may not be true. Some are stereotypes, but some are simply truisms and facts. Clichés often are employed for comic effect, typically in fiction.

Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking, but have lost their force through overuse. The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience. Used sparingly, they may succeed, but the use of a cliché in writing, speech, or argument is generally considered a mark of inexperience or a lack of originality.

Cliché (Hush Hush) (album)

Cliché (Hush Hush) is the first reissue by Romanian singer-songwriter Alexandra Stan. It was released only to Japanese digital outlets on October 2, 2013, containing her worldwide-releases Lemonade, Cliche (Hush Hush) and All My People (vs. Manilla Maniacs). It serves to be the re-issue of her debut album Saxobeats (2011). An album's deluxe edition was just released as a compact disc and as digital download on October 23, 2013 in Japan, containing, among the original album's tracks, all the Saxobeats tracks and special remixes of them.

Background

The re-issue was released in Japan on October 10, 2013 under the title "Cliche (Hush Hush)" with three new tracks and four new remixes. The singles Lemonade, Cliche (Hush Hush) and All My People (vs. Manilla Maniacs) were already released worldwide to digital outlets in summer 2012 until early 2013, to promote the re-issue. Cliche (Hush Hush) is the only work that contains her three releases; worldwide, the singles were released as non-album singles. This is the ultimate album under the label of "Maan Studio". For the promotion, "All My People" had supported the football game between the Romanian football team and the Greek team, for the qualification to the FIFA World Coup 2013.

Cliché (Hush Hush) (song)

Cliche (Hush Hush) is a song by Romanian singer-songwriter Alexandra Stan from the reissue of her debut album Saxobeats, called Cliche (Hush Hush), which was released only to Japanese digital outlets in 2013. An acoustic version of the song was released to social medias in November 2013, as part of her reissue. The single had commercial success in Japan, where it reached the eleventh position in the Japanese Billboard Hot 100. Stan won a Japan Gold Disc Award in the category Best Newcomer in late 2013.

Music video

The official music video was filmed in the Maan Studios (Romania) by Iulian Moga (brother to Marius Moga) and was posted on YouTube on 27. September, where it already gained over 7.000.000 clicks. The video's first scene shows Alexandra Stan in sepia, being pictured by a male photographer, in a Cafė. After she's seducing him, she is leaving the bar. The thema is changing to colour, Stan's at a swimming-pool party, where she is dancing among other female and male dancers, wearing a dress made of mini-balloons. After she is seen shortly in a dark room with an old-fashioned TV, Alexandra is in a church, among male and female humans, that are wearing long and dark clothing, covering their complete body. Alexandra is also wearing the dark clothes, so only her red lips are seen. She might be the people's "queen". The people are then taking off clothes, wearing only lingerie. The male and female persons are then building love-couples, so they are hugging and kissing. At the end of the video, Alexandra is dating the photographer from the video's first scene. She's starting a fire, when she's letting candles fall over. Stan and the man are, in the video's last scene, dancing around it.