"'Moje Proljeće" () is a song by Croatian

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singer

Jelena Rozga Jelena Rozga (born 23 August 1977) is a Croatian pop, folk, and electropop singer. Born and raised in Split, Croatia, Rozga was a ballet dancer as a child. She rose to fame in 1996, when she became the lead singer of Magazin, a pop band famous i ...

. It was written by Serbian-Turkish singer-songwriter

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and produced by

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. It was released as a single through

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on 29 January 2019 along with an accompanying

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directed by Dario Radusin. The song was well received by

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who praised Rozga for the switch in musical style and the balladry. Commercially, the song achieved success in

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and the wider Yugoslav region, peaking at number three on the

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. An accompanying

for the song was directed by Dario Radusin and released on 29 January 2019. It showed the singer's emotional rendition of the lyrics, in some scenes also seen crying. She is dressed in white and appears running and wandering in a snowy forest. The clip is watched 16 million times as of May 2022. The song was included on the set list of the singer's live performances and gigs given throughout the Balkan region. In 2022 and 2023, it was added to the set list of the regional Minut Srca Mog Tour.

Background

The song marks the second collaboration with Bosnian singer-songwriter

, whom Rozga had collaborated with earlier in 2019 on a song titled "Ostani". The song was originally sent to Montenegrin singer

Sergej Ćetković Sergej Ćetković ( cnr-cyrl, Сергеј Ћетковић, ; born 8 March 1976) is a Montenegrins, Montenegrin recording artist. He lives and works in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Ćetković represented Montenegro in the Eurovision Song C ...

and intended as a duet; although he stored it for approximately six years, he could not record it as it did not resonate with him. During a period of Rozga's life, Ćetković felt that the song described her experience very well and sent her to him. Despite wide media speculation that the song was dedicated to Rozga's then-boyfriend and fiancée, Rozga revealed during an interview that it was dedicated to another man. Additionally, she also said that "Every woman has a lover who she never manages to get through ..The song describes the experience of an unfortunate love". She added that while maintaining her private life away from the eyes of the public, with the song, she only wanted to convey that she was also a "wounded woman".

Music video

for the song, directed by Dario Radusin was released on 29 January 2019. It portrays an emotional Rozga singing the song, in some scenes also seen crying, and later wandering in a snowy forest. Other scenes are also interspersed, where she is seen singing the lyrics while dressed in white and lying in an area filled with smoke. The music video became trending in six ex-Yugoslav countries (

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, Croatia,

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and

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) and amassed 2 million views on YouTube in a week. Briefly after its release, it received widespread praise from her fanbase. Rozga responded to the widespread praise of the clip by saying "I have no words to express what I feel, this is very emotional for me. I sang the song from my heart and the tears that fell like a knife, divided me into two parts. One part of me sang out of pain and pure emotion while another is broken from love. That is how this song acted on me, on people from all ages and gender. I am grateful to evevryone who loves "Moje proljeće" and experiences it in a way that I never could even dream they could share with me". On 13 December 2020, the singer released a one-take of the video on her official YouTube channel with the intention of sharing the emotions the song elicited in her.

Live performances

Rozga performed the song on 29 January at the

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(MAC) show in

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. On 6 March 2019, she performed an acoustic version of the song on

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accompanied by her band. She later appeared on the radio again for a longer concert on 5 February 2020, where she again performed the song live. On 19 April 2020, during the second in a series of seven concerts she held at home due to the

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, Rozga performed an acoustic rendition of "Moje Proljeće" accompanied by musician Milan Terze on guitar. The video was initially streamed on

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and later on YouTube. The song was included on the set list of the singer's regional Minut Srca Mog Tour (2022-23), where it was performed in the middle of the concert. As part of her televised appearance on the 11th episode of the '' Balkanskom ulicom'' show on 30 October 2020, Emina Jahović covered the song live.

Charts

Briefly after its release, for the week ending 11 February 2019, the song peaked at number three on the Croatian

singles chart.

References

External links

* {{Jelena Rozga 2019 songs 2019 singles Songs written by Emina Jahović