Janine

Janine may refer to:

Fictional characters

Music

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Janine (Bushido song)

"Janine" is the final single of rapper Bushido's album Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück. The song contains a sample of "Les Mémoires Blessées" by French band Dark Sanctuary, used without permission. The band sued the rapper for using illegal sampling of eight of their songs, on his album.

A remix produced by Screwaholic released on the best of complication Das Beste (2007).

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In the song itself, Bushido sings about a fourteen-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather repeatedly, and eventually became impregnated by him. Forced to not only give birth to the baby in her own mother's basement, but also give it up almost immediately after; Janine, wrought with guilt, ends her own life by jumping from a bridge.

Music video

In the video, however, the plot revolves around an older Janine looking back on when she was raped as a teenager, impregnated and abandoning her infant at the base of a church. Plagued by these painful memories as she goes about her daily routines, Janine drowns herself in alcohol and drugs at a rave-type-setting; but in the end, only becomes so immersed in her shame that she has an emotional breakdown right in the middle of the dance floor. At the end of the video, Janine is seen contemplating suicide on a bridge lingering over a highway, but then she leaves.

David Bowie (1969 album)

David Bowie is the second studio album by English musician David Bowie, released under that title by Philips in the UK, and as Man of Words/Man of Music by Mercury in the US, in November 1969. It was rereleased in 1972 by RCA as Space Oddity (the title of the opening track, which had been released as a single in July 1969 and reached No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart). Space Oddity was the name used for CD releases of the album in 1984, 1990 and 1999, but it reverted to the original, eponymous title for 2009 and 2015 reissues.

Regarding its mix of folk, balladry and prog rock, NME editors Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said, "Some of it belonged in '67 and some of it in '72, but in 1969 it all seemed vastly incongruous. Basically, David Bowie can be viewed in retrospect as all that Bowie had been and a little of what he would become, all jumbled up and fighting for control..."

The album came about after Bowie had made the transition from a cabaret/avant-garde-inspired musician to a hippie/folk-based sound and as such the album is a major turning point from his 1967 debut.

Trooper

Trooper may refer to:

Military or police forces

Entertainment

Cricket

Other uses

Trooper (police rank)

Trooper is a rank used by several civilian police forces in the United States. In its plural form, troopers, it generally refers to members of a state police, state highway patrol, or state department of public safety, even though those officers may not necessarily be of the rank of trooper.

For example, in the Louisiana State Police, Trooper is a rank below Trooper First Class, and above Cadet. The insignia for this rank consists of a gold colored 'TPR' collar pin worn on the wearer's right lapel. Cadets who complete the state police academy are automatically promoted to Trooper. The title of address is "Trooper".

Early Australian police forces had officers termed troopers, typically mounted police. For example, the classic Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda contains the line "Down came the troopers, one, two, three," referring to three mounted police who had come to arrest the swagman. The term is no longer in common usage in Australia.

Usage in other agencies or countries may vary.

Trooper (album)

Trooper is the self-titled debut album by Canadian rock band Trooper, released in 1975. The album was produced by Randy Bachman of Bachman–Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who fame. The album would produce two Canadian hits "Baby Woncha Please Come Home" and "General Hand Grenade".

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