Les P'tits Mots

Les P'tits Mots

'Les p'tits mots' is a French language album released by Dalida in 1983.

The album was well received by critics and achieved fair commercial success in France, Canada, Lebanon and Belgium. The album contained less upbeat dance songs and more biographical and love songs. "Lucas" touches the theme of Dalida's being childless, "Mourir sur scène" expresses her wish to die while still at the height of fame, and "Bravo" about the misfortunes of fame.

Dalida began promotion for the album in Canada during the month of April 1983. Being the guest of honour in the Tele-Quebec Telethon television special in which she performed five songs from the album. To promote the album in France, Dalida recorded a one hour TV special called "Formule Un" with then number one French television programme "Les Carpentiers". She performed seven songs from the new album on "Les Carpentiers", with the most notable performance being the haunting "Mourir sur scène" rendition.

Dalida only released the following double sided singles of this album Les p'tits mots / Mourir sur scène before releasing an updated version of the album that included two new recordings, namely "Femme", a cover of a Charlie Chaplin movie theme called "Smile", and the song "Ton prénom dans mon coeur", a cover of the love theme from "Jeux Interdits", which had previously been sung with other lyrics by French singer Mireille Mathieu.

Dalida released from the second album the double sided singles Femme / Le restaurant Italien and performed the song "Femme" on various French TV shows.