A cause de l'automne

"À cause de l'automne"
Single by Alizée
from the album 5
Released	4 July 2012
Format	digital download
Recorded	2012
Genre	French pop
Length	3:55
Label	Jive Epic
Writer(s)	Pete Russell, Thomas Boulard
Producer(s)	Alexandre Azaria
Alizée singles chronology
"Clara veut la Lune" (2012) "À cause de l'automne" (2012) "Je veux bien" (2013)
"À cause de l'automne" The second version of cover art for "À cause de l'automne" was released along the release of the official music video.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
RFM (customer value)
Charts in France	Very Positive
iTunes

"À cause de l'automne" (English: "because of the autumn ") is the first single from the French recording artist Alizée's album 5. The single was pre-released on 28 June 2012, directly on Alizée's official website at 17:00 French time (CET). The single was released on French iTunes and French Amazon.fr on 4 July 2012, also was released same at iTunes and in e-music stores around the world. Other download platforms list 6 July 2012 for the release date. The first public performance of the song was on RFM radio on 21 December 2012 where she sang the song in live broadcast.

The first music video was shot on 15 July 2012 in Corsica. The director of the video clip was Laurent Darmon. On 18 September the music video leaked out through PS3 VidZone. On 19 September Jive Epic announced on Twitter that the leaked video is not the "official clip" of À cause de l'automne and that the official video would be released late October. After that Jive Epic and SME has been trying to remove the video clip from all the streaming websites.

In the middle of October Sony announced that the second video will be filmed during early November. The new version of the music video was finally filmed on 30 October 2012 in Paris. The director of the video was Arnaud Delord, the producer Léo Hinstin and Alizée's make-up was done by Bilitis Poirier. On 4 December, two teasers of the music video were released. The clip was scheduled to be launched on 6 December but it was released on AlizéeVEVO channel on YouTube on 5 December.

The song received some positive feedback from foreign francophone radio stations around the world.

The original song was in English and titled Never Again and was written by Pete Russell, a British songwriter based in Liverpool. The original song came from DWB Music and when accepted by Sony Music Entertainment for Alizée's new single, Sony had the lyrics re-written by Thomas Boulard in French with the new title but retaining the original music.

The pre-release of the single was divided in four phases, announced by Alizée. Firstly, a video was released on Jive Epic's YouTube channel, with Alizée herself on the video in the studio. The second phase was to release video on Dailymotion channel announcing "Live Chat" with Alizée. Questions to Alizée were possible to send via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. Third phase was announcement during "Live Chat" of the release of the single on the following day (28 June 2012). Fourth phase was the actual pre-release, exclusively for those who subscribed to the newsletter on Alizée's official website. The final release in France was 4 July 2012 on iTunes.