Megadeth "À Tout le Monde (Single & Video)"

"À Tout le Monde" is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth, featured on their 1994 studio album Youthanasia. It was released as a single on February 1995 through Capitol Records. The song was later remade and reissued as "À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)", featuring Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil, on Megadeth's 2007 studio album United Abominations. The song's chorus, "à tout le monde, à tous mes amis, je vous aime, je dois partir", translated into English is, "to everyone, to all my friends, I love you, I have to leave", which prompted controversy after accusations that it was pro-suicide.

The music video for "A Tout le Monde" was banned by MTV, who claimed it was pro-suicide. However, in an interview conducted around 1994, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine stated:

It's not a suicide song. What it is, it's, you, it's when people have a loved one that dies and they end on a bad note, you know, they wish that they could say something to them. So this is an opportunity for the deceased to say something before they go. And it was my impression of what I would like to say to people, if I had say, 3 seconds to do so in life before I died I'd say to the entire world, to all my friends, I love you all, and now I must go. These are the last words I'll ever speak, and they'll set me free. I don't have to say I'm sorry, I don't have to say I'm going to miss you, or I'll wait for ya. You know, I'll just say I loved you all, good, bad, indifferent, I loved you all.

The song's title, "À tout le monde", is French for "To all the world" or "To everyone". The song's chorus, "à tout le monde, à tous mes amis, je vous aime, je dois partir", translated to English is respectively: "To everyone, to all my friends, I love you, I have to leave". The original release of the track does not feature a grave accent on the letter "à" anywhere within the title, liner notes, lyrics or cover art; this was later rectified on the 2007 version.

Track listing

United States promotional edition

1. "A Tout le Monde" Dave Mustaine 4:28
2. "Problems" (previously unreleased) Glen Matlock, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook, Steve Jones 3:56
3. "New World Order" (demo; previously unreleased) Mustaine, David Ellefson, Marty Friedman, Nick Menza 3:45

Total length: 11:29

Dutch edition

1. "A Tout le Monde" Mustaine 4:28
2. "Symphony of Destruction" (demo) Mustaine 5:32
3. "Architecture of Aggression" (demo) Mustaine, Ellefson 2:49
4. "New World Order" (demo) Mustaine, Ellefson, Friedman, Menza 3:45

Total length: 15:54

USA Promo CD (Capitol #DPRO-79535) and

Holland Promo CD (Capitol #CDSP104) have only the title track.

France Promo CD (EMI #SP1808) has only one track: "A Tout Le Monde (Radio Edit)".

The music video for the song was banned from being shown on MTV because it was believed the song condoned suicide.