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Music Videos II

1997 music video compilation by Mylène Farmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6941684
Source-derived summary

Music Videos II is a VHS recorded by the French singer Mylène Farmer, containing all the singer's videoclips from 1992 to 1996. It was released in April 1997 in France.

This VHS contains all the video of the singles from the album Anamorphosée, and that of "Que mon cœur lâche" (which didn't appear on any Farmer's album when it was released). For the first and the only time, the famous American movie screenwriter and director Abel Ferrara participated in the production of a Farmer's video, "California".

This video was a little less sold than the previous one, Music Videos I.

Formats

This video is available only on VHS.

Track listings

+ Backstage of the videos "California" (26:52).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Music Videos II” as 1997 music video compilation by Mylène Farmer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1996, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-04. The account is most persuasive where Music, Videos and music can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1997 music video compilation by Mylène Farmer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6941684. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992, 1996 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Music Videos II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.