Boadicea is Enya's composition from album The Celts, dedicated to the histo… Read Full Bio ↴Boadicea is Enya's composition from album The Celts, dedicated to the history of celtic nation and its figures.
Boadicea (aka Boudica) was a Celtic Briton queen who led an uprising of the celts against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Boadicea's husband, Prasutagus, a Briton king who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will. However, when he died his will was ignored. The kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.
In AD 60 Boadicea led her Britons, along with other allied Celtic tribes, in revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans).
Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside her. In a speech to her troops she said she's not as an aristocrat avenging her lost wealth, but as an ordinary person, avenging her lost freedom, her battered body, and the abused chastity of her daughters. Their cause was just, and the deities were on their side; the one legion that had dared to face them had been destroyed. She, a woman, was resolved to win or die; if the men wanted to live in slavery, that was their choice.
However, Roman governor Suetonius defeated Boadicea in the Battle of Watling Street. According to Tacitus, Boadicea poisoned herself; Dio says she fell sick and died, and was given a lavish burial.
The history of these events, as recorded by Tacitus[ and Cassius Dio, were rediscovered during the Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boadicea's legendary fame during the Victorian era. Boadicea has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom. The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boadicea's rebellion to the writings of the Romans.
Boadicea (aka Boudica) was a Celtic Briton queen who led an uprising of the celts against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire.
Boadicea's husband, Prasutagus, a Briton king who had ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome, left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman Emperor in his will. However, when he died his will was ignored. The kingdom was annexed as if conquered, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped, and Roman financiers called in their loans.
In AD 60 Boadicea led her Britons, along with other allied Celtic tribes, in revolt. They destroyed Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans).
Boudica exhorted her troops from her chariot, her daughters beside her. In a speech to her troops she said she's not as an aristocrat avenging her lost wealth, but as an ordinary person, avenging her lost freedom, her battered body, and the abused chastity of her daughters. Their cause was just, and the deities were on their side; the one legion that had dared to face them had been destroyed. She, a woman, was resolved to win or die; if the men wanted to live in slavery, that was their choice.
However, Roman governor Suetonius defeated Boadicea in the Battle of Watling Street. According to Tacitus, Boadicea poisoned herself; Dio says she fell sick and died, and was given a lavish burial.
The history of these events, as recorded by Tacitus[ and Cassius Dio, were rediscovered during the Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boadicea's legendary fame during the Victorian era. Boadicea has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom. The absence of native British literature during the early part of the first millennium means that Britain owes its knowledge of Boadicea's rebellion to the writings of the Romans.
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@sibusisoyoungsteezngwale8691
This masterpiece gave birth to so many hits:
The Fugees - Ready or Not
Mario Winans - I Don't Wanna Know
The Pirates ft Shola Ama - You Should really know
Meek Mill - Ready Or Not
Runtown - Successful
Akon - Enjoy That
Rotimi - In My Bed
Metro Boomin Ft The Weeknd and 21 Savage - Creepin
@msaintjo
1987 Enya "Bodicea"
1994 The Fugees "Ready or Not"
2004 Mario Winans "I don't wanna know"
2022 The Weeknd 'Creepin"
35 years old and still feels fresh! Those are just the most popular it's been sampled over 20×
@TheHuskyK9
Saw your comment on Metro Boomin's video and came here lol
@boohoo3851
@@TheHuskyK9 same
@msaintjo
@@TheHuskyK9 sweet
@msaintjo
@@boohoo3851 niceee
@dkvitaleme
Bro its like everyones music is a sample or rework of past work and thats someone elses past work etc etc.
@TEFFTPATTERN
Enya is a criminally underappreciated and misunderstood artist, she was constantly placed among female power vocalists like Celine Dion or Cher, because people didn't really know where to put the type of music she was actually pioneering at the time. If you watch clips of her in studio, she is working with all kinds of synths and keyboard stacks and walls of knobs and speakers all the back to the late 80s using Roland D50s.
Enya did not originally intend not to do any touring and rarely do concerts, it was a technological limitation that she could not functionally bring her entire studio toolset in a portable way around Ireland, let alone the world. When she actually did/does concerts, she does them with basically a typical piano setup, this was only done by her record labels as a way for her to appear familiar to audiences and not look extremely jarring with a space station of wires and equalizer dials surrounding her.
This is typically why she gets so much flack for 'lipsyncing' -- people expect a VH1 Diva, but that's never what she was at all. In reality, she was a rare visionary who's ideas for sound design were almost too far ahead of where the general public had become accustomed to. The way her vocals are layered upon layer and given synthesized filter effects, it's all a part of the art and the aesthetic. She could see it back then, and I think younger generations can understand it more than anyone else alive right now.
@SapphireUnique
this is so beautiful thank you for explaining this, us youngens have no clue but there is, and always will be a fringe of us producing unusual sounds with unusual methods for the sake of expression.
I never knew her background so thank you for sharing, her music is phenomenal.
Love, SapphireUnique (Rapper/Producer from Melb AUS)
@nellxwood
all this and she still ain't like this or reply to it
@tdsims1963
This is an interesting comment. Thanks for the little history. I have loved this track since I first heard it on the way home from a camping weekend.
(Listen to this at night when the only light is starlight).