New "French" songs
Mar. 9th, 2022 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dhampyresa(2 in French my Belgians, one in Brezhoneg by French nationals)
1.
I was listening to Stromae's Multitude a few days ago, found this song one of my faves and then boom! There was a music video.So now it's time for your irregularly scheduled Stromae appreciation interlude.
I love the implicit parallel between sex workers "selling" their bodies and soldiers doing the same. The absence of the sex worker's voice is meant to highlight how everyone gets to talk about them (wrt legality debates etc) but no one talks TO them. (Social commentary is nothing new for Stromae, but I continue to appreciate that he uses his platform to Say Things.)
I don't think I've ever heard a song that includes the PoV of a sew worker's child. The closest is the end of Brassens' La complainte des filles de joie.
Which brings me to:
a) I don't understand why people keep comparing Stromae to Brel when Brassens is right there (It's because thy're both Belgians, innit)
b) The title is a pun and I love it. It combines "fils de pute" ("son of a whore") with "fille de joie" ("girl for happiness", a euphemism for prostitute). Stromae always involves plays on words in his lyrics and the care he puts in his work is amazing.
But then he named himself Stromae, so loving wordplay is hardly surprising -- "stromae" is verlan, a form of French slang involving swapping syllables around, or "maestro".
2.
I recently discovered Angèle's Plus de sens and the lines "Et j'ai essayé de tenir / Oublier que j'ai peur de l'avenir / C'est pas toujours parfait / J'ai parfois des regrets" ("And I tried holding on / Forget I'm afraid of the future / It's not always perfect / I sometimes have regrets") keep popping up in my head.
3.
FRANCE IS SENDING A SONG IN BREZHONEG TO EUROVISION :D
(This is where I'd put an emoji of the Gwenn ha du ("white and black"), the Breton flag, but there isn't one. Please consider signing this petition to change this.)
Anyway, I can't believe we're sending a song in Brezhoneg. (To quote one of the band members in an interview: "[le breton] est une langue dont on a souvent eu honte" / "[Brezhoneg] is a language we were often made to feel ashamed off". It's not just a "we, the band", either more "we, the Breton people", btw.) Breizhad on ha lorc'h ennon!
About all I can understand is something about stars and someone is dancing with the Devil (the Devil of Breton folklore is less "The Adversary, First of The Fallen, Prince of this World" and more "complete and utter failboat").
It sounds awesome! I hope this band keeps going because I love their sound and I want to listen to more people singing in Brezhoneg. Don't get me wrong, I love Gwennyn and Nolwenn Leroy, but sometimes (most pf the times) I'm in the mood for something closer to "shouting with electric guitar" than "whispering with acoustic guitar", if that makes sense.
Love how the singer's costumes recall traditional Bigouden embroidery.
No thoughts, head empty, only happy-making noises.
1.
I was listening to Stromae's Multitude a few days ago, found this song one of my faves and then boom! There was a music video.
I love the implicit parallel between sex workers "selling" their bodies and soldiers doing the same. The absence of the sex worker's voice is meant to highlight how everyone gets to talk about them (wrt legality debates etc) but no one talks TO them. (Social commentary is nothing new for Stromae, but I continue to appreciate that he uses his platform to Say Things.)
I don't think I've ever heard a song that includes the PoV of a sew worker's child. The closest is the end of Brassens' La complainte des filles de joie.
Which brings me to:
a) I don't understand why people keep comparing Stromae to Brel when Brassens is right there (It's because thy're both Belgians, innit)
b) The title is a pun and I love it. It combines "fils de pute" ("son of a whore") with "fille de joie" ("girl for happiness", a euphemism for prostitute). Stromae always involves plays on words in his lyrics and the care he puts in his work is amazing.
But then he named himself Stromae, so loving wordplay is hardly surprising -- "stromae" is verlan, a form of French slang involving swapping syllables around, or "maestro".
2.
I recently discovered Angèle's Plus de sens and the lines "Et j'ai essayé de tenir / Oublier que j'ai peur de l'avenir / C'est pas toujours parfait / J'ai parfois des regrets" ("And I tried holding on / Forget I'm afraid of the future / It's not always perfect / I sometimes have regrets") keep popping up in my head.
3.
FRANCE IS SENDING A SONG IN BREZHONEG TO EUROVISION :D
(This is where I'd put an emoji of the Gwenn ha du ("white and black"), the Breton flag, but there isn't one. Please consider signing this petition to change this.)
Anyway, I can't believe we're sending a song in Brezhoneg. (To quote one of the band members in an interview: "[le breton] est une langue dont on a souvent eu honte" / "[Brezhoneg] is a language we were often made to feel ashamed off". It's not just a "we, the band", either more "we, the Breton people", btw.) Breizhad on ha lorc'h ennon!
About all I can understand is something about stars and someone is dancing with the Devil (the Devil of Breton folklore is less "The Adversary, First of The Fallen, Prince of this World" and more "complete and utter failboat").
It sounds awesome! I hope this band keeps going because I love their sound and I want to listen to more people singing in Brezhoneg. Don't get me wrong, I love Gwennyn and Nolwenn Leroy, but sometimes (most pf the times) I'm in the mood for something closer to "shouting with electric guitar" than "whispering with acoustic guitar", if that makes sense.
Love how the singer's costumes recall traditional Bigouden embroidery.
No thoughts, head empty, only happy-making noises.
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Date: 2022-03-10 12:36 am (UTC)