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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 14:29:44 GMT
France has an awards program like the Grammy Awards. It's called the Victoires de la Musique.
Here are the winners for "Song of the Year" for the past five years:
2004 - Respire by Mickey 3D
2005 - Si seulement je pouvais lui manquer by Calogero
2006 - Caravane by Raphaël
2007 - Le dîner by Benabar
2008 - Double je by Christophe Willem
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 13, 2009 19:51:36 GMT
I really like Benabar! quality artist.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 11:48:20 GMT
In terms of "winning songs," one of the most moving was the winner in 2003, which was about the events of 9-11.
2003 - Manhattan Kaboul by Renaud & Axelle Red
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 12:07:04 GMT
Here is an English translation of the lyrics:
Little Puerto Rican Almost fitting in like a New Yorker In my building of glass and steel I have a job, a line of coke and a coffee.
Little Afghan girl On the other side of the world Never heard of Manhattan Daily life is misery and war.
Two strangers on opposite sides of the world, so different Both unknown, both anonymous but yet Pulverized on the altar of eternal violence
A 747 Exploded in my windows My sky so blue became a storm When the bombs leveled my village
Two strangers on opposite sides of the world, so different Both unknown, both anonymous but yet Pulverized on the altar of eternal violence
So long, adieu to my American dream I, no longer a slave of dogs They imposed the Islam of tyrants Did they ever read the Koran?
I’ve become dust again I’ll never be master of the universe This country that I loved so much Might it be a giant with feet of clay?
The gods, the religions The wars of civilization The weapons, the flags, the homelands, the nations Will always just make us into cannon fodder
Two strangers on opposite sides….
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 15, 2009 12:21:15 GMT
This song makes me cry, K.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2015 10:40:59 GMT
They have come out with the top selling music in France for 2015 (both physical and digital sales), and it appears that French culture has nothing to worry about since there is only one foreign artist in the top ten.
1. Louane Emera 2. Kendji Girac 3. Adele 4. Christine & the Queens 5. Francis Cabrel 6. Maître Gims 7. Calogero 8. Les Enfoirés (collective charity album) 9. Johnny Hallyday
That's only 9 names because Kendji Girac had two albums in the top ten of the year.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2016 6:18:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2016 7:11:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2016 6:44:03 GMT
This won the award for "song of the year" in France last night. It pays homage to a Congolese fashion craze, similar to the era of zoot suits. "Sape" is a slang word for clothes and it led to the African creation of "sapeurs" -- followers of the Société des Ambianceurs et de Personnes Elégantes.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 15:41:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 15:57:42 GMT
Not available in my country! (US, today)
Edit: as for the Maître Gims, I quite like it. I find French hiphop/rap more melodic than a lot of the English stuff. There are no women shaking their big butts. And as long as there is no misogyny, I quite enjoy the peacocking of young men.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 16:20:47 GMT
I adored this, K, thank you. I choked up at the repetitions of "les feuilles mortes", "la tête haute", "main dans la main", "nous chanterons". And the poets. Lovely. I don't know Kateb Yacine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 17:52:28 GMT
Lizzyfaire, it's a shame you can't see the video by Fréro Delavega, especially since it already has more than 3 1/2 million views. Their CD is the next one that I am going to buy, and I only buy about 3 CDs a year now. (I remember when I used to buy at least 3 CDs a month.)
As for Un Automne à Paris, I find that song absolutely fantastic but even in France it has gone mostly unnoticed for some inexplicable reason. Kateb Yacine was an Algerian writer who roamed far and wide and who was a great defender of the Berber culture. After Algerian independence he refused to write in French for a number of years but then started doing so again, saying that the French language was a "war trophy" of Algerian independence.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2016 18:53:51 GMT
I'll try the Frero when I'm back in Canada; the French videos generally work there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2016 1:56:26 GMT
...he refused to write in French for a number of years but then started doing so again, saying that the French language was a "war trophy" of Algerian independence. And of course, this I love!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 5:34:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2016 16:41:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2016 6:33:38 GMT
Hip hop singer Matt Pokora has decided to revive Claude François who died in 1978. He is basing an entire concert tour on the repertoire of Claude François. One of Claude François' biggest hits was "Cette année-là," the French version of Oh, What a Night by Frankie Valli. The French version tells of the beginning of his career in 1962.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 20:18:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 5:51:14 GMT
The Victoires de la Musique took place last night, and this is what won best song, not one of my favourites.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 12:17:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 22:02:12 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 11, 2017 5:16:40 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 3, 2017 3:56:04 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 5, 2017 20:53:10 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 9, 2017 20:31:27 GMT
Vincent Delerm and Jean Rochefort...
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 2, 2017 17:22:45 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 3, 2017 19:29:38 GMT
This song is 43 years old (1974) but it continues to warm the hearts of the boomers whenever they hear it, even if it tells of a mythical place and time.
English translation:
It's a blue house leaning against the hill We come to it on foot, don't have to knock, Those who live here have thrown away the key We get together after years on the road And we come to sit around for dinner. Everyone is here, at five o'clock in the evening. San Francisco fogs up San Francisco lights up San Francisco, where are you? Lisa and Luke, Sylvia, wait for me.
Swimming in the fog Entwined, rolling in the grass we listen to Tom playing his guitar Phil on his flute, until darkness falls. Someone else will come to give us news of another friend who'll return in a year or two from where he is happy, and we'll sleep. When San Francisco awakes, when San Francisco awakes... San Francisco... Where are you? Lisa and Luke, Sylvia, wait for me.
It's a blue house stuck in my memory. We come to it on foot, don't have to knock The people who live here, have thrown away the key. Full of long haired people with big beds and music Filled with light and crazy people. It will be the last house standing. If San Francisco falls apart if San Francisco falls apart, where will you be, Lisa and Luke, Sylvia wait for me.
Even for those of us who never believed in the Haight-Ashbury paradise, I have always found that this song cuts right through the heart because it is universal in evoking a perfect moment of youth when we really thought that life would be wonderful. The singer Maxime Le Forestier wrote the song about his personal experience of living in San Francisco at that time. I am happy to say that he is still alive and healthy, unlike so many others, and that he has moved on to other phases of life in relative serenity. His career is still going strong, and his songs are still worth listening to.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 9, 2017 13:45:26 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2018 6:30:45 GMT
Here is the song of the year for 2017, as usual quite a sad one about the things one did not dare to do. Moral: "It's better to live with remorse than regret."
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