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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 10, 2018 20:03:23 GMT
I should also mention that Orelsan, a pale little rapper from Caen was the big winner of the evening with 3 nominations and 3 wins. It is completely amazing how this little shit changed from totally annoying to indispensable over the last 10 years. Even I bought his latest album and listened to it continuously for weeks. One of the awards was for best music video.
lyricstranslate.com/en/basique-basic.html#ixzz56jlfSzsS
[Intro]
Okay, I'm going to release a new album.
But first, we need to go over the basics
I'm going to make a simple video where I'm going to say simple things
Because you're too stupid
Simple, basic
[Verse 1]
The most intelligent people aren't always the ones who speak the best (simple)
Politicians have to lie or else you wouldn't vote for them (basic)
If you often say you don't have a problem with alcohol, it's because you have one (simple)
Don't have a child with people you don't know well (basic)
The guys from the National Front have the same face as the bad guys in the movies (simple)
Between having principles and being a dirty bastard, the line is very thin (basic)
Hugo Boss dressed the Nazis, the style is important (simple)
Dolphins are rapists
Yeah, beware of appearances (basic)
[Chorus]
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, you don't have the basics.
You don't have the basics
You don't have the basics
You don't have the basics
[Verse 2]
If it's written on the internet, it might be false but it might be true (simple)
Illuminati or not, what difference does it make? You get fucked (basic)
You're a foreigner when you're abroad, it's useless to be racist (simple)
The craziest guys are often the saddest guys (basic)
One hundred people own half of the world's wealth (simple)
You'll always be one or two off when betting on horses (basic)
If you are often alone with your problems, it's because you are often the problem (simple)
Every generation says that the next generation is screwing everything up (cliché)
[Chorus]
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, you don't have the basics.
You don't have the basics
You don't have the basics
You don't have the basics
Basic, simple, you don't have the basics
Basic, simple, you don't have the basics
Basic, simple, you don't have the basics
Basic, simple, you don't have the basics
Basic, simple, you don't have the basics
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, basic, simple, simple
Basic, you don't have the basics.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 22, 2018 0:11:26 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 6, 2018 4:00:01 GMT
It is interesting to see icon Françoise Hardy getting ready to die in this video where she confronts images of her youth. "Prendre le large" can be translated as "Going out to sea."
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Post by lagatta on Jun 22, 2018 11:48:22 GMT
I had to look back at Françoise Hardy's biography to confirm that she is struggling with a lymphoma, in remission but which will probably eventually kill her, so it isn't just the inevitable consequence of age.
Québec singer-songwriter Luc de la Rochellière's latest song woke me up this morning; there is not a proper videoclip yet, but the song is full of images of humans as eternal travellers (since before we were exactly human).
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 27, 2018 17:05:07 GMT
While this is unlikely to ever become my favourite song, what pleases me about this video is that rapping brothers BigFlo & Oli and DJ Petit Biscuit invited ordinary basic fans of theirs to participate in the video.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 29, 2018 0:10:45 GMT
Petit biscuit ? Wtf ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2018 2:58:25 GMT
You're old.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2018 18:48:54 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 11, 2018 17:34:21 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Sept 12, 2018 11:10:41 GMT
Rachid Taha, leader of the Lyonnais group Carte de séjour, has died at the age of 59. Of course he is Algerian, but grew up in Eastern France and got his start as a singer and musician with Carte de séjour in Lyon. I met him there, with some Lyonnais punk friends. Can't say I "know" him, just a typical encounter in a bar in La Croix rousse... next.liberation.fr/musique/2018/09/12/le-chanteur-rachid-taha-est-mort_1678188
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 12, 2018 11:38:28 GMT
Now would be an interesting to compare the original version of the classic Douce France and the version the Rachid Taha did, which did not appeal to many traditionalists but which probably make a new flood of royalties gush into the bank accounts of the original composer.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 12, 2018 13:01:13 GMT
I guess that those who didn't like the newer version were simply denying the Maghrebi presence in France; I don't see anything anti-French in the Carte de séjour version. Such people probably didn't like finding out that Trenet was gay either.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 12, 2018 13:22:17 GMT
Some people are anti- I love to remind people who don't like maghrebis that 95pc of the French' ' soldiers fighting from end if 1940 to early 1944 were from Algeria or Marocco or Tunesia. Yes there was the free french but they were probably less than french wearing German or even SS uniforms. Not mentioning the infamous ´milice ´.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 12, 2018 14:10:59 GMT
Rachid also expressed his distate for "communitarism" and religious fundamentalists' attempts to dominate and control the Maghrebi-French population, as well as the rise in politically-motivated antisemitism, saying Jews and Arabs were brothers.
In general I think he was a cool guy, though like many musicians, I strongly suspect that at least at times he overindulged in drink and drugs, which might have hastened his demise... but who knows?
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 12, 2018 14:26:28 GMT
The Rachid version was ok actually but as a big Charles Trenet fan I think his version sumptuous.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 12, 2018 15:27:56 GMT
It is impossible not to love all of the Charles Trenet hits. They still stir up feelings even in young people in France, just because they are part of the DNA.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 20, 2018 22:03:08 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 19, 2018 19:49:26 GMT
Celebrity charity songs never have any major artistic value, but the messages can often be powerful. What makes this one exceptional against homophobia is that it does not use just the usual singers and actors but also a number of television personalities, journalists, writers and even Christiane Taubira, the former Minister of Justice who got the marriage equality law passed in 2013. A nice Christmas message.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 2, 2019 19:47:11 GMT
Radio Elvis is an up and coming Belgian group. One of their latest songs is very appealing. Unfortunately the star of the video is an authentic French torero, Tibo Garcia.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 8, 2019 3:56:36 GMT
That Boulevard des airs song is really wonderful. It reminds me of Paul Simon in a way that's just outside my ability to pinpoint it.
I see you've already introduced Christine and The Queens on here. Another one ~
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 8, 2019 5:03:35 GMT
Héloïse Letissier is just calling herself Chris now and appears to be aiming for gender reassignment, not F to M but F to intersex.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 30, 2019 5:21:00 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 31, 2019 14:03:23 GMT
This is the song that received the most radio airplay in France in 2018 (and therefore earned the most money in royalties).
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 29, 2019 5:38:17 GMT
This has become the anthem of the Algerian student movement.
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 5, 2019 18:01:51 GMT
I am not really a fan of this song or these singers (two brothers), but it is the phenomenon of the moment in France and is one of the very rare music videos filmed on the Eiffel Tower (price tag 250,000 euros).
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 1, 2019 4:08:47 GMT
(chanson belge, truth be told)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 18, 2019 18:10:35 GMT
(Belgian once again. This is Roméo Elvis's sister.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 18, 2019 18:15:05 GMT
It should be mentioned the Roméo Elvis was not really given an easy name by his parents. His full name is Roméo Johnny Elvis Kiki Van Laeken.
Angèle was much luckier. Her name is just Angèle Van Laeken.
Belgians are weird.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 11, 2019 18:42:41 GMT
There is something a bit incredible about this song. It is one of the best loved songs in France and even 21st century children know it perfectly because they sing it at summer camp or at scout jamborees. It seems as though the song has always been with us, but I never realised exactly how much. The singer Hugues Aufray was on the news tonight, looking amazingly spry, full of vim and vigour, with all sorts of projects for the coming year and a new album coming out. And yet in just one week, he will be 90 years old.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 12, 2019 11:35:23 GMT
That is incredible about Hugues Aufray!
Wouldn't given names such as those inflicted on Mr Van Laaken be refused in France? There is no "list" of names here as there used to be in France - and in Argentina, if I recall - but names that could inflict ridicule on a child can be refused by the registry.
I imagine that there are Arab and Berber versions of the Algerian students' anthem?
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