Some related songs for your consumption and perhaps enjoyment.
I don’t understand a word of this Indila song because French, but it sounds nice and I was completely captured by the music video. (Trigger warning: It’s in French, but that’s it.)
The next two have French lyrics in them, though are otherwise unrelated.
The first is by Max Stalling, and it’s a tribute to the Beatle’s “Michelle.” (Trigger warning: Country musician, but it’s a ballady sort of song with minimal country influence)
And Travis… (Trigger warning: Travis)
The final two songs contain no French, but I tend to gravitate towards them at times like these.
The first is REM’s “Bad Day” which has a really good video with it (Trigger warning: REM)
And a relative unknown by the name of Peter Dawson. (Trigger warning: Very, very country)
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She might be the most beautiful woman who ever lived:
https://youtu.be/2ICFtXx546AReport
“Last Dance” is perhaps the most relevant of the selections, particularly with the video.
I was thinking of this last night:
https://youtu.be/GKEzDfFiRBsReport
The only French rock and roll song that I know, but it’s so infectious that it can’t help but make you feel better. And Plastic Bertrand is kind of the antithesis of Françoise Hardy. Sorry, @glyph
https://youtu.be/v98HEQvtpgoReport
Great tune, with a really convoluted history.
Plastic Bertrand is Belgian. He didn’t sing the song though, he Milli Vanilli’d it. The backing track is the same as a (slightly) earlier tune called “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”, with lyrics that as recently as 1989 could get you an FCC fine for obscenity if you broadcast it. Both versions have been covered multiple times (Sonic Youth, the Damned, Crocodiles et al).Report
Well, Lily Wood and the Prick are French and the video has French kids having fun, so…
https://vimeo.com/95788230Report
This is a famous one. Remember that some of the actors were French, some also French Jews, exiled from their country during the Nazi occupation. Their tears were real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJMReport
What a terrible week and month it has been. Screw you, 2015.Report