Okay, if anyone wants to do a more straight-faced version of the Friday jukebox, please feel free. I just wanted to think of a way to announce that I’m off to La France for the next two weeks and won’t be around. This was my first choice:
Actually, this was my first choice (I was going to claim that Kanye West had produced it):
My francophilia fails when it comes to contemporary French music- most is entirely too twee for my tastes. I like Sébastien Tellier quite a bit, but he doesn’t exactly count since his songs are usually in English and he’s as popular in the US as France. Nevertheless, this song is what we used to call “baby-making music”:
Finally, this song is just goofy pop music, but see if you can get it out of your head:
No love for French electronic music?Report
I guess I have to be in the right mood for it. Much of it strikes me as music to zone out or make babies to. If I’m chilling out at home, I will listen to Air and it tends to make me happy. So, please- recommend some good French electronica and I will check it out on iTunes.
Maybe I was thinking of three-chords-and-a-sneer sort of music. The thing is I’m a record collector who has a ton of rock music and, as far as I can tell the French lack the rocking-out gene. Sure there’s Johnny Hallyday, but I think his music and his popularity prove my theory instead of contradicting it.Report
Johnny Hallyday *shiver*
Check out M83 some time… and there’s always Daft Punk, of course.Report
I may have to post some MC Solaar later. And how do we know that “juke-box” is masculine?Report
I actually went and looked it up in my Petit Robert dictionary. I’d heard before that it was basically just the English word with a hyphen and was amused to find that to be true. They do that a lot with modern English words, as Sarkozy, popularly known as “president bling-bling” can attest.Report