French

A song that sounds like a club hit but works like a state-of-the-union. Stromae lists, in inventory mode, t…

A setting-the-record-straight, not a plea. Faced with a "djadja" — a guy bragging about an affair that neve…

Dancing so as not to sink. Under a light melody hides a heavy pain: a woman wounded by loneliness and the w…

Love that repaints the world. "La vie en rose" — life in pink — names the moment when another person's pres…

The most naked plea in French song. Faced with the other leaving, the narrator drops all pride: he promises…

A joyful refusal of luxury in favour of freedom. In "Je veux", the narrator rejects the Ritz, jewels and li…

Nostalgia for an artist's youth in Montmartre. The narrator, an ageing painter, remembers a time of hunger …

The anthem of a disillusioned generation. The narrator moves through a world turned to chaos, without beari…