Tag: chanson

  • interview by Michael McCarthy The following interview with French American singer/songwriter Ariane took place last Thursday on the 12th of March 2020. Not long after many people in the United States had finally started to feel the gravity of the COV-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. I think both she and I felt a little strange doing an…

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  • Cœur de pirate — a.k.a. Beatrice Martin — has returned already, hot on the heels of last year’s fantastic album, En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. Whether this is a one-off single or she’s already made, or is making, a new album, I do not yet know. What I do know is that…

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  • “Kiev” is the second single from Vanessa Paradis’ 7th studio album, Les Sources. It’s my favorite song from the album, which is a bit of a departure for Paradis as it’s her first album that really has more to do with telling stories and l’amour than it does with being catchy.

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  • “CES MOTS SIMPLES,” the beautiful new single by Vanessa Paradis, translates as “these simple words.”  The video of Vanessa swinging with water below her, which she dips her tip-toes in, is rather simple, too. 

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  • In 2010 Mylène Farmer, the most popular French artist in the world, surprised fans when she released her first album without longtime collaborator Laurent Boutonnat, Bleu Noir. Her formula with Boutonnat was simple: Laurent wrote the music and she wrote the lyrics. At least that’s how the credits read. I should think there were times…

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  • BACKGROUND: French singer Sindy is a member of a collective called Team BS, which was started by a highly successful French rapper/producer who goes by the name La Fouine. The group is called Team BS because the name of La Fouine’s record label is Banlieue Sale (translation: Dirty Suburb). Most of the team consists of…

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  • PRE-ORDER AVAILABLE NOW NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ENCLOSED FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY (July 27, 2015) – The platinum-selling female vocalist duo Brigitte, consisting of Aurélie Saada and Sylvie Hoarau, are set to release their second album, A bouche que veux-tu (Mouth Of Plenty), on September 18 via The End Records/ADA. This is the follow-up to their 2011…

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  • Ysa Ferrer is an artist who half of our readers have likely never heard of while the other half are undoubtedly quite familiar with her. If you live in the States — where we’re based — then you’re probably not familiar with her. But if you live in Europe, she’s practically a household name at…

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  • Ysa Ferrer is one of my favorite French artists. I’ve been following her since I bought her album Kamikaze in France in 1999. After that album didn’t fare very well, I believe she was dropped from her label. Then she would sporadically release a single here and there but during recent years she’s put out…

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  • French pop star Alizée’s career was launched after France’s most popular female pop star, Mylène Farmer, discovered her while watching the television program Graines de Star in 1999. The lyrics of Alizée’s first two albums, Gourmandises and Mes courants électriques, were written by Mylène herself with her writing partner Laurent Boutonnat composing the music. In…

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  • We’ve been fascinated by Petite Meller ever since she left a link to her “Backpack” video on our Facebook page last September.  If you watched the video when we posted it, then chances are you remember it.  It was the gorgeous homage to vintage French cinema shot on the French Riviera.  Meller herself describes it…

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  • Émilie Simon began her career with a self-titled release in 2003. I happened upon it by chance when I was looking for a few new CDs to buy on Amazon France, as I had been a French music junkie since 1997 or so. I had no idea what she was going to sound like, but…

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  • I must admit that I don’t know a whole lot about Florent Marchet. The only other album of his that I have is Noël’s Songs, which, as you could probably guess, is a Christmas album. I simply grabbed that one for the heck of it because, as my loyal readers must have figured out by…

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