Posts tagged with "French pop"

Moi, Lolita

Posted by Jennie 2 Comments
Sep 11 2010

C’est pas ma faute… mais je crois que c’est vendredi (but I think it’s Friday). Tous ensemble :

D. M. C. V !

Alizée

Dieu Merci C’est Vendredi, and as is the long-standing tradition at this point, on ne fera que chanter et danser (we’ll only sing and dance !). Sauf que… I cannot think of a single fun French song.

J’ai googlisé (not a real word) “French Top 40” and the first French-language song is like number 25 (et c’est nul).  So I went back in time…

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La Corse (Corsica)

C’est pas ma faute, il n’y avait pas d’autre choix (there was no other choice!) Super-poppy, but maybe Alizée is ce qu’il faut for the weekend. Elle est une chanteuse corse (de la Corse, Corsica) assez mignonne (pretty cute) et le vidéo-clip bilingue est super!

PS: I’ll be writing from Canada next week- je pars dimanche (I’m leaving Sunday). Waaaay!!!

PPS: Il y a quelques ans, j’ai dû mémoriser le poème « Demain, dès l’aube » et j’ai été enchantée de le revoir hier. Merci Hichem !

French Music – Vanessa Paradis

Posted by Transparent Language No Comments
Oct 18 2009

Possibly most famous in the US as Johnny Depp’s long-time love and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in a town near Paris where she took piano and dance lessons.  Now a successful singer, actress and Chanel model, she became a child star in 1987 at just 14 years of age after the release of her single Joe le taxi, which was #1 on the French charts for 11 weeks and rose to #3 on the UK charts.   In 1990, she won the Victoire de la Musique Female Performer of the Year award with her second album, Variations sur le même t’aime. In 1992, she moved to the US to work with Lenny Kravitz, who wrote and produced her English-language album “Vanessa Paradis”, the most successful single from which was entitled “Be My Baby”.  Bliss was released in 2000 and Divinidylle in 2007, with which she won several music awards and nominations in France.
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She is rumored to currently be working on a Greatest Hits album.
She filmed her first movie as an actress, Noce blanche, in 1989, for which she received the 1990 César Award for Most Promising Actress despite her later claim that the filming process with the Director was not a good experience for her.  In 1994, she worked with Gérard Depardieu in the film Elisa.  Perhaps one of her most famous films in the US is the French movie La fille sur le pont (The Girl on the Bridge), released in 1999 in France and in 2000 abroad, and for which she was nominated for another César Award. Her official website is Vanessa Paradis de A à Z.

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