Remember, it started like this: Emmanuel Macron was re-elected last Sunday as President of the Republic and we are going to come back to the past five-year term. We do so today that the election has passed and we are no longer bound by the rules that allowed us, in the months leading up to the election, to review how the song treated – and especially mistreated – all the presidents of the Fifth Republic. As President Macron was a candidate for re-election, we couldn’t talk about it – any more than about Marine Le Pen, for that matter.
And so, it’s like a little madeleine, this perlimpinpin powder: a sentence from the debate between the two rounds of 2017, sampled, triturated, set to rhythm by Khaled Freak, a brilliant remixer of political sentences. And he had also taken over a moment of exaltation from Emmanuel Macron in front of his activists in a meeting, mixed with a wall of electric guitar.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Khaled Freak, Pixie Powder, 2017
Khaled Freak, Emmanuel Macron screams, 2016
Bernard Lavilliers, Beautiful Days, 2021
Cyril Mokaiesh and Alma Forrer, After the flood, 2021
Cyril Mokaiesh and Pierre Guénard, One time, 2021
Cyril Mokaiesh and Calogero, The Dew, 2021
Morgan Karlayn, The nonsense of President Macron, 2019
Guillaume Ibot, The team at Macron, 2021
Attac Collective, Because of Macron, 2019
HK and the Saltimbanks, To dance again, 2020
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a crossing of the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered as the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent A Summer in Souchon, during which Alain Souchon guided us on a tasty walk through a lifetime of love for song.
All summer 2016, in the company of Vincent Delerm, we wandered around in La Playlist Amoureuse de la Chanson, truant exploration of popular heritage. You can also extend the delicacies of this summer chronicle with the French song lovers dictionary, co-published by Plon and franceinfo.