Everyone can define France according to their sensitivity. Camille, for example, observes our country as a singer.
When Camille in 2011 evokes France as the country of photocopies, she mainly speaks of French rock and rap, which she sees as copies of foreign products. And pan in the teeth! And it is characteristic – also – of the French spirit: France likes to criticize, attack and hate itself.
And when, in the political situation resulting from the legislative elections, one could expect appeasements, impulses towards national unity, the machinery which weighs down the atmosphere continues to function, but it is true that the idea of France has always was a battlefield.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Camille, France2011
Charles Trenet, Sweet France1947
Renaud, hexagon1975
Maxime Le Forestier I don’t care about France1973
Serge Reggiani, I’m not chauvinistic 1975
crossbreed, I sing France2006
Gael Faye, To France2012
Camille, France2011
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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.