The song from the Social Security files

Social Security is also a subject for variety artists. And, long before Internet hackers misappropriated the personal data of millions of social security holders, popular culture was already talking about lost files…

This song by the group Bruit Noir dates from 2015 but boomers remember that we already heard this kind of thing a long time ago. The files, the paperwork, the incomprehensible forms. We remember, in 1982, the anger of Zézette – Marie-Anne Chazel – in Santa Clause is garbage…

In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

black noise, Social Security, 2015

Marie-Anne Chazel in, Santa Clause is garbage by Jean-Marie Poiré, 1982

Maurice Alcindor, Social sekirity, 1970

François Morel, Social Security, 2020

Michel Fugain, A normal guy, 1978

Ben Mazue, Not very original, 2021

Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jeanine medicine blues, 1983

The Jacques Brothers, Song without calcium, 1967

Raoul de Godewarsvelde, Song without calcium, 1969

Maurice Alcindor, Social sekirity, 1970

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