You have to believe that male privileges are not only about power and might, but also about fall and defeat.
In 1974, Serge Reggiani confessed – and the press as well as the public salute his courage. He sings, in the first person singular, alcohol and alcoholism, and even if it is Jean-Loup Dabadie who wrote The Song of Paul, and even if it is Bernard Dimey who wrote If you buy me a drink, we know that it is of him that he speaks. He, Serge Reggiani, who has long been fighting his fears, his failures, his terrors with alcohol.
And that will be, a few years later, the heart of his life as a man and an artist, Serge Reggiani will thus become a sort of brother to all alcoholics. It will take time for alcoholics to have sisters in the song.
In the second episode of These songs that make the news airing this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Serge Reggiani, If you buy me a drink 1974
Mélanie Dahan, If you buy me a drink, 2008
Isabelle Boulay, If you buy me a drink, 2014
Pink, Pink, 2006
Pink, The list, 2006
Loane, Against you, 2008
Jeanne Cherhal, The bistros the bastringues, 2002
Orly Chap, Bacchus, 2005
Pink, Why not, 2019
Pink, Without drunkenness, 2019
Isabelle Boulay, If you buy me a drink, 2014
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Remember: during the summer of 2019, La Playlist de Françoise Hardy was a journey through the musical baggage of an author, composer and performer considered to be the arbiter of the elegance of pop in France.
In July and August 2017, we spent Un été en 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 column with the French song lover dictionary, co-published by Plon and franceinfo.