“Definitively” by Grand Corps Malade or the dizziness of love of the future father

This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. Today, the singular emotion of men who are expecting their first child.

“You will teach me uncertainty, you will teach me sleepless nights” : it is difficult to express with such simplicity the unconditional love for the child to come. And if this song, written during his partner’s pregnancy, is called Definitely, it is that Grand Corps sees in his life a change forever, only because he is going to become a father.

The drunkenness of fathers when the mother is pregnant is not strictly speaking a commonplace but the song deploys an imposing corpus of masculine texts which develop a poetry that is deliberately clumsy and hesitant. Here are Renaud and Bertrand Betsch.

In this episode of These party songsyou hear excerpts from:

Grand Corps Malade, Definitely, 2010

Renaud, Knocked up, 1983

Bertrand Betsch, This belly, 2007

Isabelle Boulay, While waiting for you, 2004

Elisa Tovati, Nine months, 2007

Renaud, Song for Pierrot, 1979

Grand Corps Malade, Definitely, 2010

Marka, Kiki’s Lullaby, 1995

Michel Bühler, Lullaby for a coming child, 1971

Grand Corps Malade, Definitely, 2010

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