“I don’t like love” by Olivia Ruiz (who has every right to do so, after all)

This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. Today, the last (sarcastic) step in our journey through the verb to love…

Indeed, not everyone has to love love. For two weeks, we have been exploring all the facets of this simple feeling which – naively, I admit – we take pleasure in believing is universal.

But we are a news radio, a public service radio, and our specifications require us to encourage the expression of a plurality of points of view on the major issues of our time. So we listen – even if it may offend certain sensitivities and certain convictions – we listen I don’t like lovetaken from Olivier Ruiz’s first album in 2003, a song that we owe to the generous genius of Juliette Nourredine as a writer-composer.

In this episode of These party songs you hear excerpts from:

Olivia Ruiz, I don’t like love, 2003

Nila Cara, I hate you men, 1941

Zizi Jeanmaire, Damn love, 1977

Elisa Tovati, There’s no point in loving, 2007

Anaïs, My heart my love, 2005

Isabelle Huppert, Against love, 2001

Alain Chamfort, Against love, 1997

Maurice Chevalier, There is nothing to be done against love, 1962

Olivia Ruiz, I don’t like love, 2003

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