The problem, as we have said a lot on France Info this week, is not that Jean-Michel Blanquer takes vacations, but that he takes them in Ibiza, where it is raining champagne.
Of course, we don’t have to believe what the rapper Vegedream says about it – champagne raining doesn’t really exist. But there is probably something in our collective unconscious that makes it hard to believe that a vacation in Ibiza is a normal vacation.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend, you hear excerpts from:
Vegedream, Ibiza, 2019
Miss, Ibiza, 2002
Jul, Ibiza, 2019
Bakari, Ibiza, 2021
Line Renaud, Ball in the Balearic Islands, 1953
Julien Clerc, Melissa, 1984
Gambino, Ibiza, 2021
Gambino, Alicante, 2019
Gambino, Copacobana, 2019
Vegedream, Ibiza, 2019
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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.
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 chronicle with the French song lovers dictionary, co-published by Plon and franceinfo.