It’s a song that resembles us. The best summer of French-language song exports?

With the ceremonies and events of the Paris 2024 Games, the whole world is listening to great classic hits and songs previously unknown outside of France.

In partnership with the exhibition It’s a song that resembles us – Worldwide hits of French-language popular music At the Cité internationale de la langue française in Villers-Cotterêts, these chronicles look in detail at each of the stories presented there.

What if the summer of 2024 was the best summer of export for French-language songs?

Just this moment: Lady Gaga singing My feather thingthe song by Zizi Jeanmaire – which many French people under 50 were unaware of until now – and you can imagine abroad. And yet, we recognized Paris, the Paris of cabarets, insolent singers and – precisely – feathered things.

And it’s delicious to think that, during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Games, billions of humans saw and heard this song written by Bernard Dimey, an immense author who died in 1981 in a situation close to poverty.

And it’s also a pleasure to think that, in all the Olympic venues, supporters and journalists who came to France for the Games “Shazamed” That I love you.

In this episode of It’s a song that resembles usyou hear excerpts from:

Lady Gaga, My feather thing, July 26, 2024

Divertimento Orchestra, That I love youAugust 11, 2024

Axelle Saint Cirel, The Marseillaise, July 26, 2024

Marina Viotti, Love is a rebellious birdJuly 26, 2024

Aya Nakamura, Pookie / For me formidable, July 26, 2024

Zaho of Sagazan, Under the Parisian sky, August 11, 2024

Chris, Born To Be Alive, August 28, 2024

Celine Dion, The Hymn to Love, July 26, 2024

You can also extend this column with the book It’s a song that resembles us published by Heritage Publishing.

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