All summer, we talk about a great love song every day. Wednesday, July 12, the fascination of a man for a sublime mythomaniac in a bar.
Watch out, great classic. We see the girl, haughty, sublime, in a bar – a bar which we don’t know if it is in France or in the United States. But no matter: this girl is beautiful but she is somewhere else – somewhere else in her head. If we don’t understand at that moment of the song, we will understand later. And there is hardly a more amorous portrait of a mythomaniac than Water mint color, written and performed by Eddy Mitchell to music by his faithful accomplice, Pierre Papadiamandis. From the narrative point of view, there is a nice idea: we hear in the first person singular a man in love with this girl in the bar, and who will see how much she is in love with another man.
In this episode of These songs that make the summeryou hear excerpts from:
Eddie Mitchell, Water mint color, 1980
Howard Carpendale, Augen wie Asphalt, 1984
Isaac Delusion, Water mint color, 2018
Yves Duteil, Water mint color, 2023
Eddie Mitchell, Happy Birthday Rock’n’Roll, 1980
Eddie Mitchell, rock’n’road, 1980
Eddie Mitchell, The girl from the motel, 1976
Eddie Mitchell, The last session, 1977
Eddie Mitchell, Rio Grande, 1993
Eddie Mitchell, Water mint color, 1980
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