These party songs. “Further” by Berry, because we love our grandparents

This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. Today, a singular bond whose expression is willingly funnier, more political, more tender, more joyful than in other emotional bonds.

The bond we have with our grandparents often leads us to ask ourselves the same kind of questions as Berry in his magnificent song Furtherin 2008 : often, we do not feel their love as being polluted by educational tasks, and moreover we will be among the last witnesses of their life.

This song by Berry is a song of mourning, but of this singular mourning that the song willingly expresses with more serenity than others, despite the pain. And we can’t help but hear the granddaughter’s happy expression of love for her grandmother alongside the immediate pain of the loss.

In this episode of These party songsyou hear excerpts from:

Berry, Further away, 2008

Anne Sylvestre, Grandmother, 2004

Sanseverino, At my grandmother’s funeral, 2004

Ogres of Barback, Grandmother, 1999

Béranger, For my grandmother, 1979

Mickey 3D, My grandmother, 2001

Jacques Brel, Grandmother, 1967

Anne Sylvestre, My grandfather Louis, 1967

Zaz, Brussels, 2019

Berry, Further away, 2008

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