These party songs. “Grandiose” of Apple, already loving the child we will make

This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. Today, a twenty-three-year-old singer proclaims her desire to have children, a paradoxically rare figure in French song.

Apple was twenty-three when she released the song Grandiose on his second album, Loopholes, in 2019. A straight statement, without caveats or conditions – just that: wanting to have a child and for a very long time, even before the first stirrings of the heart.

If this song is moving, it is not only because of its artistic qualities, but also because it is a rather rare object in French-language song. Curiously – and we talked about it in this column a few days ago – men are willingly very talkative about their desire to have children, while the authors of the song do not very often address this theme. We noticed, for example, the extreme frankness of a Brigitte song in 2012, which evoked both the desire for children and the regular disappointment of not being pregnant.

In this episode of These party songsyou hear excerpts from:

Apple, Grandiose, 2019

Brigitte, I want a child, 2012

Jean-Jacques Goldman, She had a baby on her own, 1987

Natasha St Pier, To be a mother, 2020

Lynda Lemay, It smells like a baby, 2003

Lynda Lemay, The kiddos, 1999

Lynda Lemay, My owl, 1999

Lynda Lemay, A mother, 2006

Apple, Grandiose, 2019

You can also follow the news of this column on Twitter.

And you can also find the podcast on this link Behind our voices, with the writing and composition secrets of eight major artists of the French scene, Laurent Voulzy, Julien Clerc, Bénabar, Dominique A, Carla Bruni, Emily Loizeau, Juliette and Gaëtan Roussel.