When the song carries utopia

Javier Milei’s victory in the Argentine presidential election, despite a program described as unrealistic and dangerous by many experts, invites us to re-listen to some of the utopian delusions of singing artists.

“When I need a song, I’ll blow up the earth”. It is very beautiful, this formula of Maxime Le Forestier in his song Antipodes. While looking for an idea for a text, he had the idea of ​​a hole, a large hole that runs through the entire earth, and allows you to go to the other side of the planet through the subsoil. ..

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:

Maxime Le Forestier, Antipodes, 1979

Gilles Servat, You Paris took me in your arms and I had a hard time getting through it, 1973

Sheila White, Tunnel under the Manche, 1972

Raoul de Godewarsvelde, The Tunnel under the Channel, 1973

The Parisians, Tunnel under the Manche, 1966

Anthony, The Elucubrations, 1966

Michel Delpech, The Divorced, 1972

Tryo, Alain Souchon, Pierre Souchon, Bear, 2050-2100, 2020

Cali, Golden age, 2015

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