The French Edition!
Not that we need an excuse to listen to any of these songs, tonight we're having an extra special After Dinner Dance Party to celebrate Rhi's return from France! It was really hard to narrow it down to our absolute faves - there's a few that didn't make this cut but we'll find a way to get them up soon!
Hope you enjoy...
Not only is she the first lady of France and a former model but she also has Jagger on her list of ex-lovers (swoon)...Carla Bruni's 'Quelqu'un m'a dit' (translated as 'Somebody Told Me') is a heartbreaking tale of life's loves and losses. Slightly melancholy but enchanting all the same. Oh Carla... you melt our hearts.
Would you think any less of us if we told of our guilty love for Eurovision? If only today's artists were still as dreamy as France Gall performing 'Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son' in 1965.
A popular singer in the French yé-yé movement, many of France Gall's hits were penned by none other than the incredible Mr Serge Gainsbourg, who in his notorious lothario style, deliberately toyed with notions of promiscuity and double entendres in his lyrics, to which Gall was naively unaware - such was the innocence of the yé-yé girls! The lyrics are incredibly dark referencing how Gall was simply a puppet for Gainsbourg's return to charts..."I'm just a lonely singing doll."
This song is genuinely amazing... well it was the first Eurovision song to win that was not a ballad! (We know this was the Luxembourg entry but she sings in French so it still counts!)
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