#French music

[lalchimiedecupid]

Lilia Calderu: headcanons/character study through music: Charles Aznavour

“Les musées, les églises ouvrent en vain leurs portes

Museums, churches open their doors in vain

Inutile beauté devant nos yeux déçus

Useless beauty before our disappointed eyes

Que c'est triste Venise, le soir sur la lagune

How sad Venice is at night on the lagoon

Quand on cherche une main que l'on ne vous tend pas

When we are looking for a hand that we do not extend to you

Et que l'on ironise devant le clair de lune

And that we are ironic in front of the moonlight

Pour tenter d'oublier ce qu'on ne se dit pas

To try to forget what we don't say to each other

Adieu tous les pigeons qui nous ont fait escorte

Goodbye all the pigeons who escorted us

Adieu Pont des Soupirs, adieu rêves perdus

Goodbye Bridge of Sighs, goodbye lost dreams"

“Que c'est triste Venise" is essentially about mourning a relationship long lost in Venise and the city itself. It talks about mourning what once was and what it now is. To me, Lilia Calderu, a Sicilian witch, kicked out of her country, her homeland, her kingdom, her village, all of it for being a Witch, for accurately predicting tragedy. Lilia Calderu would've left a lover behind, other than her own homeland and her sweet culture and life behind. Lilia Calderu, like Charles Aznavour, mourns the city and a lover.

“I want to laugh and sing

Je veux rire et chanter

And drown my sorrow

Et soûler ma peine

To forget the past

Afin d'oublier le passé

That I carry with me

Qu'avec moi je traîne

Bring me strong wine

Apportez-moi du vin fort

For wine delivers

Car le vin délivre

Oh pour, pour me more

Oh versez, versez-m'en encore

So I get drunk

Pour que je m'enivre

One time, two times, many, many times

Ekh raz yechtcho raz yechtcho mnogo mnogo raz

One time, two times, many, many times

Ekh raz yechtcho raz yechtcho mnogo mnogo raz”

“Les deux guitar” is one of my favorite songs by Aznavour. And how I perceive Lilia through it? Well, it's quite easy actually. In this song Aznavour is stranded somewhere in a bar most likely where two Romani are playing the guitar (it doesn't specify the romani but I don't want to say the G slur🙏🏻) and Aznavour tells them to keep on playing for he wants to sing and get drunk and forget. He wants to burry his past in the songs and the alcohol and he wants to forget all that ties him to the past, to the pain, to the sorrow.. does it sound familiar? Doesn't it sound like...Lilia Calderu trying to forget everything that ties her to being a witch? To all the awful stereotypes that followed her around? To all the torches and pitchforks that were raised against her while they chased her out of every corner of the earth?

“It had to happen

Il fallait bien

To hold you tight

Te serrer très fort

To grasp your hands

Tenir tes mains

To keep you here with me

Pour te garder encore

It had to happen

Il fallait bien

To cling to you

M'accrocher à toi

When nothing else

Lorsque plus rien

Could hold me back

Ne retenait mes pas

It had to happen

Il fallait bien

To save my happiness

Sauver mon bonheur

By the means

Par les moyens

That my heart allowed

Que me laissait mon coeur

They burn the fires of hell

Ils brûlent les feux de l'enfer

And in my soul and in my flesh

Et dans mon âme et dans ma chair

You left me only regrets

Tu ne m'as laissé que regrets

And the remorse of not having done

Et le remords de n'avoir fait

Maybe not everything I should have

Peut-être pas tout ce qu'il fallait

It had to happen

Il fallait bien

To pay the price

En payer le prix

And my sorrow

Et mon chagrin

Has shattered my life

Vient de briser ma vie”

“Il fallait bien” Top three songs of his. Gut wrenching. Utterly heartbreaking. I scream that specific paragraph at the top of my lungs everytime I hear it, you literally don't understand how much I ADORE that song. So if you're wondering, how is this related to Lilia? Well, this is Lilia mourning Agatha when the dark witch left her after Nicholas' death, when she was once again abandoned by the person she loves the most. (Yes this isn't canon to the series, but it's canon to Sins of the Past buried at the Old Creek. That's all I care about) This is Lilia in chapter V(i think(i forgot)). Lilia who lost Agatha and Nicholas, Lilia who couldn't save a loved one from Death. Lilia who herself loves Death but has a complex relationship with her like her other lover, Agatha. Lilia who's always grieving. Lilia who's always dressed in Black for all the mourning and the loss she has dealt with her whole life.

“He’s looking at you, sneakily

Lui, te regarde, furtivement

You’re chatting away, way too freely

Toi, tu bavardes, trop librement

He’s flirting with you, through me

Lui, te courtise, à travers moi

You’re getting tipsy, laughing out loud

Toi, tu te grises, ries aux éclats

And me, in my corner, if I don’t say a thing

Et moi dans mon coin, si je ne dis rien

I’ve got my heart, on the verge of tears

J'ai le coeur, au bord des larmes

And me, in my corner, I’m drowning my sorrow

Et moi dans mon coin, je bois mon chagrin

Because love, changes hands

Car l'amour, change de main

Ah! But no, it’s nothing

Ah! Mais non, c'est rien

Maybe just a bit of tiredness

Peut-être un peu de fatigue

Huh! Not at all

Hein! Pas du tout

What are you getting at there?

Qu'est-ce que tu vas chercher là

No, no, I had a

Non, non j'ai passé une

A great evening.

Une excellente soirée”

“Et moi dans mon coin” heartbreaking song. I feel like as a sapphic, Lilia most likely had a situationship with a comphet woman back in the days. It most likely left her heartbroken watching her lover, a woman she spent many nights with, throw herself into the laps and beds of men because she firmly believed that she was destined to be with a man and that anything she had with Lilia was Casual(hello Chapell Roan). Lilia again, mourns another lover.

I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did💝💌💘!

[melbemol-art]

“On ira danser sur les toits” - Nuit Incolore

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[cleopatragirlie]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧ç𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 ❀

[eroticlamb]

Sylvie Vartan, Paris, 1968. Photographed by Jean-Marie Périer

[chelseasgirl]

Rest in peace Françoise Hardy, you was one of the most amazing singers in yéyé and overall.

[nofatclips]

Tempelhof by Yann Tiersen, live in studio at The Eskal

[chichimodele]

French Pop sensation Aya Nakamura

[w3ird0s-0rgans]

Cooking with Dude

[sentientsky]

« On Brûlera » Pomme

@actual-changeling got me breaking down sobbing thinking about non-english aziracrow-coded songs and this one started ricocheting around in my head. again. so here u go

we will burn together in hell, my angel. i have planned our goodbyes to the earth, my angel. and i want to leave with you. i want to die in your arms.

[bitter69uk]

Adieu to the divine Françoise Hardy (17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024). Her death aged 80 is deeply saddening but not unexpected (Hardy had been living with cancer for many years). Where to start with this Parisian pop goddess, French national treasure, inspired musician, impossibly chic style icon (dressed by Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne and photographed by likes of Richard Avedon and David Bailey) and occasional model and actress? On a superficial level, with her moody, inscrutable penchant for glancing downwards through a sweep of long bangs and false eyelashes, Hardy was a French kissin’ cousin to contemporaries like Marianne Faithfull and Chelsea Girls-period Nico. Most importantly, her music is timelessly devastating. Think of the swirling, lush drama and crescendos of 1960s Dusty Springfield or Phil Spector productions, but with a Gallic twist and with Hardy’s beguiling, coolly poised but sensual and emotive murmurs, sighs and whispers at the eye of the storm. And from her 1962 debut onward, she wrote her own songs when it was far from the norm for pop singers, let alone female ones. No wonder Gen X-ers embraced her as an adored cult figure during the 1990s “loungecore” era. My favourite songs by Hardy (and her quality control was exceptional) would have to include “Je n’attends plus personne” (with its unexpectedly angry snarling fuzzed-out guitar), “Et Même” (with its “handclaps-of-doom” intro before the piano kicks in – trust me, that description makes sense when you listen to it!), “C’est le passe”, “Tu peux bien”, “Je t’aime”, “Voilà” and her collaborations with Serge Gainsbourg (“Comment te Dire Adieu” and “L’Anamour”). What an artist, what a woman.

[abutterpie]

My favourite French singer, Sylvie Vartan, with my favourite band, The Beatles <3

[sarahalainn]

【SaRADIO】

Un tour de Paris musical

もうすぐパリオリンピック #Olympics    

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音楽でツールドパリ！📻🇫🇷

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[elsalvy]

forever grateful to be french so i can enjoy this masterpiece fully

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧ç𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲. 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 ❀

[nofatclips-home]

Embruns and L'èrba d'agram by Barrut, live at WOMEX

[hard--headed--woman]

I briefly talked about it with someone here and it made me think so much that I had to make a post about it - why don't misandrist men get as much hate as misandrist women ?

They are men who think men are horrible and say it. Yet they do not receive the same amount of hate as a feminist saying "I hate men".

There's an example that I find interesting and that I thought I'd share : some decades ago, a very famous leftist french singer, Renaud, made a song that quickly became very popular and loved. It's called "Miss Maggie" and it basically says that men are trash and that women are superior. The thing is, absolutely everyone praises him for it and loves that song. I guess there are some conservatives and incels who hate it, but the vast majority of the country, men and women, loves it ; people say Renaud is amazing and a genius for writing it and that the song is wonderful. Here is a link if you want to listen to it :

(He also criticizes Margaret Tatcher in that song but I won't talk about it in this post because it's not the point).

Here are some lyrics (with the english translation) just so you understand what I'm talking about :

(Bourgeois women or whores

Who are often the very same

Normal women, stars or uglies

Females of all kinds, I love you

Even to the worst moron

I dedicate these few verses

Born of my disgust for men

And their warrior morality

Because no woman on the planet

Will ever be more stupid than her brother

Nor prouder nor more dishonest)

(Woman I love you because

When sport becomes war

There are no chicks, or very few

In the hordes of fans

Crazy fanatics

Drunk on hate and beer

Defying the morons in blue

Insulting the bastards in green)

(The atomic bomb

Didn't come from a female brain

And no woman has on her hands

The blood of Native Americans.

Palestinians and Armenians

Testify from their graves

That genocides are a male thing

Like SS, bullfighters

In this fucking humanity

Murderers are all brothers

Not a woman to compete)

(Woman I love you, above all, at last

For your weakness and for your eyes

When a man's only strength

Is his gun or his cock

And when the last hour comes

Hell will be full of morons

Playing soccer or war

Playing who pisses the farthest)

Everyone loves that song and Renaud didn't receive any hate for writing it. Now imagine if a woman had written it? Just imagine the amount of hate a female singer would receive if she wrote a song like this. That could ruin her carreer and I am not exaggerating.

Renaud is also known for saying other misandrist things. I remember watching an interview with him, in which he's said that "Women are always there to heal wounds, repair damage, get things done... Unfortunately, there are still too few of them in important positions where they can participate in decision-making", "The oldest form of discrimination is discrimination against women. They are the first group we decided to hate and oppress", "Politicians and religions don't want to let women be more than virgins or whores. They don't want to let them be human beings, women, fulfilled people, with a personality, who work...", "It's not long since women have had the right to vote in France. And what's more, when I see women voting for a man, it gives me the same feeling as if I saw a crocodile going to a leather shop of its own free will...".

And in the comments, absolutely everyone was praising him, calling him a king, an angel and what not. No one to call him names or to tell him horrible things. No one to act as if he's said the craziest thing ever, no one to act as if he committed a crime. Sure some people disagree and insult women, but there is not a lot of hatred against him. Again, a woman would have received a lot of hate if she had said things like that. Just read what men have to say about Delphine Seyrig criticizing the patriarchy and the "indifference of men".

The point of that post isn’t to say that Renaud is The Feminist Ally, that he's perfect and one of the good guys or whatever. I just want to point out that a man criticizing men, saying he hates them, calling out their behaviour (and even saying women are superior!) will never receive the same amount of hate as a woman barely saying "I hate men" or ever way "nicer" things. Sounds like everyone knows why we hate men and even agrees with us deep inside, and just hate when women speak up about it. Sounds like they don't have a problem with misandry but with women 🤷🏽‍♀️