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French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the other francophone areas of the world. The target audience is the francophone market (primarily France), which is considerably smaller than and largely independent from the mainstream anglophone ...
' French song ') is generally any lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s.
The following is a list of English-language pop songs based on French-language songs. The songs here were originally written and performed in the French language. Later, new, English-language lyrics were set to the same melody as the original song. Songs are arranged in alphabetical order, omitting the articles "a" and "the".
Yé-yé (French: ⓘ) or yeyé [1] (Spanish:) was a style of pop music that emerged in Western and Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The French term yé-yé was derived from the English "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands such as the Beatles. [2]
In a press release, Angèle stated the meaning behind the song: "Bruxelles je t'aime" was composed during the first [COVID-19] lockdown.I had already made the melody and started production, but it was only when I realized that I was forced to stay away from my city that I wrote this declaration of love.
French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially. It stands in contrast to French classical music , which historically was the music of elites or the upper strata of society.
The 222s, a Canadian punk rock band made a bilingual English/French rock cover of the song as "La Poupee Qui Fait Non (She's A Doll)", with the B-side including an instrumental version as "La Poupee Qui Fait Non (Version Instrumentale)". It was released in Canada as vinyl 7" on Gamma label
"Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") is a French pop song written by Serge Gainsbourg and first recorded by France Gall in 1966. One of Gall's biggest hits, it was an unusually risqué song for its time, containing numerous sexually-charged double-entendres, although she had said that she was unaware of this at the time.