Eurovision 2008: France

Tuomo écrit: When I started learning French, there were no such things as an Internet, youtubes, message boards, let alone support groups. All there was li’l ole geeky moi who desperately wanted to learn French. Every year I would therefore look forward to the Eurovision song contest for musical language material in French (remember – no MP3 files to go around in any language…). At best, there would be France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg with entries in French; at worst, there was just la douce France. With the help of subtitles in Finnish, I tried to decipher the original French and sing along as well as I could. To this day, I think the best way to learn to pronounce any language – a language like French in particular – is to sing, so I guess I was intuitively on to something… Or could it be that this argument somehow circular :-) Beuf, qu'est-ce qu'on peut y faire...? :-)…

In 2008, France sends in Sébastien Tellier and Divine:

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Mon dieu: Jesus sings Pet Shop Boys :-) A pleasantly bizarre performance à la Cirque du Soleil kinda way that only the Francophones can successfully pull it off. Which is also one of the reasons why I remain a Francophile after all these years :-)

M'enfin... Sauf que je ne suis pas convaincu que cette chanson soit même en français… Je l’aime malgré tout mais je n’en comprends pas les paroles. Anglais? Français? Ou même Occitan? Ou c’est peut-être seulement moi qui après toutes ces années en Amerique du nord sans contact (et hélas effort) quotidien n’arrive plus à comprendre… À l’aide!!! :-)