France chose their song for Europe on Tuesday just gone and it's an absolute work of genius. There were 10 songs to pick from and the public televoted for their favourite. It was a pretty eclectic mix of R'n'B, rap, ballads, French-Arabic and the one that won.
The winning group is called Les Fatals Picards and the song is called L'Amour À La Française (Love In the French Way). Where it strikes a stroke of genius is that it's partly sung in a mixture of English and French...
The lyrics tell a story where part of a sentence is in English and the rest in French... and it rhymes! Except this isn't the only genius part of the song.
The English is actually in Frenglish and the French is in Franglais... confused? Maybe, but it's fantastic and if you understand both English and French this is a very clever song along the lines of some of the stuff Manu Chao has come up with (check out Le Rendez-Vous by Manu Chao to see what I mean).
Great choice France...
Les Fatals Picards - L'Amour À La Française (Love In The French Way)
There's an mp3 here:- http://www.box.net/public/tknvm2z3hi
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