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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
I first heard the song when it was performed during Les Enfoires at the beginning of 2015. I really liked it and I looked for the official version, which came out in 2013 and I found Indilia's music video which was very good and I added it to my playlist.
At the time, I looked up the artist and the meaning of the song I'm quite sure I looked it up on Wikipedia. I use that site quite a lot and I donate to it every year. The story I remembered that song was telling was about a man she loved she was longing for and it also said it was about the racism and discrimination that a young immigrant woman faces in Paris. She herself was born in Paris but I think the story was about herself. In the end it showed Paris being destroyed.
Well later that year, we had the attack in Paris. The next year we had the attack in Nice, carried out by people who let's just say, weren't happy with France. After that, I just couldn't listen to the song anymore.
When I saw this song posted, I remembered the story, but decided to go back to Wikipedia to get my facts straight and what they had was a sanitized story of the song. There was no mention of racism or discrimination. Though there was mention of a storm, there was no mention of the destruction of Paris, a major part of the video. Why?
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I can understand how that tragedy would totally affect your emotions when hearing that song. I still feel a huge sense of horror when I think about those attacks. Paris has always been one of my favorite cities, and I’ve always had a great fondness for France, in general.
I, too, use Wikipedia a lot. I can’t imagine what caused them to alter the story. All I can think is that some kind of political agenda got in the way. It’s a terrible shame that so much information presented to the public is filtered through particular lenses. I prefer to let people make up their own minds about things, not have facts withheld from them.