French Pop Music is Rubbish

ALS · #1 02-12-2008, 05:50 PM

Don't shoot the messenger the title is from the below article.

French pop music is rubbish. One of my colleagues wrote those words the other day in a piece on saving the world's pop heritage. So let me try again to demolish the old cliché, which springs mainly from lack of exposure and ancient prejudice.

They have been putting down French popular music since the early sixties, when Johnny Hallyday and the yéyé movement came over as funny copies of Elvis and then the Beatles. The early rockeurs français were obviously imitators but they had flair and infused their songs with a French lightness that stands comparison with much of the period's Brit pop. There was also the school of great original French singer-composers whose wit and commentary had no "Anglo-Saxon" equivalent.

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Runner Simon · #2 02-12-2008, 05:52 PM

And`? Alizée still rocks every ones socks!

Youpidou1 · #3 02-12-2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Runner Simon

And`? Alizée still rocks every ones socks!

I think people would turn there head when they listen to Alizée. She is better than French Pop. She is SUPER FRENCH POP.

ajaccio corsica · #4 02-13-2008, 05:38 AM

hi
it must be true, that's why so many ppl listen to corsican singers like alizée or jenifer

cheers

Yaceman · #5 02-13-2008, 05:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ajaccio corsica

hi
it must be true, that's why so many ppl listen to corsican singers like alizée or jenifer

cheers

CHEERS DUDE!

Moi-aimes-Alizée · #6 02-13-2008, 05:57 AM

French pop sux?:| That was hard words from someone, anyway it's the biggest lie I have ever heard!

Hylas1896 · #7 02-13-2008, 01:47 PM

I hate to say it, but I agree: French pop sucks. As a whole, at least. But that's only because Pop music sucks, as a whole. France has nothing to do with it.

That being said, it only takes the 2% that is good and the 1% that is great to make it all worthwhile. All the rest goes the way of, umm, MC Hammer.

Hylas1896

Edcognito · #8 02-13-2008, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Hylas1896

I hate to say it, but I agree: French pop sucks. As a whole, at least. But that's only because Pop music sucks, as a whole. France has nothing to do with it.

That being said, it only takes the 2% that is good and the 1% that is great to make it all worthwhile. All the rest goes the way of, umm, MC Hammer.

Hylas1896

Dude, whats wrong with MC Hammer?

Dam elitest critics!