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[joebanana]

Alizée - 2003-08-23 - TV Feature - Stars a Domicile-Croatian subtitles

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7s10bo

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by joebanana

Alizée - 2003-08-23 - TV Feature - Stars a Domicile-Croatian subtitles

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7s10bo

You did a real good job with the layout of the subs!

By the way, I'm still working on L'Alize. There's more to it than I thought.

[joebanana]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

You did a real good job with the layout of the subs

There is a lot of love in it.

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by joebanana

There is a lot of love in it.

I'm trying hard to find a good interpretation for the song L'Alize and it's not easy especially for me, someone who can't figure out the simplest of poems, but I was looking at the lines;

J'embrasse toute une armée..............I embrace a whole army
De r'ves et de bleuets.......................of dreams and corn flowers
Me plonger dedans...........................I dive into them
Je sais ce que je sais........................I know what I know
Même si j'pleure tout l'temp..............even if I cry all the time
Alors, dis.

The word bleuets has different meanings to it, such as blueberries, cornflowers, berries and young Frenchmen.

By the way, I found this site to be a good one as far as giving several possible definitions of words: https://context.reverso.net/

In an interpretation of L'Alize I had seen before, they used cornflowers. Now I had never heard that word before and I've learned it it's native to Europe and often grew as a weed in fields of grain and that's how it got it's name. It's actually a beautiful flower and I think I will add some to my yard this year to remind me of the song and the woman who sang it.


Reverso net said it also could mean young Frenchmen and Wikimedia said "In folklore, cornflowers were worn by young men in love; if the flower faded too quickly, it was taken as a sign that the man's love was not returned.".

So I think maybe Mylene wanted it to have a double meaning. She wanted bleuets to have the meaning of beautiful flowers but also the meaning of young men and Alizee was going through that transitional stage of adolescence 'diving' if you will into a bed of blue flowers but also, a life of young men.

Now unfortunately as far as the English version of this song, I think 'cornflower' is not a very pleasant word, sound wise. In the line;
L'esprit à mille à l'heure............the spirit of a thousand an hour,
I think the word kilometer was left out and left to be understood because that is not a very pleasant sounding word for a song, but I think we'll probably have to include cornflower in the English lyrics for this song.

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[joebanana]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

Now unfortunately as far as the English version of this song, I think 'cornflower' is not a very pleasant word, sound wise. In the line;
L'esprit à mille à l'heure............the spirit of a thousand an hour,
I think the word kilometer was left out and left to be understood because that is not a very pleasant sounding word for a song, but I think we'll probably have to include cornflower in the English lyrics for this song

I think you're doing fine.
I finished that song in my language on that way.

[Scruffydog777]

I could go into a really long explanation of how I came up with this, which I'll do if anyone asks that of me, but this is a song by MF. Trying to figure out what she meant is a difficult thing I'm sure even for people who speak French.

But I think I came up with a version that flows as well as it can, at least as well as anything out there. No doubt I had to make some compromises but I'm pleased with the result

All the winds
sweep the evil from the heart
Me, I'm like the wind
the spirit of a thousand miles an hour
I judge too quickly no doubt
That's okay, too bad even
It's just that I'm worried
I grow up as does my love

It's by the grace of the wind
that I love to wander around
Me, I'm like the wind
I embrace a whole army
of dreams and blue flowers
I dive into them
I know that which I know
although I cry all the time
So I say

wait!
They tell me that the wind has turned
It's not true
If you don't mind
wait,
before saying of adolescence, that it's,
that which we don't yet know, because
I have found my love
It's a breeze, it's a soft wind of love
It is gentle, it is Alizé
Me, I say that love
will drink without end
What she wants, Alizee always has it

Like the wind
sweeps the evil from the heart
in a hurricane
whirling a thousand miles an hour
I'm no doubt like it
It's okay, I am
at the gates of my life
I'm growing up, so is my love

it is with the four winds
that I like to live
Me, I'm like the wind
I carry all my secrets
In a garden of Eden
Lying in it
I know this hymm
will last a long time
So I say
wait!

[Bamagirl]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

I could go into a really long explanation of how I came up with this, which I'll do if anyone asks that of me, but this is a song by MF. Trying to figure out what she meant is a difficult thing I'm sure even for people who speak French.

But I think I came up with a version that flows as well as it can, at least as well as anything out there. No doubt I had to make some compromises but I'm pleased with the result

Very nicely done, Scruffydog! My French is very limited. But I can tell this is a very good translation. Thank you for posting this.

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Bamagirl

Very nicely done, Scruffydog! My French is very limited. But I can tell this is a very good translation. Thank you for posting this.

Thanks! It's not an easy job and I'm sure it could be improved on but I think this imo flows better than anything I've seen so far.

[joebanana]

Here it is with your subtitles

http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...876#post268876

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by joebanana

Here it is with your subtitles

http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...876#post268876

Great job joebanana!