He; snot a french singer. He's a Belgium singer. And for me this is the most beautiful love song ever .
@estranhokonsta2 жыл бұрын
This song is really great and one of my favorites, but most people misunderstand the aim of Jacque Brel in writing it. He wanted to show how much what is many times represented as love could put a man down in his knees and deprive him of his dignity. That is why the poetry is so wonderful (the idealization of love) but at the same time the words are so painful (obsession, sickness). Many people think of this as a love song. But this is about self illusion. If you hear his other songs, it is easy to see that he doesn't idealize the human condition or any social norms.
@kelzangjinpa9622 жыл бұрын
He just wanted to get his wife back because she left him after knowing he had a mistress, another french singer.
@veroniqueangely3245 Жыл бұрын
@@kelzangjinpa962 Cette chanson était pour sa maîtresse et non sa femme..
@kelzangjinpa962 Жыл бұрын
@@veroniqueangely3245 vous êtes complètement à côté de la plaque, il a écrit cette chanson à sa femme et non à sa maîtresse.
@jasonsmith41142 жыл бұрын
It's great that you took time to analyze the lyrics, because it's the real art of the Chanson française (and the french litterature likewise), the handling of the words, the alliance of substance and form. This song is less about love and more about men cowardice when in a relationship. It's about the tragic and pathetic beauty of simping.
@musashimiyamoto5863 ай бұрын
Please. To use an ugly term of this troublesome modern age to describe what Brel was trying to say borders on the blasphemous.
@poolhallshark2 жыл бұрын
Great reaction! This happens to be one of my favorite songs :-) Love from Norway :-)
@musashimiyamoto5863 ай бұрын
Sometimes one shouldn't overthink such an anlysis. French song-writing is dramatic? Maybe, but his words are breathtaking. And that is what they need to be seen as. Pure poetry.
@kalliopesensei30232 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Franck! Thank you for requesting Jacques Brel: it’s been quite a while since the last time I heard that song. It reminds me of my childhood with my French grandmother. By the way Fil, Jacques Brel is Belgian. ☺️
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@Tica..772 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Frank 🎶💕 Woah, could hear the pain. THX’s FIL love the variety & (broken record, lol) your insights ❤️🥒
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Thanks 💕
@isaisa60742 жыл бұрын
Esto no es sólo una canción de amor... Está considerada, el mejor poema de amor... del mundo Saludos desde Gran Canaria,🙆
@vincentmb2382 жыл бұрын
There is an entire univers to discover, with Jacques Brel. Listen to all the songs of him that you can. All of them. But with the English translations: the text is always, always important with him. BTW, he was Belgian.
@eveline58582 жыл бұрын
Thank you Fil Very nice song and nice analysis. I take this opportunity to wish a happy birthday to Frank 🍾🎈🍰 And happy Easter holidays for all your little family🐤
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@Maple8372 жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Frank 🎂🎉
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Kimmy.
@happyspleenful Жыл бұрын
thank you . thank you for paying the much needed attention to the lyrics. soo important in music even more so in french music. and for the "law" you are referring to it is called "un crime de passion"
@wendyraymond17512 жыл бұрын
Happy birthday beautiful special Frank hope you have a beautiful day full of fun an.laughter ..sounds beautiful yet heartfelt ...amazing breakdown .thanks special Fil much love and God bless always x
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Sweetie. x
@carltonbrooks2570 Жыл бұрын
Faouzia just did a cover of this song. It's awesome!!!!
@elkenopens96562 жыл бұрын
Appreciate your reaction, but Jacques Brel is not French, he is Belgian. Important difference!
@nimocash35352 жыл бұрын
This is a song for a big love a LOVE that few people have the chance to know in their live. And at that time, people say that lyrics were too much because no man would be ready to become the shadow of her dog by love. And it's kinda shocking to see a man crawl like that for a woman. But it's there a love where a man lost all his dignity.
@davgg962111 ай бұрын
It's about the cowardice of man. It's about how low one man could go for his love. But by the words of Brel himself, this is not a lovesong. It's a song about a broken man.
@onka332 жыл бұрын
Perfect choice 👌💕
@jeanphilipperondeau1070 Жыл бұрын
Jacques Brel' s face is just cinéma.
@El_Ezra_Meitar5 Жыл бұрын
Faouzia just made an incredible cover to this song. You'd love it. Glad
@LetsChillPage2 жыл бұрын
*The Fable Sphere* Hello, 🤔😌😊😅😂🤣Yes, I'm french, and I even didn't know "Passion's Crime" (crime passionnel) was specific to my country! Hahaha, You've made me so much laugh. It was very refreshing and cool. Thank you! Did you know the great *Édith Piaf* said about this song: *"A real man should never speak like that!"* 😅 It was a time in France when we thought men should always drive themselves as brave and not as beggars. But it was another time ... 😊 It's a song most often taken at face value by the people who listen to it. But Jacques Brel wrote this song with teenagers in mind who often write very stereotypical and definitive sentences about love and politics. He also wanted to express the cowardice and immaturity that men sometimes show when they're directly confronted with their actions' results or with a separation in their relationship, which they aren't the instigators. For the little story, you should know that this song was addressed to his new companion. Jacques Brel had just separated without too much management from his wife to settle down with the news. But since he was a bit superstitious and, above all, couldn't help believing in a particular form of "divine justice" or rather even "fatality," he was afraid his new companion would leave him in the same way he rejected his ex-wife. 😉 I have a playlist of French songs translated into English (available in the subtitles in the settings of the videos) in my channel; maybe some titles could interest you. Under the same pseudo, I also propose translation on the "Lyrics Translate" website (Letchillpage). Have a nice day.
@musashimiyamoto5863 ай бұрын
No he does not want to watch her dance and sing in the shadow, he wants to become the shadow of her shadow to be ever close to her.
@madodomi585048 минут бұрын
"Let me become the shadow of your shadow, the shadow of your hand, the shadow of your dog but... ne me quitte pas...."
@debycornejo82082 жыл бұрын
Desgarrador. Emocional.
@K786442 жыл бұрын
what?? as a lawyer I've never heard of it lol, and by the way he's not from here, he's belgian!
@@thefablesphere : There's a Wikipedia entry just to say it's an expression (an idiom) (which btw tends to disappear because it mispresents violence towards women) but it doesn't exist in the French Penal Code.
@galina65592 жыл бұрын
Thank you 👍🇷🇺❤️
@analauracribeiro997410 ай бұрын
Lindíssimo; simplesmente
@lasourisapprivoisee Жыл бұрын
Merci
@eyesnapples6167 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful reaction ! This song was at first a farewell letter Brel wrote to his lover
@PatrickDeReyck Жыл бұрын
He means that no-one should sink so pathetically low as he sings about here.
@marcvandenbroecke3313 ай бұрын
Brel was a belgian singing in french but he also spoke flemish and has a few songs in flemish (= belgian dutch)
@StormWolf012 ай бұрын
As a Belgian man, and given the fact the there's often feuds between belgians and french, i have to say that Brel is Belgian, not french. Belgian people don't have much. Don't take away whatever we have.
@Russ_Keith2 жыл бұрын
After hearing this I quite fancy this girl myself. She'd also have to be able to cook for me to go as far as a crime passionelle, though. Happy 5000th, Frank. I'm right up there with you except I look like a silver birch. Age is so harsh on the skin.
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
Haha, thank you.
@Russ_Keith2 жыл бұрын
@@FrankWarnerWords Sincerely meant. Now C'mon, let's go for 10k
@FrankWarnerWords2 жыл бұрын
@@Russ_Keith 😂damn right.
@timithius Жыл бұрын
Have you seen Faouzia's cover of this song?
@BlueDusk953 ай бұрын
Brel was Belgian, not French. If you speak Afrikaans you may want to listen to his album in Dutch (a collection of his most popular songs translated by Dutch poet Ernst Van Altena). For example "Ne me quitte pas" is "Laat me niet alleen".
@Luck-or5ci Жыл бұрын
The thing about passionate crime is real but it is just a name man. If you comite a passionate crime you'll go in prison no doubt
@lealacey28952 жыл бұрын
The "crime passionnel" (litteraly crime of passion) has no definition in regards of France's law system. It simply doesn't exist as a juridical term, someone who killed their partner or ex lover because of their passion for them will be judged for first degree murder in France, it can be seen as a mitigating circumstance depending of the context, but it isn't a crime considered less serious as first murder.
@samatappasov32482 жыл бұрын
Hi Fil!Please reaction concert Dimash-Praga
@kentovewagenes11412 жыл бұрын
Oh... Great song.... ❤️ After this you have to do Angelinas version If you go away... please ❤️ So emotional version ❤️
@vincentmb2382 жыл бұрын
What ?
@kimmykimko11 ай бұрын
No
@kimmykimko11 ай бұрын
8k views, only 200 likes... Maybe there is a reason??
@sebastienichtertz88792 жыл бұрын
WHY do you believe we don t understand???
@jonathankoskas9975Ай бұрын
Unfortunately, thecaptions don't do justice to the poetry, the choose of the words. BTW, Jacques Brel has inspired many French artists but also artists around the world and you can check the English version that was made from that song (sung by Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, D. Bowie...), which, eventhough the lyrics are not litteral, gives a good feeling of its true meaning > kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqiqhqSua9uhnbs
@robertjaget5742 Жыл бұрын
Comment peut on aprecier une chanson en coupant a chaque instant nul
@erwinvana40708 ай бұрын
J’adore regarder des vidéos de réactions sur les musiques françaises mais là c’est abusé Tu mets pause tout les 5 secondes
@patrickdereyck70612 жыл бұрын
It's just about the stupidity of loss of self-control.