Just watched a few of your criminally under-viewed Stromae reactions, I'm glad I came across your channel! Stromae's lyrics are very deep, as you say, and laced with double meanings and wordplay, which makes them very difficult to translate -- plus I don't think the captions do the best possible job of that. As an example, the chorus is: "Et c'est comme ça qu'on s'aime (s'aime, s'aime) Comme ça consomme (somme, somme)" The second sentence in the CC is "and that's how we buy (buy, buy)", but that's a strange and confusing translation. It's obviously a play on the similarity in sound between "qu'on s'aime" (that we love), and "consomme" (consume). The word "consomme" can be taken to mean "buy", but as with the English word "consume", that's not really what it means, and the sentence is "how *it* consumes". It makes more sense to see the "it" here to mean twitter/social media, and that it consumes us, our minds, etc. That's just a single line in one single song, and pretty much every other line of Stromae's writing has something like this going on lol.
@COUNTYGAINS2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU SO MUCH LOVE THIS COMMENT!!
@irishughes5461 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely and the “Somme” is also a word for sleep. So a commentary on how social media makes us unaware or stop thinking critically. Like a zombie. I love this song it is crazy especially when you speak French.
@BriannaDutchStoner10 ай бұрын
The original beat is carmen habanera btw
@seanen4980 Жыл бұрын
Stromae is not french , he s belgian ...you re talking english ,man but that doesn t make you british or american ...same for other nations languages and people
@kevinbamwesa311810 ай бұрын
Bro`s mad 💀
@bl233310 ай бұрын
C’est chiant hein😢
@Nathervin9 ай бұрын
Half Belgian half Rwandan, his father is Rwandan
@bessonnet6 ай бұрын
Orelsan (5:23), great French rapper helped his friend Stromae for the clip scenario. He has great writing skills
@bjulie-xi9nr8 ай бұрын
Tu as eu la traduction? L air derrière c est l.opera 'carmen'