French Musique

I am becoming more and more frustrated day in and day out on the hunt for decent french music. Even when I think I have found some, the chanteuse begins to sing – in English. It is driving me crazy. Am I not looking hard enough? Or does French music not float my boat? The horror of Eurotrash lingers largely around me – music on the radio everywhere is often painful; but at least in Ireland and the UK among the chart mundanity the DJs will throw on some old school hits and nostalgic classics. Here it is nothing but thump thump thump, with a woman/man singing/shouting about how he/she can’t wait to dance on s-s-Saturday night. I sound like a terrible old fogey here but I can’t help it. With a deep passion for music comes deep distaste for having to listen to passionless music at all times in the car. I am highly unimpressed with the French music scene. As is Yann Tiersen, and he must be right.

I do not believe that there isn’t better out there. I must look further. I shall perhaps devote the rest of my life searching for decent French MODERN music. Emphasis on the modern – while I love old-school French especially Françoise Hardy et Jacques Brel, I am still twenty two years of age and I can’t continuously listen to music from the sixties. But the sad fact remains that the music industry is dominated by first and foremost the United States, with a long and proud history existing in the United Kingdom (I continously mistype the United Kingdom so that it is the “Untied Kingdom” making it the great kingdom that forgot to tie it’s shoelaces). Ergo modern French artists if they wish to truly succeed must speak English.