A lot of young people today IN RUSSIA associate French music with smth doleful and cheerless. you are won't often hear radical new or interesting music when you tune in to French radio.

French pop

A lot of young people today IN RUSSIA associate French music with smth doleful and cheerless. you are won't often hear radical new or interesting music when you tune in to French radio.

There seems to be a trend to favour 'establishment' figures in French pop music rather than to encourage new music - hence the same singers are around now as 10 years ago, frequently singing songs that sound remarkably similar to those from a decade ago.. and there are a few little diamonds hidden away....I am here to break the illusion that French music is old, sad or suchlike.

French pop music is the pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Belgium, Quebec, or any of the other francophone areas of the world. The best French pop usually has an elegant, refined sound, but without coming off as distant or unemotional; in fact, the dominant feeling of each song -- romantic longing, nostalgia, sentimentality, eroticism, etc. The target audience is the francophone market (primarily France), which is considerably smaller and largely independent from the mainstream anglophone market.

French pop grew primarily out of the cabarets and music halls of turn-of-the-century Paris, and has of course shifted and evolved with new popular trends over the years. turn of the century - the period from about 1890 to 1910Performers like Maurice Chevalier and the much-beloved Edith Piaf got their start in this format, becoming wildly popular in their home country and achieving recognition across national borders as well. In the mid-'50s, Belgian-born singer/songwriter Jacques Brel brought a new literacy, wit, and social consciousness to French pop, and became a national legend for his edgy takes on post-WWII society; translated versions of his songs occasionally found their way into the hands of English-speaking pop and rock artists (from Scott Walker to Frank Sinatra) as well.

Although French pop continued to be dominated by the cabaret tradition, the sound of American and British pop/rock began to creep in during the '60s. Actress and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot /ˈbrɪdʒɨt bɑrˈdoʊ/launched her singing career in this fashion with the help of songwriter Serge Gainsbourg; as a performer, Gainsbourg quickly became a European superstar in his own right, thanks to the simmering eroticism of his arrangements and rhythm tracks, not to mention the outrageous provocations of his lyrics and album concepts

Rock & roll and club-oriented dance music eventually eroded French pop's hegemony both in France and in other parts of Europe, but classic performers who have managed to stick around can still command sizable audiences.

There is plenty of music in the French charts that is more or less a pale imitation of the music that is popular all around the world (usually originating in the US) but there are also some examples of great songwriting - this is the main strength in French music, and often missing in the music from other countries.

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ё нетипичный голос напоминает Фреэль и Пиаф^[1]. Среди своих музыкальных влияний она упоминает «Времена года» Вивальди,джазовую певицу Эллу Фицджеральд, французскую песню, Энрико Масиаса, Бобби Макферрина, Ришара Бона́, латинские, африканские и кубинские ритмы.

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