I’m English but I understand French enough to appreciate just how beautifully crafted a poem this is, set to an achingly haunting melody and performed in the most passionate way. Jacques Brel is just phenomenal and unique.
@@thebootyflewaway9829 A l'évidence ! Concernant le Grand Jacques, on peut parler de "vivre" totalement les textes au point de nous faire oublier qu'il s'agisse d'une narration chantée. Il y a beaucoup de grands interprètes, mais la capacité à théâtraliser à ce point un texte est unique .
I'm French but his is the best Belgian love song ever written... kidding the best love song ever written in French...It transcends language the emotion is so RAW..
I think this is one if the most beautiul songs ever written. The lyrics are so poetic. They had Rod McCuen translate his lyrics to English, but they always fell short. The other song most known to Americans is Seasons in the Sun. The French title is something like Le Moreband. Again the French is much better.
I loved your vibe on this one. And, believe me or not, this poem is about a lady he knew and spent some time with, but couldn't any longer, because he refused to leave his wife and children.
@@musashimiyamoto586 Your are so true about this, some of his songs have Brussels and Belgium as the background of the song, and it really is impossible to translate as it is so rooted to his own cultural background. Still ne me quitte pas is sooo universal at the same time. Anyway thank you @vibe with judeo for this reminder
For me this is one of the most beautiful love songs ever. Jacques Brel finally left France (in fact he was Belgian) and took his boat to French Polynesia and lived there until his cancer caught up with him. He has a fantastic song book, well worth looking into. Thank for publishing this song.
Jacque Brel song “J’arrive” is truly one of the biggest gut punch. You see he died quite young, he wrote that song when he knew he was dying. He’s imagining his friends, family and lovers at his funeral, chrysanthemum is the traditional flower at a funeral. A big recommend
Faux, il n'était pas encore malade : Jacques Brel est mort le 9 octobre 1978. Son cancer avait été diagnostiqué le 5 novembre 1974. Brel et son cancer ont vécu quatre années ensemble. Deux dates ont marqué l'évolution de la maladie dans son corps.
Thx, French songs very often have a depth, an intensity, a universal truth that is not found elsewhere. There is really something special and at the same time common, still universal in the culture of France/Belgium
@@johndelmotte1760, la culture musicale est dans l'esprit quand même un peu de ce que l'on désigne communément par de la chanson française, bien qu'il a amené sa particularité, ce qu'il est.
yes I understand , but some frustration against French poeples , they call French Artist almost all of our Belgium Artist , but In same time they look Belgium poeples like a hick.
Ce sont uniquement vos impressions , je ne vous connais pas , vous ne me connaissez pas ,, sans aucun doute vous êtes Français pour prendre de la hauteur comme vous le faire
Aaaah - - - 'Grand Jacques'! I have many favourite songs by Brel, including Mon Enfance, Quand On N'a Que l'Amour, Marieke, La Chanson de Jacky, Mathilde, Au Suivant, Les Vieux, Le Plat Pays, Amsterdam, La Chanson des Vieux Amants, Jef, La Valse a Mille Temps, Madeleine, Le Tango Funebre, and J'Arrive. (My apologies to French speakers that I have omitted the accents; I don't know how to include them with my keyboard.)
Jacques Brel "Ne me quitte pas" is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. one of the most beautiful love songs ever written
Fun fact, a few years later in an interview, he said women like to see this as a love song but for him it was an hymn at men how much men can be cowards and pathetic. Btw his wife left him around the same time. So i guess he supplied her and told her "ne me quitte pas" but she still left... So was he bitter and wrote this song or did he wrote this song as a love song and years later became bitter ? Nobody knows
This is arguably the most beautiful video of the most heart wrenching song of my native Belgium's number one musical monument, Jacques Brel (pronounced Jacq, by the way without 's'). I've watched it countless times ( and will many more) and always get a lump in my throat and now, having been away from my lovely country for many years, a massive tsunami of homesickness every single time. Thanks for this and your kind words. Deeply appreciated. By the way, you might want to check out songs like 'Ces Gens-lá (Those People) and 'Mon Plat Pays' (My flat Country,) of which he also has a version in my native Flemish (Mijn Vlakke Land). I consider it to be one of the most beautiful homages to my native Flanders, the northern, Flemish speaking half of Belgium. Have a nice day
Yhea Brel such a legend never seen him he was already dead when i was born but as a french guyz born in the 90 Brel IS one of my 1st artist i really listen and i will Always Love listen his voice with all is Heart in
Yeah, the greatest strength of Jacques Brel is his ability to give so much emotions to his songs. And that’s why it’s better watching his live performances. Now try to watch « Amsterdam, ces gens-là, au suivant, la valse à mille temps (my personal favorite), quand on a que l’amour, le plat pays ( or « de vlakke land » he sang it in Dutch too).
Uno de mis cantantes favoritos y en especial esta canción terrible y emocionante... un tema universal y eterno. Amo esta canción. One of my favourites singers and one of the best songs ever, such a emotional and strong song... eternal and universal love. Gracias por esta reacción
@wantstofly Well like many of us, I thought initially that these lyrics were inspired by a romantic breakup. Yet a while back, I had heard on the French radio waves a recorded interview of Brel denying that version and explaining that the song was written for a good female friend of his who was dying. Fast forward to a few days ago, I found an article in the French press saying that in fact that the song was for 'Miche' his wife. The article was published in Gala on October 25, 2018, title: 'Jacques Brel a bien chanté "Ne me quitte pas" pour son épouse et non pour sa maîtresse'. When Brel left his boring managerial job at his dad's cardboard factory to find fame as a singer in Paris, he also left his wife (Thérèse Michielsen, 'Miche') and his two (or three?) daughters behind. Brel was a sensitive and tormented man so I would not be surprised that these lyrics were written out of guilt and remorse after all. Could have he twisted the plot to get his pain out..? We will never know. Ita missa est -
It’s a true life story. He wrote it for his mistress who wanted to leave him. The man was already married with 3 kids and didn’t want to divorce the mother of his children. This is him begging for the woman he truly loves.
He wrote this great song to his girl friend who gone away.. WHAT A WONDERFUL HOMMAGE 😢🥺😭😭😭😭😭TO THIS WOMAN.. Not simply a singer...BUT A ...POÈTE 😮😢❤ Do not leave me.i ll offer to you tears of rains from a country where it never rains. We often see fire from a 🌋 that we though it was die.
Very vulnerable. To us Belgians, he was a great one. Gone too soon. Excellent reaction. Translations are never perfect, but his face is the best translation here. ❤
We have so much powerful singers in our little country : Jacques Brel, the greatest, Stromae, the most known and my little favorite Loic Nottet (His song Mr/Mme is incredibly touching and deep...)
Wrtiting from Paris. Nina Simone made a cover of this song. Very beautiful too. I don't know which one I prefer. God bless them two and I hope they meet each other in Heaven
Very wise introduction song to Jacques Brel man... i am jealous you still have So Much to discover from this Major Artist and French repertoire in general. This song and the unique interpretation is giving me goosebump every time as well... it is not a bad thing at all :-)
He didn't write this song for a female lover (as one could think from the lyrics) but for a female friend who was dying of cancer. This is a love song but the other kind of love.
not true, according to wikipedia it was written for his lover Suzanne Gabriello who left him because Brel didn't wanted to leave his wife for her (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_me_quitte_pas#cite_note-Robine-1)
@@jennequinjean-francois2610 Brel became best known in the United States, however, through the 1968 Off-Broadway revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which was revived on Broadway in 1972 and filmed in 1975, featuring translations by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman. As I heard it, he was very popular in the US but he was infuriated by the US Government War policy in Viet Nam and left out country never to return. Gorgeous, important man. :)
Brel, Stromae, same country (belgium) same singularity, we have one like them at eatch generation, In belgium we dont have quantity but we have the quality (like our beer )😉
Jacques Brel avait dis que c'était une chanson liée sur l'absence comme la séparation yles décès ect..donc a ne pas enfermer dans un contexte d'un rapport entre un homme qui rappelle à l'ordre la femme qu'il la quitter
I remind an American artist called Scott Walker who tried to adapt his songs to English. No link with the politician, actually, he was a member of the Walker Brothers band. He died a few years ago. You should check for "Mathilde" or "Jackie" songs from Scott Walker (originally made and sung by Jacques Brel).
Garou "L'Adieu" Live Bercy" is very good and because Im from Québec you should watch Dédé Fortin "le répondeur" The UA-cam title is: "Les colocs le dernier show". The singer André Fortin killed himself ( suicide )not long after that performance
C'est vrai , c'est une langue qui va beaucoup plus loin que n'importe quelle autre , la langue Française est riche en émotion , c'est la langue de l'amour !
for knowledge purpose in french most of the time e at the end of a word is most of the time said as a short "eu" and when there is an S in the end of a word it's mostly not said it's most of the time the sign of plural but there is too some word that have it naturaly like the "pas" that mean "not" in many case more or less for the title ( language can't be translated literaly) ne= don't/ me=me/ quitte= leave/ pas= not! it's mostly a word by word translation like i said no language can be translated literaly after the way it's said have too a meaning the meaning of his in this song is "please" so it's "don't leave me." said to be understood "please don't leave me."
Vu son caractère passionné et entier, je ne serais pas étonné qu'il ait répondu ça à des journalistes qui le harrassaient avec toujours les mêmes questions. Mais qui sait ?
Love how sensitively you react to this classic song from 1959. In French the name Jaques, or Jack, is not pronounced Jax because the "s" is silent, yeah, crazy French grammar. By the way, I invite you to listen to Wyclef Jean's rendition of this song, at ua-cam.com/video/7HHBFkdHyRU/v-deo.html, who, being a French speaker from Haiti, can understand the lyrics and the depth of this Belgian song, and gives it his own intensity, throwing in a bit of English here and there!
He didnt want to sing this song first because he thought that it was a shame to tell all that stuff to a woman that it was "dégradant" in french for a man to Say all that stuff , and finally it was one of his greatest success , for me not the best far from that but , one of the most known ( sorry for my english lol long Time didnt practice it 😅)
Great reaction, as usual.....Rod McKuen, the American poet, translated the French lyrics, which became If You Go Away, into English. The song has been covered countless times, everyone from Sinatra to Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, etc. This is Angelina's rendition: ua-cam.com/video/sDUgxwR4RZI/v-deo.html
It's one of the greatest songs on emotional abuse and psychological domestic violence. This man (but it could be a woman) has been emotionally enslaved and now the abuser is blackmailing him or her. Nina Simone did a wonderful cover of this song from a female point of view.
This is not a love song, but a prayer in out most despair. Brel did not like to sing it, I think you can see why. Brel was not good in love songs, they always ended wrong. But he was indeed very talented as he wrote and composed all his many songs.
Hi .Nina simone sang this song . In reality he wrote the words of this song for show how a man is ridiculous when he s in love 😏 You should listen and see more of brel. A real killer. He stop the music cos he was dead every time he sang. Too tired.
Great singer, great actor, a legend ! Not my favorite song, i prefer "Jaurès", "Bruxelles", "Orly", "Amsterdam", "Ces gens-là", "Mathilde", "Les remparts de Varsovie", "Les bonbons", etc.
I can’t listen to this ! I know French . It makes me cry and think of my mother who taught me the beautiful French language . Though I speak 5 languages I just can’t listen to this song !!!!!
Brel was a rebel 'avant la lettre'. He was a great performer but didn't liked that image of him. Performing and being succesfull, actualy killed him along with his cancer... A very strange and pretty sad story...
I think Nina had the same vibe and intensity in her songs, I recommend her performance @ Montreux Jazz Festival ua-cam.com/video/Mf_5l1yTKNY/v-deo.html
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It s realy emotional to see someone who don't speak French but be touch with the song of Jacques Brel.....thank you so much
I’m English but I understand French enough to appreciate just how beautifully crafted a poem this is, set to an achingly haunting melody and performed in the most passionate way. Jacques Brel is just phenomenal and unique.
L'un des plus grands interprètes de tous les temps, si ce n'est le plus grand !!!
Dans la même veine il y a Léo Ferret avec la chanson "avec le temps" 😊
@@antinea45 Et aussi Que reste t'il de nos amours de Charles Trenet 😊
in france they are much of great song with nice text ==>j brel ,g brassens ,barbara , j ferrat , c aznavour , b vian etc..
"Interprète" n'est-il pas réducteur?
@@thebootyflewaway9829 A l'évidence ! Concernant le Grand Jacques, on peut parler de "vivre" totalement les textes au point de nous faire oublier qu'il s'agisse d'une narration chantée. Il y a beaucoup de grands interprètes, mais la capacité à théâtraliser à ce point un texte est unique .
he was already dying of cancer during this. the greatest song ever written.
Eautiful songs usual brought some tears.les vieux amants is also as emotional
No he s dead of his cancer later
N'importe quoi...
I'm French but his is the best Belgian love song ever written... kidding the best love song ever written in French...It transcends language the emotion is so RAW..
This was the guy who said. Talent does not exist. It’s just hard work.
I think this is one if the most beautiul songs ever written. The lyrics are so poetic. They had Rod McCuen translate his lyrics to English, but they always fell short. The other song most known to Americans is Seasons in the Sun. The French title is something like Le Moreband. Again the French is much better.
et le spectacle de mort Schuman Brel live in paris ç bien en anglais avec l aide de Brel
I loved your vibe on this one. And, believe me or not, this poem is about a lady he knew and spent some time with, but couldn't any longer, because he refused to leave his wife and children.
@@musashimiyamoto586 Your are so true about this, some of his songs have Brussels and Belgium as the background of the song, and it really is impossible to translate as it is so rooted to his own cultural background. Still ne me quitte pas is sooo universal at the same time. Anyway thank you @vibe with judeo for this reminder
For me this is one of the most beautiful love songs ever. Jacques Brel finally left France (in fact he was Belgian) and took his boat to French Polynesia and lived there until his cancer caught up with him. He has a fantastic song book, well worth looking into. Thank for publishing this song.
But it's not really a love song
one the the greatest song ever written by one of the greatest singer ever ...
The best song in french ever written. Anthologic.
Check out "Alertez les bébés" (Jacques Higelin), close call ;)
Jacque Brel song “J’arrive” is truly one of the biggest gut punch. You see he died quite young, he wrote that song when he knew he was dying.
He’s imagining his friends, family and lovers at his funeral, chrysanthemum is the traditional flower at a funeral.
A big recommend
Faux, il n'était pas encore malade : Jacques Brel est mort le 9 octobre 1978. Son cancer avait été diagnostiqué le 5 novembre 1974. Brel et son cancer ont vécu quatre années ensemble. Deux dates ont marqué l'évolution de la maladie dans son corps.
Thx, French songs very often have a depth, an intensity, a universal truth that is not found elsewhere. There is really something special and at the same time common, still universal in the culture of France/Belgium
Belgium only, this is our Belgitude not Franchitude
@@johndelmotte1760, la culture musicale est dans l'esprit quand même un peu de ce que l'on désigne communément par de la chanson française, bien qu'il a amené sa particularité, ce qu'il est.
yes I understand , but some frustration against French poeples , they call French Artist almost all of our Belgium Artist , but In same time they look Belgium poeples like a hick.
@@johndelmotte1760, You talk about frustration, you seem to know a lot about it, right? 😉
Ce sont uniquement vos impressions , je ne vous connais pas , vous ne me connaissez pas ,, sans aucun doute vous êtes Français pour prendre de la hauteur comme vous le faire
Wicked. Thank you for playing Jacques Brel. My God he could sing.
Jacques Brel is the Best of the Best of french speaker singer and poet!
Un chanteur tellement puissant des textes à en perdre la tête 🥰
Thiss song is a real thing! 🥺😭
I love his poetic style, that is my favorite song from him.
Aaaah - - - 'Grand Jacques'!
I have many favourite songs by Brel, including Mon Enfance, Quand On N'a Que l'Amour, Marieke, La Chanson de Jacky, Mathilde, Au Suivant, Les Vieux, Le Plat Pays, Amsterdam, La Chanson des Vieux Amants, Jef, La Valse a Mille Temps, Madeleine, Le Tango Funebre, and J'Arrive.
(My apologies to French speakers that I have omitted the accents; I don't know how to include them with my keyboard.)
this is one of the most beautiful lovesongs ever
Jacques Brel "Ne me quitte pas" is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.
one of the most beautiful love songs ever written
Fun fact, a few years later in an interview, he said women like to see this as a love song but for him it was an hymn at men how much men can be cowards and pathetic. Btw his wife left him around the same time. So i guess he supplied her and told her "ne me quitte pas" but she still left... So was he bitter and wrote this song or did he wrote this song as a love song and years later became bitter ? Nobody knows
This is arguably the most beautiful video of the most heart wrenching song of my native Belgium's number one musical monument, Jacques Brel (pronounced Jacq, by the way without 's'). I've watched it countless times ( and will many more) and always get a lump in my throat and now, having been away from my lovely country for many years, a massive tsunami of homesickness every single time. Thanks for this and your kind words. Deeply appreciated. By the way, you might want to check out songs like 'Ces Gens-lá (Those People) and 'Mon Plat Pays' (My flat Country,) of which he also has a version in my native Flemish (Mijn Vlakke Land). I consider it to be one of the most beautiful homages to my native Flanders, the northern, Flemish speaking half of Belgium. Have a nice day
Jacques Brel, trust me, the best of live artists try to emulate him - back in the 70s, none could, this was him at his most calm - great vid !
Yhea Brel such a legend never seen him he was already dead when i was born but as a french guyz born in the 90 Brel IS one of my 1st artist i really listen and i will Always Love listen his voice with all is Heart in
And don't forget"La chanson des vieux amants".
Yeah, the greatest strength of Jacques Brel is his ability to give so much emotions to his songs. And that’s why it’s better watching his live performances. Now try to watch « Amsterdam, ces gens-là, au suivant, la valse à mille temps (my personal favorite), quand on a que l’amour, le plat pays ( or « de vlakke land » he sang it in Dutch too).
et “Jef”
Belgium have Royalty too! 👑
Uno de mis cantantes favoritos y en especial esta canción terrible y emocionante... un tema universal y eterno. Amo esta canción. One of my favourites singers and one of the best songs ever, such a emotional and strong song... eternal and universal love. Gracias por esta reacción
We studied his songs at school.
@wantstofly Well like many of us, I thought initially that these lyrics were inspired by a romantic breakup. Yet a while back, I had heard on the French radio waves a recorded interview of Brel denying that version and explaining that the song was written for a good female friend of his who was dying. Fast forward to a few days ago, I found an article in the French press saying that in fact that the song was for 'Miche' his wife. The article was published in Gala on October 25, 2018, title: 'Jacques Brel a bien chanté "Ne me quitte pas" pour son épouse et non pour sa maîtresse'.
When Brel left his boring managerial job at his dad's cardboard factory to find fame as a singer in Paris, he also left his wife (Thérèse Michielsen, 'Miche') and his two (or three?) daughters behind. Brel was a sensitive and tormented man so I would not be surprised that these lyrics were written out of guilt and remorse after all. Could have he twisted the plot to get his pain out..? We will never know.
Ita missa est -
It’s a true life story. He wrote it for his mistress who wanted to leave him. The man was already married with 3 kids and didn’t want to divorce the mother of his children. This is him begging for the woman he truly loves.
thank you for this pearl, the high performance of your reaction and your beautiful analysis !
Such a beautiful song of love and loss😪😪😪 he is singing from his soul❤❤
He wrote this great song to his girl friend who gone away..
WHAT A WONDERFUL HOMMAGE 😢🥺😭😭😭😭😭TO THIS WOMAN..
Not simply a singer...BUT A ...POÈTE 😮😢❤
Do not leave me.i ll offer to you tears of rains from a country where it never rains. We often see fire from a 🌋 that we though it was die.
His mistress who got fed up of his unwillingness to divorce his wife is more accurate
Very vulnerable. To us Belgians, he was a great one. Gone too soon. Excellent reaction. Translations are never perfect, but his face is the best translation here. ❤
le grand jacques...each time i hear that...i cry
We was an actor too !!! don't forget it !
I love your reaction it's an utterly beautiful song and he is the best performer in the world in my view
Thank you for your beautiful reaction
Juste magnifique.
Yes my friend, beautiful. Love in one song, forever.
We have so much powerful singers in our little country : Jacques Brel, the greatest, Stromae, the most known and my little favorite Loic Nottet (His song Mr/Mme is incredibly touching and deep...)
Tu as aussi Annie Cordy..
Thank tout for tour reaction. Very great artist
I love Brel. I’m french canadien.⚜️🇨🇦🥰🥰🥰❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥👏
quel chanson d amour wow
This was a massive hit in English as "If You Go Away" recorded by everyone including Neil Diamond.
Un géant qui m'a si souvent bouleversé, tu es près du seigneur et dans nos cœurs 💕 pour toujours
Wrtiting from Paris. Nina Simone made a cover of this song. Very beautiful too. I don't know which one I prefer. God bless them two and I hope they meet each other in Heaven
Jacques Brel dit le Grand Jacques est belge . Amitiés à vous tous amis anglo-saxons 🇨🇵
Very wise introduction song to Jacques Brel man... i am jealous you still have So Much to discover from this Major Artist and French repertoire in general.
This song and the unique interpretation is giving me goosebump every time as well... it is not a bad thing at all :-)
He didn't write this song for a female lover (as one could think from the lyrics) but for a female friend who was dying of cancer. This is a love song but the other kind of love.
not true, according to wikipedia it was written for his lover Suzanne Gabriello who left him because Brel didn't wanted to leave his wife for her (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_me_quitte_pas#cite_note-Robine-1)
Jaques Brel - beautiful important man - Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris - great album - and HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY today.
Ha ha ha but its belgian singer
@@jennequinjean-francois2610 Brel became best known in the United States, however, through the 1968 Off-Broadway revue Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, which was revived on Broadway in 1972 and filmed in 1975, featuring translations by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman.
As I heard it, he was very popular in the US but he was infuriated by the US Government War policy in Viet Nam and left out country never to return. Gorgeous, important man. :)
@@thebookkeeper8404 wow, wist ik niet (I didn't know) - even better, One step higher in my respect for him.
Coisa mais linda
In fact, this song is about, a man in love, regrets or deseperation, of a women that as already forgeting him...
Brel, Stromae, same country (belgium) same singularity, we have one like them at eatch generation, In belgium we dont have quantity but we have the quality (like our beer )😉
& Jean Toots Thielemans
Jacques Brel avait dis que c'était une chanson liée sur l'absence comme la séparation yles décès ect..donc a ne pas enfermer dans un contexte d'un rapport entre un homme qui rappelle à l'ordre la femme qu'il la quitter
+1 for referencing !
Le grand Jacques Brel !
I remind an American artist called Scott Walker who tried to adapt his songs to English. No link with the politician, actually, he was a member of the Walker Brothers band. He died a few years ago. You should check for "Mathilde" or "Jackie" songs from Scott Walker (originally made and sung by Jacques Brel).
He’s from Belgium like Lara fabian
Everyone has it wrong. It's not a love song. It's an ode to men cowardice
Excellent. I also recommend "Alertez les bébés" (Jaques Higelin) is also amazing
It's a pleasure to see what foreigner think of our french culture, that's not the only side but it's one of the most beautiful part of our country
Brel wrote all his songs, hundreds. He was unique. And his love life was a disaster.
Garou "L'Adieu" Live Bercy" is very good and because Im from Québec you should watch Dédé Fortin "le répondeur" The UA-cam title is: "Les colocs le dernier show". The singer André Fortin killed himself ( suicide )not long after that performance
merci
C'est la beauté du français...that's the beauty of French language 💜💜
C'est vrai , c'est une langue qui va beaucoup plus loin que n'importe quelle autre , la langue Française est riche en émotion , c'est la langue de l'amour !
Jacques Brel wrote this song when Suzanne Gabriello left him.
That's what SHE said. He refuted this.
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for knowledge purpose in french most of the time e at the end of a word is most of the time said as a short "eu" and when there is an S in the end of a word it's mostly not said it's most of the time the sign of plural but there is too some word that have it naturaly like the "pas" that mean "not" in many case more or less for the title ( language can't be translated literaly) ne= don't/ me=me/ quitte= leave/ pas= not! it's mostly a word by word translation like i said no language can be translated literaly after the way it's said have too a meaning the meaning of his in this song is "please" so it's "don't leave me." said to be understood "please don't leave me."
This song is about cowardice, not about love. Brel himself would despise the character he was playing.
Vu son caractère passionné et entier, je ne serais pas étonné qu'il ait répondu ça à des journalistes qui le harrassaient avec toujours les mêmes questions. Mais qui sait ?
the human condition (we are all cowards, and we make mistakes)
If you go awayyyy
Love how sensitively you react to this classic song from 1959. In French the name Jaques, or Jack, is not pronounced Jax because the "s" is silent, yeah, crazy French grammar. By the way, I invite you to listen to Wyclef Jean's rendition of this song, at ua-cam.com/video/7HHBFkdHyRU/v-deo.html, who, being a French speaker from Haiti, can understand the lyrics and the depth of this Belgian song, and gives it his own intensity, throwing in a bit of English here and there!
He didnt want to sing this song first because he thought that it was a shame to tell all that stuff to a woman that it was "dégradant" in french for a man to Say all that stuff , and finally it was one of his greatest success , for me not the best far from that but , one of the most known ( sorry for my english lol long Time didnt practice it 😅)
I've love this song for over 15 years Nina Simone does it beautiful as well ❤️🩹
Listen to "les vieux" with english subtitles, one other masterpiece.
🖤💛❤️
vous devez écouter "Amsterdam "
Brel mistress left him, because He would not leave IS wife ans kids. He was deeply in love and wrote the song after she broke up with him.
I have lived here born in 79 and race or color never was a thingwe where al a gang and friends.
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Great reaction, as usual.....Rod McKuen, the American poet, translated the French lyrics, which became If You Go Away, into English. The song has been covered countless times, everyone from Sinatra to Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield, Barbra Streisand, etc. This is Angelina's rendition: ua-cam.com/video/sDUgxwR4RZI/v-deo.html
Nina Simone.
@@b.k.3782 She sang it in French.
Hi @103mrg, yes but it's a beautiful cover version, too.
Scott Walker sang it in English. In fact, he recorded a whole album of Brel songs in English translation, called Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel.
It's one of the greatest songs on emotional abuse and psychological domestic violence. This man (but it could be a woman) has been emotionally enslaved and now the abuser is blackmailing him or her. Nina Simone did a wonderful cover of this song from a female point of view.
This is not a love song, but a prayer in out most despair. Brel did not like to sing it, I think you can see why. Brel was not good in love songs, they always ended wrong. But he was indeed very talented as he wrote and composed all his many songs.
Hi .Nina simone sang this song .
In reality he wrote the words of this song for show how a man is ridiculous when he s in love 😏
You should listen and see more of brel. A real killer.
He stop the music cos he was dead every time he sang. Too tired.
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Le plus grand...
c'est une histoire vrai il aimait une femme qui la quitté elle s'appelait suzanne gabriolo
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Ray Charles was a huge fan of this song
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Not french il belgium
Great singer, great actor, a legend ! Not my favorite song, i prefer "Jaurès", "Bruxelles", "Orly", "Amsterdam", "Ces gens-là", "Mathilde", "Les remparts de Varsovie", "Les bonbons", etc.
I can’t listen to this ! I know French . It makes me cry and think of my mother who taught me the beautiful French language . Though I speak 5 languages I just can’t listen to this song !!!!!
It meant more if it is the dying Neanderthal and Earth are negotiating his future.
Brel est boulversant dans ses interprétations...
La langue française permet d'écrire des textes poétiques qui transcende la réalité....
Reprise par Nina Simone.
Wanna know an anecdoct guys? Jacques brel always sue so much cause he didnt wanted to sing!!! What a waste for europe imagine....
Jacques Brel is from Belgium…and who else is from Belgium ? The great Lara Fabian !! Now you know where she is comming from !!! Cheers,
Brel was a rebel 'avant la lettre'. He was a great performer but didn't liked that image of him. Performing and being succesfull, actualy killed him along with his cancer... A very strange and pretty sad story...
could have make him bigger
I think Nina had the same vibe and intensity in her songs, I recommend her performance @ Montreux Jazz Festival ua-cam.com/video/Mf_5l1yTKNY/v-deo.html