@@mypassportlife no not really, it’s less of a thing here in France. Of course there are regional songs but the pop in general is very diverse and it’s not because of cities. I can only think of one particular city inspired kind of genre, it’s Marseille’s rap (Marseillais rappers) Marseille is the second biggest city in France if you didn’t know, it’s in the south, it’s very beautiful (love it :3). It can be compared to Chicago and/or Detroit tho lol, the French TV usually compares it to Mexico City but they are exaggerating a bit 💀 but the climate is more like LA 😂
@blamage_fr4302 Thank you for saying this. When I can, I'm wrestling with people who say they visited France when they only went to Paris, and not all other major and minor cities composing our beautiful country.
Mc Solaar is literally a poet. If you want to learn French, read his texts. He uses the French language in all its fullest extent because we have words with lots of different meanings.
Je pense que ce n'est pas très accessible au contraire, il fait énormément de jeux de mots et ça c'est quelque chose que tu finis par acquérir quand tu maîtrises vraiment une langue.
C'est un magicien des mots ! Je me.souviens quand j'étais encore en primaire, entendre "bouge de là" , une claque énorme ! Depuis je l'écoute quand je suis triste, heureuse... ❤❤❤
In France, the lyrics are more important than music, so if you want understand all the subtilities of our culture, clic on traduction for the clips. Mc solaar was one of the first artists (in France) to sing in rap in the years 80's-90's, Gim's and Clara Luciani are artists of the 21 century. Our artists are very diversify because our culture is very diversify.The time of Edith Piaf is dead even if a certain type of artist copy her old style of music like Barbara Pravi (eurovision 2021).
Who are you to prentend that in France the lyrics are more important than the music? You speak for the whole french population? It's just not true. It's just your opinion.
@@Cedric-id9yg , je parles pas trop des artistes à la mode style anakamura ou jules où oui effectivement le niveau a fortement baissé, non moi je parle des artistes d'avant ma génération (années 50) jusqu'aux années 90, après ça part en sucettes.
I looooved MC Solaar in the 90s, yes he's still around. One of the greatest rappers, his lyrics are smart and his play on words is like no one else's. Caroline, this song, is talking about an ex and the guy reminicing about their time together and him having a hard time seeing her with someone else. No swear words, no insults about women, no nudity, just smart rap.
I think you can react to more of Gims , basically he was a rapper of Sexion d’assaut ( a group with 6 others rappers ) and then he started on a solo career with Bella that you’ve heard but he continues to do a lot of hits like sapé comme jamais ft niska ( an other iconic French rapper ) and did 620M views
You should listen: Yame "Bécane", Orelsan "basique" or "l'odeur de l'essence", Kery James "lettre à la république" or "PDM" feat Kalash, I am feat Wu tang, Stromae, Jacques Brel "ne me quitte pas"... And so many more. You can find the clips with english subtitles on youtube 😊
The lyrics of this song Caroline (1991) are very witty. MC Solaar is regularly referring to playing cards' colours. In French, "spade" is "pique", which also means "to sting", so he's basically saying that he is "the ace of spade that is stinging your heart", "l'as de pique qui pique ton cœur". Also the girlfriend's name is Caroline, often shortened as "Caro". But "carreau" (which sounds exactly like Caro) also means "diamonds" for playing cards. The lyrics go "Il faut se tenir à carreau, Caro", a colloquial phrase one could loosely translate as "you must always be careful, Caro"
The scratcher on Mc Solaar's title is Jimmy Jay, who's also his producer. In the mid-80s, he opened for the funk band D. Train and became the French DJ champion at the DMC (Disco Mix Club) Awards in 1989.
On Clara Luciani this translation is not bvery good here the good one : The Grenade Hey you, What you're looking for? You've never seen a fighting woman? Back in The dreary town with me, And I'll reveal to you How I bite, how I bark! Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade. Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade.
Hey you, But what do you think? I'm just an animal, Disguised as madonna. Hey you, I could badly hurt you! I could dourly wound you, yeah, In the shivering night, Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade. Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade.
Hey you, You should stop fairy tales; I'm as voracious, As alive as you are! You know That there, under my chest, A rage is in slumber That you couldn't suspect? Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade. Take heed! Under breast, the grenade, Under breast, there, take look! Under breast, the grenade. Take heed! You're welcome.
Hello, I'm french, if you want a famous singer of france you have "jean jacques Goldman", if you want rap artist you have "Orelsan" or "BigFlo & Oli" and if you want an other artist, randomly, I will say "sliman" or "grand corps malade" maybe (and mostly in international it's "indila")
Mc Solaar is a great song writer !! I teach middle school French here in France and I had my pupils study that song to explore the play on words in poetry. You should try "Solaar pleure", in which he depicts his afterlife battle with evil, it's beautifully epic !
Coming from "Reactions by D" channel, I found this one and first, I read a bit of the description and already "MC Solaar, Clara Luciani, GIMS" are 3 great choices. Then, starting the video, I hear that the person is learning french, so good luck with that.
Yeah, everyone ive spoken too about learning languages all say music is the most effective way to learn how to hear! Sad to say Rap can be one of the hardest because they already use metaphors and things to express something a lot of the times. I defiantly found Clara way easier to follow, and thx the for the clarifications about her song, reading it I wasn't sure what she was referring to by the lyrics alone
Gims was in a rap group before his solo career called « sexion d’assaut » and that’s their songs he was going through in the beginning of the clip you watched
Clara Luciani - La Grenade In this song, she sings about a woman with breast cancer. So the tune/hook is: "Under my breast/a grenade"("ready to explode and kill me" in insinuated)
Please feel stupid that the translation wasn't that good to express the severity of the french lyrics. I understand the mistake here. I'm pretty sure it happened to me translating english/american songs...
While using ChatGPT (which is a great idea), use it till the end to ask it more context into the Artist or its lyrics, like all the play on words in MC Solaar’s music. That might also help you avoid looking like a fool laughing out loud about breast cancer because you use one of the worst translation tool that exist, aka Google translate… It could also guide you into knowing which songs to react to : Gims’ 2010s music VS more recent ones that are very different
You should absolutly listen to orelsan if you are in rap, grand coeur malade if you are in slam and Soprano/ Calogéro if you are in cosmopolitan music, and if you want to listen to the greatest french speaking musician you should listen to stromae
Bonne chance dans l'apprentissage du français There is belgian singer Stromae who has beautiful songs in french but IMO it's kinda advanced he plays with words and meaning a lot. A recommandation Orelsan - Paradis, i think there are even subtitles for it. It's softer than his usual style but i really like it
Here are all the francophone artist I can think of : Angèle (she did a feat with Dua Lipa but maybe listen to Angèle songs on her own), Orelsan, Big Flo & Oli, Téléphone (older but a classic : I recommand « Cendrillon » it’s my fave), Julien Doré, Stromae, Magic System, Black M And if you wanna listen to our "end of a party songs" : « Les démons de minuit » by Images / « Les lacs du Connemara » by Michel Sardou / « Les Sunlights des tropiques » by Gilbert Montagné
MC Solaar basically made french rap mainstream, for the first time everybody could sing along including your grandma, not only the boyz in da hood and ghetto's wannabes...
@ gims made bops back then, he’s not all that anymore, u should defo try listening to soprano he made a lot of successful french song back to few years ago
Pour le coup, Gims a connu une très grosse résurgence en 2024. Il a été n°1 avec 2 chansons différentes tout l'été et a désormais une troisième chanson dans le top 10 du SNEP (le classement officiel). D'ailleurs, l'EP dont ces 3 chansons sont issues a finalement atteint la première place du top album début 2025, sans supports physiques et avec seulement 7 chansons. Donc il y a clairement encore beaucoup de gens qui l'écoutent.
@@mypassportlife Not really. Marseille (France's second biggest city) has its own rap music, which is very popular in Marseille and in France overall. Nowadays, the most popular rappers from Marseille are Jul and SCH, but the OGs are definitely IAM. There used to be a rivalary between them and a parisian group called NTM. The rivalery between Marseille ans Paris is still there, but it's not really about music, it's mostly about football (soccer). Paris doesn't really have its own popular music style. There are obviously rappers in Paris but their music doesn't have a very distinctive sound. And if there were a Parisian music genre, it would either be cabaret or chanson, but neither are them are popular nowadays. And by the way, the one who is the closest to this genres among the three artists you checked out is from Marseille's region, south eastern France (it's Clara Luciani). Gims and MC Solar both grew up in Paris region, even though none of them was born in France. In fact, Chat GPT gave you the names of artist who were about to perform in major parisian venues when you asked for popular artists in Paris but they are not necessarily the most popular parisian artists. Still, it did quite well providing you something etlectic and rather accurate. Clara Luciani does work in Paris and has been one of the best selling female artists in France since her first hit actually became one (the one you've listened to) and Gims is one of the best selling french rappers of all time (I would say he's number one since the actual number one, Jul, releases several albums per year, whereas Gims catalog only counts 5 albums and some other songs). MC Solar is also a good one because he's the founding father of french rap and well, he did grow momentum in the 90s. Now, if you want to check out songs from Parisan rappers who are currently popular, look for Werenoi (best selling album of 2024), PLK (2nd best selling album of 2024), SDM (7th best selling album in 2024) and Tiakola (only rapper nominated for best album at Victoires de la Musique in 2025, aka the french Grammys). Aya Nakamura is undoubtably another artist who grew up in Paris region you should look for if you want to hear what's popular in Paris region (and in France, and abroad). She performed at the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony and her performance is basically the most watched TV footage ever in France.
For MC Solaar he's an old french rapper, like 30 years ago I think this song is from 1991, he did some more recent great songs like "Sonotone" and "Aiwa" which you could react to too
If you want listen classic : Brel "les vieux" Brassens " chanson pour l'auvergnat " Nougaro " dansez sur moi" Aznavour "hier encore" 😊 reggiani serge "les loups sont entrés dans Paris " Gainsbourg "je t'aime moi non plus" Jacques dutron "il est cinq heures Paris s'éveille " Jean ferrat "le chant des partisans "
hey, if you really want to learn about french music and the specificity of our songwriting abilities you really should go back at least in the 60's... In terms of incredible lyrics look out for Brel, Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Christophe, Barbara, Jane Birkin, Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy, Michel Polnareff, Maxime LeforestierDaniel Balavoine, Claude François, Jacques Higelin, France Gall, Véronique Samson, Jean-Louis Aubert, Alain Souchon, Laurent Voulzy, Stephane Eicher, Michel Jonasz, William Sheller, Michel Berger, L'affaire Louis Trio, les Rita Mitsouko, Vanessa paradis, Téléphone (rock), Axel Bauer, Zazie, Benjamin Biolay, M, ... so many great music to discover... enjoy !
I would recommend to listen to Luidji. He's a famous French singer and rapper, he has a lot of songs from different genres like Hip-hop, Rap, RnB, one of my favorite is called "Monde". Bigflo and Oli are two brothers, they make a ton of good music too.Their most famous one is "dommage" but i peresonally love "sur la lune" and "autre part" among many others ofc. Also Gims was part of a group called "Sexion d'assaut" in 2010 (they're now separated since 2013) I used to listen to them a lot with my brother when we were younger. You should totally check them out !
"who is the most popular music artist in paris?" You know Paris is not France? Because it can happen, when you said that, (bc u told a city) that you can have else than popular artist in the country ANd artist who are not french? Because they are known in Paris.
Oh I knew that! It’s like with the US, artists that are popular in NY people may have never heard of in LA. Big city’s sometimes bring different vibs, I’m definitely aware
Interesting bit, though Mc Solaar is on another level as the other two. Kinda like mixing NWA with DJ Khaled and Vanilla Ice. I would recommend doing a couple of songs of the same artist on every vid, it will be easier for you to assimilate and more consistent for the audience.
If you want to listen to other French artists or French-speaking artists, here's a recommendation list: - Jean Jaques Goldman "quand la musique est bonne" (He is an OG but a great classic, and have songs with touching lyrics) - Stromae (he is from Belgium, you know for sure at least one song from him as he sings in Arcane Season 2) - Diam's (OG rap female singer) - Slimane (currently there are some scandals but his songs could be helpful for improving your french language) - Hoshi "amour censure" or "fais-moi signe" - Orelsan "basique" "la quête" "Paradis" (in the latter you can read directly the translated lyrics in the MV) (he is a popular rap singer and you can easily learn French with his songs)
Ps: I forgot to write about Gims and his old band Sexion d'Assaut. - Gims is very popular and not only French-speaking countries. You should listen to his other songs - Sexion d'Assaut "Ma Direction" "Wati by Night" "Désolé" - Black M "Mme Pavoshko" "French Kiss" (he used also to be in Sexion d'Assaut)
I think if you want to react to French artist the most iconic of them it’s Indila ( maybe you already know her) and if you want to react to French rap you have a lot of things ( Ziak , Menace Santana , freeze corleone …)
You are calling MC Solaar rightfully in how you say his name and he is a rap artist. All 3 of the artists selected for you have great lyrics you should try to understand by yourself. I am no expert in music, not in language learning, but I can suggest you good french lyricists who worked in the last 50-60 years. I am no fan of rap (even though I listen to almost everything) and except for some poets, it is not the best genre of music to find good lyrics in french which will help you learn.
About MC Solaar you should know this song Caroline is definitely all time favorite of French people and it's very calm but Mc Solaar has a lot of more rhythmic songs like "qui sème le vent récolte le tempo" " les temps changent" "Bouge de là" and so on. Since you're into hip hop music I'd recommend IAM and especially their LP "l'école du micro d'argent" (there's a song in it called "La saga" featuring Wu Tang Clan). I'd recommend NTM too and Diam's. And on a different vibe, more like a mix of Hip Hop and Funk, Alliance Ethnik. Everything is from the 90's though. Sorry I'm old and think it's one of the best eras for music especially when you're into hip hop, RnB and New Jack 😂😂😂😂 I don't listen to a lot of French music nowadays but Clara Luciani is making a lot good funk music (except for the one you picked in your video obviously 😂😂😂). Sexion d'assaut who Gims was originally a member of has great music too. On a very different style I love November Ultra (you probably heard her cover of "the winner takes it all" it was all over the internet) and a girl duet called "Brigitte". Iseult and Zaho de Sagazan are very popular at the moment but I don't know their music that much. Good luck with learning French, we know it's hard ❤️
Language barriers is smth only amercians ( english speakers ) have a problem with....most of the world are open to music in another language rather than their own
I won’t disagree, most Americans don’t know other languages, let alone have passports. I’m happy to say that’s changing! 😝 I think this country has gone from 30% to 50% in the last few years 🙌🏾
@@mypassportlife Indeed if subtitles are off, it could be misleading. Auto generated subs are off when there is a lot of background noise or music. If it is quiet, or if subs are not auto generated, you can give it a try
They are not the most listened in Paris/France at all tho… MC Solar was very famous 2 years ago at least, and Gims 10. They’re still interesting to listen because they have made an impact but they are not the current most famous artists at all.
Mc Solaar is old music, it's 90's early 2000s french rap, he is super known. This is like you asked chat gpt for an american artist and it told you Tupac or Biggie. xD 90s early 2000s french rap is amazing you should look into it, I'll give you some names but that's barely scratching the surface there's IAM (I recomend to listen to "La fin de leur monde" which is in my opinion the best french rap song, look into the lyrics they are heavy), you already know MC Solaar, there's also Suprême NTM, they are like to me the 3 corner stone of rap in France. La grenade is a metaphor for breast cancer, I can understand that it's funny as hell if you don't get the metaphor though. Gims was in a group with basically the whole generation that followed the 90s rap named Sexion d'Assaut and that would in my opinion mark the death of the french rap as it's a group made of people that grew up with 90s rap and rap will follow Gims exemple and regress (because yes what you heard from Gims here is considered rap in France. After that french rap became crap. The biggest recent names I know in rap are Gims, JuL, Aya Nakamura that should give you an idea of how much it has regressed when 90s french rap was nearly as good as US rap. Someone has said Orelsan in the comments and it's one of the decent modern one. Now for things that have nothing to do with rap/hip hop, we are really good in electro in France, most famous we have Daft Punk, David Guetta, lesser known I'd recommend Bob Sinclar, Justice, Madeon, Kavinsky, M83, C2C, Caravan Palace, Carpenter Brut. Biggest french artists since post WWII I would say are: -Johnny Hallyday, basically french Elvis Presley if he lived until 2010s, was at his height in the 60s before falling off in the mid 70s, coming back in the mid 80s until the 2000s where he rode off his earlier success -Claude François, it's old french pop from the 60s, a disco period in the 70s before going into early french pop of the 80s, it's hard to find an equivalent american artist but he marked his time. He "wrote" "My Way", he was a fan of Frank Sinatra and one of his greatest pride is knowing Sinatra "sung" his song named "Comme d'habitude" -Mylene Farmer is basically french Madonna, starting in the 80s really hard, kind of a rennaissance in the 2000s early 2010s going for a more Lady Gaga style
@mypassportlife i am also French. That's why i can tell that's not very representive. Hope your next reaction will be truthfull and has food has the first one.
He's saying he's dumbfounded at you not throwing up through your ears. The artists you reacted to are do not get a unanimous approval amongst french population (which obvious, nothing does). Basically he didn't like the songs you "chose" to react to, and he is having a tantrum @@mypassportlife
For Gims, if you're a rap guy, please pick its original band, better. This bella song was a popular one cause appreciated by all generations. Its like sweet. Everything but not this one 😅
Mc Solaar : Caroline As de trèfle qui pique ton cœur, Caro(line) Ace of "clubs" that "spade" your "heart", "Diamond ". Interpretation : diamond = carrEAU the name of the girl is CarO(line). "EAU" and "O" it's the same sound. It's pure and beautiful poetry !!!
Nice reaction! I think you'd like this upcoming French artist music as well! You should react to the music video: Soliloque by Franklin ré ua-cam.com/video/5-G1cohOZvY/v-deo.htmlsi=jnSnnBwo81rYpGpc
If you like those songs, you can listen to some Francophone songs like Stromae (he's from Belgium), Damso (also from Belgium) Also Maître Gims or now "Gims" was in a rap group back then "Wati B" Wati bon son (feat. dry) Sexion d'Assaut. ... Ville fantôme (feat. Sexion d'Assaut) ... Laisse tomber (feat. Dr. ... Bavon (feat. Charly Bell) ... Billet facile. The Shin Sekaï, Abou Debeing, Dry, Dr. ... Le choix (feat. GIMS) ... Dévergondé (feat. L'Institut) ... Je ne dirai rien (feat. The Shin Sekaï & Doomams) Here are some of their greatest hits, Black M was also in Wati B and also has amazing songs !! Also you can react to some Orelsan he has many amazing songs
I don't think it was an immature reaction my friend, but genuine. The humor is in the translation and the context that's lost. I have absolutely no clue what the subject matter is even when reading the lyrics it's not clear. Easly the hardest and funniest part about learning a new language to me at least.
Hey! The app just gives the literal translation. It does not provide context. Had I known what the song was truly about my reaction would’ve been differently. My apologies if you were offended.
@mypassportlife He is actually saying that they are not french artists because, well... two of them are BLACK. And, Luciani probably has Italian origins.
@@mypassportlife list is too long but anyways , if you want french classics you can try this ua-cam.com/video/6CH_GAoSYKk/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/V3BSj1cHX-M/v-deo.html if you want modern this: ua-cam.com/video/QKPE6R8QJQs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/hoG0LEmqTu4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/AE2zQp2hc10/v-deo.html But it's just a short view
why paris? and not france?
Because when I visit I’m usually in Paris, cities like NY can have their own style of music, like Drill music. Idk if Paris does or not.
@@mypassportlife no not really, it’s less of a thing here in France. Of course there are regional songs but the pop in general is very diverse and it’s not because of cities.
I can only think of one particular city inspired kind of genre, it’s Marseille’s rap (Marseillais rappers)
Marseille is the second biggest city in France if you didn’t know, it’s in the south, it’s very beautiful (love it :3). It can be compared to Chicago and/or Detroit tho lol, the French TV usually compares it to Mexico City but they are exaggerating a bit 💀 but the climate is more like LA 😂
@httadeleheidibay yeah that’s dope! Here alotta states and cities have completely different sounds! I do need to learn more about French music
Start in Paris , then quickly go out of it and visit the rest of France. The real France is not Paris. Just my tip when I visited France
@blamage_fr4302 Thank you for saying this.
When I can, I'm wrestling with people who say they visited France when they only went to Paris, and not all other major and minor cities composing our beautiful country.
Mc Solaar is literally a poet. If you want to learn French, read his texts. He uses the French language in all its fullest extent because we have words with lots of different meanings.
Justement il y a tellement de double sens que c'est une vraie galère...period!
Je pense que ce n'est pas très accessible au contraire, il fait énormément de jeux de mots et ça c'est quelque chose que tu finis par acquérir quand tu maîtrises vraiment une langue.
C'est un magicien des mots ! Je me.souviens quand j'étais encore en primaire, entendre "bouge de là" , une claque énorme ! Depuis je l'écoute quand je suis triste, heureuse... ❤❤❤
MCSolaar is basically the OG of French rap. His lyrics are pure poetry, he plays with double meanings and sonorities like a virtuoso.
I feel bad my french isn’t good enough to understand! 😭😭
"Je suis l'as de ♣️ qui ♠️ ton ❤️, ♦️-line" ... J'adore ! 💗💗💗
🔥🔥🔥
In France, the lyrics are more important than music, so if you want understand all the subtilities of our culture, clic on traduction for the clips. Mc solaar was one of the first artists (in France) to sing in rap in the years 80's-90's, Gim's and Clara Luciani are artists of the 21 century. Our artists are very diversify because our culture is very diversify.The time of Edith Piaf is dead even if a certain type of artist copy her old style of music like Barbara Pravi (eurovision 2021).
Who are you to prentend that in France the lyrics are more important than the music? You speak for the whole french population? It's just not true. It's just your opinion.
@@marc_hm_ I am french and 62 old, so I have a very good musical culture, thanks you !
@catfrexfrecat1800 im french too 😄😄😄
Les paroles étaient importantes, regardes ce qu'on a eu pour les JO 😂
@@Cedric-id9yg , je parles pas trop des artistes à la mode style anakamura ou jules où oui effectivement le niveau a fortement baissé, non moi je parle des artistes d'avant ma génération (années 50) jusqu'aux années 90, après ça part en sucettes.
Clara Luciani is actually talking about breast cancer
Not really, her song is against sexism, misogyny
@@odyssee3001 She’s talking about both but the main topic is breast cancer even if it’s not explicit
I looooved MC Solaar in the 90s, yes he's still around. One of the greatest rappers, his lyrics are smart and his play on words is like no one else's. Caroline, this song, is talking about an ex and the guy reminicing about their time together and him having a hard time seeing her with someone else. No swear words, no insults about women, no nudity, just smart rap.
People underestimate how hard it is to do that, telling stories through rap is a crazy skill
I think you can react to more of Gims , basically he was a rapper of Sexion d’assaut ( a group with 6 others rappers ) and then he started on a solo career with Bella that you’ve heard but he continues to do a lot of hits like sapé comme jamais ft niska ( an other iconic French rapper ) and did 620M views
You should listen: Yame "Bécane", Orelsan "basique" or "l'odeur de l'essence", Kery James "lettre à la république" or "PDM" feat Kalash, I am feat Wu tang, Stromae, Jacques Brel "ne me quitte pas"... And so many more. You can find the clips with english subtitles on youtube 😊
Thank you boss!
And diams (marine or ma France a moi)
A French artist I really love is Grand Corps Malade. He does slam and is also a great film director ! His lyrics are true poetry
I added him to my list!
The lyrics of this song Caroline (1991) are very witty. MC Solaar is regularly referring to playing cards' colours. In French, "spade" is "pique", which also means "to sting", so he's basically saying that he is "the ace of spade that is stinging your heart", "l'as de pique qui pique ton cœur".
Also the girlfriend's name is Caroline, often shortened as "Caro". But "carreau" (which sounds exactly like Caro) also means "diamonds" for playing cards. The lyrics go "Il faut se tenir à carreau, Caro", a colloquial phrase one could loosely translate as "you must always be careful, Caro"
The scratcher on Mc Solaar's title is Jimmy Jay, who's also his producer. In the mid-80s, he opened for the funk band D. Train and became the French DJ champion at the DMC (Disco Mix Club) Awards in 1989.
On Clara Luciani this translation is not bvery good
here the good one :
The Grenade
Hey you,
What you're looking for?
You've never seen a fighting woman?
Back in
The dreary town with me,
And I'll reveal to you
How I bite, how I bark!
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Hey you,
But what do you think?
I'm just an animal,
Disguised as madonna.
Hey you,
I could badly hurt you!
I could dourly wound you, yeah,
In the shivering night,
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Hey you,
You should stop fairy tales;
I'm as voracious,
As alive as you are!
You know
That there, under my chest,
A rage is in slumber
That you couldn't suspect?
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Take heed! Under breast, the grenade,
Under breast, there, take look!
Under breast, the grenade.
Take heed!
You're welcome.
The video has been uploaded 3 years ago but yes this video clip & song (mc solaar) is actually older than youtube guys 😅
Hello, I'm french, if you want a famous singer of france you have "jean jacques Goldman", if you want rap artist you have "Orelsan" or "BigFlo & Oli" and if you want an other artist, randomly, I will say "sliman" or "grand corps malade" maybe (and mostly in international it's "indila")
Mc Solaar is a great song writer !! I teach middle school French here in France and I had my pupils study that song to explore the play on words in poetry. You should try "Solaar pleure", in which he depicts his afterlife battle with evil, it's beautifully epic !
Got you I screenshot this comment to look into
”Solaar pleure” is beautiful, epic !
Coming from "Reactions by D" channel, I found this one and first, I read a bit of the description and already "MC Solaar, Clara Luciani, GIMS" are 3 great choices. Then, starting the video, I hear that the person is learning french, so good luck with that.
Yeah, everyone ive spoken too about learning languages all say music is the most effective way to learn how to hear! Sad to say Rap can be one of the hardest because they already use metaphors and things to express something a lot of the times. I defiantly found Clara way easier to follow, and thx the for the clarifications about her song, reading it I wasn't sure what she was referring to by the lyrics alone
Gims was in a rap group before his solo career called « sexion d’assaut » and that’s their songs he was going through in the beginning of the clip you watched
Thats dope! I would have missed that for sure!
Clara Luciani - La Grenade
In this song, she sings about a woman with breast cancer.
So the tune/hook is:
"Under my breast/a grenade"("ready to explode and kill me" in insinuated)
Please feel stupid that the translation wasn't that good to express the severity of the french lyrics. I understand the mistake here. I'm pretty sure it happened to me translating english/american songs...
How don’t you know GIMS. He one of my top played artists.
😭😭 I’m happy he’s on my list now!
I'm french and i don't listen to him, i have to much respect for my ears...
@@Nerivan-911 ah gros c’est déjà 10 mieux que ven1 respecte gims frérot
GIMS is not french btw
Mc solar Caroline songs is old 90s
🤣 it took me a min to catch on! I didn’t realize at first until I started looking at the clothes n footage more!
Hey do you have any recommendations on artists I should check out!
Old rap : IAM - Petit frère
NTM - laisse pas traîner ton fils
Ménélik- bye bye
STROMAE : Fils de joie
Pnl and Sébastien Tellier
MC Solaar’s Caroline is really a classic, probably the most famous french rap song of the early 90s.
While using ChatGPT (which is a great idea), use it till the end to ask it more context into the Artist or its lyrics, like all the play on words in MC Solaar’s music. That might also help you avoid looking like a fool laughing out loud about breast cancer because you use one of the worst translation tool that exist, aka Google translate… It could also guide you into knowing which songs to react to : Gims’ 2010s music VS more recent ones that are very different
That’s mad smart! I didn’t think to use ChatGPT that way!
You should absolutly listen to orelsan if you are in rap, grand coeur malade if you are in slam and Soprano/ Calogéro if you are in cosmopolitan music, and if you want to listen to the greatest french speaking musician you should listen to stromae
Bonne chance dans l'apprentissage du français
There is belgian singer Stromae who has beautiful songs in french but IMO it's kinda advanced he plays with words and meaning a lot.
A recommandation Orelsan - Paradis, i think there are even subtitles for it. It's softer than his usual style but i really like it
Here are all the francophone artist I can think of : Angèle (she did a feat with Dua Lipa but maybe listen to Angèle songs on her own), Orelsan, Big Flo & Oli, Téléphone (older but a classic : I recommand « Cendrillon » it’s my fave), Julien Doré, Stromae, Magic System, Black M
And if you wanna listen to our "end of a party songs" : « Les démons de minuit » by Images / « Les lacs du Connemara » by Michel Sardou / « Les Sunlights des tropiques » by Gilbert Montagné
MC Solaar basically made french rap mainstream, for the first time everybody could sing along including your grandma, not only the boyz in da hood and ghetto's wannabes...
bella is a classic fr
I can see why!
@ gims made bops back then, he’s not all that anymore, u should defo try listening to soprano he made a lot of successful french song back to few years ago
Jul
Werenoi
Ninho
PLK
Tiakola
Gazo
SDM
Damso (from Belgium but speaks French)
Hamza (from Belgium but speaks French)
Stromae (from Belgium but speaks French)
Thank you! I saved this list!!
ChatGPT a W for this
I think this was a great into to some artists
"I was not excepting that" you know how I feel after McSolar, such disapoitment...
Lol we don’t listen to mc solar and gims currently, it’s okay but it was ten years ago (i’m french and from Paris)
Does Pairs have its own style of music like NY?
Pour le coup, Gims a connu une très grosse résurgence en 2024. Il a été n°1 avec 2 chansons différentes tout l'été et a désormais une troisième chanson dans le top 10 du SNEP (le classement officiel). D'ailleurs, l'EP dont ces 3 chansons sont issues a finalement atteint la première place du top album début 2025, sans supports physiques et avec seulement 7 chansons. Donc il y a clairement encore beaucoup de gens qui l'écoutent.
@@mypassportlife Not really. Marseille (France's second biggest city) has its own rap music, which is very popular in Marseille and in France overall. Nowadays, the most popular rappers from Marseille are Jul and SCH, but the OGs are definitely IAM. There used to be a rivalary between them and a parisian group called NTM. The rivalery between Marseille ans Paris is still there, but it's not really about music, it's mostly about football (soccer).
Paris doesn't really have its own popular music style. There are obviously rappers in Paris but their music doesn't have a very distinctive sound. And if there were a Parisian music genre, it would either be cabaret or chanson, but neither are them are popular nowadays. And by the way, the one who is the closest to this genres among the three artists you checked out is from Marseille's region, south eastern France (it's Clara Luciani). Gims and MC Solar both grew up in Paris region, even though none of them was born in France.
In fact, Chat GPT gave you the names of artist who were about to perform in major parisian venues when you asked for popular artists in Paris but they are not necessarily the most popular parisian artists. Still, it did quite well providing you something etlectic and rather accurate. Clara Luciani does work in Paris and has been one of the best selling female artists in France since her first hit actually became one (the one you've listened to) and Gims is one of the best selling french rappers of all time (I would say he's number one since the actual number one, Jul, releases several albums per year, whereas Gims catalog only counts 5 albums and some other songs). MC Solar is also a good one because he's the founding father of french rap and well, he did grow momentum in the 90s.
Now, if you want to check out songs from Parisan rappers who are currently popular, look for Werenoi (best selling album of 2024), PLK (2nd best selling album of 2024), SDM (7th best selling album in 2024) and Tiakola (only rapper nominated for best album at Victoires de la Musique in 2025, aka the french Grammys). Aya Nakamura is undoubtably another artist who grew up in Paris region you should look for if you want to hear what's popular in Paris region (and in France, and abroad). She performed at the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony and her performance is basically the most watched TV footage ever in France.
For MC Solaar he's an old french rapper, like 30 years ago I think this song is from 1991, he did some more recent great songs like "Sonotone" and "Aiwa" which you could react to too
As a french person, I would recommend Orelsan, he makes some hip-hop rap style music, its really cool!
Bet! I'm going to check it out!
Vos analyses sont construites. C'est bien ! + 1 pour le référencement !
Thank you boss!
If you want listen classic : Brel "les vieux" Brassens " chanson pour l'auvergnat " Nougaro " dansez sur moi" Aznavour "hier encore" 😊 reggiani serge "les loups sont entrés dans Paris " Gainsbourg "je t'aime moi non plus" Jacques dutron "il est cinq heures Paris s'éveille " Jean ferrat "le chant des partisans "
Thank you boss!! Im going to check them out!!
MC Solar, Caroline : 1991
I recommand listening Angèle (with Gims) - Démons
With Damso you mean?
hey, if you really want to learn about french music and the specificity of our songwriting abilities you really should go back at least in the 60's... In terms of incredible lyrics look out for Brel, Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Christophe, Barbara, Jane Birkin, Jacques Dutronc, Françoise Hardy, Michel Polnareff, Maxime LeforestierDaniel Balavoine, Claude François, Jacques Higelin, France Gall, Véronique Samson, Jean-Louis Aubert, Alain Souchon, Laurent Voulzy, Stephane Eicher, Michel Jonasz, William Sheller, Michel Berger, L'affaire Louis Trio, les Rita Mitsouko, Vanessa paradis, Téléphone (rock), Axel Bauer, Zazie, Benjamin Biolay, M, ... so many great music to discover... enjoy !
Merci! I saved your list to check out!
Mcsolaar : over 20y old song
It’s took me a while to put it together 😭🤣
I would recommend to listen to Luidji. He's a famous French singer and rapper, he has a lot of songs from different genres like Hip-hop, Rap, RnB, one of my favorite is called "Monde". Bigflo and Oli are two brothers, they make a ton of good music too.Their most famous one is "dommage" but i peresonally love "sur la lune" and "autre part" among many others ofc. Also Gims was part of a group called "Sexion d'assaut" in 2010 (they're now separated since 2013) I used to listen to them a lot with my brother when we were younger. You should totally check them out !
Caroline from mc solaar got out in 1991
"who is the most popular music artist in paris?" You know Paris is not France? Because it can happen, when you said that, (bc u told a city) that you can have else than popular artist in the country ANd artist who are not french? Because they are known in Paris.
Oh I knew that! It’s like with the US, artists that are popular in NY people may have never heard of in LA. Big city’s sometimes bring different vibs, I’m definitely aware
Pretty much all (not all but you get me) lyricists in french rap are Mc Solaar's legacy. He was just too good
I feel bad I missed out on him growing up!
Interesting bit, though Mc Solaar is on another level as the other two. Kinda like mixing NWA with DJ Khaled and Vanilla Ice. I would recommend doing a couple of songs of the same artist on every vid, it will be easier for you to assimilate and more consistent for the audience.
If you want to listen to other French artists or French-speaking artists, here's a recommendation list:
- Jean Jaques Goldman "quand la musique est bonne" (He is an OG but a great classic, and have songs with touching lyrics)
- Stromae (he is from Belgium, you know for sure at least one song from him as he sings in Arcane Season 2)
- Diam's (OG rap female singer)
- Slimane (currently there are some scandals but his songs could be helpful for improving your french language)
- Hoshi "amour censure" or "fais-moi signe"
- Orelsan "basique" "la quête" "Paradis" (in the latter you can read directly the translated lyrics in the MV) (he is a popular rap singer and you can easily learn French with his songs)
Ps: I forgot to write about Gims and his old band Sexion d'Assaut.
- Gims is very popular and not only French-speaking countries. You should listen to his other songs
- Sexion d'Assaut "Ma Direction" "Wati by Night" "Désolé"
- Black M "Mme Pavoshko" "French Kiss" (he used also to be in Sexion d'Assaut)
Je suis trop ému par tous mes français fans de Solaar dans les coms, franchement ça met très bien de vous lire
Gims -Spyder. Banger 🎉
if you want a fast french rap song, I recommend : niska Waka moon ft Damso
Got you thx!
you should react to indila, she is the french singer with the most views, even if she's not currently active
15:35 ... no it's just Spain 😐
Mc solaar and his song are from the nineties
I think if you want to react to French artist the most iconic of them it’s Indila ( maybe you already know her) and if you want to react to French rap you have a lot of things ( Ziak , Menace Santana , freeze corleone …)
I don’t know indila, but I’ll definitely look into your list! Thank you
You are calling MC Solaar rightfully in how you say his name and he is a rap artist.
All 3 of the artists selected for you have great lyrics you should try to understand by yourself.
I am no expert in music, not in language learning, but I can suggest you good french lyricists who worked in the last 50-60 years.
I am no fan of rap (even though I listen to almost everything) and except for some poets, it is not the best genre of music to find good lyrics in french which will help you learn.
if you love some chill jazzy rap music, you should listen to french artists like CielBleu / Luidji or Aupinard ! those are my favorites atm
About MC Solaar you should know this song Caroline is definitely all time favorite of French people and it's very calm but Mc Solaar has a lot of more rhythmic songs like "qui sème le vent récolte le tempo" " les temps changent" "Bouge de là" and so on. Since you're into hip hop music I'd recommend IAM and especially their LP "l'école du micro d'argent" (there's a song in it called "La saga" featuring Wu Tang Clan). I'd recommend NTM too and Diam's. And on a different vibe, more like a mix of Hip Hop and Funk, Alliance Ethnik. Everything is from the 90's though. Sorry I'm old and think it's one of the best eras for music especially when you're into hip hop, RnB and New Jack 😂😂😂😂 I don't listen to a lot of French music nowadays but Clara Luciani is making a lot good funk music (except for the one you picked in your video obviously 😂😂😂). Sexion d'assaut who Gims was originally a member of has great music too.
On a very different style I love November Ultra (you probably heard her cover of "the winner takes it all" it was all over the internet) and a girl duet called "Brigitte". Iseult and Zaho de Sagazan are very popular at the moment but I don't know their music that much. Good luck with learning French, we know it's hard ❤️
Language barriers is smth only amercians ( english speakers ) have a problem with....most of the world are open to music in another language rather than their own
I won’t disagree, most Americans don’t know other languages, let alone have passports. I’m happy to say that’s changing! 😝 I think this country has gone from 30% to 50% in the last few years 🙌🏾
Hi!
Try to activate subtitles when you can, you will learn a bit of french inconsciously ;)
Im always worried the translation will be off 😭 u think I’ll be ok?
@@mypassportlife Indeed if subtitles are off, it could be misleading. Auto generated subs are off when there is a lot of background noise or music. If it is quiet, or if subs are not auto generated, you can give it a try
They are not the most listened in Paris/France at all tho… MC Solar was very famous 2 years ago at least, and Gims 10. They’re still interesting to listen because they have made an impact but they are not the current most famous artists at all.
who do you listen too?
Mc Solaar is old music, it's 90's early 2000s french rap, he is super known. This is like you asked chat gpt for an american artist and it told you Tupac or Biggie. xD
90s early 2000s french rap is amazing you should look into it, I'll give you some names but that's barely scratching the surface there's IAM (I recomend to listen to "La fin de leur monde" which is in my opinion the best french rap song, look into the lyrics they are heavy), you already know MC Solaar, there's also Suprême NTM, they are like to me the 3 corner stone of rap in France.
La grenade is a metaphor for breast cancer, I can understand that it's funny as hell if you don't get the metaphor though.
Gims was in a group with basically the whole generation that followed the 90s rap named Sexion d'Assaut and that would in my opinion mark the death of the french rap as it's a group made of people that grew up with 90s rap and rap will follow Gims exemple and regress (because yes what you heard from Gims here is considered rap in France. After that french rap became crap. The biggest recent names I know in rap are Gims, JuL, Aya Nakamura that should give you an idea of how much it has regressed when 90s french rap was nearly as good as US rap. Someone has said Orelsan in the comments and it's one of the decent modern one.
Now for things that have nothing to do with rap/hip hop, we are really good in electro in France, most famous we have Daft Punk, David Guetta, lesser known I'd recommend Bob Sinclar, Justice, Madeon, Kavinsky, M83, C2C, Caravan Palace, Carpenter Brut.
Biggest french artists since post WWII I would say are:
-Johnny Hallyday, basically french Elvis Presley if he lived until 2010s, was at his height in the 60s before falling off in the mid 70s, coming back in the mid 80s until the 2000s where he rode off his earlier success
-Claude François, it's old french pop from the 60s, a disco period in the 70s before going into early french pop of the 80s, it's hard to find an equivalent american artist but he marked his time. He "wrote" "My Way", he was a fan of Frank Sinatra and one of his greatest pride is knowing Sinatra "sung" his song named "Comme d'habitude"
-Mylene Farmer is basically french Madonna, starting in the 80s really hard, kind of a rennaissance in the 2000s early 2010s going for a more Lady Gaga style
le nouveau western by MC solaar is really great
Hey, just to tell you that in the France we listen more to these artists : Jul, Ninho, Gims, Gazo and Naps (and soolking for summer hits).
Great react ! If you want some more MC Solaar go check for his banger live session on legends musiques you wont regret it !
You should listen to Yamê, Nekfeu, Orelsan, Stromae, because asking chatGPT to show you only most famous Paris rapper isn't...trully representative.
I agree! That’s why I need y’all to keep me up to date!
@mypassportlife i am also French. That's why i can tell that's not very representive. Hope your next reaction will be truthfull and has food has the first one.
Mc solaar lyrics are vrey great ,don t pass away ...
Hi, as you're more interested into rap, hip hop style, you could listen to Orelsan or Stromae
Mc Solaar would be as hard as french language can be. Not really for beginners. You can try Stromae, it's easier to understand.
😭 I can see why! I’ll add Stromae to my list!
Je suis étonné qu'il ne vomisse pas des oreilles...
Sorry, I don’t know what this means, the translation I got was “I’m surprised he’s not throwing up his ears”
He's saying he's dumbfounded at you not throwing up through your ears. The artists you reacted to are do not get a unanimous approval amongst french population (which obvious, nothing does). Basically he didn't like the songs you "chose" to react to, and he is having a tantrum @@mypassportlife
For Gims, if you're a rap guy, please pick its original band, better. This bella song was a popular one cause appreciated by all generations. Its like sweet. Everything but not this one 😅
I got you!
Yeah it's old 1991
❤ please react to themistocle Gims
Added to my list, I have plans to revisit him!
Mc Solaar : Caroline
As de trèfle qui pique ton cœur, Caro(line)
Ace of "clubs" that "spade" your "heart", "Diamond ".
Interpretation : diamond = carrEAU
the name of the girl is CarO(line).
"EAU" and "O" it's the same sound.
It's pure and beautiful poetry !!!
Nice reaction! I think you'd like this upcoming French artist music as well! You should react to the music video: Soliloque by Franklin ré
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Mort de rire. Il n y a que des commentaires de français. Ça va pas faire avancer les choses.
Aye! I love yall suggestions on what music I should check out! You kno better then me!
MC Solar is a well known and old school french rapper, the video is from the 90's
If you like those songs, you can listen to some Francophone songs like Stromae (he's from Belgium), Damso (also from Belgium)
Also Maître Gims or now "Gims" was in a rap group back then "Wati B"
Wati bon son (feat. dry) Sexion d'Assaut. ...
Ville fantôme (feat. Sexion d'Assaut) ...
Laisse tomber (feat. Dr. ...
Bavon (feat. Charly Bell) ...
Billet facile. The Shin Sekaï, Abou Debeing, Dry, Dr. ...
Le choix (feat. GIMS) ...
Dévergondé (feat. L'Institut) ...
Je ne dirai rien (feat. The Shin Sekaï & Doomams)
Here are some of their greatest hits, Black M was also in Wati B and also has amazing songs !!
Also you can react to some Orelsan he has many amazing songs
If you want some old school hip hop you should definitely try IAM, NTM, 113, Oxmo Puccino, Kerry James, la Brigade, Lunatic...
Thank you! I saved your list
Bro MC solaar is old as fuck great rapper but definitly not current
écoute Aya Nakamura
Réaction un peu immature face aux paroles de Clara Luciani non ?
I don't think it was an immature reaction my friend, but genuine. The humor is in the translation and the context that's lost. I have absolutely no clue what the subject matter is even when reading the lyrics it's not clear. Easly the hardest and funniest part about learning a new language to me at least.
@@mypassportlife Genuine doesn't necesserally exclude immature my friend.
"french"
Clara Luciani is talking about breast cancer so yeah noting funny.
Hey! The app just gives the literal translation. It does not provide context. Had I known what the song was truly about my reaction would’ve been differently. My apologies if you were offended.
Bro chatgbt gave u some rubbish artist that r not even popular in france the only one is gims
Yo, my comments might disagree with u… who do you recommend??
French artists ?
I asked ChatGPT to show me popular music in Paris! I should have said that in title
@mypassportlife He is actually saying that they are not french artists because, well... two of them are BLACK.
And, Luciani probably has Italian origins.
@@SwanYaps Ahhh I forget people still think like that lbvs
3 SHIT song bravo chatGPT lol
what a bad choice of french song
Caroline, a shit song AHAHAHA.
Don’t be mad at ChatGPT leave your recommendations yo!
@@mypassportlife list is too long but anyways ,
if you want french classics you can try this
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if you want modern this:
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But it's just a short view
Mc solaar and his song are from the nineties