Charles Aznavour Reaction What Makes A Man (WHOA! WHAT YEAR WAS THIS?!?) | Empress Reacts
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Charles Aznavour Reaction
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A classic song written and sung by French artist Charles Aznavour.
It tells a very poignant story, and has been recorded numerous times.
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Wow! Whoever recommended this reaction is a boss! One of my favorite songs of all time! I listen to the French version! He’s a beast!
S/O Peter 🥰
Can you imagine that he did this song in an old time, where this subject was highly risked ? :) Aznavour was an engaged singer and a courageous one :)
The french lyrics of this song have even stronger and far emotional meanings... Aznavour was an engaged singer... When you read the translation of his french version of the song (the original then), and when you know WHEN it has been released and done, it was very very courageous for him to present his ideas against the thought of a crushing majority... other time, other habits and other thoughts... Those sort of songs has permitted to change mentalities, and curiosly, it worked incredibly well and obtain an unexpected succcess (for Aznavour himself, but he wasn't there for it in this specific song, he wanted to deliver a message, a message which can unplease a majority of untolerant people, but he did it anyway). Great reaction then :)
that was the 70s and its still an amazingly valued song
✨Yes I’m serving you some profound stuff coz I know you’re a deep thinking girl! 💖 Aznavour is one of the greatest songwriters our species has produced, writing in both French and English, with a very long career up until his recent passing in 2018. He was born in Paris to Arminian parents and lived in New York with the great Edith Piaf. He has many songs that pushed the boundaries of what was considered possible or acceptable to sing about, sex and identity being a big part of that. He always approached songwriting from a storytelling point of view, albeit with a gorgeous sense of melody. The most incredible thing about this song is that he is a heterosexual man writing with such empathy and deep understanding about, and from the perspective of, the lives of his gay friends, whom he had seen being treated so badly by authorities and society. That would be a shocking act of great empathy even today.
This song was released in 1972, just 3 years after the Stonewall Riots in 1969 that took the grassroots campaigning for LGBTQ freedom onto the world stage as a political and social movement. That’s the “liberation” he mentions in their conversations in the song. It’s important to note that this wasn’t just a campaign against prejudice, it was a campaign to have homosexuality deregistered as a mental disorder, to end criminalisation, imprisonment and government sanctioned physical torture and chemical castration of gay people in our so called civilised countries, and to essentially create a new paradigm for “normal” people to view LGBTQ people as human beings at all. It’s an ongoing struggle, with many many countries still criminalising us, and many still classifying being LGBTQ as grounds for execution.
I first heard this song performed in archival 1970s on-stage footage of an Australian gay performer named Reg Livermore. I had been familiar with Reg from TV appearances as a co-host of a gardening show (can you think of anything more suburban and less revolutionary!) but about 10 years ago I went to an exhibition of costumes and archival material from his theatrical career in the 70s and there was footage of him singing his own impassioned version of this song. By midway through I was in tears in the middle of the gallery. I’d never heard such a revelatory song. I went home and researched it, found the original Aznavour version, as well as the beautiful renditions by Liza Minelli and Marc Almond. I felt more seen by culture than I had in a long time, especially as the original had been released before I was born!
I was so grateful to Charles for the song but the feeling was bittersweet, as these moments often are, because it came with that familiar thought of how long we LGBTQ people struggle to find our place, our references and our culture, in a world made to sideline us. There is something very particular about that experience, because we are almost always born into a heterosexual family, and even the nicest parents and siblings can’t help but alienate us just by having no idea what life looks like through our eyes, and to our hearts. Obviously not everyone has the advantage of a family who will make that effort. We have come along way since 1969, and since 1972 when this song came out (no pun intended), but we have to remember that it’s acts of courage like this song, and the countless revolutionary acts of protest, filmmaking, songwriting and just BEING despite prejudice, that have brought us here, and continue to challenge those who’s ignorance and hatred threaten us.
The brilliant courage of this song is in Aznavour recognising that, as a straight man, he had the power to publicly say something that his queer friends couldn’t, and voice their pain and hopes in a way that would help change the conversation. Even in France, with the advantage of a rich queer history and much less of the general prudery toward sexuality, even heterosexuality, than uptight empires like England and the USA and their colonies, this statement of simple authentic life experience was revolutionary.
Now this is what I call being an ally 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Often times too many ppl say they are, but never put there money where there mouth is. I'm enjoying this 🥰
I never knew this song had been done in English. I know the original French version very well.
There are clips of him performing this in concert, it’s worth watching
Check out 'Yesterday when I was young', by the sublime Mr Aznavour, but beware, there WILL be tears!! 😭
Originally recorded in French in early 70s. It was indeed groundbreaking. Especially poignant when you consider he was a straight man who wrote this song from point of view of his gay friends after seeing how they were marginalized by society.
OMG I was watching "All the beauty and the bloodshed" right now on Filmin when suddenly this beautiful song starts playing and I had to pause to look for it on UA-cam, and what do I find? An Empress Reaction. So let's get to it! I said- And here I am, enjoying this beauty with you! thank you! Such a good taste you have! 😃
omg!!! this song is soooo good😍
Hey E, this guy was a big deal in France 🇫🇷 in the 50's and 60's. Cheers
Comme ils disent...
What makes a Man is...(( What separates him from a male)) A Man is able to critically think..Thus he is a great leader. A Man seeks Truth..Thus he is pure Masculine Power...A Man is a Rock. Never a Roll..males want to be him..Women want to be with him.. Sincerely. I digress..Poppie*....
He was an ally way back when!!
Chanson écrite en 1972!