There’s a guy with a fish head mask in this video by ‘franco-italienne’ artist Adèle Luisa. To show you she likes it odd, psychedelic even. The music is sunny, laaaaaaid back, you want spring to start early. Check out the four songs on her EP, released last December. And remember her, when the sun starts shining.
So, i got this cover of Françoise Hardy’s Message Personnel by ElodieO. An updated version, with the desperation of the original in tact.
It’s one of the most gorgeous songs of Hardy, and covered many times. Here are a handful of remarkable versions. Like this one, in English:
A duet version, by two great vocalists:
France covering Françoise:
This is what they call a ‘sad banger’, crying in the discotheque:
Lots of fx, almost shoegaze:
Oh, the voice of Eva de Marce. It’s like running your fingers over a silk négligé. Like the first sun on a late spring morning, peeping through the curtains. Like fat strawberries, bursting on your tongue. Eva is the singer of Mexican duo Los Eclipses, but other producers love to add her vocals to their songs too. Like Jiony, from Mexico too. On his new album, Eva sings two tracks. Trip hop vibes, fat beats & sultriness.
Not the first time Jiony asked Eva to sing a French song, this is from 2022:
New name on the block (ok well, new to me, she’s been making records since 2020), with a lotta soul & sexuality. Oddly enough, this video is just a fragment of the full song:
This is the full song:
I was clicking away on Spotify, when I suddenly heard this GEM of a song by Kolinga. Kept listening. And again. What a voice. What emotional depth.
Kolinga writes about this track: ‘This is the most necessary song I have ever written. In the midst of perinatal grief, while I was still bleeding, these are the words and sounds I needed to put down. Amidst the taboo, the pain, the guilt that we are told never to feel. I wanted to bring all these emotions to life, to freeze them forever, not only for myself but also for all those who couldn’t do it, all those who no one wanted to listen to. This song is also for that wonderful soul who did me the honor of accompanying me on this journey, a request for forgiveness on behalf of our societies that violently reject everything that cannot be seen. All this, in the most complete vulnerability of just a guitar and a voice.’
Are we @ FillesSourires HQ shocked that an artiste called Sale Gamine releases a song about cunnilingus? Surely not. La langue au chat (which means a lot of things in French, from ‘I give up’ to, exploring a partner’s private parts with your mouth) is the new, punching hit by Sale Gamine. Clip is coming up, until then:
Belgian singer Selah Sue recorded a cover of the Gainsbourg-penned Harley Davidson for a new documentary on Bardot. It sounds very 90s rock-triphop:
Of course, it’s not the first Harley Davidson version. Here are a few strong versions. This one by Mick Harvey & Anita Lane:
This one by Canadian duo Lola Dutronic, electronic, fetish-y:
From the just released new album by Waxx. All covers, ranging from Seal’s Kiss from a Rose to this classic by Joe Dassin (with the lovely Lubiana).
One of the stronger songs on the Cavale album, with just a piano: