'Everything that was produced in the eighties sounds unfashionable now, but if you take a song like Flashdance and really break it down to the chords, you find a classic harmony there. You can interpret the emotion in another way - maybe this girl is not winning but she has failed all her dance exams. You get a totally different feeling from it.' Dixit Marc Collin, one of the official heroes of this blog, about Hollywood, Mon Amour. CD will be released end of September. The Nouvelle Vague-director did it again: he took 15 fairly well-known songs from fairly well-know 80s films (ranging from Flashdance to Forbidden Colours from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, originally performed by David Sylvian and Ryuchi Sakamoto, a song that doesn't sound unfashionable to me now, by the way). Collin asked several female singers, like Skye, Juliette Lewis, Yael Naim and Nancy Danino. The result is quite nice, but like the last Nouvelle Vague-album, you catch Marc's drift after a while. And songs like Forbidden Colours or This Is Not America aren't that easy to 'break down' and 'interpret the other way'.
The only French words on this project are in Blondie's Call Me.
Hollywood Mon Amour feat. Skye - Call Me
Hollywood Mon Amour feat. Yael Naim - Flashdance...what a feeling
See trailer-videos for Hollywood Mon Amour here and here
I'm looking forward to this, but not over Flashdance's theme song... :) I was listening until "what a feeling" came along just to see how it was gonna come out... ;p I mean, really, is there any other possible way to sing that song and NOT make the original ring in the back of your head? Talk about difficult... I loved "Call me." And the memories from seeing Lambert and Reno on "Subway" again...
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThis is a great blog you have here. I am studying french as a major right now and wondering if you knew of anywhere to find recordings of french like radio or film clips or other things of that nature...
BeantwoordenVerwijderenif you could i would deeply appreciate it.
film clips - try Youtube. There are a lot of French music and film clips with English subtitles. Handy.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenVery nice find!! I just checked out the myspace for this and heard a couple of the other tracks... I can't wait for the release now!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThanks ever so much for posting these great songs.