Tuesday Tunes: Chanson
I’m a complete sucker for French Chanson – Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, and even Scott Walker in a pinch. Today, while hunting around iTunes for some music to help “get ready” for Paris – a building up process that involves cheese, red wine, lots o’ Edith Piaf, and at least one Juliette Binoche film (this time around it’s Paris) – I discovered Chat and have consequently spent the afternoon grading papers and listening to her latest album, Folie Douce. If you’re fans of Coeur de Pirate, Emily Loizeau, or Eleni Mandell’s French EP Dis-moi Au Revoir Encore, Chat may be your next big thing. She’s certainly mine.
Here are a couple of my fave chanson-y type songs, to give this rave some context:
Serge Gainsbourg – the original dirty old man:
Françoise Hardy, singing “Tous les garçons” and rockin’ the eyeliner:
