Modern French music

vamos!

Bonjour a tous!
Does anyone have any suggestion of modern French music that may be suitable for a pre-intermediate to intermediate classroom? All of my resources are 5+ years old and my google and youtube searching hasnt brought much. Also if anyone has suggestions for how to improve a French accent it would be much appreciated. No matter how much I practice and spend time in French, I have a distinctive strong Dublin twang.
Merci mille fois:)

later12

Salut.. Don't be too worried about your Dublin twang. I speak French with a very hybrid accent, it would be unusual for you to speak French with an indistinguishable Parisian accent in the same way that I think it is a little unusual to sometimes find French people with an accent from the Home Counties!

However to answer your question, I came across a band called Noir Desir on a friend's ipod recently, they're not bad if you veer towards indie music.

What would be your own personal music taste?

Whereas if you're into Lady Gaga you'd probably like Mylene Farmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVb8dBQ7jKg

In terms of sounding French I'd say to pay careful attention on how you stress syllables. In Hiberno English we tend to stress the first part of the syllable: HIStory, AGriculture, EConomics; whereas in French one either distributes the stress more evenly, or else stresses the latter end of the word, so it becomes hisTOIRE, AGricultURE, l'EConomiIE.

ValerieR

Bénabar is very good (I think) and would be excellent to learn from. His diction is very clear, his lyrics contain every-day words and can also be witty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-KbPmOx8s

Of course, there is also Georges Brassens. He might not be 'modern' but his lyrics are very clever.

Valerie

youtube!

ah surely you have to introduce the little darlings to the legend that is....


<iframe width="420" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bVDfmn_TMkI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>:D

Captain Havoc

surely Johnny would have the largest repetoire of clean wholesome music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99phlP_e2Rw

You could check out Indochine, I went to a Brigitte concert back in July, it was OK.

La_Gordy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSBlQrawnI&ob=av2n

Ok this song might not be completely suitable but the guy is very funny and the other songs like the one about the cagoule would probably go down well with the students.

ValerieR

La_Gordy wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSBlQrawnI&ob=av2n

Ok this song might not be completely suitable but the guy is very funny and the other songs like the one about the cagoule would probably go down well with the students.

LOL - Thank you Google for yielding the lyrics of this song for me ... I'm French but I'm obviously getting old, I need a vocabulary upgrade !!!! :eek:

Valerie

Michellenman

I'm quite the fan of Grand Corps Malade.

Easy to understand and doesn't use much poetic license so sentences are generally structured correctly and not shuffled about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LocpGdw4m8w

I've been to French Oral and aural classes in both France and Ireland (both in universities) that have used his stuff as a classroom tool.

He's hip with the cool kids :pac:

LimeFruitGum

Philippe Katerine. The best way I can describe it is a mix between Lady Gaga and Plastic Bertrand.

http://youtu.be/lCkh-WJgjwA


While she might not be my tasse thé, musically, how about listening to Carla Bruni's first album? Her songs aren't fast, so it is easy to follow the lyrics. I like "Le Plus Beau du Quartier" meself

EmmaAstra

What about M? Le complexe du cornflakes or Je dis aime could be good!

fluffybiscuits

I can also recommend

Patrica Kaas
Sebastien Tellier (he did a tune called La Ritournelle, beautiful tune)
Manu Chao
MC Solar

Also the French actor, Vincent Castelle is worth a punt!

If you like I can burn some songs above on to a cd and leave them in a pub in Dublin if you want to collect them , Im sure there is no issue there!

EhBenDisDonc

• Anything from Renan Luce's superb first album:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vv5sDQ9aFU
• Some of Cali's earlier stuff?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8RB62YqXFk
• Perhaps something by Tryo?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwAcwcgH5o4
• +1 for Benabar.

Mountainsandh

+ 1 pour Renan Luce et Benabar (la campagne aussi).
J'ai aussi utilise Parle-moi de Nadyia en classe (chut, je ne revele pas tous mes secrets sur boards, et mon boulot est un secret ) avec succes, et j'ai trouve deux clips video supers pour les verbes aller et avoir, que j'utilise en permanence (j'hypnotise, presque !). Accent canadien pas tout a fait "propre" mais c'est pas grave, et petites fautes ici et la, pas un probleme avec mes "clients" a moi :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47eSlLSxa0&feature=related
et
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUFkMr_GyU&feature=related

J'ai aussi utilise "je suis un homme" de Zazie, et on me redemande le clip souvent. Zazie est assez accessible au niveau vocabulaire, par contre sans traduire forcement tous les jeux de mots.

The Scientician

J'aime les chansons de Jean LeLoup, un chanteur Québecois avec des paroles en Francais et aussi en Anglais.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiC2jTwGmIc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByV2m8kdDA8

Et un autre chanson de Noir Désir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgcRvBJYBE

mikemac1

Watched Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy and just love this song

Had it on loop this evening

Ok a Spanish singer but it qualifies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGcp3_OT2-0

franc 91

There's Jacques Dutronc singing - Je retourne ma veste (l'Opportuniste) which you might like to try.

Mountainsandh

ou OH HE HEIN BON ! Je me rappelle plus bien si c'etait Dutronc. Mince, va falloir que je la retrouve !

trouvee : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9qtBUtOArU
pfff, c'etait pas Dutronc mais Nino Ferrer biensur ! Du coup ca me rappelle plein d'autres chansons rigolotes de lui, l'une sur son chien Mirza, Gaston y a le telefon qui son. Super vocab, et rigolo, mais trop vieux pour mes clients je pense. Quoique...:p

EhBenDisDonc

Boooooffffff (his words, not mine;))! This might be a good time to suggest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_uFGylNCj0

EhBenDisDonc

mikemac1 wrote: »

Watched Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy and just love this song

Dangerous - Very hard to get that song out of your head once you start. I hadn't realised Julio Inglesias had had a crack at it.

vamos!

Had forgotten I had started this thread! Thanks a million for all of the suggestions. I am off to start youtubing mad now
Merci