This is from her 2015 album Roses, which features songs in French and English.
In 2018, Béatrice Martin announced she planned to no longer make music under the name Cœur de Pirate, which I guess would mean I'd be able to stop trying to type œ on my English-language keyboard..... but 1) she would continue to make music, which is amazing.....
....2) Cette chanson, de fin 2020, est clairement sortie sous le nom Cœur de Pirate.
C'est clairement étiqueté
Je ne me soucie pas particulièrement du nom que Béatrice Martin a choisi d'utiliser pour faire de la musique à l'avenir. Tant qu'elle continuera à faire de la musique révolutionnaire qui est intéressante, je vais rester heureuse.
Je ne suis pas canadien, donc je n'ai pas eu à apprendre le français à l'école. En fait, dans mon apprentissage des langues, c'est mon talon d'Achille. Permettez-moi de vous assurer que tout cela est une gracieuseté de Google Translate.
It is refreshing to hear an artist so fresh and not-so-well-known outside their home country like Cœur de Pirate. However, what is really unusual is that Béatrice Martin has actually had more hits in France than in her native Canada.
You see, she is a francophone from Montreal, and primarily sings in French. Not exclusively, mind you - but mostly. And yet, despite having the heart of a pirate (that's what her name translates to, people), the songs are just enchanting. Without knowing French, you can hear the love and longing in her voice, in the music.
This song, her debut single, won the 2010 Victoires de la Musique (French-language music) award for Original Song of the Year.
It almost sounds more soulful live. Check out this performance from Massey Hall in Toronto from 2014. The acoustics threaten to drown her out, but Cœur de Pirate's full voice wins in the end.
"Volare". And Bobby Rydell's English language version is better known today.
But Domenico Modugno wrote the song. And, in 1958, it spent five weeks at #1 in the US, in THIS version, and was the biggest hit of 1958.. all while remaining faithful to its original Italiamn. To compare, Rydell's version hit #4 in 1960 - this was the bigger hit.
Almost certainly the best-known German language song outside of German, this little warning of the apocalypse was a big hit in the 1980s. Yes, people in the US were singing along to their death from nuclear attack.
And who would blame them?? This song is damned catchy.
In a bit of an oddity, an English language version of the song - slightly changing the narrative to be even a little darker - was released THIS VERSION DID NOT CHART, meaning the US audience preferred not to know what they were singing about, I guess.
Marmello were a K-Pop group with a twist - they played their own instruments. They were a bona fide band. Although they disbanded in 2019, we hope for a comeback, which isn't unprecedented in the K-Pop world - because they actually rocked kind of hard for a K-Pop group. I mean, this ain't metal - it's pop-rock - but it's not usual to see.
Less than three weeks after this single was released, the band reimagined the song, slightly changing the lyrics and title to be a rally song for the 2018 World Cup. It rocks just a little harder.
Gloria Trevi spent almost five years in a Brazilian prison on charges of endangering a minor. She was released due to lack of evidence. She has maintained her innocence (and divorced her DNA-provably guilty husband as a result of this).
My point on mentioning this up front is that she missed several years of her very successful music career, and when she was released from prison, she jumped right back in, feet first. She went away a crooner, and came back an EDM hitmaker - and let's be clear. In Mexico, she was welcomed back with open arms, with this and just about every other single she's released being a pretty big hit there.
In Brazil, not so much.
What did NOT change was Trevi's in-your-face style and bold lyrics, which she exhibits here.
