La Cidrerie – Louis Caratini, "Tu connais la chanson ?"

How about we play “Do You Know This Song”? And for once, let’s start with the lyrics? Because, after all, French song is a language. Trenet hangs out with the Surrealists; Gainsbourg spits out lines by Verlaine. Maybe that’s what defines French chanson—the language. Yet it borrows from musical genres all over the world. So is it really that French?

What if we played by breaking the rules of the game? To no longer feel ashamed of not knowing. But to be proud of discovering something for the first time. Let’s deconstruct mainstream culture. And realize that it’s always unique. Maybe our taste is the result of our upbringing, or our social class?