French Music Discussion Thread ~Introduction~

[Andrenekoi]

Émilie Simon ir pure love!

But I'm going to pimp my Frech diva here!

Mylène Farmer
Genre: Pop
Studio Albums: Cendres de Lune (86), Ainsi soit je... (88), L'Autre... (91), Anamorphosée (95), Innamoramento (99), Avant que l'ombre... (05), Point de Suture (08)
Notable Songs: Libertine, Sans Contrefaçon, Pourvu qu'elles soient douces, Ainsi soit je, Désenchantée, Je t'aime mélancolie, XXL, California, Rêver, Je te rends ton amour, C'est une belle journée
Brief Description: As far as I know (I'm not frech), the easier way to describe Mylène would be by saying that she is the French equivalent to Madonna: Her music videos are fantastic and meanful, her concerts are huge and considerated to be among the best, her albums sells like hot cakes and she is the artist with the most number 1 hits on France (second is Celine Dion). The singer songwriter (she wrote all her songs but some on the first album) is also known by her deep and complicated lyrics, her taste for talking about sex and death and her touch to be aways surrounded by controversies or mysteries. It's the first mainstream singer to have frontal nude scenes on MV (Libertine and Pourvu qu'elles soient douces) and had some videos banned from TV in Frace!^^ BTW, she is kind of a mentor to Alizeé, she and Laurent Boutonnat (her producer and main composer) produced Alizeé's first 2 albums and kind of trained her in order to keep her image and be a popstar!

I really like Paris Combo too, but don't know much about them