{"id":17339,"date":"2012-11-25T17:43:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=17339"},"modified":"2017-10-20T14:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:25:01","slug":"who-is-up-for-some-french-tango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/who-is-up-for-some-french-tango\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Up for Some French Tango?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Did you know that although <strong>Tango<\/strong> is originally <strong>Argentinian<\/strong>, the first Tango song ever to be recorded was\u00a0performed by the <strong>French<\/strong> <em><strong>Garde nationale<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0in <strong>Paris<\/strong>, supposedly because there was no recording studio available in <strong>Argentina<\/strong> at that time?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z3bfsFgH6uc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z3bfsFgH6uc<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Zofka &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ve Seen That Face Before&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strange, I&#8217;ve seen that face before,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c9trange, j&#8217;ai vu ce visage auparavant,\u00a0<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Seen him hanging &#8217;round my door,<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Je l&#8217;ai vu\u00a0tra\u00eener pr\u00e8s de ma porte,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like a hawk stealing for the prey,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Tel un faucon pr\u00eat \u00e0 d\u00e9rober sa proie,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like the night waiting for the day,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Telle la nuit attendant le jour,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strange, he shadows me back home,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c9trange, il me file jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 chez moi,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Footsteps echo on the stones,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Des \u00e9chos de pas r<em>\u00e9<\/em>sonnent sur les pierres,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainy nights, on Hausmann Boulevard,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Nuits pluvieuses, sur le boulevard Haussmann,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parisian music, drifting from the bars,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wanna-go-to-the-summer-parisian-soirees\/\">Musique parisienne<\/a>,\u00a0\u00e9manant des bars,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tu cherches quoi, rencontrer la\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/trop-damour-tue-too-much-love-kills-lamour-ou-la-mort-a-matter-of-love-and-death\/\">mort<\/a>?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are you looking for, meeting death?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tu te prends pour qui, toi aussi tu detestes la vie?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who do you think you are, you too hate life?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dance in bars and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/garcon-how-to-politely-complain-in-french-restaurants-or-congratulate-the-chef\/\">restaurants<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Danse dans des bars et des\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/garcon-how-to-politely-complain-in-french-restaurants-or-congratulate-the-chef\/\">restaurants<\/a>,\u00a0<strong><strong><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Home with anyone who wants,\u00a0<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Rentre avec quiconque le veut,<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Strange he&#8217;s standing there alone,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c9trange, il est debout l<em>\u00e0<\/em>-bas tout seul,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Staring eyes chill me to the bone\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Un regard qui me p<em><em>\u00e9<\/em><\/em>trifie jusqu&#8217;<em><em>\u00e0<\/em><\/em>\u00a0la moelle\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dans sa chambre, Joel et sa valise,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his room, Joel and his suitcase<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Un regard sur ses fringues,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A glance over his clothes<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sur les murs, des\u00a0photos,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the walls, pictures,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/non-je-ne-regrette-rien-edith-piaf-2\/\">Sans regret<\/a>, sans m\u00e9lo,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/non-je-ne-regrette-rien-edith-piaf-2\/\">No regrets<\/a>, no soppy<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>La porte est claqu\u00e9e, Joel est barr\u00e9.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The door is slammed, Joel&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strange&#8230; I&#8217;ve heard this song before:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astor Piazzolla - Libertango\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUAPf_ccobc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Astor Piazzolla &#8211;\u00a0<em>Libertango\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"233\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/5514987681_9d2b34afcb_z-233x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/5514987681_9d2b34afcb_z-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/11\/5514987681_9d2b34afcb_z.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p>Did you know that although Tango is originally Argentinian, the first Tango song ever to be recorded was\u00a0performed by the French Garde nationale\u00a0in Paris, supposedly because there was no recording studio available in Argentina at that time? Zofka &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ve Seen That Face Before&#8221; Strange, I&#8217;ve seen that face before,\u00a0 \u00c9trange, j&#8217;ai vu ce visage&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/who-is-up-for-some-french-tango\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":23737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[108,13],"tags":[8700,250161,222,250160,367,66274,250158,2550,250157],"class_list":["post-17339","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-vocabulary","tag-argentina","tag-chanson-en-francais-et-en-anglais","tag-chanson-francaise","tag-etrange","tag-french-music","tag-french-tango","tag-le-tango","tag-strange","tag-tango-francais"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28442,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions\/28442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}