{"id":1832,"date":"2010-10-15T16:59:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T16:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2017-10-18T12:32:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T10:32:18","slug":"got-feeling-french-make-fun-david-guetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/got-feeling-french-make-fun-david-guetta\/","title":{"rendered":"I Gotta Feeling&#8230; that the French are Making Fun of David &#8216;Duck&#8217; Guetta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already <strong><em>la fin de semaine<\/em><\/strong> (the weekend),\u00a0and you know what that means:\u00a0Wherever you&#8217;ll be, you&#8217;ll most likely\u00a0be\u00a0bombarded\u00a0by\u00a0some really\u00a0&#8220;catchy&#8221;\u00a0<strong>David Guetta<\/strong> tunes, ragingly blasting\u00a0on the radio, on TV,\u00a0in a\u00a0club, or if you&#8217;re real\u00a0lucky,\u00a0while you&#8217;re trying to do some shopping at\u00a0the local\u00a0mall, if not at the supermarket down the street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>David Guetta (his official puppet from the French favorite show &#8220;<em>Les Guignols de l&#8217;Info&#8221;<\/em>)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Et \u00e0 ce propos <\/em><\/strong>(Speaking of which), you ever wondered\u00a0how on God&#8217;s\u00a0green earth\u00a0<strong>David Guetta<\/strong> has actually &#8220;pulled it off&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>How he\u00a0managed\u00a0to\u00a0be catapulted to\u00a0his\u00a0worldwide\u00a0status of &#8220;<em><strong>grand musicien\u00a0\u00e0 succ\u00e8s<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0?<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nTo help you\u00a0obtain a satisfying\u00a0answer to this ultimately momentous question, the highly experienced\u00a0investigative team of the popular\u00a0French show\u00a0<em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canalplus.fr\/c-divertissement\/pid1784-c-les-guignols.html\">Les Guignols de l&#8217;Info<\/a><\/strong><\/em><strong>&#8221; <\/strong>(&#8220;The News Puppets&#8221;) decided to\u00a0offer you\u00a0an exclusive and particularly\u00a0insightful\u00a0portrait of the biggest name in today&#8217;s\u00a0French music scene:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwrMaLzEUfQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwrMaLzEUfQ<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>[<\/strong><strong>***Fast forward the video to 4:05***]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> <strong>\u25cf <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Translation from French<\/span>: &#8220;An exclusive portrait of the biggest star of today&#8217;s\u00a0French music: David Guetta. Within a few years, he&#8217;s\u00a0turned into\u00a0a world star! He sold more than 7 million albums. The French DJ ows his tremendous success to his unmatched talents of musician. His force? He knows how to play all kinds of instruments: Guitar&#8230; Piano&#8230; Bass&#8230; Trumpet&#8230; and even classical instruments, such as harp.<br \/>\nDavid Guetta: With one finger, he dominates\u00a0the music world, and with that one finger, he can even sing [you see him dropping by the\u00a0&#8220;Black Eyed Peas&#8221; apartment: &#8220;Hey guys, you wanna sing this?&#8221;]<br \/>\nDavid Guetta, with one finger he&#8217;s become the\u00a0most famous French musician\u00a0in the world&#8212;Now imagine if he knew how to use his other nine\u00a0fingers?!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you look back at the history of music, you will\u00a0unmistakingly\u00a0notice a certain pattern of early childhood\u00a0genius\u00a0emerging:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ludwig Van Beethoven<\/strong> initiated his<strong> <em>compositions classiques<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the rather\u00a0impressive\u00a0age of\u00a012.<\/li>\n<li>At the startling\u00a0age of\u00a0<strong>6<\/strong>, <strong><em>le petit prodige de la musique <\/em><\/strong>(young\u00a0music prodigee) <strong>Wolfgang Amadeus\u00a0Mozart<\/strong> had already composed his <strong><em>premi\u00e8re sonate <\/em><\/strong>(first sonata.)<\/li>\n<li>As for the &#8220;<strong><em>DJ National<\/em>\u00a0of France<\/strong>&#8220;, brace yourself: Once again, according to the well-informed sources of the French show <em><strong>&#8220;Les Guignols de l&#8217;Info&#8221;<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0he seems to have\u00a0discovered his <strong><em>vocation musicale<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0way earlier!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Guetta &quot; Simon &quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DPLcrsLAkKg?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><br \/>\nThe once-mysterious &#8220;incubator&#8221; of David Guetta&#8217;s precocious\u00a0<em>g\u00e9nie cr\u00e9atif<\/em> (creative\u00a0genius) has, at last, been\u00a0brought into broad\u00a0light: It&#8217;s in fact none other than &#8220;Simon&#8221;, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qCuyBeUhXK0\">ancestor<\/a> of one of today&#8217;s generational\u00a0(&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/still-lost-in-abreviation-translation-part-2\/\">Generation Y<\/a>&#8220;) icons, a\u00a0typical eye-opener, intellectual talent-builder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dumbest-Generation-Stupefies-Americans-Jeopardizes\/dp\/1585426393\">child intelligence enhancer<\/a>;\u00a0the\u00a0brilliantly ingenious polychromatic\u00a0push-a-button educational\u00a0toy, the modern Prometheus of the music instruments\u00a0known to us as &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221;!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After making the acquaintance of\u00a0<strong><em>les<\/em>\u00a0<em>d\u00e9buts sensationnels <\/em><\/strong>of David&#8217;s musical <em>&#8220;<strong>cr\u00e9ations<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0let us now fast-forward to present time. Some\u00a0<strong>serious legal allegations<\/strong> against the French DJ have lately come to the surface.<strong>\u00a0<em>La nouvelle\u00a0a eu l&#8217;effet d&#8217;un\u00a0tremblement de terre dans le monde du showbiz\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(The news\u00a0has fallen like an earthquake in the showbusiness world): David Guetta seems to be author of<em>\u00a0<\/em>a blatant <em><strong>plagiat<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(plagiarism.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\">How so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\">When the news came out, many diehard fans remained <\/span><em>sceptiques <\/em><span style=\"text-align: left;\">(skeptical.) <strong><em>A<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>pr\u00e8s tout <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: left;\">(after all), these sorts of <\/span><strong><em>empreints musicaux <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: left;\">(musical borrowings)\u00a0are\u00a0<\/span><strong><em>monnaie courante<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"text-align: left;\"> (&#8220;common currency&#8221;, very usual) in the world of music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left;\"> Unfortunately, any complacent doubt in favor of Guetta instantly vanishes after examining this one\u00a0piece of\u00a0damning evidence,\u00a0exhibited by the prosecution during David Guetta&#8217;s trial:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10rIPpwex8c\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10rIPpwex8c<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to admit that\u00a0it&#8217;s quite\u00a0unsettling. The melody resemblance is rather striking!&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daffy Duck - Despicable Remix\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKs-2dRVqak?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><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DJ Duffy Duck, another key prosecution <em>t\u00e9moin<\/em> (witness) present at the trial, and a potential lead plaintiff against\u00a0David Guetta\u00a0in the case related to the plagiarizing of his own original hit album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/il.youtube.com\/watch?v=v4XN--hFafA\">Duck Me, I&#8217;m Famous<\/a>.&#8221;<br \/>\nDuffy, who insists on calling the title\u00a0<em>&#8220;Je suis connu dans le monde entiers gr\u00e2ce au r\u00e9pertoire d&#8217;un canard<\/em>&#8220;, or simply in English\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m Famous thanks to a Duck&#8221;)<em>,<\/em>\u00a0was visibly\u00a0outraged by the music\u00a0piracy scandal (at one time in court\u00a0yelling\u00a0in Guetta&#8217;s face:\u00a0&#8220;You&#8217;re deth&#8217;picable!&#8221;), and is\u00a0now carefully contemplating a major &#8220;ducklass-action&#8221;, which is said to enjoy the 100% support of co-plaintiffs\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6-j8D_nwaFs\">Donald Duck<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=usxqpVB7Cug\">Darkwing Duck<\/a>, under the rallying cry (or rather &#8220;quack&#8221;, if you prefer) of\u00a0&#8220;Angry ducks of the World: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bNZLCet5OHM\">Unighte<\/a>!&#8221;&#8212;Needless to say, the embattled DJ\u00a0is having quite a hard time &#8220;ducking out&#8221; this affaire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Now that his plagiarism has become public knowledge, &#8220;I gotta feeling&#8221; that the hapless\u00a0Monsieur Guetta, a.k.a.\u00a0&#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiocite.net\/livres-audio-gratuits-contes\/hans-christian-andersen-le-vilain-petit-canard.html\">le vilain petit canard<\/a>&#8221; <\/em>(of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersen.sdu.dk\/vaerk\/hersholt\/TheUglyDuckling_e.html\">The Ugly Duckling<\/a>&#8221; fame, in the\u00a0English version), has no\u00a0alternative but\u00a0-if you don&#8217;t mind one\u00a0last &#8220;ducking&#8221; pun\u00a0in today&#8217;s &#8220;duck tour&#8221;- to turn into\u00a0a\u00a0&#8220;sitting lame-duck&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s already la fin de semaine (the weekend),\u00a0and you know what that means:\u00a0Wherever you&#8217;ll be, you&#8217;ll most likely\u00a0be\u00a0bombarded\u00a0by\u00a0some really\u00a0&#8220;catchy&#8221;\u00a0David Guetta tunes, ragingly blasting\u00a0on the radio, on TV,\u00a0in a\u00a0club, or if you&#8217;re real\u00a0lucky,\u00a0while you&#8217;re trying to do some shopping at\u00a0the local\u00a0mall, if not at the supermarket down the street. 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