{"id":30308,"date":"2018-05-12T00:11:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=30308"},"modified":"2018-05-12T00:11:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T22:11:56","slug":"new-french-music-maitre-gims-en-duo-avec-vianney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/new-french-music-maitre-gims-en-duo-avec-vianney\/","title":{"rendered":"New French Music: Ma\u00eetre GIMS En duo avec Vianney"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve already written about the popular French artist Vianney<\/a>. Well, he’s just come out with a new release\u00a0en duo\u00a0<\/em>(in a duet) with the French rapper Ma\u00eetre GIMS. Ma\u00eetre GIMS is a well known French musician, a former member of the hip-hop group Sexion d’Assaut, and released his third solo album\u00a0La Ceinture Noire<\/em>\u00a0(The Black Belt) in March 2018. You can listen to one of the hits off that album\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n

Ma\u00eetre GIMS and Vianney’s new hit,\u00a0La M\u00eame\u00a0<\/em>(The Same), is an anthem of sorts for those who aren’t bothered by what others think of them. The chorus features part a familiar expression: “Si je vous g\u00eane<\/em>…” (If I bother you), but then continues with “bah, c’est la m\u00eame<\/em> (in this usage, well, it’s the same for me). It’s not hard to read a more political meaning into the song. Although it isn’t said outright in the lyrics, the song seems to be about different types of people (and possibly different cultures) learning to accept one another.<\/p>\n

You can read the lyrics, with their translation, below, and then watch the music video. Get ready to dance!<\/p>\n

La M\u00eame<\/em><\/div>\n
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Mes amis entendaient la vie que j’ai eu\u00a0<\/em>(My friends waited for the life that I’ve had)
\nO\u00f9 les gens m’attendaient, je n’suis pas venu\u00a0<\/em>(Where people waited for me, I didn’t come)
\nSi je les emm\u00eale, si je d\u00e9range\u00a0<\/em>(If I stir things up, if I bother them)
\nC’est qu’je suis un p\u00eale-m\u00eale, un m\u00e9lange\u00a0<\/em>(It’s because I’m a bit chaotic, a mix)
\nJ’suis trop compliqu\u00e9, je n’choisirai jamais\u00a0<\/em>(I’m too complicated, and I will never choose)
\nQue les deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s, ne me demandez\u00a0<\/em>(Only two sides, don’t ask me)
\nPas o\u00f9 je veux aller, m\u00eame les singes singent les sages\u00a0<\/em>(Where I should go, even monkeys imitate sages)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Eh, eh, aye, aye<\/em>
\nAye, aye, aye<\/em>
\nSi je vous g\u00eane, bah c’est la m\u00eame\u00a0<\/em>(If I bother you, well it’s the same for me\/you bother me too)
\nSi je vous g\u00eane, bah c’est la m\u00eame<\/em>
\nEh, eh, aye, aye<\/em>
\nAye, aye, aye<\/em>
\nSi je vous g\u00eane, bah c’est la m\u00eame<\/em>
\nSi je vous g\u00eane, bah c’est la m\u00eame<\/em><\/div>\n
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On prend des bo\u00eetes, on y range les gens qu’au fond jamais, jamais l’on ne comprend\u00a0<\/em>(We take boxes and we place inside them all the people that we feel we will never, ever understand)
\nComme l’Homme est fait de mille bo\u00eetes, ces bo\u00eetes que l’on prend ne sont jamais assez grandes\u00a0<\/em>(Just as man is made of thousands of boxes, these boxes we put people into are never big enough)<\/div>\n
J’ai suivi mille chemins et serr\u00e9 dix mille mains\u00a0<\/em>(I followed thousands of paths and shook ten thousand hands)
\nOn peut aimer Brel et Megui, aimer m\u00eame nos ennemis\u00a0<\/em>(We can love Brel or Megui, love our enemies)<\/div>\n
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