[MUSIC] Zazie, "Adam et Yves"
Oct. 31st, 2005 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWhile listening to Zazie's 2001 album La Zazanie last night, courtesy of the Toronto Public Library system, I came across track #4, "Adam et Yves."
Some foreign languages permit sorts of wordplay that others do not. Run the above lyrics through an online translating service, and say "Adam et Yves" out loud. It only truly works if you're an Anglophone, but "Yves" is close enough to "Ève" for the joke to work in the French language.
And yes, "Adam et Yves" is a fast-paced technopop song with breathy vocals. Let me live up to some stereotypes, eh?
Ils ont commis le péché original
Ils n'auront pas d'héritiers
Mais quel amour est idéal ?
Qui est normal ?
Ils vont de fêtes en défaites
Glamour toujours
Pourtant la guerre, ils l'ont faite
Pour oser s'aimer au grand jour
S'aimer d'amour
Some foreign languages permit sorts of wordplay that others do not. Run the above lyrics through an online translating service, and say "Adam et Yves" out loud. It only truly works if you're an Anglophone, but "Yves" is close enough to "Ève" for the joke to work in the French language.
And yes, "Adam et Yves" is a fast-paced technopop song with breathy vocals. Let me live up to some stereotypes, eh?
