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Gaël Faye - Petit Pays

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

France

The ethnic violence that devastated the central African states of Burundi and Rwanda in the 90s claimed the lives of more than a million people and created many more refugees. One of them was Gaël Faye, a French-Rwandan rapper who expresses his feelings toward his birth country in this beautiful song.
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Caption 21 [en]: Before we're senile we'll go live in Gisenyi
Caption 21 [fr]: Avant qu'on soit sénile on ira vivre à Gisenyi
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Grand Corps Malade - Plan B

Difficulty: difficulty - Advanced Advanced

France

Fabien Marsaud was once an accomplished athlete who after a serious accident had to change his life path. Sometimes we're forced to give up on our dreams, as his song "Plan B" cheekily illustrates.
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Caption 13 [en]: When you're black and Muslim and you want to live in Béziers
Caption 13 [fr]: Quand t'es noir et musulman et que tu veux habiter Béziers
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Maître Gims - Sapés comme jamais ft. Niska

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

France

Maître Gims teams up with Niska for "Sapés comme jamais." Dressed as a sapeur, a sort of Congolese fashionista, Maître Gims embraces his Congolese identity with panache and impeccable style.
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Caption 25 [en]: I'm gonna make you live a dream
Caption 25 [fr]: Je vais te faire vivre un "dream"
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Stromae - Je cours

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Belgium

Belgian singer Stromae sings "Je cours" (I Run) from his first studio album, Cheese. The song's cryptic lyrics seem to be a reflection on his music career.
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Caption 42 [en]: Or a man and live without regret
Caption 42 [fr]: Ou homme et vivre sans remords
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Grand Corps Malade - Comme une évidence

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

France

Slam poet Grand Corps Malade sings "Comme une évidence" ("Like an Obvious Fact" or "Like it's Meant to Be"), in which he tries to write a love song for his beloved who wreaks sweet havoc on his life. He is anxious to find the right words for her. As in his previous song, "Les Voyages en Train" ("Train Rides"), which he alludes to, he includes multiple double entendres and clever turns of phrase that you will enjoy.
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Caption 36 [en]: And if you tell me that it's much better to live without any, you're lying
Caption 36 [fr]: Et si tu me dis que c'est beaucoup mieux de vivre sans tu mens
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Grand Corps Malade - Education nationale

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

France

In "Éducation Nationale," the slam poet Grand Corps Malade gives us his opinion on the shortcomings of the French national education system through the eyes of Moussa, a fifth grader in Épinay. It's a touching song and a call for change in the name of equal opportunity.
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Caption 50 [en]: It's simply because I live there that my future is a dead end.
Caption 50 [fr]: C'est simplement parce que je vis là, que mon avenir est un cul-de-sac.
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Hugo Bonneville - Gagner sa vie

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Canada

Hugo Bonneville talks about the relationship between music and money, the success of his first album, and offers us all the sound advice to take a good long look at ourselves.
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Caption 4 [en]: to live from my music. I ha'... I had a band, and as I was saying during the show,
Caption 4 [fr]: vivre de la musique. J'a'... j'avais un band, et comme je disais pendant le spectacle,
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Annie Chartrand - Sa musique

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Canada

From dreams to reality, putting forth “a little bit of energy each day,” Annie Chartrand, a vocalist who debuted singing behind her bathroom door, burst onto the music scene in 2006. Here is an interview with the singer of Ma blonde est une chanteuse [My Girlfriend Is a Singer]—a group that's actually part of a love story…
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Caption 25 [fr]: Et au premier étage, c'était un bar taverne avec le soir des performances "live" d'artistes
Caption 25 [en]: And on the first floor, there was a bar-tavern with, in the evening, live performances by artists

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