At Christmas 2024, I was offered a new guitar and new harmonicas, replacing those that a fire and smoke getting everywhere in my apartment had rendered unsanitary in October 2022. After many years of making little music due to lack of time, and over two years of not making music at all due to lack of usable instruments, I have now resolved to force myself to find the time, so I make Youtube videos to motivate myself.
Lyrics mine (2010), obviously adapted from the original lyrics of "Miss Maggie" by Renaud (1985). Music: basically my approximation on folk guitar and harmonica of the original composition of "Miss Maggie" (Jean-Pierre Bucolo, also 1985), with just, in the intro and outro, "La Marseillaise" instead of Big Ben (you'll understand why when you listen to the lyrics).
My way of throwing a little fit: writing a parody-detournement — of the well-known old French pop song "On ira tous au Paradis" (1972) by Michel Polnareff (music by the latter, lyrics by Jean-Loup Dabadie — here carefully distorted by me).
(Warning: the sound is very weak on this recording, so you need to pump the volume of your device.)
(And actually, this is definitely in line with the themes of the scholarly journal issue I once co-directed, the Caliban about collapse in fantasy and SF.)
Juste the chorus of "Chirac en prison" (2006) by French punk band Les Wampas, with four different updates regarding current news. 😉
Another "mood-of-the-day" detournement, this time a bit more optimistic than "On ira tous en Dystopie" was... The original song is obviously "Quelqu'un m'a dit" (2003) by Carla Bruni, the wife of the famous convicted felon the detournement is about.
After "Médiapart m'a dit...", here's a sequel to Nicolas Sarkozy's musical adventures in prison. Again a detournement of the song "Quelqu'un m'a dit..." by Carla Bruni.
