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  • i wanna be French now cause i love these songs

  • Je fait l'amour = I fuck . not "I make love" lol

  • J'adore J'adore! J'étudie français! But I started looking up songs for my speech since i cant find shows with subs on the internet and im loving all the songs im finding! :D yay french!

  • A truly wonderful song. I'm studying French A-Level at the moment and didn't realise how beautiful the language was until I listened to french songs + it's really helping me to grasp the language!

  • I walk around... walk around

    :)

  • i am french but i dont like this song :)

  • I love this song, i love the lyrics. I walk around....I walk around, what does it all mean?????

  • @MrStellybob Well in fact it's "Je tourne en rond." wich would be "I'm going around in circles." in English.

  • Nice work!

    Cheese!

  • Je l'aime~ <3

  • JE L"ADORE!!!

  • Wow I'm glad i discovered this :)

  • This song is really awesome!!

  • It's a beautilful song but and it's very well translated but i'm french and when Zazi say:"je suis un homme au pied du mur" it mean "i'm a man at the feet of the wall" (i don't if it's a right sentence) but "in front of" is said "en face de" in french

    And on 2:57 she say: "Sur la terre, sans d'autres raisons, moi je tourne en rond, je tourne en rond" but you traduct: ...without any purpose but to walk around it mean: " sans d'autres raisons que de tourner en rond".

  • @lachtiteblondasse On ne peux pas traduire littérairement le Francais et l'Anglais , il faut savoir quelques fois trouver des phrases differentes sans pour autant perde le sens .

  • Lond ago i heard some clever song .....

    

  • ah, thank you, i wanted to link some nice "proper" french music to a couple people from the US and it's good to find a proper translation ! thanks !

  • what a beautiful and brilliant melody..thank you so much for sharing...

  • c'est tres magnifique :D

  • beautiful=belle ?

  • @Livolette Yes, you're right .

  • je fais l'amour et la revolution...

  • J'adore this song!!! haha.

    

  • Okay, I Love this song and wish to find more like it. Meaning a song with powerful lyrics and good music. nothing to fast about at the pace she goes is good. I been trying to find some but it is hard. So if you know some please tell me. much appreciated thanks.

  • @Apocalypsekid96 I would advice you "une mère" or "la centenaire" by lynda lemay. That's beautiful too. There are a lot of songs of the same artist whom made "je suis un homme", like "zen" or "pleure" by zazie. But I could quote So many songs by georges brassens who's my favourite french singer "toi l'auvergnat". :)

  • And who [in this general carnage] will exterminate him who exterminates all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man... So it is accomplished... the great law of the violent destruction of living creatures. The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death."

  • @Sadalmelek Did you write that yourself? Its powerful :P

  • 'Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him... from the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound... from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child - his table is covered with corpses...

  • "Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

  • lol the king of pricks....

  • French is a beautiful language.

  • @Br4ZuCa You can say taht, baby !

  • c'est belle

  • c'est laide

  • merci beaucoup...c'est super! x

  • Merci de faire découvrir ça à nos camarades Anglophones ;)

  • I have already been through mexicos, korean, japanese music...a little bit of arabic..now im going to search for some good french songs :)..I enjoy international music :) just love to listen to different types of styles

  • @Peri1992010 i would recommend you MC Solaar, which may be difficult to understand because his flow is fast and he 's juggling with the french language but you don't seem to care about it ; )

    Daniel Balavoine is worth to listen to (L'Aziza, Ma Bataille, Tous les cris les SOS, SOS d'un Terrien en Détresse)

  • @GhibliOriginals HAHA Thank you so much :) I appreciate it!

  • @Peri1992010 ; )

  • i definitely just raped the replay button<3

  • "Moi je tourne en rond, je tourne en rond" haha favorite line of all :)

  • 7 people hate French.....

  • what does this song talk about? like whats her main message? i don't speak french but i would love to know!

  • @pinkhighlighterful

    Watch the official video and you will get a clue.

    Search this on Youtube:

    watch?v=oSIoP7h4B_M

    Basically the official videos shows the paradox of human existence

  • @Sadalmelek thank you :)

  • @pinkhighlighterful To me, It feels like she's trying to tell a story about a man who can't control himself around other women and he knows it's wrong, but can't find the willpower to make it stop. That seems like it to me since I take french and understand it and the actual french lyrics has more meaning to it then the english.

  • @lilytoon1995 No, it's not the meaning of the song. Not at all. You should watch the clip of the song :)

  • @FABUL0OSDiVAS yeh, i always took it to be a kind of homage to french modernism (like Joyce was), and critiquing the way man bends the world to his own will, and how the world becomes shaped by the ideologies of man - and yet the existence man creates for himself is usually his destruction. And I always translated 'moi je tourne en rond' as I go round in circles

  • @lilytoon1995 You misunderstood the song. When she use the word "Man" (Homme), it's for Mankind and not only for the male gender.

  • @NFL9475 OH ok! :) i guess if you think about what i thought it also made a little sense but i guess yours make a bit more sense

  • @pinkhighlighterful The lyrics are in English... It's about how mankind (men AND women; humans) have a nature to destroy and want things, since we believe ourselves to be "kings" ruling the planet. Then she sings about how we could be natures mistake since all we do is walk around killing things out of our way.

  • This is such a beautiful song....I love the French language =]

  • Thanks for this :) By the way, it would be great if in your videos you included the French lines above the English translation.

  • well,after seeing this video all can i say(and it's sad) it's OMG, that's my song

  • J'aime bien Zazie,au moins ces chansons veulent dire quelque chose et elle se contente pas de faire des chansons d'amour a la con

  • Je sais combien de parler français

  • wow, this is beautiful

  • J'adore cette chanson! Je parle l'anglais et je comprends toutes de ca! Il y a un message bon ici.

  • je suis heureux que de nombreux anglophones puissent apprecier cette magnifique chanson....

  • I should've discovered French music a long time ago...

  • J'aime cela et je connais seulement français depuis cinq ans et il a payé vraiment

  • Zazie est une merveilleuse chanteuse. Ses textes sont en or!

  • Loves this song and is using it to learn french^^

  • Ce musique thre bon

  • Ans seven dislikes? They're either hopelessly dense, shallow, and oblivious, or just the sort of people the song rails against.

  • This song caught my attention when I first heard it. Now that I know what the lyrics mean, it amazes me even more. What a fantastic piece of music. It redeems my faith in human beings.

  • Few english songs have such deep meaning. I am ashamed for what humanity is when I read these lyrics .

  • I speak french but the subtitles are helpful I LOVE THIS SONG

  • love the beat!

  • From my minimal French experience (meaning level 1 unit 1 of Rosetta Stone), I can understand poisson and je suis un homme, and that's about it, but gosh darn it, someday I will understand this whole song written in this beautiful language <3

  • j'aime la musique française

  • woah.. this song is so real it's scary

  • J'adore cette chanson! Wow le rythme est incroyable ...

  • Sadly, this song is pretty accurate...

  • Ah ouais ! Quand j'étais petit ça ^^ ça fait bizarre de l'écouter à nouveau lol

  • beautiful song.

    french is such a beautiful language

  • we don't need to understand that,French IS MUSIC

  • its a song about the live way.

  • cette chanson c'est formindale! J'apprends francais dans l'ecole donc ma francais est assez nul mais ma GCSE est l'annee semaine donc je besoin pratice! ma francais est nul donc penible livre? haha :P mais bien chanteuse!

  • BEAUTIFUL. :D

    I've been taking French for 4 years, and I'm proud to say that I understand. x3

  • @xDrzc49 lolol but even if you didn't take french you'd still be able to understand this...cuz hence the lyrics :3

  • @SilverFlower16 Very true. ;D

  • @xDrzc49 Omg your so lucky:O I wanna learn to speak French but my mom is forced me to speak spanish instead. And I hate Mexico. DX

  • @xDrzc49 That's awesome, I hope to speak it fluently soon!

  • merci égard de la France toulon

  • Njsellars = You're a GREAT man for posting french songs with english subtitles. I'm french and would like to make discover our singers to foreign friends... and I do now, thanks to U !! A huge kiss to you from Paris ;-)

  • absolutely great!

  • i also don't understand french or speak it but this is a beautiful song though ^.^ ... thanks for putting english lyrics! it makes sense 2 me now! :)

  • J'aime Zazie! :) J'ai chanté cette chanson pour un festival! :)

  • Anyway it's always nice to read peoples' comments on meaning of lyrics. When the meaning of lyrics isn't clear and the text can be interpreted in so many ways, those comments can tell you a lot about the person who writes them :)

    We really see what we want to see.

    We are truly kings of illusions :)

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  • this song is really good, though i dont understand French, but i am taking it

  • Avis! Risque de choc electrique! Ne pas ouvrir! Je ne comprends pas! Yeah i know French!

  • Avis! Risque de choc electrique! Ne pas ouvrir! Je ne comprends pas! Yeah i know French!

  • C'est un très bon morceau et je parle couramment le français, je comprends donc les chansons.gentil à vous de traduire pour tout le monde.ont une très belle journée

  • excellent song for improving my limited french vocabulary

  • Wow, I see this song from the standpoint of someone crying out for help. She sees how mundane life is when it doesn't have a purpose or a meaning. I pray that she finds it....and a lot of others like her who feel the same way

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  • lmfao (below) 

  • I just wonder how people in other languages write songs that rhyme when the words themselves in English don't. It baffles me. O_o

  • @SkaterPunk82 i know huh?? like when you translate it in english its just a bunch of words....(ahah baffles lol sorry just had to say)

  • French is beautiful and so is this song.

  • j'adore:) je suis une femme? lol.

  • What is about music in another language that makes it so enchanting?

  • @Dreamdaze000 I know right?! Especially French, French is a beautiful language..

  • The best thing about this song is that it's all so true...

  • the king of pricks lol

  • Dans ma classe de 5ieme on a dû la chantée =) Quel bordel... au lieu de chanté

    Je suis un homme et je mesure, toute l'horreur de ma nature, dans notre classe c'était Je suis un homme et je mesure, un metre quarte vingt sans mes chaussures !! =) c'était y a 4 ans et j'ai jamais oublié =D

  • J'aime (I like)

  • first, this person did a beautiful job translating the lyrics.

    i love this song with a beautiful passion. She is a great singer. I just found it the other day because i wanted to listen to something French after i had completed my French homework.. i am working on memorizing the lyrics and i'm almost there...

    i'm just in love with her music... bravo!!!!!

  • @bazpoze88 Same here! I can't believe I hadn't come across this song since it came out 2007 before - I've been missing out. :)

  • je suis du nigerien-americain je n`ai jamais su peuple fraincais pouvait chanter ce bien, cette chanson est incroyable, elle resonne avec mon ame, je l`aime beacoup

  • super tres bien jai bien aime la chanson

  • I love the song I speak French in the school I go to in Granby, Colorado called Indian Peaks Charter School and I love the song

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  • superbe chanson!

  • I like this song

  • je tourne en rond = I go in circles

  • J aime ce chanson,

    -translation-

    I like this song.

  • j'aime ceci!!!!!!!! <3

  • i agree with the song, we are just another type of specie. we hunt, we kill, and we eat just like any other animal. and we all have blood, we have a heart, a brain and ect. :D lol

  • @chiikichiiki except that you can simply post a comment on youtube while your kitty or puppy can't even turn on the tv :p

  • @mariadavinci1993 lol true true, but some animals can turn on the tv :D which is pretty awesome:P xD

  • Hou là ceci est la très jolie chanson je parle français et l'anglais si ceci est une vidéo parfaite pour moi im très heureux maintenant

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  • I love this song, but I don't agree that we are just another animal.. but it's a great song.

  • I don't speak french or understand it so well, but I really like this song (:

  • me 2 :))

  • i believe 5 people missed the 'like' botton

  • really good video, might use it for a future video of mine!

  • Je suis Canadien mais j' habite en Ontario. J'etudie le francias dans mon ecole et je suis en classe de dixième. Whew...good thing I had my trusty French-English dictionary handy. Did anyone understand the French part or was it really bad? Plz reply because I am trying to work on my french

  • @NintendoMaster098 bonjour, i found it easier to understand the song in french by having an online translator, u can just google one, i just typed in the english sentences then u can catch the words when she sings them in french. cause the first time i heard the song i didnt understand much of it, and my french is a little rusty ... :-/

  • @NintendoMaster098

    Well you made a few mistakes, like "J'etudie le francias dans mon ecole" it's francais and not francias, and you don't say "dans mon ecole" it's "j'etudie le francais a l'ecole". Also, you said you're Canadian BUT you live in Ontario ? i think you meant "je suis Canadien ET j'habite en Ontario."

    Last, but not least, you can't say "je suis en classe de dixième. " That's the only think that made absolutely no sense. Try to fix it :)

  • Je suis un Homme-en francaise....i am home-en anglaise

  • @DisneyAnimeNetworks

    I am a man- en anglaise.

  • @Fholer28 o ok

  • Many thanks for providing the sub-titles, love the song.

  • I love this song. I just wish I could understand it without the subtitles. =P

  • "the king of fools" not pricks :S im majoring in french

  • @xboston1 it'd be C'est tres bien (Le cinema est tres bon?) Je suis American (ou Je vient des Etats-Unis mais je parle un peu francais. bon? (Mon professeur n'est pas francais mais elle est viens dans France pour un peu *time?*

  • @roric33 Your sentence is not perfect but i've understood, and for *time* it's in French *temps* the correct sentence is: (Ma professeur n'est pas Français mais elle a vécu un peu de temps en France. (For that: Mon Professeur is not correct because ur teacher is a woman so u must say: Ma professeur) but don't worry my English is bad. :)

  • Je suis américain. Je suis à la recherche d'une chanson de Laudel. Je pense qu'il est appelé Laudel mais je ne suis pas sûr. Je suis également en utilisant Google Translate pour ce type. Répondre en anglais si possible. Désolé pour les mauvais français. Je suis toujours en apprentissage.

  • @SkillzMan1027 Dont use Google translate on whole sentances, it can screw things up (Tip from French teacher)

  • @SkillzMan1027 Hey!!! I'm french and maybe i can answering to your question. Did u know one of the title of his song? And maybe it's "Faudel" but i'm not sure. (Sorry for my bad American :)).

  • @MrSpencerJay Thanks I found it it was "Mon Pays" by Faudel I misread it. Thanks for the help. By the way, not to be mean or anything, but in America we speak English not American. But don't worry it was a good mistake to make. Thanks!

  • mal.... tres mal

  • désolé de ma langue. Mon français n'est pas tout que grand.

  • Une si magnifique chanson!! Et qui se soucie si c'est un garçon ou une fille ? sérieusement, qui donne le fait de baiser ? ? je veux dire, si vous l'aimez, l'écoutez. si vous dont comme cela, partir

  • That's so good!!!!

  • J'ADORE!!!

  • J'adore cette chanson!

  • c'est un beau chanson.

  • beautiful :)

  • She's not a guy, and she's actually very pretty ... and smart with it ! :)

  • Zazie is a woman (even if it's not the best picture of her).

    When she talk about monkey and fish, it refers to Darwin evolution ...

  • THIS IS A GUY!

    IT SOUNDS LIKE A GIRL...

    SO DOES JUSTIN BIEBER SO I SHOULDNT TALK....

  • @LALA27ism she's a woman though

  • Thank you man for the English words you are awesome.

  • At The end sees the picture

    me and my friend "THATS A A GIRL!?"

  • je parle une petite francais, mais ne trÉs pas bien... J'adore cette chansons, et j'espere je peux apprendre plus. Souhaitons moi bonne chance... pardon moi pour mes des erreurs.

  • great video :) i added my cover of "je suis un homme" on my youtube page. please visit it ;)

  • Is it 'I turn around' or 'I walk around'?

  • @IamKarmasis It's "I turn around."

  • this is lovely so beautiful

  • OMFG I love Zazie <333

  • Je suis un homme de Cromagnon Je suis un singe ou un poisson Sur la terre en toute saison Moi je tourne en rond,je tourne en rond Je suis un seul ??? des millions Je suis un homme au coeur de Lion A la guerre en toute saison Moi je tourne en rond,je tourne en rond Je suis un homme pleins d'ambitions Belle voiture et belle maison Dans la chambre dans le salon Moi je tourne en rond,je tourne en rond Je fais l'amour et la revolution Je fais le tour de la question...
  • i like it better without the french maybe you could translate something else for me so i can share it with my friend?

  • Lol so lame text XD

    i am a monkey or a fish

  • @antonbuckley She's trying to say that humans are just another animal.

  • @AutumnGracy um.. no she isnt? I could see someone thinking that if they only listened to the first verse, but since she clearly contrasts man to woman in the second it cant be a reference to the human race. She is making a reference to men, as in males. She is saying that men destroy the world, they are bound by their own chains, they treat women like commercial products, and that they act like kings though really they are only pricks. glad i could clear things up for you :)