Stromae is known for the puns in his songs. It's kinda sad that as a non-French speaker you (in general) cannot realize this. In this music he says "quand c'est, cancer" (almost the same pronunciation) And "fumer tue, tu m'étonnes" subtle but I love the way he wrote it. In the music "Formidable", he says "tu étais formidable, j'étais fort minable "you were great, I was very lousy" (again, almost the same pronunciation.) Anyway, these are just small examples, but all of his songs are subtly written and you can see it. I really love this complete artist, I would have loved to see him in concert (he seems really funny too)
je suis allé à son concert c'était incroyable, des lumières de partout, l'écran derrière lui bref ça mettait tellement dans l'ambiance on avait plus l'impression de regarder une comédie musicale qu'un simple concert. Mon meilleur concert de très loin
@@pouxi8509 la chance, j'ai seulement pu me contenter de regarder le concert à Montréal qui est sur sa chaîne VEVO rien que là on peut voir à quel point il est génial, un artiste complet jusqu'au bout
I think they are all translated. Stromae is known all around the wolrd, he made world tours, so all of his clip video (or at least the most famous) have subtitles. @BreakingBars you should watch them all, Stromae is a genius
That's quite an introduction to Stromae. Probably his most shocking song and video. Bone-chilling. This is beyond singing. It's performance art. Stromae is an extraordinary artist. Unique. A true gem to treasure for years to come. He tells stories, visualizes them and shares his vision. He follows no rules other than to be as honest and transparent as he can be. I've become a huge fan of this guy. I learn something from his work and I never tire of his performances. Everything is perfectly orchestrated to serve the meaning of the song. Enjoy the discovery.
I love when he says "dis moi quand c'est" (tell me when it is) which is almost pronounced the same way as "tell me cancer" in french He is a genius, all of is song are written subtly
Papoutai and formidable are absolute bangers ! You should react + i think they already have a translation. Stromae is one of the few french speaking artist that is world known so yeah keep reacting to him !
One of my favourites from Stromae is "Tous les mêmes", where he alternates between a woman's and a man's point of view based on clichés and prejudices of one gender towards the other. The little Belgian girl that I am is very happy to have discovered your channel, I love it! I like to see your reactions to certain verses and even more so when it comes to deciphering certain metaphors and French expressions. It's really great :D
6:23 Well, even within francophone music, Stromae is kind of an oddity... No one makes music or writes like he does. He's difficult to put in a genre because he's kind of unique. My personal favourite from him is « Humain à l'eau » (again, a play of words, « à l'eau » meaning “to the water” and sounding exactly like “Allô” which is what you say when you answer the phone OR when you want to call out somebody who's not listening)... It's not very popular and I didn't like it the first time I heard it because the music is too minimalist to my taste, but the second time, I listened to the lyrics and... SHIT, this guys knows HOW to write ! I'm trying to make a translation in order to send it to you but, it's pretty complicated due to the kind of writing and the numerous puns in it ;) I just discovered your channel and I like what you do, it's pretty nice :)
Stromae is a Belgian artist from Brussels. His first banger is "Alors on dance" (so we dance) and that song made him known in other places than Belgium. A few years later, he released an album (which for me is one of the best albums of all Time) called "Racine carré" (square root) with songs that became internationally popular like "formidable" "Papaoutai" "ta Fête" etc. He makes kind of electro music but they always have a deeper meaning to them and his text can be very powerful (For example, his song called "Dodo" talks about a father that uses violence on his family).
Indeed he doesn't rap often but his music is still a classic, he rarely makes less than 100 or 200 million views, he has an international reach contrary to French rappers, he was the biggest seller of CDs in France at one point he stopped music because of his success more than 5 years ago because it had affected him psychologically, it's become unbearable, he's been preparing an album for 2 years now, he doesn't know if he wants to publish it or not, what's for sure is that if there's one person who can break the Orelsan record, it's him
No, it was the anti malarial drug called Lariam, which he was given before and during the African leg of his Racine Carrée tour, which caused him terrible depression and suicidal thoughts and anxiety. He credits his brother, Luc, with realizing something was terribly wrong with him and saving his life. Subsequently, that medication, Lariam, was investigated as it has had horrendous side effects for most everyone. Stromae knew he wanted time off after his 209-concert two-year world tour, but this awful drug had a serious affect on him. He had to postpone his concert in Kigali, Rwanda until October 2015, which was an important venue for him for obvious reasons. That was his final Racine Carrée concert. He has been designing fashion, working with other artists and he got married at the end of 2015 to Coralie Barbier with whom he had a son in 2018. I doubt he’ll do a world tour like before for several reasons. I imagine he wouldn’t want to be away from his son for long periods of time for one thing and he can pick his venues now. Bigger ones and fewer concerts. His new single is called Santé (health as well as cheers) and its wonderful. If you need a full explanation of its meaning I suggest an English French professor called Professor Skye. He loves Stromae and expertly dissects his lyrics.
"Quand c'est" and "Cancer" have almost the same pronunciation except for cancer you pronounce the R, Stromae is playing with that all along the song. Fun fact : Kanye and Stromae did a featuring remix of "alors on dance" in 2010
Exactly what I keep telling everyone. Do they bother? No! Why? Because it’s in French and they are lazy. Their loss! He is the most famous person Americans and Brits haven’t heard of. Sad for them.
You should definitely check more of his songs. Every music video on his channel is worth watching imo because of how well thought out they are. Besides, most have eng subs (except Alors On Danse and Te Quiero but still bangers)
oh yeah ,he is quite a story teller (like at the time the famous Jacques Brel who litteraly lived his songs while performing, giving you goosebumps), his writing is deep and unfortunately if you don't speak french you miss a lot of subtle puns ,his lyrics are deep and meaningful,poetic and heavy.
I'm french (sorry for my english) and your videos are very interesting for me : it makes me discovered songs I known with a new eye (I don't know if you say it like this in english)
One thing to add: every titles of his songs are a joke with words with the content of the song. "quand c'est" (could be translated by "when") sounds like "cancer" (the only difference is the "R" that is pronounced)
Stromae is a genius of musicalité of words. Because he is doing singing words.. Like : cancer, quand c est... It's very similar in French and it's help in the mélody. It's the same thing in all his songs.
Stromae released that song in the same period when my grandmother has a cancer, which is a terrible coincidence. Since that time, that song freaks me the fuck out
Maybe the most recent accomplished Belgian artist which have an international reputation such as jacques Brel (he was in my school for a time hehe), look for other songs you will like them (his whole album "racine carée" is great (for real, it's classic now))
StroMy. If you say Maestro (MyStro) and reverse the syllables you get StroMy). He is not a rapper. Only when he was about 14.. quand C’est and Cancer sound the same in French. So it’s When is it (Quand C’est) and Cancer. Stromae writes for everyone who may have gone through whatever he writes about. Cancer is the crab. So the performance is exactly that. My Mum died of cancer, profoundly awful, but this song is genius. Only Stromae could write a song about something so painful but yet you return to it because it’s brilliantly done.
when he says do you help he talks about governments getting money from it instead of banning it, therefore blaming the government for only acting out of self interest
ENGLISH/AMERICAN/WORLDCITIZEN/AMANSPEAKINGENGLISH REACT TO FRENCH/BELGIUM/RANDOM/IDONTKNOW MUSIC/VIDEO/SOUND/SOMETINGRANDOMONTH-cam/IDONTCAREABOUTMYTITLE. Get a try with this one dude
It's probably not the best first song if you don't know him. You should check out the others which are more accessible because this one is the saddest. But every rapper and singer say he is a genius musician !
Please, comment on stromae's Papaoutai (th-cam.com/video/oiKj0Z_Xnjc/w-d-xo.html [video with english traslation]) and Tous les mêmes (th-cam.com/video/CAMWdvo71ls/w-d-xo.html )... and i almost forgot his famous Formidable (i.e. Wonderful [th-cam.com/video/S_xH7noaqTA/w-d-xo.html ]).
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Stromae is known for the puns in his songs. It's kinda sad that as a non-French speaker you (in general) cannot realize this.
In this music he says "quand c'est, cancer" (almost the same pronunciation)
And "fumer tue, tu m'étonnes" subtle but I love the way he wrote it.
In the music "Formidable", he says "tu étais formidable, j'étais fort minable "you were great, I was very lousy" (again, almost the same pronunciation.)
Anyway, these are just small examples, but all of his songs are subtly written and you can see it.
I really love this complete artist, I would have loved to see him in concert (he seems really funny too)
je suis allé à son concert c'était incroyable, des lumières de partout, l'écran derrière lui bref ça mettait tellement dans l'ambiance on avait plus l'impression de regarder une comédie musicale qu'un simple concert. Mon meilleur concert de très loin
@@pouxi8509 la chance, j'ai seulement pu me contenter de regarder le concert à Montréal qui est sur sa chaîne VEVO rien que là on peut voir à quel point il est génial, un artiste complet jusqu'au bout
@@shiminisillters1848 un artiste torturé a n'en pas douté, ce sont toujours les meilleurs !
Ive heard that he used to pley with the french language .From your comment i see that this is true and its genius.I want him back!
His concert was amazing! A total immersive experience
Orelsan and Stromae are Friends. They made some songs together.
Yup, « Carmen » for example is co-written by both of them... Great song, great video and as usual, great lyrics !
@Raph4k60fps nice hh
They've already done a song together, it's called "la pluie" in french
@@maevayouna8358 tu es française ? C'est exactement ce que j'ai dit dans mon comm qu'ils déjà ont fait des chansons ensemble ; )
@@annealappel3116 Mdrrr je pensais que tu disais qu'il devrait en faire ! On a senti la francaise 😅
This guy is a genius. A real artist. Check out his songs Carmen, Formidable, Papaoutai, all of them subtitled I think
I believe the video clip of Formidable had english subtitles and it's a banger
"ta fête" too is really good and has english sub
I think they are all translated. Stromae is known all around the wolrd, he made world tours, so all of his clip video (or at least the most famous) have subtitles. @BreakingBars you should watch them all, Stromae is a genius
That's quite an introduction to Stromae. Probably his most shocking song and video. Bone-chilling. This is beyond singing. It's performance art. Stromae is an extraordinary artist. Unique. A true gem to treasure for years to come. He tells stories, visualizes them and shares his vision. He follows no rules other than to be as honest and transparent as he can be. I've become a huge fan of this guy. I learn something from his work and I never tire of his performances. Everything is perfectly orchestrated to serve the meaning of the song. Enjoy the discovery.
I love when he says "dis moi quand c'est" (tell me when it is) which is almost pronounced the same way as "tell me cancer" in french
He is a genius, all of is song are written subtly
Stromae = Maestro
In Verlan, yes.
Papoutai and formidable are absolute bangers ! You should react + i think they already have a translation. Stromae is one of the few french speaking artist that is world known so yeah keep reacting to him !
You absolutely have to check out "formidable" !! It also has a very cool music video and english subtitles. Definitly a french classic
One of my favourites from Stromae is "Tous les mêmes", where he alternates between a woman's and a man's point of view based on clichés and prejudices of one gender towards the other.
The little Belgian girl that I am is very happy to have discovered your channel, I love it! I like to see your reactions to certain verses and even more so when it comes to deciphering certain metaphors and French expressions. It's really great :D
6:23 Well, even within francophone music, Stromae is kind of an oddity... No one makes music or writes like he does. He's difficult to put in a genre because he's kind of unique.
My personal favourite from him is « Humain à l'eau » (again, a play of words, « à l'eau » meaning “to the water” and sounding exactly like “Allô” which is what you say when you answer the phone OR when you want to call out somebody who's not listening)... It's not very popular and I didn't like it the first time I heard it because the music is too minimalist to my taste, but the second time, I listened to the lyrics and... SHIT, this guys knows HOW to write !
I'm trying to make a translation in order to send it to you but, it's pretty complicated due to the kind of writing and the numerous puns in it ;)
I just discovered your channel and I like what you do, it's pretty nice :)
Stromae is a Belgian artist from Brussels. His first banger is "Alors on dance" (so we dance) and that song made him known in other places than Belgium. A few years later, he released an album (which for me is one of the best albums of all Time) called "Racine carré" (square root) with songs that became internationally popular like "formidable" "Papaoutai" "ta Fête" etc. He makes kind of electro music but they always have a deeper meaning to them and his text can be very powerful (For example, his song called "Dodo" talks about a father that uses violence on his family).
Indeed he doesn't rap often but his music is still a classic, he rarely makes less than 100 or 200 million views, he has an international reach contrary to French rappers, he was the biggest seller of CDs in France at one point he stopped music because of his success more than 5 years ago because it had affected him psychologically, it's become unbearable, he's been preparing an album for 2 years now, he doesn't know if he wants to publish it or not, what's for sure is that if there's one person who can break the Orelsan record, it's him
No, it was the anti malarial drug called Lariam, which he was given before and during the African leg of his Racine Carrée tour, which caused him terrible depression and suicidal thoughts and anxiety. He credits his brother, Luc, with realizing something was terribly wrong with him and saving his life. Subsequently, that medication, Lariam, was investigated as it has had horrendous side effects for most everyone. Stromae knew he wanted time off after his 209-concert two-year world tour, but this awful drug had a serious affect on him. He had to postpone his concert in Kigali, Rwanda until October 2015, which was an important venue for him for obvious reasons. That was his final Racine Carrée concert. He has been designing fashion, working with other artists and he got married at the end of 2015 to Coralie Barbier with whom he had a son in 2018. I doubt he’ll do a world tour like before for several reasons. I imagine he wouldn’t want to be away from his son for long periods of time for one thing and he can pick his venues now. Bigger ones and fewer concerts. His new single is called Santé (health as well as cheers) and its wonderful. If you need a full explanation of its meaning I suggest an English French professor called Professor Skye. He loves Stromae and expertly dissects his lyrics.
In the song he says “quand c’est” which means when is it, and the pronunciation sounds very similar to “cancer” in french.
Stromae created his own genre of music for real
"Quand c'est" and "Cancer" have almost the same pronunciation except for cancer you pronounce the R, Stromae is playing with that all along the song.
Fun fact : Kanye and Stromae did a featuring remix of "alors on dance" in 2010
Stromae is REAL, a definition of true art♥️♥️♥️ please react to more of him like ''Formidable''.. btw loved your reaction🤗
I lost a close friend to cancer at 39 a few months ago. Can’t listen to this song without tears coming...
I'm sorry for your loss.. Cancer really is so horrendous. Hope ur friend is at peace now 🙏
You should react to more Stromae, best french-speaking artist imo
Good to know that Stromae (Maestro) is a beatmaker, so all prods you will hear are from him too ( beatmaker, break-dancer, singer, rapper)
I saw him live, his performance for this song was incredible ! Well, the all live was incredible to be honest, really prepared
"tous les memes" is a song of his with a very artistic video! You should definitely check himout, he is a performer
The onstage performance of Tous Les Mêmes is fantastic. I love that he incorporated his Leçon and played with his audiences too. Just great.
You should watch his concert in Montréal. This guy is a pure entertainer.
Exactly what I keep telling everyone. Do they bother? No! Why? Because it’s in French and they are lazy. Their loss! He is the most famous person Americans and Brits haven’t heard of. Sad for them.
You should definitely check more of his songs. Every music video on his channel is worth watching imo because of how well thought out they are. Besides, most have eng subs (except Alors On Danse and Te Quiero but still bangers)
Check out formidable, alors on danse or papaoutai !
They are his best songs:)
Yeah, please do react to more of his songs!
oh yeah ,he is quite a story teller (like at the time the famous Jacques Brel who litteraly lived his songs while performing, giving you goosebumps), his writing is deep and unfortunately if you don't speak french you miss a lot of subtle puns ,his lyrics are deep and meaningful,poetic and heavy.
Stromae used to rap in a band when he was younger ;) Cool video!
ouahhh merci pour cette reaction je m'attendais pas a la voir
carmen is an other biggggggg song
I'm french (sorry for my english) and your videos are very interesting for me : it makes me discovered songs I known with a new eye (I don't know if you say it like this in english)
Yeah I get what you mean, I'm glad I can give you a new perspective on things!
Ta fete, papaoutai, alors an danse, so many great songs.
One thing to add: every titles of his songs are a joke with words with the content of the song.
"quand c'est" (could be translated by "when") sounds like "cancer" (the only difference is the "R" that is pronounced)
FINALLY STROMAE
Stromae is so good also as comments say he is friend with Orelsan but he also did a music with Billie
"Humain à l'eau" de Stromae est incroyable (amazing song ^^)
Nice to see u introducing Stromae ! Can't wait to see more reacts to stromae !
Orelsan feat Stromae on "La pluie" (Rain) is gold too
Best belgian singer, and maybe best frenchspeaking singer !
He released a new song today!
This fucking gave me chills
Stromae is a genius of musicalité of words. Because he is doing singing words.. Like : cancer, quand c est... It's very similar in French and it's help in the mélody. It's the same thing in all his songs.
Stromae released that song in the same period when my grandmother has a cancer, which is a terrible coincidence. Since that time, that song freaks me the fuck out
Ta fête, Papaoutai, Tous les mêmes et Formidable are some sick bangers
please react to he song formidable
A fucking Legend. You need to react more of him asap!!💪🏻
No fucking way. I was thinking about recing this one too! Lmao 😂 Well, I’m diggin’ in the vid.
It’s his own genre. He invented it.
You right he's a great performer! He has a full show available on his TH-cam channel if you have 2 free hours
If you liked Stromae you should look at Disiz la peste - Splash or - Carré bleu (Stromae did the music) it's great french rap!
You should look at "carmen" from Stromae ! Really well thought and written ; also "formidable"
You should check Carmen of Stromae !
Les yeux brillent !
Maybe the most recent accomplished Belgian artist which have an international reputation such as jacques Brel (he was in my school for a time hehe), look for other songs you will like them (his whole album "racine carée" is great (for real, it's classic now))
You should be more famous, your so funny!
That was deep
YEEEESSIR
more stromae please! "alors on dance" , papaoutai , "formidable"...thanck you. kiss from france .corinne.
To say Stromae us in Begium saying Stromay (like stro and my)
StroMy. If you say Maestro (MyStro) and reverse the syllables you get StroMy). He is not a rapper. Only when he was about 14.. quand C’est and Cancer sound the same in French. So it’s When is it (Quand C’est) and Cancer. Stromae writes for everyone who may have gone through whatever he writes about. Cancer is the crab. So the performance is exactly that. My Mum died of cancer, profoundly awful, but this song is genius. Only Stromae could write a song about something so painful but yet you return to it because it’s brilliantly done.
stromae is so huge !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the next one should really be « papaoutai »
There's a lot of people who wants Damso ft. Stromae !!
French Belgium ppl are Wallon (you probably don't care but still it's how they are named)
The other are Flamish (more NL dialect)
You should listen to “humain à l’eau” from stromae
listen to avf from stromae
Stromae's father isn't dead of cancer but he was killed during the Rwandan genocide, his body was cut into pieces.
From 🇨🇭
STROMAE = MAESTRO 😉
In " argot" french.
U NOW what I mean...... 😏
Open YOUR MIND, bro !
😉
Maybe you can react to "fury" of Django, it's a strong and anger one but the clip is clean :)
you should listen tous les mêmes de stromae too
Everyone recommending Formidable, which you should check out, it’s amazing, but Tous Les Memes is absolutely mind blowing to me ^^
Agreed. Have you seen this interview? th-cam.com/video/70slr7skdtI/w-d-xo.html It’s so great.
when he says do you help he talks about governments getting money from it instead of banning it, therefore blaming the government for only acting out of self interest
FRENCH/BELGIUM MUSIC !!!!!?????
He is a Belgian artist and mainly sings in French.
Dance with the death...
My grandma died from cancer 5 days ago.
This song always was hard to listen to. Now, I thought it would be harder. But that just make me angry.
Orelsan - Discipline please
ENGLISH/AMERICAN/WORLDCITIZEN/AMANSPEAKINGENGLISH REACT TO FRENCH/BELGIUM/RANDOM/IDONTKNOW MUSIC/VIDEO/SOUND/SOMETINGRANDOMONTH-cam/IDONTCAREABOUTMYTITLE.
Get a try with this one dude
Please react to "tous les mêmes", still by Stromae. It's great, and the music video is absolutely awesome
Stromae - Ave Caesaria pleeeeease
Check RA5. He is by far the best rapper in France
😏
It's probably not the best first song if you don't know him. You should check out the others which are more accessible because this one is the saddest. But every rapper and singer say he is a genius musician !
Stromae has no gender in the music industry, he IS his OWN gender. :)
4:45 a very bad trip..
TH-cam need to sort out their blocking 🥱🤦🏻♂️ shit is long !
React damso carte blanche pls
why the best French singers are Belgian ? 😁 (a french fan)
well shit then xD
oh yes, it s not what s you were thinking about
Please, comment on stromae's Papaoutai (th-cam.com/video/oiKj0Z_Xnjc/w-d-xo.html [video with english traslation]) and Tous les mêmes (th-cam.com/video/CAMWdvo71ls/w-d-xo.html )... and i almost forgot his famous Formidable (i.e. Wonderful [th-cam.com/video/S_xH7noaqTA/w-d-xo.html ]).
« Tous les mêmes » clip is fcking mind blowing check it out
Fishtre
Quand cest sounds like cancer in French /Ca ser/
Tous le meme.
Stromae is not french
Worst stromae song