It was actually a very smart marketing strategy. The people who were filming him uploaded the videos on the internet with headlines "Stromae drunk on the streets of Bruxelles" and it went viral even before the release of the video. And the video is probably so cheap to film but so effective, And everyone were stunned after they found out he was pretending. He is such a genius.
He even made the news then! I remeber. Everybody thought he was losing it, that fame had gotten into his head. But no, he fooled everone in a creative way.
If you think about it, that kind of adds to the message he tries to convey. The music on it's own portrays someone who's extremely lonely after a breakup and who tries to cope with alcohol. The music video I feel portrays to how society reacts if that person is being a public nuisance. So it's a commentary about society too. Genious shit!! Also even though he was popular at that point, this is also a commentary about artists having genuine mental issues (the people recording him). And he accomplished it by not writing a script, not having actors, but getting genuine reactions out of people. He is so incredibly powerful as a musician
@@TheTrueAltoClef Yes, this is also true. It's both brilliant marketing idea and a concept to make interesting video. For his song "Hell" he again chose interesting way to promote it. He did an interview for their morning news program where he actually at one point just started singing the song as it was part of the interview staring directly at the camera. Brilliant idea!
At the end of the video a text is mentioned: 'Filmé intégralement en caméra cachée', meaning that the whole video was filmed with a hidden camera. Great song, greetings from Belgium.
I love the way you're assembling every puzzle Stromae is putting in his songs. BTW, even in French the buildup of the whole story corresponds to the confused character state of mind and isn't easy to get at the beginning. His way with lyrics is properly formidable (I couldn't miss this one!) because he always adjusts their construction to suit perfectly to the different subjects of his songs. I really won't be surprised if one day he'll makes a movie with a solid story, killer dialogues and a stellar photography. Actually I'm somewhat impatient to watch it in a proper movie theater, and it's been more than 20 years I didn't go to watch a movie there. I also appreciate your compassion, and you're right about it being more scarce these days.
ayee thank you so much!! i can totally see Stromae making a killer movie!! the way he portrays his music, i feel he would make a hugeeeee movie, no matter the topic!! also i just wanna say i love your comments!! reading the last part of this gave me goosebumps!! Thank you soo much for the kind words i really appreciate it!! it means so much!! Much love!!
@@its_casza3342 I'm very glad my comment is making you happy. You really deserve friendship and respect and I'm sure your relatives are proud of who you are. Keep up the good work _et amitiés de France!_
Thank you for your intelligent comments. So refreshing. Stromae was actually nervous even the morning he made this. He knew it would cause some controversy but he did it anyway. It took 18 hours with hidden cameras all over the square, even on bikes. Truly amazing!
Stomaë is "formidable"... His lyrics are crazy, the way he speaks about human beings is so real... A real artist to me, and this song is my favorite, the music, the lyrics, the video... So perfect! What a nice man! Thanks for reaction and love from France 🇫🇷😘
The fact is that here in Belgium, we leave the known people living without disturb them in the street, even our king was able to do some shopping in regular shops. As you see in this vidéo, the women help him to get of the railways tracks but she doen't take advantage to ask som autograph or something. I was Limo driver, I transported somes stars like M Jager, Fred Dust, Roger moore etc.. I've never seen any croud in front of they hotel or other. I even had to go to the Mcdo with *...* he didn't wants to eat in is hotel lol, only one persone dared to ask if he was *...* I said "no" and it was ok...
Just randomly seeing some TH-cam videos and this popped up with me as I play a lot of Stromae's music. I like how lovely you react to him and how much you like him. This video was taped with a hidden camera in Brussels and yes he got reactions from random people in the streets. He was already quite famous at that time. Probably more famous still with the younger generations. This is again upbeat music added to a sad story. He indeed got dumped by his girlfriend in this one. I am Belgian, Dutch speaking but we learn quite some languages here, and French is obligatory already for 10 - 11 year olds as our second official language. I'm probably more into French speaking music than into English speaking in fact. There is a whole concert of him on TH-cam from his album Racine Carrée (2013). You will find it easily. His first album is called Cheese (2010). He does a much talked about comeback with his newest single Santé and announced his new album for March 2022 together with the announcement of his new tour in Belgium and France. I love this "maestro" so much. Regards, Nathalie
For some reason, this video was super hard to find! I had to click on a link in a old comment. Anyways, this video is amazing, the headlines in Belgium the day after this was filmed was full of "Stromae drunk in the street" and other stuff like that. They were all fooled two months later when the music video came out lol!
yeah since it was copyrighted i couldn't put it out for a month after i already had it out, so yt didnt put out notifications for this video unfortunately! im sorry about that, im tried to do everything i could to get it out there but just seems yt wanted to keep it hidden :(
Good reaction! The song is about him being dumping but the end of the relationship was because he couldn't have kid. There are some lyrics that make sense if you know in the song. It was really hard for him and his couple couldn't survive to that. I love how he speak really personal matter in his songs!
First , hello from Belgium....Yeah he was acting he was drunk and yes he was already famous...In the press U saw title "stromae drunk in the streets" atfer random people sended videos....People starts to attack him but maybe one day later he reveal it was hidden camera and that he was acting...So after that, we definitely call him Genius !!!!!
This video was a reaction to how some people came over to him after he had filled his car tank at a gas station and he was then eating or drinking something he had bought at the station in his car, just chilling, and these guys came over to him, recording him and quite frankly bullying him, saying he was a snob, he thought himself superior now that he was a celebrity so he had a nice car now, etc... Stromae remained very calm, polite and composed throughout this whole altercation but he came up with the video idea for Formidable following this incident :)
ahh okay, see i had no clue about this! I love how he takes real life events, that are relatable to so many people and puts them into music!! a lot of artists now a days will put things that they have, never done/gone through/dealt with, in their music, but it just doesn't feel the same bc they cant relate to it! but Since Stromae can relate to everything he does in his music you feel his music differently, i feel!! i hope that makes sense!! but i appreciate the comment and the info!! thank you!! much love!!
He described this feeling of being down in the gutter after a breakup in a way no emo punk band could ever do. Even now that's famous he's just as down to earth as back then
Love your videos man .. you're genuine, no other way to put it. Keep looking at alldetails on the videos .. look at 9:45 .. I know it's writen in French, but the sentence on the top says "This video was fully shot in hidden camera" >>> in French "Caméra Cachée". Just sharing so you understand Stromae wanted it to be known by the viewers after they watched the clip. Keep uploading great content.. i am following you
aye i appreciate you letting me know!! Also thank you for the kind words they mean a lot!! i really appreciate it!! glad you enjoy the videos!! much love!!
I thought you might enjoy this interview with Stromae in Canada when he was on tour with Racine Carrée. He is talking about his next album at one point and mentions being in a tour bus in Bolivia and the rhythm he discovered there. Which you can now hear on Sante, from his new CD "Multitude". Paul Van Haver thinks of Stromae as a project (his alta ego) and Paul Van Haver as himself, a truly humble guy. Anyway, there are many interviews with him in English as well as French and you can't help but love the guy. th-cam.com/video/vBuXVGh5Q6M/w-d-xo.html
The title also says (ceci n'est pas une lesson), this is not a lesson. You have some very good reaction videos, like your work! Any chance of doing another Belgian band, Triggerfinger with "I follow rivers"? Take the 8 or 12 million view ones, it was the first time they played the song and it was live. The band usually do hard rock, but this was a cover. Obviously, the lyrics aren't as deep as Stromae, but there aren't that many artists who have songs like him.
This video was purely a publicity stunt done by Stromae. He was acting drunk in the middle of the street, and as far as I know him and his crew most likely were the only people who knew what was actually happening at the time
@@its_casza3342 Sad thing is, he was already pretty well known at the time, so it was no random drunk even though some people may not have recognized him. He is trending #1 here again because of how he dropped his latest single l'enfer (hell) last night on french tv. Should check that one out as well
I remember when I watched his video for the first time and it was so cringeworthy because I was feeling so bad for him even though he must have known what he was getting himself into...
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It was actually a very smart marketing strategy. The people who were filming him uploaded the videos on the internet with headlines "Stromae drunk on the streets of Bruxelles" and it went viral even before the release of the video. And the video is probably so cheap to film but so effective, And everyone were stunned after they found out he was pretending. He is such a genius.
I am French and this clip was made 10 years ago
He even made the news then! I remeber. Everybody thought he was losing it, that fame had gotten into his head. But no, he fooled everone in a creative way.
If you think about it, that kind of adds to the message he tries to convey. The music on it's own portrays someone who's extremely lonely after a breakup and who tries to cope with alcohol. The music video I feel portrays to how society reacts if that person is being a public nuisance. So it's a commentary about society too. Genious shit!!
Also even though he was popular at that point, this is also a commentary about artists having genuine mental issues (the people recording him). And he accomplished it by not writing a script, not having actors, but getting genuine reactions out of people. He is so incredibly powerful as a musician
@@TheTrueAltoClef Yes, this is also true. It's both brilliant marketing idea and a concept to make interesting video. For his song "Hell" he again chose interesting way to promote it. He did an interview for their morning news program where he actually at one point just started singing the song as it was part of the interview staring directly at the camera. Brilliant idea!
At the end of the video a text is mentioned: 'Filmé intégralement en caméra cachée', meaning that the whole video was filmed with a hidden camera. Great song, greetings from Belgium.
I love the way you're assembling every puzzle Stromae is putting in his songs. BTW, even in French the buildup of the whole story corresponds to the confused character state of mind and isn't easy to get at the beginning. His way with lyrics is properly formidable (I couldn't miss this one!) because he always adjusts their construction to suit perfectly to the different subjects of his songs. I really won't be surprised if one day he'll makes a movie with a solid story, killer dialogues and a stellar photography. Actually I'm somewhat impatient to watch it in a proper movie theater, and it's been more than 20 years I didn't go to watch a movie there.
I also appreciate your compassion, and you're right about it being more scarce these days.
ayee thank you so much!! i can totally see Stromae making a killer movie!! the way he portrays his music, i feel he would make a hugeeeee movie, no matter the topic!! also i just wanna say i love your comments!! reading the last part of this gave me goosebumps!! Thank you soo much for the kind words i really appreciate it!! it means so much!! Much love!!
@@its_casza3342 I'm very glad my comment is making you happy. You really deserve friendship and respect and I'm sure your relatives are proud of who you are. Keep up the good work _et amitiés de France!_
Thank you for your intelligent comments. So refreshing. Stromae was actually nervous even the morning he made this. He knew it would cause some controversy but he did it anyway. It took 18 hours with hidden cameras all over the square, even on bikes. Truly amazing!
Stomaë is "formidable"... His lyrics are crazy, the way he speaks about human beings is so real... A real artist to me, and this song is my favorite, the music, the lyrics, the video... So perfect! What a nice man! Thanks for reaction and love from France 🇫🇷😘
The fact is that here in Belgium, we leave the known people living without disturb them in the street, even our king was able to do some shopping in regular shops. As you see in this vidéo, the women help him to get of the railways tracks but she doen't take advantage to ask som autograph or something. I was Limo driver, I transported somes stars like M Jager, Fred Dust, Roger moore etc.. I've never seen any croud in front of they hotel or other. I even had to go to the Mcdo with *...* he didn't wants to eat in is hotel lol, only one persone dared to ask if he was *...* I said "no" and it was ok...
yeah a lot of people in America just cant mind there own business!!! hahahaha
Just randomly seeing some TH-cam videos and this popped up with me as I play a lot of Stromae's music. I like how lovely you react to him and how much you like him. This video was taped with a hidden camera in Brussels and yes he got reactions from random people in the streets. He was already quite famous at that time. Probably more famous still with the younger generations. This is again upbeat music added to a sad story. He indeed got dumped by his girlfriend in this one. I am Belgian, Dutch speaking but we learn quite some languages here, and French is obligatory already for 10 - 11 year olds as our second official language. I'm probably more into French speaking music than into English speaking in fact. There is a whole concert of him on TH-cam from his album Racine Carrée (2013). You will find it easily. His first album is called Cheese (2010). He does a much talked about comeback with his newest single Santé and announced his new album for March 2022 together with the announcement of his new tour in Belgium and France. I love this "maestro" so much. Regards, Nathalie
For some reason, this video was super hard to find! I had to click on a link in a old comment. Anyways, this video is amazing, the headlines in Belgium the day after this was filmed was full of "Stromae drunk in the street" and other stuff like that. They were all fooled two months later when the music video came out lol!
yeah since it was copyrighted i couldn't put it out for a month after i already had it out, so yt didnt put out notifications for this video unfortunately! im sorry about that, im tried to do everything i could to get it out there but just seems yt wanted to keep it hidden :(
Good reaction! The song is about him being dumping but the end of the relationship was because he couldn't have kid. There are some lyrics that make sense if you know in the song. It was really hard for him and his couple couldn't survive to that. I love how he speak really personal matter in his songs!
didn't knew it was autobiographic... damn!
I’m really happy his making his comebacks now.
First , hello from Belgium....Yeah he was acting he was drunk and yes he was already famous...In the press U saw title "stromae drunk in the streets" atfer random people sended videos....People starts to attack him but maybe one day later he reveal it was hidden camera and that he was acting...So after that, we definitely call him Genius !!!!!
Hey I am a French guy and I love your Stromae reactions
I’m loving your analysis, it’s right on point. So refreshing 🥰
Hello from Belgium 🇧🇪 stromae 🇧🇪🇧🇪❤
This video was a reaction to how some people came over to him after he had filled his car tank at a gas station and he was then eating or drinking something he had bought at the station in his car, just chilling, and these guys came over to him, recording him and quite frankly bullying him, saying he was a snob, he thought himself superior now that he was a celebrity so he had a nice car now, etc... Stromae remained very calm, polite and composed throughout this whole altercation but he came up with the video idea for Formidable following this incident :)
ahh okay, see i had no clue about this! I love how he takes real life events, that are relatable to so many people and puts them into music!! a lot of artists now a days will put things that they have, never done/gone through/dealt with, in their music, but it just doesn't feel the same bc they cant relate to it! but Since Stromae can relate to everything he does in his music you feel his music differently, i feel!! i hope that makes sense!! but i appreciate the comment and the info!! thank you!! much love!!
"Formidable" means "great" . "Fort minable" means "quite pathetic". You were formidable, i was fort minable..
Stromae is a wordtwist, its meaning Maestro
It's actually Verlan, a French slang where syllables are reversed. So Maestro becomes Stromae.
"some people are different" you said... thats true! so many people are different, and thats good. that's make us humans...
He described this feeling of being down in the gutter after a breakup in a way no emo punk band could ever do. Even now that's famous he's just as down to earth as back then
Love your videos man .. you're genuine, no other way to put it. Keep looking at alldetails on the videos .. look at 9:45 .. I know it's writen in French, but the sentence on the top says "This video was fully shot in hidden camera" >>> in French "Caméra Cachée". Just sharing so you understand Stromae wanted it to be known by the viewers after they watched the clip. Keep uploading great content.. i am following you
aye i appreciate you letting me know!! Also thank you for the kind words they mean a lot!! i really appreciate it!! glad you enjoy the videos!! much love!!
Who never felt "I was so great yesterday, and a piece of shit today"
It was indeed a social experiment. Good call.
Dude, you're the cutest thing ever.
I thought you might enjoy this interview with Stromae in Canada when he was on tour with Racine Carrée. He is talking about his next album at one point and mentions being in a tour bus in Bolivia and the rhythm he discovered there. Which you can now hear on Sante, from his new CD "Multitude". Paul Van Haver thinks of Stromae as a project (his alta ego) and Paul Van Haver as himself, a truly humble guy. Anyway, there are many interviews with him in English as well as French and you can't help but love the guy.
th-cam.com/video/vBuXVGh5Q6M/w-d-xo.html
cant wait to hear the new album!! already heard Sante, and Lenfer!! excited for the rest!! thanks for the interview link!! Much love!!
Stromae fait semblant d'étre ivre, et les réactions des passants sont leurs vrai réactions filmer en caméra caché.
The title also says (ceci n'est pas une lesson), this is not a lesson.
You have some very good reaction videos, like your work! Any chance of doing another Belgian band, Triggerfinger with "I follow rivers"? Take the 8 or 12 million view ones, it was the first time they played the song and it was live. The band usually do hard rock, but this was a cover. Obviously, the lyrics aren't as deep as Stromae, but there aren't that many artists who have songs like him.
A wordplay also on the Belgian painter's Rene Magritte's classical work Ceci n'est pas une pipe. This is not a pipe.
This video was purely a publicity stunt done by Stromae. He was acting drunk in the middle of the street, and as far as I know him and his crew most likely were the only people who knew what was actually happening at the time
I mean a drunk man screaming in the street… wouldn’t film but wouldn’t go over there either just by precaution lmao
But also you got the meaning completely nice reaction
yeah, that's totally understandable, some drunk people can be very mean haha, but i appreciate it, and I'm glad you enjoyed the reaction!!
@@its_casza3342 Sad thing is, he was already pretty well known at the time, so it was no random drunk even though some people may not have recognized him. He is trending #1 here again because of how he dropped his latest single l'enfer (hell) last night on french tv. Should check that one out as well
@@djee475 Just seen that, about to pull it up, and about to React to it soon, hopefully the reaction will be out asap!!
I remember when I watched his video for the first time and it was so cringeworthy because I was feeling so bad for him even though he must have known what he was getting himself into...
7:59 you got the right point here ! ;)
He’s on another level :)
You will enjoy to watch his « Racine carré » live show ;)