Released 2000 Je dis aime
(1999) Labo M
(2003) Release date 25 October 1999 Genre Rock music | Recorded 1999 Artist Matthieu Chedid Label Delabel | |
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Je dis aime matthieu chedid
Je dis aime (1999) is the second studio album by French singer-songwriter Matthieu Chedid, in his persona as -M-, described by reviewers as a "conceptual icon to rival Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane". The album manages to take a remarkable variety of musical directions and pull them together into a consistent whole. Another reviewer describes the album as sounding like a 'French Lenny Kravitz' and notes the 'vintage 70s sound and textures'.
Contents
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Wordplay
Je dis aime is a play on words in French as 'aime' (love) is pronounced exactly the same as '-M-'. Many of the tracks use similar word play as is common in French songs but particularly rich in -M-'s work.
Track listing
- Monde virtuel
- Je dis aime (written by Andrée Chedid, -M-'s famous grandmother)
- Onde sensuelle
- À celle qui dure
- Faut oublier
- Le Festival de connes (pokes fun at the pretentiousness of the Cannes film festival changing Cannes to connes - i.e. idiots)
- Le Mec hamac
- Close to Me (loosely a cover of the song by The Cure but using only one line in English from the original)
- Émilie 1000 Volts (salsa flavoured track)
- Qui est le plus fragile
- Le Complexe du corn flakes
- Au lieu du crime
- Bonoboo (written by Andrée Chedid, -M-'s grandmother, the song refers to a type of pygmy chimpanzee that shares over 98% of its DNA with humans)
- Le Commun des motels
- Mama Sam (Mama Sam as compared to Uncle Sam. Spot some of the punning like Nike for Nique)
Songs
1Monde virtuel3:09
2Je dis Aime3:56
3Onde sensuelle3:05
References
Je dis aime Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA