- At the time of confinement, the goguettes, these parodies where one sticks his words on a known tune, multiply on social networks where they meet with great success.
- A tradition born in the 19th century when people sang "on well known tunes all the evil we thought of the government".
- "A fairly simple way to express your opinion, anger or emotion."
Confined, all chansonniers? "Patients who wait, patients who wait, ohé ohé ... (...) Very bad, very badly masked, ohé ohé ... We work, we work, we work, very badly masked" To the tune of La Mas Masque Ball Creole, renamed Very badly masked, the Lille Jeremy Cirot sings with humor the difficulties encountered by the carers. A video posted on March 31, signed The Creole pandemic, viewed more than 1.5 million times on Facebook and more than 200,000 times on YouTube.
"Stay at home, there's spring singing" In a video relayed on Twitter on March 22, Belgian police are on the streets of Brussels by broadcasting a parody of a well-known title by Claude François Y ' has the spring which sings of the humorist Yann Lambiel. Over 425,000 views for the tweet and over 478,000 views of the full parody on YouTube.
😀😀😀The Belgian police on patrol broadcasts in the streets Claude François who sings "stay at home, even if there is spring, who sings ..." 🤪😍 # Confinement #Coronavirus # COVID19 @policefederale @zpz_polbru # Brussels
Courage to all and good confinement pic.twitter.com/bDmRBHL7jo
Moved and confined, on March 23, Jean-Jacques Goldman resumes alone in front of his Webcam He Changed Life , his 1987 tube, which he renamed They save lives to pay tribute to caregivers and those who work in the midst of an epidemic of Covid-19.
On April 6, François Guillemot, former member of the punk group Bérurier noir, shares on Twitter a video containing the cult riff of Salut à toi , which has become Merci à toi Ô caring for words revisited by a family in tribute to people who work.
The investigation is progressing, following ticket 21 from my Corona Chronicles. Hi to you / Thanks to you! We found the author (Vlasta Ray) glory to him and that RT!
Thank you to the educator
Thank you to the emergency room doctor
Thanks also to the anesthesiologist https://t.co/9Y7LY8vwkA
Parodies that are part of the tradition, very French, of the goguette. Explanations.
“It's a simple way for ordinary people to get a message across. There is no need to know how to compose. As the original song is known, people take it easily. You just have to know how to sing and write. It's easy ! "Salutes Stan, a member of the Goguettes in trio, but four, a group that has restored its letters of nobility to a somewhat forgotten art.
Because digging into the repertoire to put your words on it is not new! If the word "goguette" in the sense of "being in a happy mood" appears in the 15th century - hence the festive expressions "leave in goguette" or "à gogo", these parodies of song multiply after the French Revolution while throughout the 19th century.
The goguettes were then "a little secret" singing societies where we met "to sing on known tunes all the evil that we thought of the government", summarizes Stan. There are still some, like La Goguette Des Z'énervés every Monday in Paris on the El Alamein Boat.
"A fairly simple way to express your opinion, anger or emotion"
“La goguette is a fairly simple way to express your opinion, anger or emotion. It is normal to find this practice in moments that are a bit intense historically, ”continues the expert. No wonder this tradition, even if it rarely bears its name, reappeared during the Charlie Hebdo attacks or currently in the midst of a pandemic.
Stan greets Very badly masked : "Well seen! A good thing is when the original song fits very well with what we say. "And to draw our attention to another" excellent goguette "of confinement on the air of Time does nothing to the business of Brassens, and his famous refrain" when one is stupid, one is stupid ". "He makes lots of puns around the words" idiots "and" confined "," says Stan.
An air of Brassens which has inspired more than one.
For their part, Les Goguettes in trio, but four, whose tour was interrupted due to confinement, thought of its many fans. "We made a video called We saw nothing coming, available on Facebook and YouTube," says Stan. A hilarious video "inspired by Têtes à claques".
Without filming under the usual conditions, each member of the group filmed himself "facing the camera, frozen, articulating well". Aurélien, one of the group members, did the editing. “Clémence and I wrote the lyrics. We all recorded on our own with a witness voice on a Valentine's guitar recording. Clémence recorded his part on the piano. "Explains Stan.
"You have to have an angle and know what you want to say"
Want to get started? The pro's advice: “To make a good spree, you have to have an angle and know what you want to say. Do I want to talk about my personal confined situation, working nurses, etc. And once it's defined, you have to stick to it. "
Second step: “Then you have to find the song that goes well, with what you want to say. This is where we hit the bull's eye! You have to have the same sounds, he recommends. When Au bal masqué becomes Very badly masked , all that remains is to unroll and a goguette can be written quickly because the chosen song is obvious.
And to give other examples: "For example, with the word" confined ", what works well is the song of Frozen with its" released, delivered ". "
“The goguette can also be a political message or activist in the first degree because we are angry. With Les Goguettes in trio, but four, we try to be in humor, to be in irony, second degree or caricature, "he describes. It's your turn !
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