The Black Eyed Peas group in 2019. - Antonio Lacerda / EFE / SIPA

  • Black Eyed Peas, Jul, Hatik… This year again, many artists have decided to pay tribute to old musical boxes.
  • "20 Minutes" invites you to discover which old hits are behind the summer 2020 hits.

Life is just an eternal beginning. In fashion, in the kitchen, in the cinema or even in politics, it is common to bring out old odds and ends from the attic, and to bring up to date old groceries that were once popular. And music is no exception, quite the contrary. This is also how we find ourselves humming tunes on which our parents, even our grandparents, and sometimes even without realizing it.

Black Eyed Peas, Jul, Hatik… This year again, many artists have decided to recycle (or pay homage, question of point of view) old musical boxes, by sampling them in part, or by revisiting them entirely. Some will cry genius, others will strangle themselves in front of this "easy solution", or will simply have fun in front of the perfect illustration of "we take the same ones, and we start again". 20 Minutes invites you to discover which old hits are behind the summer 2020 hits.

"Mamacita" by Black Eyed Peas

To brighten up the summer of 2020, the Black Eyed Peas in feat. with Ozuna and J. Rey Soul have found nothing better than sampling  La Isla Bonita . A title with Hispanic influences with which Madonna hit in 1986, notably reaching fourth place on the American Billboard Hot 100 (the ranking of the most popular songs in the United States).

And obviously in 30 years the song has not lost its magic, since Mamacita , its contemporary version, is currently still in the world top 50 of Spotify, three months after its release. This recycling is not very surprising on the part of the Black Eyed Peas, remember that in 2010 the American group broke the house with  The Time (Dirty Bit), which sampled (I've Had) The Time of My Life, THE song from the movie Dirty Dancing … in 1987.

"Madness" by Jul

In a more astonishing register, we find Jul and his cover of Nuit de Folie by the duo Early evening. Since its release in 1988, all village balls and weddings worthy of the name must take place once (at least) this great classic, a jewel of the French variety.

And when the Marseille rapper reclaims the song in 2020 (in the album La machine ), it takes off. "And you sing, sing, sing this refrain that you like" gives way to "and I shock, shock, shock for all these years", "and you type, type, type, it's your way of loving "Turns into" and I dance, dance, dance in the reprogrammed Audi ". It goes or it breaks, the Folie clip has in any case more than 23 million views on YouTube.

Hatik's "Angela"

Anyone who is normally over thirty today remembers the Saïan Supa Crew cardboard very well in 1999.

Younger, it's already a little more complicated. Because when Hatik released his Angela 20 years later, at the end of 2019, his version almost eclipsed the collective's hit , many young listeners of the rapper not having the reference in mind ...

There are still people who think that Hatik - Angela is the real jpp version

- emmacarena 😸 (@eemmaavv) July 29, 2020

But it is indeed a tribute that Hatik wanted to pay to Saïan Supa Crew, as he explained to the NRJ site recently. “It's an idea that I have always had to use the melody of the Saïan, which rocked me during my childhood. And then one day I was in the studio, we were making a sound and it was a love story. The melody I start to make it in my head and I say to myself “but it actually sticks!”. […] There, I really needed to pay this tribute and I think it was not taken badly, on the contrary! " Right in the target.

"Summer Wine" by Clara Luciani and Alex Kapranos

A wind of nostalgia accompanies the summer of Clara Luciani. With Alex Kapranos, the singer has just signed a languid cover of Summer Wine by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.

Originally sung with Suzi Jane Hokom, the song took on a whole new twist in 1967, a year after the original came out, when Lee sang it along with the American crooner's daughter. A song dusted off in 2020 by Clara Luciani (who sings in French) and her friend, where still floats an outdated veil, bewitching.

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