French music is back, for now...

This excellent piece of popular music, burrowing into your brain and setting up shop instantly, is Belgian, so it's probably not as carefree as it sounds. The video and what I'm able to pick up from the lyrics seem to suggest a deep world-weariness not in keeping with the happy occasion. You see, this is the first time in years that something French was a hit in the rest of the European continent. France sort of started to trail off in the sixties, when it bypassed Rock and Roll entirely, and aside from a few pieces in the eighties and nineties, all French chart topping music has been in English. It takes just this kind of production, pitched right between annoying and unforgettable to make it, let's hope this means we'll have to learn French again. I actually welcome that thought.