From the first time i heard this song, i fell in love with it but the problem was that i couldn't find the song and i didn't know who sang it. i don't understand that much french but now i've read the lyrics here - this song is very touching. And the lyrics - a work of art. i agree with madrigal it does provoke a thought of bonnie and clyde into my head - it may be a french version of them. By the way the tune is great and i love the song.
Les sous ensembles dans les grands ensembles s'assemblent
[Small ensembles in big ensembles assemble]
Is very confusing. Maybe it means something like something inside these two different characters just seem to click and they fell in love.
What i don't get is ....
Le contexte est plus fort que le concept
[The Context is stronger than the concept]
It's very confusing.
I thinks it basically means, that the whole concept of the beautiful, smart girl choosing to be with the bad boy is more difficult to fathom as opposed to just accepting the context of it all, that they were fascinated by one another and instantly fell for one another...
I thinks it basically means, that the whole concept of the beautiful, smart girl choosing to be with the bad boy is more difficult to fathom as opposed to just accepting the context of it all, that they were fascinated by one another and instantly fell for one another...
I wish I could just ask MC Solaar himself what he was trying to convey with "Le contexte est plus fort que le concept" because it's a very powerful line that kind of conveys its own ambiguity, but here's my theory: The line before that one when it is first mentioned is "Se poursuit dans les tours et rime toujours avec toujours". Toujours has multiple meanings of "still" (as in continuing) and "always", so he's putting those words together in one line and then says "the context is stronger than the concept," basically noting that the context they are used...
I wish I could just ask MC Solaar himself what he was trying to convey with "Le contexte est plus fort que le concept" because it's a very powerful line that kind of conveys its own ambiguity, but here's my theory: The line before that one when it is first mentioned is "Se poursuit dans les tours et rime toujours avec toujours". Toujours has multiple meanings of "still" (as in continuing) and "always", so he's putting those words together in one line and then says "the context is stronger than the concept," basically noting that the context they are used in (i.e. the very moving story he's telling) is stronger than the actual concept of the words themselves (and how he's playing around with them as other rappers do). He the ends his first verse with a foreshadowing for which we get no context ("Son mec s'est jette dans les flammes il faut qu'il se lave avec"). He ends the story on the note of again more wordplay: "Deux balles de 22. Vingt deux ans adieu," (very obviously with the word 22) and then repeats the last two lines yet again to basically say, "Yeah, you hear my wordplay and rhymes, but the context and the story is much more important." With the whole story finished at the end of the second verse, we get what he means, too, by "Son mec s'est jette dans les flammes il faut qu'il se lave avec," which we couldn't have gotten without proper context, and I think this also is what he's conveying through that line in addition to like the five other things I mentioned. So much lyrical genius off of just a few lines, and he downplays his wordplay to say that it's the story that's more important (if my theory's correct), something that not to many rappers do nowadays. MC Solaar est un rappeur emouvant!
From the first time i heard this song, i fell in love with it but the problem was that i couldn't find the song and i didn't know who sang it. i don't understand that much french but now i've read the lyrics here - this song is very touching. And the lyrics - a work of art. i agree with madrigal it does provoke a thought of bonnie and clyde into my head - it may be a french version of them. By the way the tune is great and i love the song. Les sous ensembles dans les grands ensembles s'assemblent [Small ensembles in big ensembles assemble] Is very confusing. Maybe it means something like something inside these two different characters just seem to click and they fell in love. What i don't get is .... Le contexte est plus fort que le concept [The Context is stronger than the concept] It's very confusing.
I thinks it basically means, that the whole concept of the beautiful, smart girl choosing to be with the bad boy is more difficult to fathom as opposed to just accepting the context of it all, that they were fascinated by one another and instantly fell for one another...
I thinks it basically means, that the whole concept of the beautiful, smart girl choosing to be with the bad boy is more difficult to fathom as opposed to just accepting the context of it all, that they were fascinated by one another and instantly fell for one another...
I wish I could just ask MC Solaar himself what he was trying to convey with "Le contexte est plus fort que le concept" because it's a very powerful line that kind of conveys its own ambiguity, but here's my theory: The line before that one when it is first mentioned is "Se poursuit dans les tours et rime toujours avec toujours". Toujours has multiple meanings of "still" (as in continuing) and "always", so he's putting those words together in one line and then says "the context is stronger than the concept," basically noting that the context they are used...
I wish I could just ask MC Solaar himself what he was trying to convey with "Le contexte est plus fort que le concept" because it's a very powerful line that kind of conveys its own ambiguity, but here's my theory: The line before that one when it is first mentioned is "Se poursuit dans les tours et rime toujours avec toujours". Toujours has multiple meanings of "still" (as in continuing) and "always", so he's putting those words together in one line and then says "the context is stronger than the concept," basically noting that the context they are used in (i.e. the very moving story he's telling) is stronger than the actual concept of the words themselves (and how he's playing around with them as other rappers do). He the ends his first verse with a foreshadowing for which we get no context ("Son mec s'est jette dans les flammes il faut qu'il se lave avec"). He ends the story on the note of again more wordplay: "Deux balles de 22. Vingt deux ans adieu," (very obviously with the word 22) and then repeats the last two lines yet again to basically say, "Yeah, you hear my wordplay and rhymes, but the context and the story is much more important." With the whole story finished at the end of the second verse, we get what he means, too, by "Son mec s'est jette dans les flammes il faut qu'il se lave avec," which we couldn't have gotten without proper context, and I think this also is what he's conveying through that line in addition to like the five other things I mentioned. So much lyrical genius off of just a few lines, and he downplays his wordplay to say that it's the story that's more important (if my theory's correct), something that not to many rappers do nowadays. MC Solaar est un rappeur emouvant!