Au lendemain de fête
Les consequences vécu
Répète et répète jusqu'au au sommeil
Personne ne reste
Personne ne reste
Personne ne reste
Which google tells me means:
The day after the party
The consequences
Repeats and repeats until sleep
No one remains
No one remains
No one remains
This sets the scene foe some sort of Sisyphean tale of party life. Which seems devoid of meaning. The music begins.
It's sounds are taken from club music. Wide electric "strings" have soft distorted attacks that begin to sharpen as a synth plays out a melody which is joined by a drum machine and a picked electric guitar. These elements come together to form an upbeat club feel with where the chorus is repeated over techno style buildups. We are asked to put our hands up like an audience at an EDM show, but instead of exalting in the false immortality of youth we are asked to rejoice in the steady continuation towards death:
Put your hands up 'cause everybody dies.
The verses set the scene of club entrances and loneliness. Of waiting for some sort of absolution which we presumably get from the chorus.
In this way the fabricated moments of dance club joy are re-purposed to help assuage the fear of death. It is both critical of the feeling of community in the club (is it meaningless?) and yet sympathetic to this party (we are encouraged to participate). Later choruses expand this to the feeling of loss and the fear or loss. Amy tells us than until the moment we die / lose we are still alive and we can still win. Interestingly, the last chorus asks us to participate if we ever feel afraid which recognizes the emotional reaction we have to death and loss, but by this point we are already dancing too much to care about these things.
This song opens with a french spoken word verse:
Au lendemain de fête Les consequences vécu Répète et répète jusqu'au au sommeil Personne ne reste Personne ne reste Personne ne reste
Which google tells me means:
The day after the party The consequences Repeats and repeats until sleep No one remains No one remains No one remains
This sets the scene foe some sort of Sisyphean tale of party life. Which seems devoid of meaning. The music begins.
It's sounds are taken from club music. Wide electric "strings" have soft distorted attacks that begin to sharpen as a synth plays out a melody which is joined by a drum machine and a picked electric guitar. These elements come together to form an upbeat club feel with where the chorus is repeated over techno style buildups. We are asked to put our hands up like an audience at an EDM show, but instead of exalting in the false immortality of youth we are asked to rejoice in the steady continuation towards death:
Put your hands up 'cause everybody dies.
The verses set the scene of club entrances and loneliness. Of waiting for some sort of absolution which we presumably get from the chorus.
In this way the fabricated moments of dance club joy are re-purposed to help assuage the fear of death. It is both critical of the feeling of community in the club (is it meaningless?) and yet sympathetic to this party (we are encouraged to participate). Later choruses expand this to the feeling of loss and the fear or loss. Amy tells us than until the moment we die / lose we are still alive and we can still win. Interestingly, the last chorus asks us to participate if we ever feel afraid which recognizes the emotional reaction we have to death and loss, but by this point we are already dancing too much to care about these things.