Je suis si culturel j'écoute la musique française de roche (quoique je ne comprends pas un mot de lui).

I have something to say.

I, Aaron Thomas Bratcher, listen to French rock music.

Okay. I've admitted it. Eleven steps to go.

A couple of years ago I rented a movie called "The Triplets of Belleville" which is a French animated movie. You'd never really know it was French (except that it was set in France and revolved around the Tour de France, but other than that, you know) because there is no dialogue.

Kinda strange and artsy-fartsy, but I really like. It works really well. It's a beautifully animated movie and despite a complete lack of speaking, it wraps its dirty French animated hands around your heart.

There's a song in it named "Belleville Rendezvous" that is sung by the three old ladies in the movie but is sung by another guy on the soundtrack (kinda like was sung by the people in the Lion King, but it was really sung by Elton John). This guy who sings the song is named Matthieu Chedid.

But his stage name is ~M~.

To be honest, he looks like a Flock of Seagulls reject.

But I really like his music.

I don't understand a word though.

I tried punching the lyrics into an online translator, but the result was still a word salad of French and English words.

The only French I took in school was in 6th grade. It was the Modern Language quarter, and the quarter (which was 1/4 of the year) was split up into three parts between Spanish, French and German.

So, doing the math, I only took 1/3 of 1/4 of a year's worth of French.

6th grade French, even.


So I now present to you:

~M~

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