{"id":148,"date":"2007-10-07T19:57:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=148"},"modified":"2007-10-10T23:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T20:29:10","slug":"soeur-sourire-the-singing-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/khrys.is-a-geek.org\/wordpress\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Soeur Sourire – The Singing Nun"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are things better forgotten. And others that aren’t explainable. A Finnish friend of mine had me listen to “some French song” because he obviously didn’t get the lyrics. I had no clue what kind of music it would be, and when he told me that the title was “Dominique”, I was a bit scared … that name is among those that one can easily make dirty rhymes with. Of course it is then quite embarrassing to make a translation …
\nHere is the music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lyrics are just plain religious, and as I asked him where he found it, he said something funny : him and his friends used to listen to some perhaps techno remix of it, and that it sounded so bad, they ended up liking it. No comment :)
\nI didn’t find a techno version of it, but a disco version<\/a> … which was bad enough to make anybody cry.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d tried to get some info about who made that, and as Google and Wikipedia are our friends (!), I found an article about the artist life here<\/a>. Wow, that changes few things. I then found this website<\/a>, that allows you to listen her songs. Some of them have quite politically engaged lyrics, like the one about contraception (“La pilule d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122or” – “The golden pill” especially since she was singing it in 1960’s USA). <\/p>\n

I must admit I still don’t understand how “Dominique” could have been a hit in the 60’s in the US, but I now have much more respect for the singer …<\/p>\n

EDIT: I found the techno version<\/a> that my friend was talking about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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