Monday, March 5, 2012

A banned song dedicated to women

This song was supposedly banned from radio and press in 2010 in France. It's against dressing women in the "austere burqa" and a plea to stop perpetuating the Middle Ages for women.

French with English subtitles (translation isn't perfect but it gets the ideas across): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b087478LYuU
In French only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwLVxzbkSY&feature=related
Interview and performance in French with Pierre Perret (singer) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cErPxRDzwdk

Chorus:
When the women are caged / Quand la femme est grillagée
All women are outraged / Tout les femmes ont outragées
Men have banished them into obscurity / Les hommes les ont rejetees dans l'obscurité

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