Un Amour de Monstre
Ok right I spent, quite sadly, about 45 minutes translating Goldfrapp's "Monster Love" into french, which I randomly thought was a really good idea because while I was using the french dictionary I saw one of the lyrics there. I think I've done an OK job and I've tried to get the rhythm to fit but in some places... just no. Here goes... It is my baby so please love it too. I am quite proud and I think it is beautiful in French. I might sing it... or record it... OMG and send it to them!!!! OMG... like they'd care I can just see the pair of them laughing their heads off. Sigh. Oh well. I do love it. I'm not entirely sure is a few parts are entirely correct with meaning or grammatically. But impressively I changed some phrases to be different to fit the rhythm eg "Tu obtiens seulement une chance dans la ville de tresse" which was 13 beats to fit to the 10 beats as: "Tu n’obtiens qu’une chance dans la ville de tresse". I think tresse is wrong as it seems to translated as braid, but it's supposed to be tinsel! Also I'm having huge problems with encore meaning still in some situations when it's always again here... always!!! and autour meaning around... I'm not sure. And Rapporter... don't even go there. I'm trying to say "bringing us back again"... sheesh thats impossible. And ... just the whole thing. Love it. I might translate more songs. Goldfrapp's style is really fun to translate. KBs prob would be too. I should try. Enjoy.



Je n'ai jamais pensé que je retournerais
Pour être consommé par tu encore
Pense que tu es guéri
Tu le verrais venir
La folie d'un amour de monstre comme tu

Gris est bon
La lumière est bonne
Nous sommes descendus à Hollywood
Tu n’obtiens qu’une chance dans la ville de tresse

J'épargne la pièce
La pièce plus douce
A secoué pour tu

Tout vient autour
Nous rapportant encore
Voici où nous commençons
Et où nous finissons

Je n'ai jamais pensé que je retournerais
Pour être consommé par tu encore
Mais je connais une lune de papier
La folie d'un amour de monstre comme tu

L'odeur de trottoir, juste après la pluie
Le soleil saute dehors, il est clair encore
Je t'ai dit que je me suis senti la terre pourrait déplacer
La folie d'un amour de monstre comme tu

Tout vient autour
Nous rapportant encore
Voici où nous commençons
Et où nous finissons
Tout vient autour
Nous rapportant encore
Voici où nous commençons
Et où nous finissons…
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Posted on 20 Nov 2008 by cathy
True Colours
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3uoV8uptfU

I always liked Cyndi Lauper but I just discovered this song and thought "wow"! It's so Kate bush meets ... I dunno... 80s!!!
I love the style and it's just so coolies. I also like the Ane Brun version of the song which was used in the Sky+ HD advert. Phil Collins one is quite good too, but I like this one best. I absolutely LOVE the bit when she kisses the dude with the colour change. If I ever make a video I am soooo referencing that as it is so awesome. You know Cyndi as she did "time after time" and "girls just wanna have fun". I really do like her, I think I'll look into her as I think I would like her a lot, but never as much as KB or goldfrapp, but I think I would like her. Girls just want to have fun is just part of me it's one of those songs I grew up with running around the garden with it on full blast (I used to do that hahahaha). Anyways. Love love. Ipod time so seeyas!
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Posted on 18 Nov 2008 by cathy
Of drunken tenants, white dogs, and a building called...
Maison Ikkoku = perfect ending. It was cheesy, but it couldn't have been any other way. It honestly could not have been done better. I know I've said this to you before cathy, but I think if you watched it, you REALLY would like it. By the end, I was so attached to the characters, I couldn't NOT be happy. Even peoples like Akemi, and Yotsuya, and...
Utter PERFECTION. I can't even say that about Inuyasha (while some bits were, others...)
And sorry, I forgot - there are 96 episodes.
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Posted on 14 Nov 2008 by Kayomi
Pilots
Sorry for the boring youtube posts but what more is there to do when one is talking about a song!! This is probably the only, no wait it isn't, but close to only goldfrapp video I have not yet posted. I was considering saving it for longer but I feel the time is right. Iam.
This song is called "Pilots" and is sometimes called "Pilots on a Star". It's a really weird track from The Frapp's first album - Felt Mountain. This song was one that took a really long time to grow on me, but I still can't understand what it is about it. I think it's the distancing of the lyrics. It's so personal and yet so far. Ooohh I should analyse Goldfrapp lyrics and songs for an English essay, wow that would be cool! With MB. Heh. Jokes. This is definately a very "interpret your own way" song because of the abstractness, but many people have fixed views on the meaning. It's the sort of song I just imagine couples with. Together. It's so ... ekk ... couple-at-dinner-ish. Gone weird... anyways, maybe you'll have to watch the vid to get what I am on about. Warning: This is not the frapp you will be used to. This is ... different.



Armoured cars sail the sky
They're pink at dawn
If I lived forever you just wouldn't be
so beautiful
As the sun
When it shines
All over the world
We're pilots watching stars
The world pre-occupied
We're pilots watching stars
Who do we think we are?
Ice and clouds
Shimmer outside
Rain just falls
At magic hour
It's just the sound
Of you and me
Time twitching
Murmurs of our
friendly machine
We're pilots watching stars
The world pre-occupied
We're pilots watching stars
Who do we think we are?
Yes, who do...?
It's just the sound
Of you and me


Yup yup well the video is very unique. And very un frapp but it is frapp because it isn't. If that makes any sense at all. Wait will finish this lattteerrrrr. Okies and there is this really cool piece of art which someone did based on diese lied. It's called "Pilots of love" (shown on the left) and I absolutely LOVE it, and it really captures, for me, the song. Many people think of the song as being two pilots or astronauts in love. I think it's highly possible, but there are other possibilities... in the wonderland in my head hehehehe. Well, her outfit is cool! The eyelashes are so weird but cool. And will is there!!! Yayness. I love the scooters and when she is lifted onto the ... circle block thing. I prob would have made a totally different video for this but hey it's nice. I'm not entirely sure what else to say without going OVERBOARD because I could talk all night. The lyrics are awesome man as usual. Oh yes, and I think the "our / friendly machine" is very important here. Some believe that the whole album links a romance which could cross human and something else? Maybe machine? It would make sense of an alternate view of the song "human" and basically all the songs at some point. Ok I'll shut up. Enough for noww!!! Tell me what ya thinksies. Oh yes, I might start ending my posts with deer. Or maybe just my own catch phrase like deer. Hmmm. Shame GF used deer cos I would have. I love deer so much and damnit my ideas are always taken. I could say dear but that avoids the point. Maybe something else. I'll think on it. See tja xxx
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Posted on 12 Nov 2008 by cathy
This, is like my favorite moment ever!!
Or maybe that other moment. Or that other one...? They're all awesome!!! I guess, this is just SUCH a golden moment thing...it's like PERFECT. I don't know if you'll watch, but if you do, go from...3:33. And, you should, because, even I was like thiiis close to crying. Spoileryness for Maison Ikkoku...



Wasn't that AMAZING?yes, yes, yes...It may not make sense, but remember, Kyoko was a widow.

BYEEE!!!
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Posted on 12 Nov 2008 by Kayomi

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