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Le Printemps

A great song… in French! Based on Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s Je t’aime… moi non plus from 1969, Swedish rappers Mutte & Clive in realPfft hope to make a dent in the French market and land a hit song. Je t’aime… hasn’t aged well and sounds lousy today, leaving a lot of room to record Le Printemps using digital production. Beyond love and porno, Le Printemps’ lyrics devolve into politics, providing a laundry list of annoying things about a certain president, set to the beat of house music.

Le Printemps

Madame, tu es vivante!

Fantastique! Je croyais que tu sois mort dans un accident de voiture.

Oui ou non?

Dis à moi. Qu’est-ce qu’il y a?

Hupp hupp!

Ça va?                                                          

Moi, j’aime la musique house

Le printemps arrive

Ce président se prend pour un roi

Il est comme Napoléon, il aime lui même sans répit

Fermer la fenêtre! il cri. Fermer la bouche!

Il est aussi en colère que Louis XIV

Distingué et agaçant

Il se vante de choper les femmes par la chatte

Il se prend pour Jésus et se bat avec le pape

Il s’en fiche complètement

De plus en plus compliqué, de moins en moins de succès

Il n’a pas reçu le prix Nobel de la paix

Tant pis

Et maintenant, il préfère la guerre

J’ai lu dans l’Associated Press que le président portera le coup de grâce 

Aber, der Krieg ist vorbei ?

Les guerres viennent, les guerres s’en vont

Tous le monde veut la tranquillité, mais il n’y a pas la tranquillité

Et moi, je veux visiter Téhéran avant qu’elle ne soit réduite en cendres par les bombardements

J’adore la musique house

Ooh la-la, où est-ce qu’il y a ton main?

Tes yeux sont si belles, comme un vin spectaculaire   

Tes pieds sont si petites, comme un chien

C’est le coup de foudre

Tu travailles dans un supermarché

Combiens de mois est tu ici?                                            

Je t’aimerai toujours

Tu mange mon gateau, non?

C’est divertissant

Embrasse-moi

Ich liebe dich

Est-ce que tu veux coucher?

Springtime

Madam, you are alive!

Fantastic. I thought you had died in a car accident.

Yes or no?

Tell me

What is happening?

Hup, hup!

How are you?

Me, I love house music

Springtime arrives

This president thinks he’s a king

He’s like Napoleon, he loves himself without end

Close the window! he shouts. Shut your mouth!

He’s as angry as Louis the Fourteenth

Distinguished and annoying

He boasts about grabbing women by the pussy

He thinks he is Jesus and is fighting with the Pope

He couldn’t care less

More and more complicated, less and less success

He did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Too bad

And now, he prefers war

I read in the Associated Press that the president shall deliver the final blow

But the war is over ?

Wars come, wars go

Everyone wants peace and quiet, but there is no peace and quiet

And me, I want to make a trip to Tehran before it’s bombed to ashes

I adore house music

Ooh-la-la, where is your hand?

Your eyes are so beautiful, like a spectacular wine      

Your feet are so small, like a dog

It was love at first sight

You work in a supermarket                                                                                   

How many months have you been here?

I will always love you

You are eating my cake, yes? It’s entertaining

Embrace me

I love you

Do you want to sleep with me?

Windows

Another Top-40 hit by the mad musicians in realPfft! Both Swedish pop and ambient jazz, this instrumental is as fresh, happy and boisterous as a summer day. realPfft continues to push the envelope. I mean, who uses xylophones?

Beatles Forever!

Eviga Beatles är en hyllning till Fab Four. “Beatles Forever” is a tribute to the Fab Four.

Sexy song bird Maria is a Mary Hopkins throwback. All the boys here in the studio want to bed her! When constructing a playlist, place Eviga Beatles— “Beatles Forever”— alongside “Those Were the Days” or similar Apple releases. Doubling Maria’s voice in the mix has created a nice ABBA effect.

The lyrics are the usual realPfft combination of brilliant insight and hopeless sentimentality. The phrase “We are all Beatles” wins the prize for hokey drivel. Read the English translation below.

Cover artist Kuny used Copilot to create lettering based on Rubber Soul and to show Paul and Ringo in living color while John and George are spooky, ghostly apparitions in black & white.

Beatles Forever

A lonely heart beats in 4/4 time

A simple rhythm, in child-like glee

From the gray streets of Livepool

A dream of boundless summer fun.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah” echoes in a chorus

Of simple joy, free of sorrow

We search for truth in a beat

A bridge of sound, a musical refuge.

But the world turns, tones become brittle

And the sun’s rays beat down

“Yesterday” whisper quiet memories

Of all that was, now soon gone.

Psychedelic dream in color

Lucy with diamonds in her soul

“All you need is love” sung in harmony

But what is love, is it true, is it complete?

“Strawberry Fields” in perpetual fog

A place where nothing is as it seems

“Across the Universe” a star shines                                                       

Jai guru deva om,” an eternal conclusion.

We travel through time and space

Toward the horizon in a yellow submarine

A collective meditation

A spiritual journey, beyond spontaneous.                                                                                 

But the world turns, tones become brittle                                                              

And the rays of the sun beat down

“Yesterday” whisper quiet memories

Of all that was, now soon gone.

Psychedelic dream in color

Lucy with diamonds in her soul

“All you need is love” sung in harmony                                                            

But what is love, is it true, is it complete?

“Eleanor Rigby” cleans the church

A mirror of our loneliness

“Let it be” a wisdom, free of cost

An acceptance of our shared existence.

We seek answers in a melody

But the answer is a question, never ending                                                                    

The mystery of music is our philosophy

A search constantly disappearing.

The beat goes on, a ceaseless pulse

From a simple “She loves you” to “Abbey Road”

We are all Beatles, in a chaotic waltz

A journey without end, a timeless coda.

We are yesterday, we are today

We are a dream, we are a song

A melody that never dies

In the limitless stream of time.