Saturday, 25 July 2009

Goodbye Rain Hello France

It rained so much yesterday that even with a towel under my front door my doormat is still soaked through. ENOUGH. It is JULY. I am going to France. It had better not rain in France.

In order to celebrate me being in France, I am leaving you with a series of French-themed songs for every day until I get back. Yes. I am nice like that.

Here's the first: Brigitte Bardot with Tu Veux, Tu Veux Pas. Note the umbrella-furling at the start. Also the great 1960s interpretive dancing.

2 comments:

Alun said...

Awesome.

I wonder if this was the model for the intro to The Avengers, with yet more umbrella-play, and enticing profiles of the female principal (ah! Diana Rigg). Or vice versa. Or maybe that was just what you did in the 60s.

Persephone said...

B.B. dances rather better than she sings, n'est-ce pas?

Interpreting what, exactly? "We are French. Regardez, nous sommes si si francais. Most ballet moves have French names. Regardez. Fondu. Grand battement. Développé. Arabesque. No French word for the move where the guys lift their knees then land suddenly with their feet apart, but our choreographer liked it so much, it happens twice...

Word verification is "squing" which somehow seems perfect.