How I Found French Pop

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I’m someone that loves to study languages, and one of the resources I use to learn them is music.

Now, I am not the first person to use music as a tool to learn languages but one thing it has done for me has opened up a whole new world of Pop music.

When I started listening to non-English pop, it was well… K-pop back when Psy released Gangnam Style in 2012.

Though Korean wasn’t a language I was learning and even today don’t know a lot about it.

No, it wouldn’t be until 2016 in my Grade 8 French class that I’d find a long of non-English music.

If you took French around that time, you might recognize this song called Papaoutai (Papa, where are you?).

I heard this song once and had to add it to my playlist.

This song also opened me up to Stromae’s long list of songs and through them, my french has improved. At least I think.

Though, when I hadn’t heard of any new music, I started looking elsewhere and found music in other languages I had been learning… until this happened.

Stromae released Multitude on Spotify and I must have repeated the album over 500 times since.

Another announcement that came soon after the album was his new tour with a stop here in Vancouver.

Now, getting tickets was a nightmare but I got myself one and knew this would be the perfect chance to test my comprehension.

To my knowledge, tickets are sold out but I’m looking forward to the event!

 

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