Yelle
29 August 2007 :: posted by Travis
Our favorite French songstress is releasing her debut Pop Up on September 3rd. Hopefully you’re as psyched as we are… and if you’re not then I don’t wanna know you. Here’s a little sampler of Yelle’s Pop Up that should wet your whistle. A few favorites mixed in with some new shit…
Yelle - “Pop Up Teaser” (mp3)
Mewzick has a nice little review and some tracks worth checking out. Head over there and take a listen.
Oh and yeah. Word is Yelle is also releasing “ACDG” plus remixes on Kitsuné in October. That’s pretty damn cool of her.
August 30th, 2007 at 12.09 am
hey hey im so exited for yelle’s ne ep to come out.
but will i be able to purchase it in the US?
August 30th, 2007 at 12.10 am
how will i be able to get her new EP?
itunes? store? anyone?
August 30th, 2007 at 12.26 am
Gooooooood album
August 30th, 2007 at 6.16 am
I feel like such a happy faggot but i just love her.
August 30th, 2007 at 7.27 am
The album is gonna be released in the US on I TUNES music store on October the 9th
A+
August 30th, 2007 at 8.30 am
at first i thought the dancers in that video were really gay. then i just thought they were really awesome.
August 30th, 2007 at 9.38 am
mais c’est naze …
putain dès que c’est français vous avez plus aucun esprit critique.
peut être parce que vous comprennez pas les paroles.
pourquoi pas koxie pendant que vous y êtes.
August 30th, 2007 at 10.33 am
i would have to be on like 2 e’s or my ears would bleed
August 30th, 2007 at 5.53 pm
i love yelle and i live the french, but boy do Americans know how to dance better.
August 31st, 2007 at 7.42 am
They dance like gods! Oh, and how can all you americans keep using “gay” as something negative??
August 31st, 2007 at 11.46 am
So who else listened to whole CD on myspace….
September 3rd, 2007 at 2.10 pm
france 1 usa 0
September 11th, 2007 at 1.16 pm
I simply cannot die until I learn how to dance like that. Or at least have 3 Euro hipster boys tektonik-ing around my room like that ALL DAY.
September 30th, 2007 at 11.20 pm
anyone know wat the song is that comes right after “les femmes” in the teaser??
September 30th, 2007 at 11.32 pm
Tristesse/Joie
November 10th, 2007 at 4.05 am
I don’t know what half of you are talking about…
The dancing is what this video is ALL ABOUT!
How dare you criticize it!!!!!!
That main dancer guy is sexy too…
Mmm…
November 24th, 2007 at 1.12 pm
a wonderful french dance !!!!! i love this dance
when i came in france .. i saw a lot of people who were dancing …eveyywhere in paris !!! and all over france they dance it !!
November 24th, 2007 at 1.13 pm
oow !! i think that the french dance very very well
!!!!! i will go france..because i want to know how we dance this dance !!
March 27th, 2008 at 11.14 am
what is the name of the first song she sings in the teaser?
March 29th, 2008 at 5.59 pm
I love YELLE!!!
I discovered her on MTV. It rocks so HARDCORE!!!!
I love the way she dresses!!! So friggen LOVE IT!!!
Her songs ROCK!!
I am now determined to learn French just to find out what she’s saying!! ^_^’
Oh well….:3!!
May 9th, 2008 at 12.32 pm
Can someone offer a good translation of Tristesse-Jolie?
Here’s what I’ve got but i think it’s pretty crappy:
Tu nous guettes tous
Tu nous cherches tous
Je ne fais jamais le premier pas
Même quand mon coeur souffre
You watch us all
You want us all
I never make the first move
even when my heart suffers
Je suis heureuse
Tu es envieuse
Tu es bien plus forte que moi
Mais nous sommes nombreux
I am happy
you are envious
you are much stronger than i am
but we are many (awk? maybe not?)
C’est ton choix
On ne sait pas pourquoi
Et je suppose que quand tu bosses
Tu n’sais pas pour qui
Non plus
it’s your choice
i don’t know why
and i suppose that when you work (context: slave away, like a dog, etc.)
you don’t know for who
me neither
Arrête tes salades maintenant s’il te plaît
Je veux la paix, la vie m’appelle
Laisse moi transquile, je m’en vais
Order your salad now please (this is probably wrong - arrete tes salades is probably an idiom?)
i want peace, the life i call mine (awk)
leave me alone, i am going.
CHORUS:
Tristesse, Joie c’est comme ça
Accorde nous un instant
Tu m’emmènes pour un aller simple
Sadness, Joy, it’s like that.
Gives us a moment (mmm…awk)
ok this was tricky but basically:
you take me along for a one-way (i.e. take me down a one-way street i think)
Je vis, je pleure, bonheur
Je souffre, malheur
J’me couche t’à l’heure
Je n’ai pas le temps d’attendre que tu te déshabilles
D’autres plaisirs m’attendent
Je speed si je reste immobile
Mes souvenirs seront vides comme cette boîte de vitamines
I live, I cry, luck. (could also be happiness)
I suffer, badluck (misfortune)
I have no clue about this line, but i think it’s basically “i like (that) you layer the hours”
(hmmm. more thinking. could also be i like lying with you for an hour)
i don’t have the time to wait until you undress.
Other pleasures await me
I (speed is clearly an idiom, not a french word) if I rest in place/remain imobile/am stationary
My memories are as empty as this box of vitamins (?)
L’amour me sert de fil conducteur
Ta bouche me sert de détonateur
La dead line arrive, je n’ai pas peur
Attrape-moi si tu peux, je vis à 100 à l’heure
Literally:
The love serves me as a line (thread) conducter
So i think basically (and in context of the next line)
Loves serves as my guiding thread
your mouth sets me off
The deadline arrives, I’m not afraid
Trick/capture me if you can (able to/have the power), I live (no fucking clue; literally I live at 100 at the hour. maybe at 100 mph?)
CHORUS
then:
Je suis en vie à mort
La mort jusqu’ici
Je suis en vie à mort
La mort jusqu’ici
Je suis en vie à mort
La mort jusqu’ici
Je suis en vie à mort
La mort jusqu’ici
I am living at death
(although: “a la vie a la mort: we are attached from life to death” kind of thing - promise type - could be a play on this)
the death thus far (?)
Je suis en viiiiiiiiiiiie
A mooooooooort
Je suis en viiiiiiiiiiiie
A mooooooooort
Je suis en viiiiiiiiiiiie
A mooooooooort
Je suis en viiiiiiiiiiiie
A mooooooooort
I am alive at death. etc.