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""La Vie en Rose""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to quibble, but I believe it is "La Marseillaise." Pas Le Marseillaise."

9/13/07, 4:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder if we’ll be seeing any more Piafs soon and if the entire idea of the volatile artiste is incompatible with the modern entertainment model.

The high-stakes winner-take-all revenue model needs to recoups large upfront costs/profits over longer timeframes and in multiple mediums if possible. This requires stable workmen-like professionals who aren’t going to self-destruct once the taste of success hits them.

Think of how Curt Cobain’s business backers are kicking themselves watching him OD just as he’s became a reliable moneymaker. They probably hoped he be generating profits and on tour into his sixties like Mick, Clapton and McCartney.

- JAN

9/13/07, 8:20 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

The more of a trainwreck Brittany Spears becomes, the more Las Vegas nightclubs pay her to "host" parties. In Vegas, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

9/13/07, 2:50 PM

Blogger ricpic said...

I don't doubt that Piaf suffered but to a large extent, maybe a fatal extent, she also embraced suffering. This is a significant factor in Latin culture and after all, French culture, especially lower class French culture, is Latin culture; maybe not at the operatic level of Italian culture but at a high level of self-dramatization. Having grown up in an Italian-American neighborhood I can tell you that the overdramatization of even the mildest human intercourse, though often playful, frequently gets out of hand and leads to violence -- violence to others, violence to the self. This accounted for a significant part of Piaf's misery. The film, utterly without intellect, didn't even hint at this unecessary element in her suffering.

9/13/07, 5:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

But Steve Vegas nightclubs are not the direction you want to take Brittany's once sky-high career. She commands some trainwreak attention now, but eventually even the Enquirer will stop turning their heads.

If Madonna had done what Brittany is doing, she'd be still be singing "Holiday" as her opening act for The Shoji Tabuchi Show in Branson, MO.

- JAN

9/13/07, 6:04 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve --

Yes Britney can command money at Vegas or appearing at parties (I'm told Paris Hilton gets 100K per party appearance!!)

But that's not "real" money.

The real money used to be in records sales, (before Napster/iTunes). Now the music industry has no way to sell to young consumers who were the core of profits. Well, sell at a profit.

Who's going to buy Britney's music now? Her fans are YouTube laughingstocks. People will AVOID her music.

Meanwhile U2 churns out hits reliably, decade after decade.

9/14/07, 10:09 PM

Anonymous John of London said...

Steve,

would you agree that Piaf was the only major western popular singer after about 1930 not to be noticeably influenced by Black American musicians? This goes much further than one might imagine - "the influence of Louis Armstrong on Vera Lynn" is not a joke.

9/18/07, 5:40 AM

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