# Francophone, Je T'aime

My renewed interest in French songs is largely because I wanted to face an easier time learning the language, however, I'm no stranger to French songs. A dear friend of mine, now lost to me, introduced me to Indila a few years back. Her first song, Darnere Dance, I didn't like at the first listen. Yet the more I listened to it, the more I loved it. It grew on me. Indila, grew on me. A kind of weird infatuation, mixed with admiration and love. There was no lust, but that's a welcome sensation to me as well.

However, in the last two years, I have listened to many different French musical artists and some of them robbed me of good senses and hammered me to the floor. Looking back many songs, which once buzzed in my ears incessantly in an indecipherable manner, started to make some sense as I increasingly get accustomed to the intonation and lexicon.

Najoua Belyzel is a French singer of Moroccan-Egyptian descent. While she is descent, I adore her voice and the slight moan-ish echoes it leaves. The songs are catchy and are quite perfect as white noise while I work on something.

Here are a couple of her songs -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAwqxx-M0mE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3yEI-uioCw

*La Troupe Du Roi Soleil* is a little-known musical group, they don't even have a wikipedia page. Their name literally means "The band of the sun king" and true to their name, they perform majestically!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbCkB5HSknc

I've discovered Lara Fabian 6/7 months ago. By then my spotify has been infiltrated by myriads of francophone chanteuse. She is one of the few singers who can paint emotion with ink and letters. Soothing and powerful, shivering often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVvlmpo5g9k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYnFwUbC9A8