| 1. | French classics / Classiques français |
| 1. | Dernière danse |
| 2. | Love Story |
| 3. | Tourner dans le vide |
Lilmon
Tue, 09/02/2021 - 13:26
Beautiful and accurate translation of a beautiful song.
It's by far my favourite song of hers. An funnily enough, I just nocticed that the version of the music video does indeed leave out the "Des Cris de joie...." part. Seems like it's only included in the album version of the song. :)
Ary C.
Tue, 09/02/2021 - 15:10
In the footnotes, I've now included a link to what appears to be the official lyrics, which I have followed in my translation. The internet seems to be all over the place when it comes to the correct spelling of the six verses starting with "Je serai riche et." For example, contrary to these official lyrics, for those verses Musixmatch uses the "ai" ending for all the verbs which could end in either "ai" (i.e. the future tense) or "ais" (i.e. the conditional tense); and they do the same for the later verse, "J'me battrai encore et encore" (i.e. "battrai," vs. "battrais" in the official lyrics).
Lilmon
Tue, 09/02/2021 - 15:34
The link is definitely a good idea. I have the album at home, and I just checked. The picture is from the official booklet of the CD, so that's at least an official source.
The mix up of futur simple and conditionel is something I've encountered a lot while looking up French lyrics, so it's seems to be a recurring issue. I mean, technically, -ai and -ais are supposed to be pronounced in different ways, but that's a rule French speaker do not really follow in their every day life (https://www.reddit.com/r/French/comments/6i9m3q/do_native_french_speaker...)
Ary C.
Tue, 09/02/2021 - 16:07
Agreed that this seems to be a widespread transcription difficulty, and nice link, Lilmon. Here is another one: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/pronunciation/ai/. I had actually forgotten about this distinction, but yes, I personally pronounce them differently.
Lilmon
Tue, 09/02/2021 - 16:19
I also stumbled upon that site when I was having a look looking up the topic of pronunciation. It's definitely worth a read! I was about to ask wether you made a distinction or not while speaking, so that's interesting to hear :)
Btw, just had a look in a book about French phonetics, and the author also says that there seems to be a certain trend that -ai (as an ending for future simple) is pronounced like -ais more and more.
The other translation is not totally accurate, and otherwise I felt that I could improve on it, so I prepared my own.