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Sorry breh, couldn't answer earlier because I get no alert when I'm taggedThe pronunciations in this song really threw me all the way off, starting at the very top. "Viens dancer" sounds like it got slurred into 1 word.
@Liu Kang - you ever heard an accent like that?
Sorry breh, couldn't answer earlier because I get no alert when I'm tagged
So about that Jennifer Dias song, the accent is not weird, it's even pretty clear french. There are some portuguese phrases because she's cape verdean but still, it's pretty understandable. In the chorus, she says "Prends ma main, viens danser, hé !" (Take my hand and come to dance, hey !").
It's hard to phonetize that because you english speakers don't have nasal vowels like us French or Portuguese speakers do... even Spanish and Italian people have huge problems with those even though with have the same root language-wise (latin) because in theirs, all their vowels are pronounced.
For example, prends, main, viens, danser : all the underlined letters constitute a nasal vowel (like in croissant) so that may be why you can't properly decipher the lyrics even when reading them. But holla at me if you need some translations : zouk love tracks are pretty easy lyrics wise.
And about the music itself. It's from the french west Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique mostly) and was popularized by Kassav', La Compagnie Créole and Francky Vincent in the late 80's/ early 90's. It's more high tempo, made to party to dance and bring positive mood through positive lyrics (the carribean way). But Zouk also can be about sad things with a little slower tempo and Kassav' did that pretty well through lead singer Jocelyn Beroard.
The links you and @horse.kills showed were not really Zouk in fact, it was more "Zouk love", a slowed down, RnB'd, modern version of Zouk which content is mostly about love, or other sentimental soft bullshyt
As you can see, I'm not really a fan of zouk love because I think it's not a diverse enough type of music (same rhythm, same content over and over...) but still, here's one of my fav Zouk Love songs and one of my fav artists (Slaï) from this genre :
We french west indians had our own Michael Jackson with Jean-Michel Rotin (listen to his voice and vocalizes in the following links). He was the first real zouk love artist, the real godfather. I liked him too as a youngin (Slaï came way after him) :
Then if you want the real zouk, here are a few Kassav tracks which shows some diversity and why they the GOAT at it.
Grew up with those tracks
(to be continued)
Liu Kang, where you from in the French West Indies? Are there big differences between Haitian Creole and the Guadeloupe/ Martinique version?
Nah it's a bug, I don't why I ask about it in Event Staff.- no alert when tagged? You turned that off?
- her accent isn't weird?To my ears, it sounds weird as hell, especially compared to something like that Flamme remake.![]()
And I'm very familiar with nasal vowels, breh. My family's from Haiti, and we always have a laugh when some names are repeated on American television.
Hell, most of these songs I had to find by googling lyrics, because the main station I listen to refuses to identify artists.
Funny thing, I asked one of my younger cousins whether or not he listens to zouk, replied, "Oh non. Sa se vye muzik gran moun".I don't mind this kind of zouk anyway. I like R&B a lot.
Though, what else should I be checking out like in terms of stations, other artists, whatever?
Guadeloupe & Martinique (pop & mom).Liu Kang, where you from in the French West Indies? Are there big differences between Haitian Creole and the Guadeloupe/ Martinique version?
speaking of Francky Vincent, what is with this song? Innuendos all over the place.
Interesting stuff brehs, I feel like the French West Indies gets really overlooked in the Anglophone world, could be the opposite in France.
I know he's Congolese, but this was a fire party track![]()