{"id":2185,"date":"2016-07-30T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:16:58","slug":"an-anti-hippie-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/music\/an-anti-hippie-song\/","title":{"rendered":"An anti-hippie song"},"content":{"rendered":"

The richness of French song<\/a> (6\/6)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 18 - Jonas Follonier<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the final instalment of \u00abLa richesse de la chanson fran\u00e7aise\u00bb, we take a look at a song by Johnny Hallyday. Let's take a look at 1966, an important year for me, as it marked the beginning of the most impressive musical period in 20th-century French chanson.<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> century: 1966-1968.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In the space of three years, the most paradigmatic songs of the new generation of singers were born: The No Doll<\/em>, Love me, please love me<\/em>, Love with you<\/em> and Le Bal des Laze<\/em> by Michel Polnareff; The playboys<\/em> and It's five o'clock, Paris is waking up<\/em> by Jacques Dutronc; La Javanaise<\/em> and Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> by Serge Gainsbourg; Black is black<\/em> by Johnny Hallyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reade also | <\/span>E<\/span>scapade baroque au Laze Ball<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1966, he released the song Long hair and short ideas<\/em> in the album The lost generation<\/em>. The latter had a specific target: the bearded singer Antoine. That same year, Antoine released his first hit: Antoine's Elucubrations<\/em>. In one of his verses, Antoine presents Johnny as an old-fashioned idol: \u00abEverything should change all the time \/ The world would be more fun \/ We'd see airplanes in the subway corridors \/ And Johnny Hallyday in a cage at Medrano.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

However, Johnny, who is not as dumb as his puppet in Les Guignols<\/em>, will reply with the help of his lyricist Gilles Thibaut. Long hair and short ideas<\/em> responds directly to Antoine: \u00abIf words were enough to achieve everything \/ Sitting on your behind with your arms crossed \/ I know in a cage I'd be locked up \/ But it's another story to get me in there \/ Because it's not enough to have long hair.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n