Papernapkin wrote: 
You're right, not a native speaker, some wrong spellings sliding over and over... :-)

 Felix_The_Cat wrote: 
I think you meant antipathetic.

antipathetic |anˌtipəˈθetik|adjectiveshowing or feeling a strong aversion : it is human nature to be antipathetic tochange.ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from antipathy , on the pattern of pathetic. 

At the risk of sounding antipathic, to me this song seems to be made with the intention of selling an exotic product.

 Axelito wrote: 
Ce N'est Pas Bon

So true!!!

Asmith wrote: 

I am done with this song.............It seems to be played everyday..................

I think the production quality has improved over their last album.

But maybe that's just me - please don't read anything of gopolitical import into it.

Saw them at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass... they are so fun and super talented!

I love their groovy sounds. Very bright mood.

Great stuff, whether French or Mali :)

And yes, making race jokes here on RP forums is unacceptable. 

All right, I'll juste say then. Mali or France, it's still crap, sorry.

 justin4kick wrote: 

 Poacher wrote: 
For all you know, I'm a 12-year-old mixed-race child from Blackpool.  (I'm sure you thought of that before you posted.)  Seriously, I think your stuffy pseudoliberalism is way more repugnant than my irreverent sense of humor, so BIOYA.  Did you happen to see Dave Chappelle's bit about a blind, hard-core white supremacist who was somehow never told that he happened to be black?  That was actually the source of the joke that I stole, but I'm sure if you saw it, the humor would be completely lost on you.  Here's a hint:  It's a blind joke, not a race joke.  (You should probably also avoid those old SNL reruns, because I think you'll find some reason to be offended by the one about Stevie Wonder playing tennis badly and using a Polaroid camera badly.  FYI, that, too, is a blind joke, not a race joke.)  There is a contingent of people on the US side of the pond who shrilly suggest that every politically incorrect statement or quip merits some kind of apology or public reckoning.  You sound like one of them.  Fortunately, in America, those statements (and any related beliefs) are on exactly the same footing as politically correct statements, humorous statements, sacrilegious statements, truly weird statements, and, yes, even racist statements.  You obviously aspire to be a true liberal; try opening your mind.

I thought before I posted. 

 colt4x5 wrote: 

No matter how you slice it; it is just really good!

 lophrequa wrote:

romeotuma wrote:
C'est bon pour les oreilles...
  
 

  oooh nice change-up, wasn't expecting that one! 

Same here
This is not French music, as they both come from Mali.
There is quite a detailed comment by a fellow listener below about Mali, and why people there speak French as a result of colonization., should I say still going on?
To the French guy who wants more French music : there is an upload option in your profile, you should try it :)
This said, the language being French seems for some, to be enough to make assumptions such as "fed up with being the european midnight guinea pig for rp. switching channels again". At least it shows where you put Europe on the map.
I do hope you succeeded in not to being a wherever whenever guinea pig just by switching channels.
I do not like Amadou and Mariam music, most of the time. This one song caught me off guard. May be because this time I like the lyrics.

Speaking about content, I've been lucky enough to get to know Fela Kuti's music and even to see him in concert. I feel closer to his music and lyrics.

 nate917 wrote: 
Not funny and racist. Try to think before you post please.

 WayUpNorth wrote: 
Interestingly, each one thinks the other is white.  Shhhhhhh.

c'est si bon. i'm loving this tune.

 colt4x5 wrote: 

How sad.  Another irony-challenged pedant.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
ce n'est pas vrai.

romance languages (such as french) do not recognize the same double-negative rules as english. "ce n'est pas bon" means, simply, "it is not good." 

 

excellent. this was a great choice.

 romeotuma wrote: 
oooh nice change-up, wasn't expecting that one!  

 justin4kick wrote: 
Hear hear!

Enjoying this song more as it is being played quite a bit. Also on reading the full translation of the words, I have a better appreciate for the songwriting and its protest message. Originally I thought it was some kind of love story thing and just, well, fluff. Also appreciating the groove the guitar playing gets going. Gone from 6 to 7.

Now I like this, will help me forget the Byrne Head/Talking David previously played....

 Axelito wrote: 

This is not French music. It's music from Mali sung in French. The language of the colonists from France that occupied Mali at the end of the 19th century. It didn't bring the country much good. Today Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. If anything is a shame, I think it's the ignorance that is shown by your comment.

 Droidac wrote: 

Interesting, Dengue Fever drives me batshit, but I love Amadou & Mariam.

 Droidac wrote: 
I agree with the comparison, but I love both!

 joempie wrote: 
good grief, the narrow minded
who think the world revolves
around them