Les Fatals Picards 🇫🇷

The Fatals Picards (meaning “the fatal [men] from Picardy”) are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song “L’Amour à la française” (Eng: “Love, French Style”), after winning the national selection. (Wikipedia)

Their lyrics are often of a parodic or humoristic character, though some songs, more particularly in the recent years, are more of a militant left-wing kind. Some of their songs are satiric:

• L’enterrement de Derrick (“the burial of Derrick”), about the namesake character of the German police TV series Derrick.

• Le jour de la mort de Johnny (“the day of the death of Johnny”), about French rock singer Johnny Hallyday. The Fatals Picards and Johnny Hallyday were both at the same record company, Warner Bros. Records, who decided not to include the song on the album

• Les Bourgeois — fake left-wing militant song, probably satirizing militant bands such as Têtes Raides; the title is reminiscent of a famous song by Jacques Brel.

• Cure Toujours, about Goth youth imitating the looks and appreciating the music of The Cure. The guitar and vocals are reminiscent of Indochine.

• Sauvons Vivendi, parody of songs from e.g. Band Aid that attempt raising awareness about humanitarian causes… but in this case, calling for help for the industrial and financial group Vivendi and stock traders.