Carmen (Stromae song)

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"Carmen"
Electro-hop
Length3:37
Label
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Producer(s)Stromae
Stromae singles chronology
"Meltdown"
(2014) 		"Carmen"
(2013) 		"Quand c'est ?"
(2015)
Music video
"Carmen" on
YouTube

"Carmen" is a song by Belgian singer Stromae, the sixth single from his second album Racine carrée.

The animated music video, illustrated by

Belleville Rendez-Vous,[1] was posted on social networks by the Facebook account of the American news website BuzzFeed Music. The video and lyrics of the song violently attack social networks through the depiction of the Twitter bird, set to the tune of "Habanera" from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.[2][3]

Themes

The song is an adaptation of the aria

L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Love is a rebellious bird - more commonly known in English as Habanera), from the opera Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet.[4][5][6]
The song addresses the theme of alienation through social networks.

Music video

The animated video was drawn by

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
, and many others. Then his bird takes him by the neck and feeds him and the others to a huge bird-like monster, who is seen excreting its prey. A hand (presumably being Stromae) comes out of the faeces to take a photo of people falling. At the end of the clip, another similar-looking blue bird comes to sing at the window of Stromae's sister's room, who strikes his cell phone, bookending the video.

Charts

2015 weekly chart performance for "Carmen"
Chart (2021) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[7] 31
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[8] 46
France (
SNEP)[9]
 67
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40 Tipparade)[10] 11
2016 weekly chart performance for "Carmen"
Chart (2021) Peak
position
France (
SNEP)[11]
 98

References

  1. ^ "Carmen : la recette Stromae décryptée". lefigaro.fr. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  2. ^ "blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/oh-my-code/2015/04/07/stromae-et-le-retour-du-petit-oiseau-bleu-234449". blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com. Archived from the original on 10 April 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Stromae : Carmen, il évoque la création du clip". virginradio.fr. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  4. ^ Emmanuel Marolle (19 August 2013). "VIDEO. Stromae, la danse des maux". Le Parisien. Retrieved 19 August 2013.
  5. ^ "Stromae résout sans problème l'équation du deuxième album avec "Racine carrée"". Chart in France. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  6. ^ "Racine Carrée - Critique". Télérama. 24 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  7. ^ "Stromae – Carmen" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Stromae – Carmen" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  9. Les classement single
    . Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Stromae". Top 40 (in Dutch). Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  11. Les classement single
    . Retrieved 17 January 2021.
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