Becoming ever more pretentious is a privilege of the spinster and I find myself these days prefering music to be sung in french. Maybe it's that the unemphasized language fits in nicely with pretty much any beat. See MC Solaar.


My current fave chanteuse is the fabtastic Pauline Croze. [She has a couple of vids on the galerie page.] I heard her first on some world music radio channel on iTunes and immediately fell in love. I think she looks like a cross between Tracy Thorn and Audrey Tatou. But anyway. I love her. Joe's Pub please book her soon.

French is good for melodrama and overwhelming sadness in general. I thoroughly recommend it.

Try also Rosapaeda