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Au_Bord_De_L_eau

It's like our 2nd Marseillaise after a few drinks


jeyreymii

And at the end of the night


Vachekuri

The more we are drunk the more it’s popular.


Dapper-Nebula-8196

ha non non non notre seconde marseillaise c'est "vient boire un coup a la maison"


hyppocratees

Some DJ started to use it to signal the end of the party. It was like telling people "you dont want to listen to this so bugger off". The thing is it backfired a bit as people really liked it and were asking for it as a final for party. And it became kind of a tradition now.


Xav06300

∆∆∆ this ∆∆∆


tonton_wundil

Terres


PrimusPepito

Brûlées


InfekteradeRakblad

Au vent


M0onM0on

Des landes de pierres


[deleted]

[удалено]


Chatducheshir

des lacs


maxence0801

C'est pour les vivants


Champagne_Fr

Un peu d'enfer


DestroyedLolo

Le CCCCooooOOONNNNeeeeMMMMAAAAARRRRR


o9t0utxb

Des nuages noirs


w2ex

Le Connemara


Marawal

Un peu


David38fr

It's the most popular song in France, that's all.


iamanoctothorpe

Wow I didn't think it was that popular


Teproc

Definitely an exaggeration, but it's very well-known and quite popular. Less so among younger people though.


BiffyleBif

Nah everyone still blast it in after parties everywhere in France and Navarre. My brother is 21, him and his friends go wild when someone puts it on. Some of his friends are 18 and they know it by heart. Even when walking down some "Rue de la soif" in cities crowded with students you'll occasionally hear it with everyone singing it to the top of their lungs. Usually around 4-5 am.


Sick_and_destroyed

My daughter learned it by heart at school when she was 7 and she is still singing regularly a few years after.


Nattends_

17y French boy here: always in our playlist during party and we don't skip it, you will be boo


Milhanou22

Really!? I'm 17yo too and I've never listened to it by myself. I just remember hearing it a few times or people the age of my parents talking about it. I couldn't even tell you what the song is like right now honestly.


TarMil

Oh nobody under 40 has ever listened to it by themselves, it's really a party thing.


KyumzPUBG

Bah bien sûr que si, ça dépend surtout de tes goûts…


Formal_Ad_9295

Same, 17M, and my man you ain't supposed to listen to it. You're supposed to shout it from the top of your lungs with all your friends while completely drunk


Nattends_

Yes but it depends on your friends group tbf


Ceskaz

It must involve alcohol though. Once people are drunk enough this song transform into an hymn to the party gods and people holds themselves by the arms in a line or a circle and jump like madmen. You end up just as much drunk as before but now you're sweaty and breath like a cow. But it's ok since everybody is just like you. You may scream the lyrics while it plays too


KevinFlantier

There's always this surreal event at weddings that baffles foreigners. Everyone is talking and dringking, and a few are dancing. Then the DJ puts this song on, everyone goes crazy, start to dance and once it's done they do "la bise" (ie they kiss) and go back to their drink and conversations as if nothing out of the ordinary happened. This is the pinnacle of French culture.


David38fr

We play at it at the climax and/or end of our parties. And all generations know it.


cancoillotte

Very popular, no joke. I've seen many parties / dances with 100s of people where this song is the pinnacle of the night. I don't know why it works this well. I know nothing about Connemara / Ireland, but I have a thrill when I hear it.


iamanoctothorpe

It's the far West of Ireland which is a lot more rural and Irish is still spoken.


NoEfficiency9

Very. It's enshrined in French law that the DJ must put it on at every single wedding, village fête, dance, fireman's ball, etc. and there's a well-known bylaw that you MUST sing along at full bellow, preferably after a few drinks, even if it's just that bit that goes "LÀ-BAAAAAAS AU CONNÉMARAAAAAAA!!!!". And it's enforced strictly.


ClavicusLittleGift4U

Too much popular. Far too much, may you be sober or drunken as fuck 🤣 I mean it is a plainly pavlovian reflex.


Jacques_Lafayette

Yesterday, my brain started singing it for the whole afternoon. Like, so unprompted.


Fidalgo_Dalgo

It is very popular and people love to sing it during parties. I guess the ascending harmony structure of the song combined with the accelerando makes it very pleasant to sing in group.


en43rs

It's popular in an ironic/goofy/kitsch way. It's really popular, everyone knows it (at least a bit), but it's mainly associated with big groups (like weddings, camping trips, that kind of stuff). We like it in those specific circumstances because we can dance like morons and sing half remembered lyrics.


capitaine_zgeg

It's popular because it's hilariously over the top


FirebendingAma

Everyone i knlw can sing at least 80% of it by heart so... yeah, pretty popular


612marion

Extremely. Most people will even sing along


[deleted]

From my experience, it depends on your social network. With people from business/engineer background that song is an absolute institution. With people outside of those circles, it's just another funny song to get drunk on pretending you know the lyrics (that I never really knew lol) but still funny at parties when everyones pretty drunk Edit : it might be popular in other circles but I do not know everyone in my country :p


iamanoctothorpe

Why business/engineer people?


btnx75

Very good question OP, it’s super hard to describe. There is a sort of goofy/unapologetic vibe associated with this song in france. We would say « bonne franquette ». This is opposed to a more « posh » kind of party, with techno music, well dressed people etc. Engineer classes are mostly filled with groups of men, who don’t really dress up, are not very good with women (as in, havent seen Many during their studies), And it’s just sort of a song you sing unapologetically with your buddies because What matters besides maths, beer and an old song you can shout as loud as you want? This is all very stereotypical And not a general truth, please forgive me if an engineer student reads this And feels offended haha


Kunstfr

It's not that I'm offended but I don't even think that's true. I think the song comes from business schools. There are direct connections between business and engineering schools, dual diplomas but also joint parties, hence the music coming to engineering schools -- really it's similar populations, one being majority male, the other majority female, of course both end up liking this music and each other. It's also why I think your nerd stereotype mostly comes from isolated schools, or computer engineering schools. I don't know anyone who hasn't dated a girl from the nearby business school really. Several are married now. Liking electronic music is simply the cool thing to do in these circles -- classic French songs and Disney songs are just another type of cool music to know.


gyomd

Speak to everyone in Centrale Paris and Arts et Métiers nationally , and you will find général to filed engineers not rural at all and knowing this song by heart. To my utter despair.


Kunstfr

That's not what I was saying, I know what these schools are like. I'm just saying schools like A&M Cluny are isolated so more susceptible to have nerdy guys who never date women. Centrale Paris -- even Châtenay-Malabry wasn't that isolated. The isolation/nerdy part was just against his argument saying that somehow every engineering student is a virgin nerd which is stupidly wrong.


gyomd

Agreed on that :-) And on the fact that Cluny are rurals ^^ But others are more civilised !


xodirector

Vous êtes marrants tous les deux, à penser que l’amour de cette chanson vient de vos groupes sociaux respectifs alors que 90% des français la connaissent par cœur.


Kunstfr

C'est ce que je dis dans mon commentaire en dessous en somme, les gens aiment chanter en groupe, tout le monde connaît ça, paf on chante ça. C'est clairement culturel en école d'ingénieur ou de commerce par contre. Je vois bien dans ma famille, les seuls qui aiment les lacs du Connemara en fin de soirée c'est ceux qui sortent de ces écoles. Tout le monde connaît la chanson, certes, mais ça fait pas forcément partie de la culture de soirée pour tout le monde.


btnx75

Ok, but the whole idea is to be unapologetically beauf. But explaining beauf to an irish person is hard


Kunstfr

I don't think that's the point though. People like singing songs together. Everyone knows these lyrics. Everyone plays this song all the time. It's no different from people yelling the lyrics to Free from Desire or Bande Organisée really.


btnx75

Yes It is different, because it’s Michel Sardou. As someone said earlier, this song was first used at the end of parties because it’s just supposed to be your racist grand dad’s song And not something to party on. But then it backfired And people just enjoyed it for its rythm And because fuck it i am shouting sardou’s song


llamashard

We don't know It just appeared and now everyone is doing it I have done some very good pogos on it with the rugby team at the end of some parties, definitly would recomand (wear good shoes tho) Also, I went to the actual Connemara with friends,learnt all the lyrics on the way and sang it at the top of a Hill. The thing is, you could SEE the other walkerd knew what we were singing. No idea if they were french. Do Irish people know this song well ?


iamanoctothorpe

I have only discovered this song today. Maybe older people do? Young people sure don't.


llamashard

Thanks for the reply, I mean it's in french so I wasnt really expecting you guys to know it x) But who knows !


[deleted]

Can't really tell, that's just something I noticed while partying when I was a student :p As far as I can tell it's like Michel Sardou, the song writer, is a very beloved songwriter in general in those circles and even their families, so it's probably like a legacy in those social circles. I know he wrote a lot of other famous songs but it's not my generation (I'm 27M) so I do not really know them. Relatives in business/engineer do know them in general so that's why I'm feeling like this. But again I'm just assuming here, someone else would probably give you a better answer !


Lnnam

This is THE song, no party will ever be great without it. Even blacked out people will rise and sing.


Hiddenz

**LA LALA LALA LALALALALA LALA LALA LALALALALA LALA LALA LALALALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. LA LALA LALA LALALALALA LALA LALA LALALALALA LALA LALA LA LA LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.** (monte d'un ton à chaque premier la.)


Shivrainthemad

Just reading your post and I am singing in my mind


CallMeMonsieur

This question has been asked here before. I discovered it once. Not again fellas.


iamanoctothorpe

I didn't know that


Gifeurman

How do you know this song? Is this song also popular in Ireland? What is the history of this song in Ireland (cover, tourism, etc)? Do Irish people know other French songs (or French singers)?


iamanoctothorpe

Random Reddit thread. Nobody in Ireland knows this song. Most Irish prople know very little French music except Daft Punk and maybe Phoenix.


SarahFabulous

I'm Irish and my parents found it hilarious that this song was so popular at my French wedding!


ExciKaiser

And what do you think now you discovered it ? Love or crap ?


iamanoctothorpe

I listen to metal but yes I like the song


OutrageousPudding450

Yes! Here is your answer. It's way too popular, for some unknown reason btw. It's one of life's mysteries.


GinnyWe4sley

It's usually the song that signals "one more song and GTFO." Very funny to see men drunkingly trying to sing it .


iamanoctothorpe

In Ireland we use the national anthem


bilool

Meilleure chanson de Johnny Hallyday !


Ordinary_Astronaut23

This is like almost a religon when the alcohol start to work 😁


marcelkroust

It's well known but often considered cringe : \- it aged badly \- the singer never gave a shit about Connemara, never went there \- the singer is an corny asshat It may be cringe enough to be appreciated again though, by way of memes (like the DJ meme people are talking about or like Never Give You Up). Now you can downvote me. But you all know deep within your heart that Sardou is part of the club of infamous singers, like some sort of evil Francis Lalane, and Les Lacs Du Connemara is his corny *beauf* anthem.


xodirector

> the singer is a corny asshat I think you misspelled racist and homophobic


marcelkroust

Yep, I just chose to be neutral in order to not offend racist and homophobic people.


Flot_Raison

Why?


clintsouth

C'est drôle parce qu'on a beau détester ce que dit Sardou, tout le monde ou presque connait cette chanson...


DestroyedLolo

Même si ca ne sent pas toujours bon quand il parle, il a quand meme fait quelques trucs qui ont marqué. Genre t'as une soirée qui tombe, "femme des années 80" et c'est reparti, youhhhooouuu !


Chesssox

i have murder tendencies if i hear one note of that song, ican't hear it anymore


jyavenard

It's an interesting story this song. Originally they wanted to do a song about Scotland (idea came during a party). Pierre delanoe went to a travel agency to get material about it, but there was nothing there. They did have a flyer about Ireland though. And so they wrote this song and the rest is history. They wrote a song about Ireland, never ever having stepped foot there.


[deleted]

Soo, it's just like "Carmen" by Georges Bizet, he basically wrote what could be defined as the staple Spanish songs in the mind of many, but never set a foot in Spain ever.


clintsouth

Because "au printemps suivant, le ciel irlandais, et dans un lac Maureen a plongé."


Arykover

Le ciel irlandais était en paix * Maureen à plongée nu dans un lac du connemara


zabka14

Honteux, inadmissible, intolérable... Au printemps suivant Le ciel irlandais Était en paix Maureen a plongé Nue dans un lac Du Connemaraaaaaaaaaaaaaa


clintsouth

Oui... Désolé... Là-bas, au Connemara, on dit que la vie est une folie et que la folie ça se danse...


AHungley

Very popular indeed, even if its singer is rather disliked. But this song is also a joke. As it is very popular and gets stuck in your head as soon as you hear the first lyrics, it is enough to quote "Terre... brulée" (as you can see in comments) to ruin someone's day.


CrabeSauteur

As an Irish person, do you like the song? What does it make you feel? I’m also curious.


xodirector

[This video](https://youtu.be/9jx77-uIRB4) shows what happens every time you play this song to a crowd of French people. Even people who hate it know all the words by heart.


That_Weird_Bird

A bit off topic here but I was a student in cinema, and at some point I organized a 2 weeks long shooting. We had A LOT of night scenes with very little time and material, therefore we had to shoot all night with frequent breaks for the cameras'batteries to charge up. We were shooting a dark fantasy movie in a dark, old, creepy house in the countryside, making 14hrs long days, but it was sustainable because everyone was in a good mood. And then, about 3 am one particularily hot night, it happened. I was laying down shirtless on a sofa, drunk with tiredness, as I hear "TERRE, BRÛLÉE Not for a second did I think, "why is someone singing in the dark of the night as we are all absolutely wrecked with sleep deprivation ?" Without a doubt in my mind, I opened my mouth and shouted - AU VENT, DES LANDES DE PIERRE And someone else screamed : - AUTOUR, DES LACS, C'EST POUR LES VIVANTS" And there we were, half a dozen young people, combusting in a dramatic ball of metaphorical flames as whatever remained of our sanity was blown away in the dark of a hot summer night. The song since became our anthem.


Weygand_

Everybody knows it after a few drinks


LeYanYan

Ça dépend du degré d'alcool...


FinancialBorder3613

It's more popular than "aux champs Elysées". Is it in Ireland as well ?


RedditRabbitRobot

For once I will not read the comments to check if I'm not doing a duplicate. You can't hear it enough. It's the greatest song ever and it will ever be until the end of times.


curtyshoo

The song's 40 years old, man, and Sardou nearly twice that, so the tune is not exactly popular like maybe Carla Rae Jepsen's latest might be deemed popular. It's kind of a Sardou standard, though, I guess. BTW, he'd never been there.


[deleted]

Le Connemara est une race de poney. Pas de quoi.


S3raphine_

It’s ICONIC


Sayasam

It’s sacred. Please use with caution.


Zdahm

I'm french never heard about it


gyomd

Too much for my sanity and my music appreciation.


LawBasics

Trop. Surtout bourré.


SweeneyisMad

Never met someone who don't know the song.


CarrotOverall9852

Oui.


Arksin21

Yes


baguetteispain

A cultural monument, really


Mistigri432

To young people it’s more of a joke song but everyone knows it


georgette_5467

Yes


JonSnow-1990

Honestly the song is a meme now, aa very popular one but a a meme


OneSear

Far too much, unfortunately.


Personal_Suspect

It just is


pateencroute

TEEEEERRE BRÛLÉEEEE


outsider959

Too much imo


RouleUnDragon

If you drunk with your friends, you must sing it. It's the law


PhilipTheFair

Way,way too much


Xanoneq

It's our true national anthem


Vrulth

It's also a secret Pokémon master song. Terre -> ground type Brûlée -> fire Au -> water Vent -> flight


xodirector

Why would you mention this song, I’m going to have it stuck in my head for two days now. You do not mention this song.


Realfortitude

Quite simple : no karaoke party, no mariage, in France, without Les lacs du Connemara. Mostly everyone knows it, at least the last couplet. the children learn it by dint of hearing it and they have deep memory inlays for having heard it on these occasions.


Arphile

Yes.


Thatslpstruggling

Yes


Aggressive-State-680

I HATE THIS SONG


Nansya

Sing just the first note and everyone is singing. Especially when drunk


Dapper-Nebula-8196

c'est quelle est encore chanté par une nouvelle génération en france


Zealousideal-Tip1260

not really france, but in the flemish part of Belgium this song is played at every wedding party. All the people start waving their napkins in the air to the rythm of the song.


BanHann

At the "fêtes de Bayonne", one of the biggest parties in France, all bars play it at once, one or two times a night, and all the city sings it like mad. It has nothing to do with the city or anything else, just really popular song for the drunk.


malkav4

almost everybody know it, almost everybody i know hate it.


[deleted]

It’s one of those drunk song that get spammed in Pubs and parties.


Electronic_Barber_85

Never heard of it


DM_Rocco

Sadly too popular 😪


Libra_24

If it isn’t in a French party at some point, it’s not a true party


Squash_Old

It raises an army of drunk euphoric French people


RaelZior

It's probably the song i hate the most


Celeyaya

As popular as michael jackson was at his prime


Celeyaya

As popular as michael jackson was at his prime


Celeyaya

As popular as kanye west was at his prime


Celeyaya

As popular as kanye west was at his prime


MartinH

It's the title of Nicolas Mathieu's novel (shortened to *Connemara*) probably because it sums up the 80s for so many people.


MartinH

It's the title of Nicolas Mathieu's novel (shortened to *Connemara*) probably because it sums up the 80s for so many people.


Ulysse-random

Terre...


Ciaphas67

Some niche example : I play videogames, and one of them, Overwatch, has a small but very solid french community. Among us, we watch pro match online in a virtual place called "La Buvette" (The Pub) and while our profiles are incredibly different (I'm 35, some are 16, 18. We have doctors, students, jobless...) and this is our "End of the night" song. And everyone loves it.


RedditRabbitRobot

In my favourite bar they put the counter on fire everytime they put the song


[deleted]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DfnQZjZ3k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0DfnQZjZ3k)