Girls Aloud - Can't Speak French (18th Single)

[Seanie]

hq versions are amazing

[Queen Cheryl of Cole]

I'm just about to download them since 7digital refuses to play the ones I just bought. Asses.

[N¡ck]

Tangled Up: #9

Blimey.

7 Digital generally sucks, by the way. Bad format and horrible restrictions. I only use them if they have exclusives, which is rare.

[Queen Cheryl of Cole]

Well, I'd love to use iTunes to purchase the song but, alas. I'll take what I can get.

[aethyrsprite]

WOW! the new avatar!
Best thing about it is -of course- Nicola 'featuring' there at the left.
It somehow capitalises the Hoxton plot: Cheryl: "Right! i'm gonna shhhhs those indie pricks!"/Nicola: "Go, Chez! I'll watch your back". Hence the distribution of vocals.

Hello people,

CSF is doing pretty well still only just over 200 downloads behind the Sugababes so far this week and the album has leaped up to 39 also again with just over 200 copies between them [...]

Meaning, it will be above Denial -and possibly top15- on Sunday.

I don't see the video in itunes. Not there yet?

[stuckinarut]

Oh, sod. Can't access iTunes UK nor a credit card for 7digital.

Being 17 is the shits.

[xndr]

Oh silly me, I got all excited and failed to see the only available format was bloody WMA before I bought the single on 7Digital.  Files are unplayable on macs, the horror!!  Who listens to fucking WMA files?

[Untouchable]

Fucking 7digital wont even let me log in.  I've tried 8 million times.  Fuck em.

[Tangled_Up]

Just downloaded from iTunes. I still have the horrible/ecstatic feeling the Hoxton Heroes is going to get tons of radio play over Can't Speak French...

[RéMiToCoKo]

I could write you the lyrics of "Je ne parle pas français", but there's only a short clip of the first part on youtube. And the first Nadine's lines are absent. Nadine is very hard to understand anyway (yes, I know, even when she speaks English...). So, from there, I can say it goes (italics for what I'm not sure of):

"Il a tout pour lui, j'adore son petit accent français
ça se voit comment lui il est sorti [if it's that, that doesn't make sense]
Comme on pourrait danser toute la nuit
C'est juste qu'il veut causer, et je l'avoue
Je comprends pas quasiment rien du tout

... ... ... repasserons [IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND... HELP]
J'aurais dû choisir un film avec option VO
Mais avant que tombe le générique
Il me faut ma réplique

[the chorus sounds weird, I am not sure about the first line]
Je parle pas français, alors laisse la funky music faire coller mon [nos?] corps, d'accord [it sounds a bit gross either way]
Je parle pas français, alors laisse la funky music nous faire danser."

Voilà... I'm waiting for the full version for more.

Now I've heard the full version I think those are the real lyrics :

J'attends si longtemps, c'est puissant, cette fois le voilà !
Qui peut remettre en question mon coeur qui bat ?

J'entends le rythme de mon coeur, oui, ce garçon me plait,
Il a tout pour lui, j'adore son petit accent français !

Ça se voit comme on est bien assortis,
Comme on pourrait danser toute la nuit
C'est juste qu'il veut causer, et je l'avoue,
Je comprends pas, mais vraiment rien du tout !
Nos langues nous séparent, nous repasserons,
J'aurais dû choisir un film avec option V.O.
Mais avant que tombe le générique il me faut ma réplique !

Je n'parle pas français alors laisse la funky musique faire parler nos corps d'accord ? Oh !
Je n'parle pas français alors laisse la funky musique nous faire danser ! Oh oh oh !
Je n'parle pas français alors laisse la funky musique faire parler nos corps d'accord ? Oh !
Je n'parle pas français alors laisse la funky musique nous faire danser ! Oh oh oh !

Je veux que tu me comprennes ! Les mots ne servent qu'à faire de la peine !
Demain qui s'en souviendra ? Viens plutôt contre moi !

For the non-french fans, here is the translation of Cheryl's part, as I had already translated the rest in the past :

I want you to understand me ! Words only cause pain !
Who will remember them tomorrow ? I'd rather have you against me !

I'm not sure about the against though ! It means like, close of her body ! Is it the right word ?

[anfunny2003]

I've probably missed something about this in the many many pages of this black hole-like thread but what happened with the 'Can't Speak French' download? Wasn't it suppsoed to be a 2 track with the remix as an exclusive? Is that now a seperate download or is it simply not being released? It's not on the main format listings, was on the promo, but now isn't available for download (or even pre-order download)? They also used the third artwork shot on the EP download...

[erosoft]

I'm not sure about the against though ! It means like, close of her body ! Is it the right word ?

Yes you can say that.

The "comme on est assortis" bit seemed logical to me, but really from that clip on youtube, I couldn't understand that at all.


Thank you for the work Rémy!

Now I just have to find a way to the full hq version.

[DiscoWenchy83]

HH fuppin' rules! Seriously, what a fucking b-side. Amazing.

I might buy the "hard copy", just to have a picture of the girls all razzle-dazzled up. I can't figure out the contentious lyric on HH either. I can hear Cheryl, Nicola and Kimba - but no Nadine! I think that might be a GA first.

[spiker]

HH fuppin' rules! Seriously, what a fucking b-side. Amazing.

I might buy the "hard copy", just to have a picture of the girls all razzle-dazzled up. I can't figure out the contentious lyric on HH either. I can hear Cheryl, Nicola and Kimba - but no Nadine! I think that might be a GA first.

Actually if I remember correctly, none of the Chemistry b-sides had Nadine on either. That's probably why they were made b-sides.

[erosoft]

By the way, I don't know what you French people think about "Je parle pas français", but there's something weird about those lyrics. Some of them sound really idiomatic and accurate (as if they were written by a French person or someone really used to French), and some others are just wrong, including sentences that a French person could not make up even if they were trying to sound wrong (if that makes sense).