Chanson is probably more cool than ever - and the bar was already set high - since the Olympics opening ceremony.
She may well be riding on that wave. But she's been around the block before mostly obliviously to non-Francophile Canadians however unfairly, Pop jazzer Jill goes up the chanson trad-jazz friendly hill again - and why not? The Canadian singer says on her Bandcamp page: ''For me, singing in French is an embodied, sensual experience… it’s a new language in which to explore and express myself artistically - and be vulnerable''. TikTok gen Z Laufey fans out there who inevitably go all misty over such a vintage vibe may possibly pant in yet more glee. A perkily arranged take on everyone's most famous ''hot'' Belgian Django's shrug banishing 'Nuages' is very more-ish. Good too is a sensitive turn on Robert Charlebois 1970s gem 'Ordinaire' covered in such heroically over the top fashion by Céline Dion who stole the show singing Édith Piaf in front of the Eiffel tower as anyone who saw Dion singing 'Hymne à l'amour' - no matter how sports phobic and aren't we all...? - and is in possession of a beating heart will know.
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