Crossark

This is my second year taking French, and I decided it would probably be a good idea to listen to some French pop music so I could practice listening for words. For a while, all I really liked was MIKA's "Elle Me Dit", but one day I decided I'd start on its music video and navigate the suggested videos, choosing the next song based on whether or not I'd heard it before.

That's how I found Coeur de Pirate. The first song I found was "Adieu", which I now know is off of Blonde. That led to "Comme des enfants", which led to "Pour un infidèle", which led to me going home and purchasing every album I could find with her name on it, including the soundtrack for Child of Light, which I didn't know she had made.

So, now most of my library is French. This can be something of a problem, because I live in Austin, Texas, and while I have one or two French friends, the majority of the populus falls into three categories; the "snobby hipster who only knows some popular French phrases and can't even pronounce them correctly", the "Hablamos español", and the "speak English before I shoot you". It's not like I could communicate with my French friends in speaking anyway, because they all like to talk at the speed of light. So, I've become that weird guy whose library is filled with music no one understand or that comes across to native speakers as patronizing. Not that that makes me like it any less, it's just something strange.

Anyone else got some good French artists to share? Maybe if I get something a little more fleshed out than my current library I won't feel like such a tool.