Dégoûte comes from the verb dégoûter, meaning 'to disgust' or 'to sicken'. It's a strong emotional word that conveys a powerful sense of aversion.
In the song, Louane sings, "Tout c'que j'vois me dégoûte" (Everything I see disgusts me). This word immediately grabs attention because it expresses a raw and intense feeling, hinting at the depth of her pain and disillusionment with a past relationship. It's not a word you hear in every pop song, making it memorable and impactful.
"Les Excuses" is Louane singing about the moment she stops accepting apologies from someone who has hurt her over and over. Every time she closes her eyes she still sees how unhappy they made her, and she is done pretending an explanation could fix that.
She admits she is still stuck on the past and can't quite shake it off, but she draws a hard line: whatever the other person could say to justify their lies, it doesn't matter anymore. She has watched them do the same thing too many times, and she has suffered enough.
By the end she is not even asking why she keeps thinking about this person. She just repeats that she doesn't want their apologies, not now and not ever again.
Louane was born Anne Peichert in 1996 in the Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France, and at sixteen she reached the semi-finals of The Voice: la plus belle voix. A year later she played Paula, the hearing daughter of a deaf farming family, in the film La Famille Bélier, and won the César for Most Promising Actress for the role.
Her debut album Chambre 12 (2015) went to number one in France and sold over three quarters of a million copies that year, carried by "Avenir", "Jour 1" and "Maman", a song written for her mother, who had died the year before. Louane (2017), Joie de vivre (2020), Sentiments (2022) and Solo (2024) followed, and in 2025 she represented France at Eurovision with a new song called "Maman", again about her mother, finishing seventh.