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L.E.Jâs mash-up âFoule Sentimentale x La Vie En Roseâ paints two pictures at once. First we taste the sweet, dreamy pink of la vie en roseâEdith Piafâs famous way of seeing life through love-tinted glasses. Then the trio flips the canvas with Alain Souchonâs Foule Sentimentale, a sharp look at how advertising and nonstop shopping try to fill our closets and minds. The result is a playful duet between optimism and irony, where sunny vocal harmonies hide a thoughtful wink.
What is the song really saying? True happiness is not the mountain of stuff we are told to buy. We are âthirsty for ideals,â drawn to the stars and the sailsâsymbols of freedom, travel, and dreams that cannot be sold. The repeated line âIl faut voir comme on nous parleâ reminds us to notice how marketing speaks to us from birth, treating us as fools. L.E.J encourages us to keep our hearts romantic and our eyes critical, so we can choose wonder over wallet and paint our own life in rose.