les Goguettes - Le Temps Béni de la Pandémie

Unfortunately, the topic is still in the news as I’m writing these lines.
Fortunately, facing the worry and the prevailing moroseness, les Goguettes (trio of 4 people) are still here, with their caustic humour which verges on genius almost every time.

Question: What’s in common between Francis Cabrel, Richard Gotainer, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Marie-Paule Belle, Michel Berger, Julien Clerc and the Beatles?
Answer: One of their tunes was borrowed in this album.
But be careful to the false leads! Starting with the title itself. Le Temps Béni de la Pandémie, a nod to Michel Sardou, isn’t included in the record. You can get a little bit only in the bonus video: the Goguettes you have missed (including a lot of very good ones, that would have been fancied in full!)

“Goguette: feminine noun. Joke, joyful words, sometimes getting to be offensive.”
Well, in this album, their 3rd one, but their 1st one not being recorded from a show, you’ll find only known melodies and no original composition. But the music’s always played by them, no soundtrack was used.
So, in pure tradition of chansonniers, our jolly fellows went over this damned Spring of 2020 with a fine-tooth comb: the coming of the virus in France ("On N'A Rien Vu Venir"), lovers becoming separated ("Message Personnel (l'Amour Confiné)"), government letting down the artists ("Macron in the Sky with Diamonds"), ecology being abandoned ("Happy Collapse"), working from home and newspeak in firms ("Drope-Moi un Mail ASAP", reminding me of Frédéric Fromet in "Les Jeunes Cadres Dynamiques" – with by the way the same conclusion). The songs are so exhilarating that you feel like knowing them by heart! The tone can become serious too, with a beautiful reflection on society under the test of crisis ("Utile?")

Who are they? Like the Three Musketeers they are 4, since the pianist Clémence is added to the male singer trio, plus she sings too. The male voices belong to the fiendishly youtubegenic Valentin (known as the face of their smash hit "T'As Voulu Voir le Salon"), to Aurélien, who’s also at ease with flows of lyrics, and finally to Stan, probably the less good singer of the band but the most prolific in writing (even in Alexandrines in the sketch "Ô Postillons Maudits!").

Far from resting on their very circumstantial laurels, they go on delighting us with their new parodies, on their YouTube channel notably. So let’s go on following them, because the slides they collar are likely to stay in the news, unfortunately.