French Pop Discovers Its Hip to Be Cheesy

Katherine Nemes
Sun, 15 Mar 1998 12:43:24 -0700


You may want to check out The New York Times (Sunday March 15) for an
acticle on french popular music in the Arts& Liesure section.

'French 1960's pop-rock, called ye-ye for its inane choruses, was
rehabilitated by the London based, part-French group Stereloab,....once
hip-hop activists like De La Soul and Beastie Boys showed the way, all
sorts of late 1990's characters....rediscoverded music that was once
dismissed or disparaged: lounge music....'

'Young disk jockeys are resurrectig the breathy voices, wah-wah guitars
and string sections from the scrapheap of 1970's music.'

The article mentions MC Solaar, Kid Loco, Dimitri from Paris, Air,
Snooze, DJ Cam, DJ Seq.

Peace,
Mitch