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Stromae (Music)

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Paul van Haver (born 12 March 1985 in Etterbeek), better known by his stage name Stromae, is a Belgian rapper, singer, dancer, and songwriter. Born to a Rwandan father and a Belgian mother, he has managed to establish himself in the Hip-Hop and Electronic Music genres in Western Europe.He first emerged in the music scene in 2009 with his single, "Alors on danse", which became a number one hit in several European countries. His second album, Racine Carrée, was released in 2013 and became a huge commercial success. He is best known for songs such as "Papaoutai", "Ta fête", "Tous les mêmes", "Alors on danse", "Ave Cesaria", "Formidable", and "Quand c'est?". With his song "Carmen", he also gained new popularity in America.With the end of the racine carrée tour and the release of the "Quand c'est ?" video in 2015, Stromae went on a hiatus to focus on other projects and to recovering from health problems and burnout. The hiatus was declared over by the fandom in 2018, when Stromae featured on Orelsan's "La pluie" and appeared in the accompanying music video. Stromae also released the single "Défiler" in April 2018 as the soundtrack to Mosaert'snote the record and fashion label Paul cofounded first fashion show. In an interview three days after the release of "Défiler", Paul said he was starting to accumulate enough new material for a third album. On Dec. 8, 2021, he announced the release of said album, Multitude, set for Mar. 4, 2022. The first single off the album, "Santé", was released Oct. 15, 2021.Discography: Cheese (2010) Racine Carréenote Square Root (2013) Multitude (2022)
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All Men Are Perverts
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All Men Are Perverts: The philosophy of the singer in "Tous les mêmes".
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Andréa's name is revealed and used only in leçon 24. In any other appearance where she is named (including the credits of the "tous les mêmes" video), she is referred to simply as "Stromae".
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Poirot Speak
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Poirot Speak: Stromae in multiple interviews. He has trouble speaking English, has a thick accent and sometimes ends up using French words.
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all lowercase letters
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all lowercase letters: racine carrée and most of the tracks thereon.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: The apparent relationship between the narrator and addressee of "sommeil".
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: "moules frites" is about a man who dies from an STInote "moule" (literally "mussel") is an euphemism for female genitals. The song the mourners sing at his funeral is the same thing his last partner screamed while orgasming. "Dodo"—except for the latter half of the second verse, where the narrator drops the humour and picks up an axe.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: The outro to "moules frites". Meta example: Someone once yelled, "Bande de macaques,"note a racial slur, translating to "bunch of macaques/monkeys" in English at Paul and his friends. "Formidable" takes the insult and flips it onto the observers, who treat the narrator subhumanly—"like a monkey".
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Title Track
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Title Track: "Cheese" off the first album.
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Camp Straight
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Camp Straight: Stromae is this. Paul van Haver retains elements of this but isn't as over-the-top as his stage persona.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Paul van Haver lost his father in the Rwandan Genocide at a young age. Many of his songs deal with feelings of Parental Abandonment, such as "Papaoutai", or "Papa, where are you?".
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: "Défiler" riffs on the multiple meanings of "marche(r)", "pas", and "(dé)filer" multiple times during its nearly nine-minute runtime. Downplayed, in that the wordplays aren't meant to be comical but, instead, introspective.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: The subject of "Papaoutai". The lyrics talk about the consequences of growing up without a father, and the fear that the narrator's generation will abandon their own children because none of them know how to fulfill that role. Touched on in "tous les mêmes":
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Gentle Giant
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Gentle Giant: Stromae is about 6'5'', and he explicitly rejects the notion that his size gives him any right to be violent. He's much smarter than a standard example of this trope, though.
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Son of a Whore
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Son of a Whore: The narrator of "Fils de joie" is a self-proclaimed one of these—and is proud of it.
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Attractive Bent-Gender
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Attractive Bent-Gender: Andrea, Stromae's female persona for "tous les mêmes".
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Funetik Aksent
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Funetik Aksent: "Papaoutai" note "papa, où t'es?" ("dad, where are you?")
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Be Yourself
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Be Yourself: The Aesop of songs like "bâtard" and "sommeil".
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Getting Crap Past the Radar
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: Stromae's 2021 appearance on The Tonight Show was aired uncensored despite using vulgar language. As it turns out, singing in French on English-language TV is one way to evade the censors.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Cheese ends with the title track, which is about a Stepford Smiler who has been groomed to be so since childhood. The video for "quand c'est ?" ends with Stromae dead on a stage. Bonus points for: a) being the end of the racine carrée era; and b) being the last major Stromae project Paul Van Haver would put out for three years.
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Do Not Call Me "Paul"
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Do Not Call Me "Paul": Defied: unless he is in character as Stromae or discussing something directly pertaining to Stromae, Paul Van Haver would prefer you call him Paul.
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Significant Anagram
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Significant Anagram: His label's name, Mosaert, is an anagram of Stromae that also calls to mind another famous composer.
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Domestic Abuse
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"Dodo" is based on a lullaby. It deals with Domestic Abuse.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: The cop in "Fils de joie" does let the sex worker go... but not before telling her she's an undignified burden on society and to "find a real job".
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Triumphant Reprise
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Triumphant Reprise: "L'enfer" gets one of these on the Multitude tour. Stromae, having sung the whole song, sits despondently on the stage as the band performs the outro... only to gesture to the audience to start clapping to the beat. When the audience has done so, Stromae then punches up triumphantly and begins dancing to a more hopeful version of the instrumental outro. "Papaoutai" also gets one of these in concert, with the narrator reuniting with his father, though it can be read as much as a Sanity Slippage Reprise as it can be a straight example of this trope.
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Public Domain Soundtrack
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Public Domain Soundtrack: "Carmen" uses the tune of "Habanera" from Carmen.
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Audience Participation Song
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Audience Participation Song: "ave cesaria" "Alors On Danse" "Papaoutai" "La solassitude"
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The "leçons" series depicts Stromae as this.
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Men Don't Cry
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Men Don't Cry: "Dodo" has the father telling this to his son. That's not the intended moral of the song.
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Pretty Boy
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Pretty Boy: Just look at him.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: The narrator of "tous les mêmes" is arrogant, dramatic, and Does Not Like Men. However, the song reveals that her lover is shallow and dismissive, making the narrator's contempt somewhat justified. The music video emphasizes this, with the male characters being gross, slovenly, and licentious.
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Soapbox Sadie
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Soapbox Sadie: "avf" accuses both politicians and artists of being this.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: The narrator of "Te Quiero" expects he will end up this way. "L'enfer" reveals that Paul/Stromae has experienced suicidal thoughts before—something he's "not very proud of".
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Anti-Love Song
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Anti-Love Song:
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Jerkass Woobie
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Jerkass Woobie: In-Universe: "Formidable" is from the perspective of a pretty terrible person who's been through some pretty terrible stuff.
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Invoked Trope
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"tous les mêmes" plays with this—the song invokes tropes like Does Not Like Men and Jerkass Narrator Has A Point. However, Paul Van Haver has said many times that the romance between "a ridiculous woman and a ridiculous man" is something he finds quite beautiful.
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Ballad of a Sex Worker
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Ballad of a Sex Worker: "Fils de joie" is an ode to an migrant sex worker sung by her son, a proud "fils de pute"note "son of a whore.
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: In his music video for "Tous les mêmes", the lighting changes between pink and green for his female and male personas respectively.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: "Défiler" is eight minutes and fifty seconds long.
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Just for Pun
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Just For Pun: "Formidable" plays with two expressions which sound very similar, which the narrator uses to refer to his former lover and himself respectively: "formidable" (wonderful/reliable) and "fort minable" (pathetic). "Ta fête" ("Your party"): the subject of the song feels like they are wrongfully persecuted by everyone when they ough to be celebrated instead. In French, "faire la fête à quelqu'un" ("make a party to someone") means to harshly judge, torment or beat someone. "Fils de joie" ("Sons of joy") is a play on "filles de joie" ("girls of joy", a euphemism for sex workers) and "fils de pute" ("son of a bitch").
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Does Not Like Men
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Does Not Like Men: The protagonist of "tous les mêmes", despite her passing claims to the contrary.
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold: The mother in "Fils de joie".
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Curse Cut Short
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Curse Cut Short: Most of "avf".
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: A lighthearted example: in the "Multitude ı Track by Track" series on YouTube, Paul explains that poop is a recurring element on Multitude due to him being a new father—and having to change his son's diapers—during the album's conception.
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Black-and-White Morality
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Black-and-White Morality: Discussed in "Bâtard" ("Bastard"), which is about society's insistence on putting people into boxes, and why "bastard" is even an insult. The first verse explicitly points out the dangers of this kind of thinking with the line "Are you Hutu or Tutsi?" Notably, Stromae is of Rwandan-Belgian descent.
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Stepford Smiler
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Stepford Smiler: "Alors on Dance", a song about partying and having a good time... because you have no control over your life and can't do much else. The lyrics of "Sommeil" contain the line, "You smile too much to be happy."
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Spoken Word in Music
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Spoken Word in Music: From the beginning of "ave cesaria":
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Destructive Romance
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Destructive Romance: "tous les mêmes", big time.
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Take a Third Option
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"bâtard" explains that not taking a binary option in terms of identity is fine (and even to be encouraged), but that when it comes to sociopolitical issues like racism, you do need to take a side.
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Parodied Trope
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Parodied with the French fry rant that precedes "moules frites" live.
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Cross-Cast Role
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Crosscast Role: "Tous les mêmes" is from the perspective of a woman. In the official video, however, Stromae only spends half the time as a woman.
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Careful with That Axe
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Careful with That Axe: "Dodo", "Papaoutai", and "bâtard".
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: "Dodo" and "Papaoutai" are both heavy on Lyrical Dissonance for the most part. However, during the second verses of both songs, the narrator starts yelling—only to return to his previous tone right after. The sombre "Formidable" appears on racine carrée right between the upbeat "tous les mêmes" and the jaunty "moules frites". Really, with how replete with Lyrical Dissonance Stromae's discography is, any number of his songs can become this if you only pick up on the song's lyrics partway through. The video for "quand c'est ?" has this trope to an extent. The entire video is meant to be menacing and disconcerting, but most of it depicts its topics (cancer and death) with a measure of fantasy. The fantasy element is axed at the very end, though, when Stromae is shown simply dead. During his appearance on TF1's evening news to promote Multitude, he appears to participate in a regular interview only to segue without prior announcement in the debut performance of "L'enfer". That included looking straight into the camera and proclaiming "I've had suicidal thoughts" in song.
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Kids Rock
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Kids Rock: The unreleased "si tu veux me faire du buzz..." (and its remix, "... buzz des mains") has a kid (named Amaury) perform the hook.
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Animated Music Video
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Animated Music Video: Sylvain Chomet creates one for his song "Carmen".
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Madonna-Whore Complex
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Madonna-Whore Complex: Mentioned in "bâtard":
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Abusive Parents
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The father in "Dodo".
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Take That!
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Take That!: "Carmen" and its video are a scathing satire of people can become slaves to social media, to the point that their amount of Twitter followers is more important than their actual friends. "moules frites" is one directed at Serge Gainsbourg, as Stromae felt the song "Les Sucettes" was "unfair for [the woman]". The second verse of "Santé" mocks people who harass and threaten workers.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: The subject of "Ta fête".
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: "avf" plays into Curse Cut Short for the most part, but the end of the third verse gives us:
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Parodied with the French fry rant that precedes "moules frites" live. Serious examples include Domestic Abuse—and using one's masculinity and own past experiences as excuses for it ("Dodo")—, victim blaming ("Dodo"), and Parental Abandonment ("Dodo" and "Papaoutai").
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Spoonerism
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Spoonerism: His stage name is one on "Maestro".note It's actually verlan, a form of French argot in which the syllables of a word are switched (mae-stro > stro-mae).
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: "Carmen" parodies the lyrics of "Habanera" from, well, Carmen.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: This interview between Stromae and Andréa qualifies. It takes "tous les mêmes"' Jerkass Has a Point up to eleven by having Stromae downplay Andréa's contributions to the song and having him speak over her when she mentions her discomfort with the hook of the song, saying he couldn't possibly be sexist because Andréa was with him—and also, that this will be the last time Andréa appears with him on a television broadcast. "moules frites" is about a man named Paulo who dies from a STI. Paulo is an endearing diminutive of Paul, Stromae's actual given name.
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Troubled Abuser
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Troubled Abuser: Mentioned in "Dodo". It does not justify the abuse at all.
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cloudcuckoolander: Stromae, as a character, can be one. See the first example in Berserk Button above.
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Environmental Symbolism
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Environmental Symbolism: During the debut evening news performance of "L'enfer", the LED background of the news studio behind Stromae slowly transitions from a glistening view of Paris in the evening, to a dark, nighttime one, and finally a grey and overcast cityscape.
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Fidelity Test
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Fidelity Test: The narrator of "tous les mêmes" alleges that's the reason she threatened to leave her man just a couple of lines earlier.
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You Are Not Alone
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You Are Not Alone: "L'enfer" discusses how lots of people feel suicidal at different points in their lives — and how this knowledge does not necessarily make anyone feel less alone.
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Refuge in Audacity
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Refuge in Audacity: When the narrator of "Mon amour" is caught cheating, he trots out the standard excuses before resorting to, "D't'façon, j'sais qu'au fond d'toi, tu les aimes bien, les connards".note "Besides, I know that deep down, you love assholes".
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In My Language, That Sounds Like...
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In My Language, That Sounds Like...: In his native French, "Quand c'est?" sounds almost exactly like "cancer"note "quand c'est" literally means "when it [happens]?". The lyrics give a very good reason for the title of the song. In Europe and North America, "yo" is a general interjection. In places like Rwanda and Congo, it is an interjection of grief. This double meaning works for "moules frites".
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Anime Hair
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Anime Hair: Every video from Multitude features a live-action example of this trope. "Santé" has Stromae sporting Odango Hair, in "L'enfer" he wears a tall Samurai Ponytail, and his hairstyle in "Fils de joie" (as well as the album cover) can be described as a flat round hat made of hair.
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Lyrical Dissonance
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Really, with how replete with Lyrical Dissonance Stromae's discography is, any number of his songs can become this if you only pick up on the song's lyrics partway through.
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Intercourse with You
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Intercourse with You: The subject of "moules frites", and mentioned in "Papaoutai" and "tous les mêmes".
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Just Following Orders
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Just Following Orders: The cop in the third verse of "Fils de joie".
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Invoked for "Up saw liz": the song is about how nobody's going to listen to what the narrator is going to sing, so he may as well sing about whatever. Cue the chorus.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: There is a noticeable change in cinematographic and FX quality between leçon 22 and leçon 23. Lampshaded in the latter:
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Self-Backing Vocalist
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Self-Backing Vocalist: The majority of Stromae's songs have him providing most of the backup vocals in addition to the main ones. There are occasionally other voices in his songs as well, but they can be difficult to pick out.
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The Oner
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The Oner: In the video for "Ave Cesaria", someone seems to have given the camera to a kid at a party. The video for "L'enfer" is a slow zoom out of Stromae performing the song in an empty space, looping back to the first shot — a close-up on his pupil — at the end. This also applies to the debut performance of "L'enfer" on the TF1 evening news, done in a single tracking shot with the singer looking straight into the camera while performing.
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Space Whale Aesop
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Space Whale Aesop: "moules frites" explains that you should be careful about who you have sex with, or else you will die (almost instantly, at that), and the mourners at your funeral will sing your Badass Boast—which doubles as your last lover's Immodest Orgasm.
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Me's a Crowd
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Me's a Crowd: The album art of Multitude, reflecting the title.
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Jerkass
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Jerkass: Stromae's discography is replete with them. The father in "Dodo". The narrator of "tous les mêmes"—as well as her partner. The narrator of "Formidable". The customer on the second verse of "Santé". All three men on the verses of "Fils de joie", to varying degrees. The narrator of "Mon amour"—by his own admission.note "D't'façon, j'sais qu'au fond d'toi, tu les aimes bien, les connards"/"Besides, deep down, I know you love assholes"
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Sanity Slippage Song
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"Papaoutai" also gets one of these in concert, with the narrator reuniting with his father, though it can be read as much as a Sanity Slippage Reprise as it can be a straight example of this trope.
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Textless Album Cover
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Textless Album Cover: Multitude. racine carrée may also qualify, depending on whether one considers the "√" symbol highlighted in the background pattern as text or not.
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