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Carmen opera lyrics english2/20/2023 ![]() On April 1, 2015, the music video for “Carmen” was released to coincide with April Fool’s Day to emphasize how modern love is starting to become more and more a joke. Stromae’s lyrics are based off this popular stanza of the opera: “L'amour est un oiseau rebelle”) of the 1875 opera Carmen. Stromae’s “Carmen” interpolates the Habanera aria (a.k.a. I’m not so radical about Twitter, but I think it’s sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life. ![]() he is at odds I kicked him out yesterday. So to keep me company, I will take my lover My lover. Yes, but all alone is bored, And the real pleasures are two. Like, you fall in love only for 48 hours or something, and I talk about that in my song. Someone Curses, the shouts redouble, Rising to a fury in reply. English Libretto or Translation: CARMEN Near the ramparts of Seville, At my friend Lillas Pastia's, I will dance the seguid And drink Manzanilla I'll go to my friend Lillas Pastia's house. In my remix of it, I’m comparing love to the blue bird of Twitter. In the opera Carmen compares a bird to love. Stromae, in an interview with TimeOut New York: ![]() ![]() “Carmen” was released as the sixth single of Racine Carrée on March 31, 2015, a long two years after the album’s original 2013 release. ![]()
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