Song produced by Les cowboy fringant in 2020. It follows a trucker who is looking at a sad America. The original music video is perfect to portray the meaning of this song • LES COWBOYS FRINGANTS ...
The original video by Les Cowboys Fringants is a beautiful demonstration of the meaning of the song. Go show some love to the Cowboys!!! ❤ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sYRp8oP0yiw.html Which Cowboy song is your favorite?
@@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977 That's the point. They don't care. Living in their little illusion not listening to the lyrics. It's exactly what a lot of Quebecois did when this song got viral...
Literally the day I discovered this band. Absolutely tragic. Im actually teaching myself french just so that I can sing this dudes songs. Thats How much they resonate with me
To our friends from the USA, I just want to make something clear here because I've seen a few comments from some of you thinking this song is about your country. The song is not specific to your country, it talks about the continent. In French we do not use Amérique like you use America in English. We however share the same sickness that the Cowboys Fringants sing about in this song.
Lo mismo ocurre en el español. Los hispanos llamamos "América" al continente, y a U.S.A sólo le decimos "Estados Unidos" ("United States"). Los que hablan inglés son los únicos que piensan que América es un país. Todos sabemos que América es un continente.
Yeah but is weird, cuz as a mexican I see this song more about the USA rather than the whole continent. Not saying Latam doesn't have problems but they are considerably different
It must have something to do with history. We still managed to preserve our language... for how much longer? I fear we are losing it fast... very fast.
@@BonoboPaBo thats a good thing, means its working the language is surviving if there's still need of its protection eventually hopefully it will thrive
I was a UPS driver, the line about carrying all the excess of the times in the back of the rig is REAL. You deliver to sick people, addicted to consumption all day long. Rarely do you get people actually excited for what they ordered.
If stuck in cities yes. Get away from over populated areas and this doesn't ring nearly as true. I'm a trucker also. I like this song but I definitely feel it represents cities far more than rural areas. I still see happy loving people all over the country, it is just so rare near any of the big population points.
@@ronmc4363 Even there, it depends which kind of cities. Rich small cities in the west of France, or even the inner cores are less concerned. It's the "cities" of the suburbs and the pavillons. Thowe who established there to have a bit of green... And accepted to get rid of public services, replace small local shops by the big distribution, and suddenly realise they live in an ugly poor envirnonment that will never be nice. But whose construction created lots of (artifical) wealth 30 years ago.
This is an international feeling, the world has stagnated and we all feel it, and worst, we all know that stagnation predicts decline, so we just wait... In a weird sociatal anxiety at a global level
As an American this largely sums up how it is here today and how everyone feels even if some cant quite put their finger on it, it's just this heaviness that we all walk around with now. I pray for better times ahead and that we all work for better times and a better nation again 🇺🇸
It feels almost like what the phrase or word used to describe life in the USSR nearing its collapse. A sort of hyper-reality, yk? Raised in school and all your life that "things are fine here, its amazing," and then it kinda hits u some day. Its lies but a lot of people seem to believe it for some reason. You cant really be honest with people about how it feels because being even a bit depressed or angry or sad leads to social backlash. I had that realization or thought before, but it kinda just solidified going to community health places, talking with people online, and even just taking a trip through a "good city." It all feels so rundown and forgotten. "The most bestest country on Earth," looks like this? God thats depressing.
Everyone? We all? Don’t lump me in with you pessimistic Americans, not all of us have just given up or come to believe our country is shit and had no future
Karl Tremblay I was just introduced to you 6 months ago. Gone way too soon ❤. I work in Vermont and have many Québécois make the journey to our resort. I started learning French and Quebec specific dialogue so I could speak and understand your music. Repose en paix! ❤
This song really shows off what French, as a language is capable of. It's powerful and has a moving underdog vibe, even without me understanding what I'm hearing.
in a nutshell. Truck driver on his way back from Florida with a load of proioduce , he hears of another blood bath from a sick person , complains about the food on the road, sees the continent in his rearview mirror...
Woah, je suis français, parisien et je tombe par hasard sur cette magnifique chanson en scrollant youtube, beh comme on dit par chez vous tu m'as mis une claque cousin. De l'amour sur toi et tout les Québécois.
@@jackflannigan5749 Je ne dit pas le contraire, je dit juste que l'amérique du nord n'as aucune leçon a donné a la france, évidemment que le Plan Kalergi est réel
Aw damn. So much truth. I'm an American whose native language is English, but I had a French professor in college who was Québécois, and thanks to him, Québec is near and dear to my heart -- including Les Cowboys Fringants. I got away from listening to them lately, though -- and man, I'm sorry I did! Their music is as amazing as ever.
It's very much alive in Québec everywhere, except perhaps in Montréal. That being said, big metropolises always seem to end up a bit cultureless, as if a place being too cosmopolitan had the effect of blending everything into a big, tasteless dough. People still speak French in Montréal, though, in general.
@@vlcr9259 As far as I'm aware, no "Anglo-Saxon" nation has a whole system of laws designed to "protect" their language and culture. Both France and Quebec do. Ask anyone and they'll tell you about the French superiority complex. Furthermore, Quebec is a parasite on the back of Canada, draining the rest of the country's wealth for privileged living conditions and business opportunities. France is also the biggest name in neocolonialism aside from China.
C'est la vérité que nous avons un Amérique qui pleure. En tant que citoyen américain, notre pays est sous une réalité triste, même si nous sommes dans un âge avancé. May God save our country. 🇺🇸 🤝 🇲🇶
Tenemos un Estados Unidos que llora. Soy un estadounidense de origen latino. Debo decir que esta canción dice la verdad, aunque los hispanohablantes hemos tenido nuestras diferencias con ustedes los francófonos.
A beautiful and thought provoking song. I am proud of my Quebecois roots, I wish I knew how to speak French so I could better connect with Quebec. My great-grandfather came to America in the 1920s to work as a stone mason and also within the lumber industry in New England. I am so close to Quebec and love it, some of my roots are in Quebec, but it feels so far away when you can't speak French and need a passport to go there. I love Quebec
Thank you so much. We have a very strong bond with you, all Vermont's friends. We are so sad and our heart is crying for Karl Tremblay, Marie Annick, Karl sweet darling and their girls and all the Cowboys Fringant group and fans.
I studied French in high school and ever since I started my studies, I have been FASCINATED with Quebec and its culture, history, and the fact that it is still the ONLY predominantly French speaking region on the continent, despite being surrounded by English speaking countries. July 2023 was my first visit to Quebec from Florida USA and it almost didn't feel real. It was so much more INCREDIBLE than I ever imagined and the people were awesome to interact with. Many of them spoke English to me when I revealed I am American, despite being fluent in French myself and preferring to speak French. It just goes to show how accommodating and kind the people are. Oh and I got my first ever parking ticket in Montreal that was no fun ahaha!
@@alexh.7144How weird IT is , I Lived in L A for 30 months , the folks in Chatsworth were fascinated with french language , Strange cause English Canadians hate us for what we are , thanks for your comment.
Mon professeur de français en 8ieme année nous a montré cette chanson et je l'écoute encore après tous ces années. C'est vraiment une des meilleures chansons de notre temps
Nothing but admiration for our brothers up north who acknowledge the crisis that is happening to our once great nation. Thank you Quebec from an American🇺🇸❤️
Si tu savait comment je suis écœurer de la présence de la langue anglaise dans mon pays et de la culture américaine faut que le Québec se sépare et trouve son propre chemin
Tu sais aussi bien que moi que ça va pas arriver. Pis si le Québec se sépare les Acadiens et les Franco-ontariens vont vraiment perdre leur langue sans le Québec pour défendre la langue française au Canada.
c'est ca ont fait rien on laisse aller on baisse la tete ,hein ca donne quoi de se battre on abandonne ,a quoi bon etc .Il faut des actions communes des francophones du pays pour sortir de l'assimilation lente et irréversible .Donc pour moi un Québec indépendant aiderais les francos a être respecter au Canada ,un peu de fierté ca stimule @@cedricrenaud5657
I believe in the American spirit and its ability to rise to new heights. I wish or hope that Americans would be more open to a more inclusive society. Education and health for everyone not just the wealthy. The world needs a prosperous, strong but kind America. I think the youth of America will soon step forward and toss the old bags aside to forge a new future.
Cette chanson date déjà de quelques années et ma cousine de Montréal me l'a fait découvrir il y a 3 semaines. Depuis je la réécoute chaque jour tellement elle est poignante de vérité sur la vie de ce monde de folies. Jusqu'où irons-nous mon Dieu... Félicitations à toutes les personnes de ce groupe " de cow-boys fringants ", je découvre vos autres chansons avec plaisir 😀 et tristesse suivant les thèmes.
I'm rusty on my French (2 years done my classes, lucky i have Québecois friends and live in a bilingual province), but i just have to learn the lyrics to this song without the english subtitles. Ça me fait sentir une tristesse tellement personelle, mais aussi si partagé.. touchant au fond du cœur.
Not for all of us. I think it is about your personal mindset. We just need to come together with community and realise that government can not affect us.
This song isn't just a traditional Quebecois song, it is a song about America and the struggles and loopholes we face in the United States, it shows the other side of America a side that is rarely talked about. The Scenery and beauty are one thing but the inequality, and sadness is another thing. I hope one day America changes
But when they say "America", they're talking about all of North America, not just the USA. So they're including Québec and Canada in their critique of modern life.
@@Leopold_van_Aubel No, I'm pretty sure he's talking about America, not North America. He's talking about Quebec as his home when returning, hence talking about seeing America through his rearview mirror. He only talks about the American problems, not the North American ones. Talks about how "these people" (Americans) live without love and how they go through these problems. He primarily references about American landmarks too. I may be wrong but that's what the lyrics suggest
@@smeersmcdunkurmom I had another reading. When he says "those people" in French, he isn't pointing to anyone in particular. Because the demonstrative adjective in French isn't as 'discriminating' as it is in English. Actually, maybe a better translation would've been "I wonder how people do" not "how those people do". Also, if you notice it, in the last part of the song, he isn't seeing America crying in his rear mirror anymore. He feels it at the bottom of his heart. Because he spent this whole time taking a cynical posture towards society in general as if he wasn't part of it, but then he realizes that he's part of it as well and that maybe he is as sad as "those" people he's been talking about.
It does. It reminds me of the feeling I got when I really discovered Leonard Cohen. (I had heard a bit of his music but I didn’t “get it”). Only in the week when he died, the very same week when this national nightmare began, did I begin to understand his music and could not stop listening to it. A great son of Montreal. I’m glad the Québécois dialect is being used in modern songs. I cherish every language.
Descendant of the diaspora, US isn’t the country my family left Quebec for less than a hundred years ago, just a haunted shell, but then again it was fake promises, so many of our families escaped poverty to worse poverty. Southern Maine is a good example, we left prejudice by anglos there for their hate here. They marched the klan against us in the 1920s and all.
The wording is a little off in the title, but this song is more about disillusion in America made by a Quebec band, not Quebec disillusion of being a Canadian province. Also Quebec is already very beautiful, love from Newfoundland!
@@AJVD2123En même temps si on peut embêter le Commonwealth, forcément c'est une tradition française que de soutenir. 😊 Plus sérieusement, vive le Québec Libre.
I recently listened back to some songs of Cowboy Fringants following the singer, Karl Tremblay’s death. This is one is genuinely one of my favourites and I can’t stop singing it. It’s beautifully written and always manages to tug at my heartstrings.
holy shit this is so relatable. I used to live in finland and often my family took vacation to florida, california (back when it wasnt a shithole) DC, etc. whenever we would get a taxi back to our hotel room, I saw all of the things mentioned in this video, people in poverty, without love, trying to get by. This type of stuff was new to me when I was so young, you would never find this in finland. America just looks so depressing compared to finland, and now that I live there, I can see that even more.
@@SS-yj2le natural disasters, homelessness, expensive everything, on fire for half the year before having a blizzard for the next half, also wayyy too liberal. I could add more if i wanted to
@@Chase92488 You realize natural disasters affect literally every single state in the country and California doesn't even get the most of them. Several states have far more disasters than California does. We don't even get hurricanes and tornadoes are rare, weak, and only happen in a few small areas of the state. For homelessness, most people here are not homeless with it less than 0.5% of the state population. For fires, most of the population isn't even in the high risk wildfire areas of the mountains where they happen and for on fire half the year, not common. Though increasingly common, not common and the fires area doesn't cover the whole state. For expensive everything, we have the highest salaries in the country along with benefits and business incentives with them. Get into tech, medicine, finance, or a certain type of high demand business type and you get great money that easily covers those expenses here. For blizzard, only affects the mountains where most of the population doesn't even live. Most places where the population live never even see's snow in any year and some places have never even recorded a frost. For liberal, why is that a problem? Especially when I can easily list more problems in many conservative states than any people can list for California. California has issues, but it is not what people think it is. Also, I've lived in DC. DC is one of the worst cities I've ever been to. Every single place I've been to in California has been better than DC. Though for the liberal one, I will give you this one as DC is more liberal than California. Then again, I've been to Texas, Louisiana, and more conservative places and I have found places worse than DC and they were the ultra conservative rural areas.
@@nathanc939 Yet, people claimed most of us were homeless or saw homeless everywhere. Also, our population is higher which always raises the chances as well.
Merci pour ce partage! C'est tellement de l'esprit français qui passe dans cette chanson! Québec, vous êtes nos observateurs avancés... amitiés de France.
Vous les Français, vous nous donnez le courage révolutionnaire qu'on aura besoin pour changer les choses. J'espère qu'on arrive à la fin du néolibéralisme. On doit tous protéger la planète entière.
@officerdonut7066 First of all, it’s Quebecers speak, not Québec speak. Have you ever been there? Québec is a beautiful place, if you speak English only, they’ll either answer you in English or make an effort to help you. A dialect, really? Quebec/France/Belgium is like Canada/England/US, same language except for the accents. Please educate yourself and travel a little.
j'ai du écouter cette chanson une douzaine de fois et je la trouve plus belle, juste et plus triste chaque fois, paroles , mélodie, instrumental, un chef d'oeuvre. "Les cow boy fringants" que m'ont fait découvrir mes garçons il y a une vingtaine d'année. du sud ouest France.
This song only makes me more patriotic. America currently is a mess. A litany of excess and overconsumption, a generation obsessed with labels and fitting into a group. Changing themselves to fit what they are. Instead of saying "I'm a republican so I can't be pro welfare", people think "I can't be pro welfare because I'm a republican". Things such as this. People are divided and caught in the trap of being constantly given a stream of news, reality TV, mind-numbing videos, gluttony and consumption, and just plain noise. People who can't even sleep without noise because the lack of stimulation feels 'unnatural'. But it makes me think. So many people are in this system complaining about it, making music, speaking, writing. People know that this is wrong. The fact that people point out these problems show that people know that these things are bad, rather than passively accepting them. And as is the trend, the more people grow dissatisfied, the more likely things are to change. But these things cannot be destroyed by government or anything like that. It's up to the individual. Hate consumption? Consume less. Hate noise? Consume less. Hate staring at a screen so much? Stop looking. Hate working a dead end job? Change your career or make a lifestyle adjustment. It's never too late. More than anything, this video really shows me that the American dream is not dead. People see their lives are destroyed by modernity, but rather than just accepting it and moving on, people still hold on to the idea that life should be different, that this isn't the way things should be. That's what I think one of the best parts of America is, that people still hold onto dreams and hopes for a better future.
America have done bad things in its past but incredible heroïc things too. Times may be hard but a day will come where America and the West will get back on her feets and this day, you can count on your numerous allies in the world. Today it dont seems like it when you hear ingratitude and actions against your government but when the times will call us, you will know you are not alone in that world. I'm french, I may blame some things on the US time to times but in the end you are still friends and allies I will not forget. Stay strong
@@thepatriot1569 Name one time where America did something heroic. The reason why Americans hate the French is because your government disapproved of them blowing up muslims for oil money.
those who are only patriotic for a country when it succeeds are not patriotic for it at all. if you truly love your country and its people, work to make it better until it is something you can be proud of
I'm Québécois and I traveled by car in 2022 all the way down to New Orléans. I saw so much wealth but so much poverty at the same time. I'll never forget those trailer parks and run down homes, it pains me to see my next door neighbors (Americans) having it so rough.
Leave it to some Quebec musicians to make a song that not only slaps like a 10 foot biker, but is also a poignant and keeps true to the roots of country music, a very distinctly American genre. They did it better, and as an American from the rust belt on the other side of Lake Erie this might be the best written piece of music that describes the current human condition in the United States. Really makes me wish we had more french language music down here, and more canadian music as a whole because canada NEVER disappoints me.
I’ll say this, Americans are honestly a lot friendlier to deal with than Canadians. Our great neighbours to the south are way more genuine, they treat Quebeckers with courtesy, humour and respect, unlike the “nice & polite” Canadian who’ll badmouth you as soon as you turn away, and when they can get away with it they backstab you.
Just to be clear to USA Americans who think this is a critique of their country, this is not. We Quebecois consider ourselves as being part of the american continent as well as you do. This is what's differentiate us from the French. In many way we consider ourselves closer to you culturally than to any european country. In the context of this song, they are reffering to North America as a whole and maybe all of western country alienated by modern consumerism.
@@RealCanda You can see on their faces that despite how they're dancing, there's no joy on their faces. They're just doing what they do, mindlessly and depressed.
This song is so true to see how it becomes more and more real by each day for north America Canada a country that is losing morals US losing what it was supposed to be about and Mexico over-runned by gang violence.
I love this song and I think a lot of my fellow countrymen both think shouting at each other will fix things but at the same time not knowing what to do
Bonjour! You should check out RU-vid channel from Jaclyn Lizzi. She is from Texas and does a great version of this song in english. It's an adaptation not a litteral translation but it's quite good! Greetings from Montréal, Québec. 🖖
I can relate to this too well. In my job I see so much waste going on. But I see less waste in working class areas, like Dover, Delaware. Some people are satisfied with less, and are thankful for what they have, and don't throw things away unless they have absolutely zero use for it anymore. Those are the people who survive.
Not just America, just about the entire first world is devoid of hope; and that feeling of disillusionment only gets worse the younger the generation, thus proving it's only getting worse.
Mes chers Québécois, n'oubliez jamais cela si vous ne le saviez pas. -Le terme « Canadien » faisait à l'origine référence à un Québécois ou à un francophone du Canada, mais les anglos l'ont approprié culturellement. Eux-mêmes avant se qualifient comme Anglais ou britannique. -L'hymne national du Canada était à propos nous, écrite en français par le Québécois Adolphe-Basile Routhier mais ils l'ont approprié et traduit en anglais. -La Poutine, l’un de leurs derniers vols culturels, qui est maintenant le "Plat National Canadien" -La feuille d’érable en tant que symbole national, représentaient les Québécois et les franco-canadiens, mais ils l'ont aussi approprié. et bien plus.. La vérité c'est que les loyalistes anglais du Canuck n’ont jamais eu de véritable culture puisque c’était tout le résidu laissé par l’Angleterre. Alors ils ont tous volé aux Québécois. Nous avons nos propres lois, notre système d'éducation, nos pensions de retraite, notre système de santé, notre politique, etc. La seule chose que nous ne contrôlons pas est l'immigration, qui est la plus importante. Nous sommes le pays le moins officiel au monde, sans bénéficier des privilèges, des avantages et de la reconnaissance d’un véritable pays. L'avenir du Québec, c'est la souveraineté absolue. J'espère qu'il ne sera pas trop tard avant que la majorité ne s'en rende compte. Le sort du Québec ressemble à la métaphore de la grenouille bouillante. Aucune nation au monde n'a jamais regretté son indépendance et pourtant pour les Québécois, ce serait mal ? C'est ridicule! Vive le Québec souverain ⚜
@@SgtLogOfWood Oui, vous avez raison ! Comme je l'ai mentionné " et bien plus... " J'essaye seulement d'écrire les faits les plus importants de ce qui fait leur fierté ou ce qu'ils considèrent comme les choses les plus typiques de « leur » culture ou identité canadienne. Si nous énumérions tout ce qu'ils nous ont volé jusqu'à aujourd'hui, on ne serait plus juste à un simple commentaire sur YT, mais avec un roman complet lol. Même à ça, avec eux ça ne changera jamais, le plus drôle là-dedans, c'est qu'ils sont si fiers d'être ''cAnaDian'', mais tout ce que je viens d'écrire, la grande majorité ne le savent même pas et quand tu leur dis ils pogne les nerf ahaha. La vérité fait mal ! Une que j'aurais dû écrire est ceci, -Le nom original du territoire du Québec s'appelait Canada avant qu'ils ne nous le volent. Voilà pourquoi aujourd'hui nous avons la ville de Québec et la province de Québec dans le même territoire. Bref, heureusement que je n'étais pas encore là en 95, car ils ont collectivement raté leur shot, ces Pea Soup! (hehe autre terme bonus.) J'espère qu'ils en profitent de leur grand Canada et de ses montagnes pis ses eaux turquoise lol 😂😂
Le jour de l'Indépendance, on repart avec toutes nos billes... la faune, la flore, l'appelation, la chansonnette, pis le "nah-nah-nah hey-hey goodbye". Ils vont vite réaliser que le rapport Durham avait tout faux; "C'est un peuple sans histoire et sans littérature..." c'est lequel déjà???
Le mot Canadiens était utilisé à la cours du roi Louis XIV pour désigner tous les habitants de la Nouvelle-France vivants le long du fleuve St-Laurent et plus loin, y compris les autochtones. En effet, à cette époque les Anglos se considéraient toujours comme sujets Britanniques.
@@doswheelsouges359 Faux, le terme Canadien fût utilisé bien avant le règne de Louis XIV. Aussi, il faut se rappeler que le roi Louis XIV n'a jamais mis les pieds en Amérique durant tout le long de son règne. Cela représente une durée de 72 ans, ce qui en fait l’un des règnes les plus longs de l’histoire de France. Il n'a jamais rencontré d'Amérindiens. De toute manière, les Amérindiens ne se sont jamais considérés comme Canadiens et surtout pas parce que le terme était utilisé dans un contexte au sens large à la cour du roi Louis XIV de l'autre côté de l'océan pour désigner tout les habitant en terre d'amérique du nord qu'ils se considéraient de facto comme t'elle. Loin de là. Tout le monde sait qu'à cette époque ce qui se passait dans les cours du roi ne représentait pas la vraie vie courante pour les paysans. Il y a un dicton chinois qui résume bien la situation, « La montagne est haute et l’empereur est loin. » Mais je sais ce que vous êtes en train d'insinuer. Vous avez copier-coller ce même torchon sur plusieurs de mes commentaires, ceci dans le seul but de ternir et de semer le doute sur les origines du patrimoine et la culture québécoise et, ultimement, de miner sa légitimité d'autodétermination en tant que nation. Les anglais font exactement ce que vous fait depuis des décennies. Vous avez vraiment du temps à perdre, c'est pitoyable. Au revoir.
Here in Germany, where I live are the most Truck Drivers from east Europe, because they have much more lower wages as Truck Drivers from Germany.So there are not many german truck drivers left. J' aime cette Chansong de Cowboys, j' aime toute le musiqe Francophone et Quebecois ,, ne pas de Cowboys mais de Cologs aussi. Cordialement d' Allemagne 🇩🇪❤🇲🇶❤❤
