La Corrida - Francis Cabrel. VO avec Paroles. French/English Subtitles - REACTION - First Time! 

As i began crying on the grave line you stopped and said: "C'est parce qu'ils sont tous cons!" I haven't laughed this hard for days haha, thank you!

To give some insight on a verse of the song: he sings "Ce soir la femme du torrero dormira sur ses deux oreilles". In French, as you may know, "dormir sur ses deux oreilles" means to have a really good sleep. But he uses this expression to refer to the barbaric tradition in which the torrero cuts the bulls ears' off at the end of the fight, while he's still alive, to take them as a trophy.

Bravo à vous cher monsieur , je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous , la corrida est une honte pour l'humanité , cette chanson est magnifique !

C'est sans doute la cinquantième fois que j'écoute cette chanson et pourtant je verse une larme quasi à chaque fois: le fait que ça soit dans ma langue maternelle et que le narrateur soit le taureau, ça me bouleverse profondément. It's probably the fiftieth time I've listened to this song, and yet I shed a tear almost every time: the fact that it's in my native language and that the narrator is the bull moves me deeply.

This song is a true gem.

Fun fact about the singer : He has a RU-vid channel with his songs on it (wow, how fun and original…) and… he recently started a video tutorials serie on how to play his songs at the guitar. This song is one of the first two videos to this day.

Francis Cabrel said that during the recording of this song, the sound engineer (who had a rocker look) ended in tears because this song is so sad and makes us realize that bullfights are so cruel. sorry for my english.

Francis Cabrel another nugget of French song he began his career in the late 70s still very popular and This song is a gem in fact the whole album "Un samedi soir sur la terre" is magnificent released in 1994.

Malgré les pétitions, malgré les demandes, malgré les années, la corrida continue encore et toujours. Cette chanson résume tout ce que j'en pense, et me rend infiniment triste à chaque fois que je l'écoute. Parce qu'elle me rappelle à quel point l'homme peut être cruel, juste par plaisir.

Francis Cabrel… un grand artiste français depuis longtemps ! Son répertoire est juste magnifique !De très belles chansons à découvrir et traduire les paroles. J'apprécie vos commentaires, votre analyse très juste ! Merci et surtout ne changez rien !👌👍

Une de mes préférées de Cabrel , elle me fait pleurer . Et cette phrase : " est-ce que ce monde est sérieux ? " c'est une bombe , quand je vois le monde aujourd'hui j’entends Cabrel dans ma tête , est-ce que ce monde est sérieux ? Non , définitivement non . merci pour cette réaction .

This guy humbly made about 10 to 15 songs that are timeless classics. Please react to more of his stuff.

From the same album "Je t'aimais , je t'aime et je t'aimerai" a simply and pure love song. so magical.

J adore cette chanson tellement réelle ces corridas sont immondes pauvres petites bêtes là souffrance Qu ils doivent ressentir j en ai la chair de poule et j habite dans le sud paix et gentillesse à tous les animaux 🤗🤗🗼🗼🇫🇷

Always bring more than a tears lessoning to that song.so so beautiful

I wish the translation were more accurate and reflected Francis Cabrel’s use of french language, there’s a pun with « la femme du torero dormira sur ses deux oreilles »: when the torero wins the bullfight, sometimes he’s allowed to cut the bull’s ears and to keep it as a trophy. When someone quietly sleeps, there’s a french turn of phrase saying « he/she is sleeping on both ears » see what I mean ? the bull here would like to win, cut the torero’s ears and give it to his wife so she could feel what that cruelty really means, probably the most powerfull verse of that song.

"VO" means "Version Originale" or "Original Version" in english ;-) Very good choice, great song !!!

Cette chanson me donne envie de pleurer à chaque fois. Oh, VO = Version originale

04:21 That line "La femme du torero dormira sur ses deux oreilles." is amazing. It means two things, the expression "dormir sur les deux oreilles" (sleeping on both ears) meaning sleeping well and the fact that after killing the bull, they cut the ear as a trophy

Hi D ... What a pleasure to see you start this journey into the world of Francis Cabrel... Thank you for this focus. For me, he is one of the very best French lyricists of the last 50 years and a brilliant guitarist of simplicity. 👍👏👍

It's a song from the nineties. Still crying each time I listen it.

Magnifique chanson et un chanteur sublime ❤

Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec vous et je vous aime de plus en plus... Vous êtes un gars bien... Merci d'aimer autant la France

merci de mettre à l'honneur francis cabrel ! toutes ses chansons sont magnifique , de la poésie et d'incroyable mélodie

Cette chanson est magnifique, en effet, comment pouvons nous danser autour d'une tombe?

One of our folk rock heroes in France. This song is a great politic statement. Seen him more than 10 times live with his awesome musicians. This song is always played at each concert. So many jewels to discover from Francis for you. Try " Mademoiselle l'aventure "

En écoutant ce vidéo j'ai réalisé pour la première fois que c'était l'histoire du taureau et ce même si j'écoute cette chanson depuis 1988 et que je la trouve très belle, je ne m'étais jamais arrêter à écouter les paroles... Merci

Bravo sir. Ils sont tous des connards ! What a sentence ! And I like you are smart, instantly understanding what was this is about, and finding out that this was from the bull point of view. I saw some of your work and I believe it is because you are really interested of the french culture works. Francis Cabrel, by the way, is a great artist, lyricist, composer and performer. Oh and also. VO or V.O. means version originale. As is VOST version originale sous-titrée, c'est à dire : in the original language.

I can't listen to that song without crying... And with the singer of the Gipsy King at the end, it's beautiful.

You must continue your reactions to Francis Cabrel. He is one of the great contemporary French composer and singer. There is so much to choose from as his repertoire is quite impressive.

Looove your réactions bro.. 👍😉.. Mr Cabrel is like an icon in France for many people.. The main reason is the precision of the melody and the poetic style of thrue lyrics combine..

Bonjour Oncle D, (V.O. = Version Originale) Magnifique chanson, magnifique artiste, parolier, compositeur, chanteur. Comme J.J. Goldman, il remplie toutes les cases. Tu devrais essayer « Double Tour - Carte Postale (live) » disponible sur la chaîne de Francis Cabrel. Une magnifique chanson qui parle de la désertification des zones rurales et du temps qui passe emportant avec lui les souvenirs, les cultures, les différences, pour créer un monde uniforme, notamment à cause de la télévision (à l'époque où cette chanson a été écrite, l'internet n'avait pas encore rejoint les foyers en France). Paix, les gens. ☮👈😎

great artist..so many good songs...

Great song, greats lyrics

Your French is really good 👍

cent pour cent d'accord avec vous merci

Nice song .. chanson top

So the translation is understandably missing a double entendre when Francis Cabrel sings: "ce soir, la femme du torero dormira sur ses deux oreilles" translated correctly as: "tonight the torero's wife will sleep soundly". The double entendre is in the French expression "dormir sur ses deux oreilles" which literally translates as "sleeping on your two ears" which in this song refers ironically to the Spanish tradition of La Corrida where at the end of the bull fight, when the bull is vanquished, the ears and tail of the bull are severed to be offered to the matadors. So what Francis Cabrel really means is "unlike me - the bull - the torero's wife will sleep on her two ears both literally and figuratively because her husband will be alive and I won't be after he collects my ears".

Good choice of song. Thanks for the review. I strongly recommend other songs from this guy. Francis Cabrel is very famous in France and has a huge list of other songs like Sarbacane, Petite Marie, La Dame de Haute Savoie, C'est écrit, l'encre de tes yeux... Mostly melancolic songs.

VO = Version Original (native language) 4'23 "ce soir la femme du torero dormira sur ses deux oreilles" in Bull fight a torero who won the fight get the ears and tail of the bull, with this sentence the animal signals its intention to win the fight and win the bullfighter's ears and tail.... it's a very sad and beautyfull song

Other from Francis Cabrel : Petite Marie / Je l'aime à mourir / Encore et encore / Sarbacane / La cabane du pêcheur / ... A great poet and musician... quite underrated, even in France.

I believe in english "VO" would translate with "original soundtrack". We usually use it for movies in order to distinguish the dubbed version from the original one. Hope my english is clear enough... :)

This song is so sad, so beautiful. I cry each time I hear it. By anger too against this incredibly stupid cruelty.

Eh, mais vous parlez vachement bien français !!! :) I like Francis Cabrel very much, his melodies are all kinda similar (he even jokes about it in concerts when people start to cheer when they recognize the first notes of a song, he says "Oh, calmez-vous, y'en a beaucoup qui commencent pareil" ;) ). But the words of his songs are really poetic and well written. They carry a lot of meaning and emotions !

Salut mec ! J'adore ta réaction. Thanks, i follow you

Votre francais est parfait. Cette chanson est parfaite, si juste, si melancolique. No blood traditions at all !!! Wars are enough !!!❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢

great guitar..great story...FC is a real poet ..a story teller....please listen to je t'aimes je t'aime et je t'aimerai

Je suis fan de votre chaîne , ça fait du bien de voir un américain qui aime la musique française... Francis Cabrel est un de nos plus fantastiques poètes chanteur...j'espère que vous écouterez sa chanson " je l'aimais, je l'aime et je l'aimerais"

J'ai des larmes qui coulent chaque fois que j'entends cette chanson😢

Francis Cabrel is the goat! 🐐🔥

Je vous adore j aime votre bienveance bisous de france

"Parce qu'ils sont tous cons, sont tous des connards!" i love you man lol

Every time I listen to this song, I have tears in my eyes.

Beautifull soul D, greetings from France

Un des chanteurs français les plus populaire. Un gars du sud-ouest. Il a l'accent.

I love Francis Cabrel and all his songs since my early childhood, i'm not from camargue, so bullfighting ( corrida) it's not a tradition for me, I even never go to one, nonetheless this is cultural tradition and I truly think judging whithout any understanding of all the how and why is not a good thing... I'm not for torturing any animals on earth, maybe we should just listen each other before judging

A Master piece : from a legend of folk music

Hey there! So cooool that you listen to Cabrel, is one of the best! If you loved this one, you should listen to "Tout Le monde y pense". And an other loved one was Daniel Balavoine. Love from France ❤

You are smart, great reaction. I love Francis Cabrel, he's an amazing song writer and interpret

🤣 VO, means "Version Originale", "Original Release" in English. Francis Cabrel is a french south-west singer. In south-western France there is a tradition of Corrida (bullfighting) as in Spain.

merci pour cette reaction

Enfin j'attendais que tu réagisses à cette sublime et triste chanson ! Merci merci beaucoup. Comme toujours de chouettes analyses et tes petites phrases en français sont justes supers 😊. Oui Cabrel c'est un très très grand de la chanson française. 🙏💙💕

The song flatters the anthropomorphism of many people who have never seen a fighting bull up close, thus lending the animal human qualities that it does not have. The bull obeys his instinct like any animal and man with his intelligence will simply use the offensive instinct of the fighting bull breed by luring him with a cape in order to gradually exhaust it by loading with a bull that paradoxically as the fight progresses, feeling its forces declined gradually becomes more and more dangerous because it saves his blows of horns that become more and more precise, but this assumes paradoxically for the"Man, for the bullfight is full of paradoxes, to fight against his own natural instinct that dictates him to flee when the bull charges in his direction (because unlike the animal who obeys his natural instinct and does not know reason, the man with intelligence knows how to reason and adopt the best attitude for his safety which can be against intuitive) . In fact, it is by remaining totally motionless and deflecting the load of the bull with the cape handled by his only wrist that man can escape the horn blow whereas if he runs away, the bull with 4 legs runs faster than him and would catch.la tradition is precisely the explanation of the success of bullfighting and perpetuation through the centuries. Bullfighting is anachronistic and unchanging with men dressed in the arena in clothes from another time, which makes its strength and success, and which explains that every year millions of people of age, sex, social category, from different professions come to the arenas to live together and share for 2 or 3 hours the same emotions, sensations that lived their ancestors . The customary right to organize and attend a bullfight in the regions of France where this custom exists was recognized in 2012 as a constitutional right by the council French constitutional which explains that in 2022, a bill by a French MP that tried to ban bullfighting will be rejected by the French MPs as being contrary to the constitution. The tradition of bullfighting is very lively in France since two of the three biggest French festivals are bullfighting parties that attract more than one million people every year with bullfighting, les fêtes de Bayonne and la Feria de Nîmes , This taurine tradition generates many economic and employment repercussions for the bullfighting towns where some The French bull-breeding industry, which is a major source of income for the French bullfighting industry, is also responsible for the environment as there are as in the Camargue .This allows both to preserve the wild nature of these territories because the bulls must never have seen a man before entering the arena are raised in freedom until old age adult of 4-5 years where they will be fought in the arena need space to move from one water point to another which muscles their legs and increases their breath and learn to use their horns fighting other bulls in the pastures to make them fit for combat the arena. The bullfight thus paradoxically allows to preserve this particular breed of bull that otherwise would have disappeared from Europe as fifty bovine species sacrificed by modern agriculture because farmers prefer animals that produce a lot of meat, which is not the case with fighting bulls, that are docile and not aggressive and dangerous as bulls of bullfighting and that one can raise on small surfaces like farms with thousand cows, whereas fighting bulls require a lot of space.Moreover, this tradition does not belong; men have the right to be rooted in their culture and their heritage. Not everyone wants to be surrounded by LGBT progressives, animalists and deconstructed men, and no one forces people who don’t like bullfighting to pay a place to attend

Yes Cabrel, he is a great artist and poet. Great song as always ,very sensitive and full of meaning As for bullfighting, I was born in a country where this horrible thing is considered an art, a tradition . I have always hated it, but to be honest it's (as far as I know) the only country where a part of the “show” is done by a group of guys, with ridiculous costumes, of course, who face the bull in single file and bare hands (idiots). It takes place in Portugal and they are called forcados. I'm sure it should be easily found on YT for those who are curious.

This song is about the Andalusian / Spanish type of bullfighting. Whereas Cabrel is from southern France. They have a different way of doing things, without killing or hurting the animal: there are colored ribbons attached to the horns, and the men have to get one of them without getting hit...

Je vis à côté de Nîmes, je pleure à chaque corrida Il faudra bien qu'ils arrêtent un jour ces mises à mort...

Hey ! Thank you for this réaction ! The best song from him for me is « petite marie » It s just an incredible déclaration d’amour

thank you for your reaction !

c'est chouette de vous intéresser à Francis Cabrel, le bonjour de l'Auvergne 😉

Bravo pour votre canal 👍👍👍👍

Bravo pour votre français 😊👌

Love ❤ new word ❤

The two songs proposed at the end of the video (L'aigle noir & Les cactus) are very good, very different from each other, but you should listen to them, Cabrel has made many other very beautiful songs like (Petite Marie, Je t'aimais je t'aime et je t'aimerai, La cabane du pêcheur,....)

For those who don't know yet after 110 comments, VO = Original Version. Feel free to repeat it, in case Uncle D hasn't figured it out yet 🤪😂

Another French artist Michel Berger "Chanter pour ceux qui sont loin de chez eux"

J’adore tes réactions Cabrel est incontournable en France …autre artiste à découvrir Mylène Farmer son live de ´ainsi sois je ´ est un pur chef d’œuvre Mylène est la star féminine en France

I saw bullfighting once in Southern France, I was 12 and my parents took me with them (!). I threw up. The tradition goes back to the Mithraic religion in the Roman Empire. A bull was sacrificed during their rituals. Another thing: the lancer (picador) horses. They wear protective gear, except on their belly. Quite often, the bull is strong enough to bring the horse down and eviscerate it.

This song is in the album "Samedi soir sur la terre" (saturday night on earth) an amazing album...Just buy and listen..

Magnifique 👍

Bravo !!

Merci , the Best song , je suis français et Francis cabrel est un très grand artiste et poète. Merci

Hi, vo is for Version Originale, it means that he's singing in french, the young bull is veau, french is very tricky...

Merci !!!!!

I have to precise Francis Cabrel is from the south of France, from a region next to the place they still do corridas in France, as even Spain has abolished corridas with bulls death !

VO = Version Originale / Original Version

VO MEANS ORIGINAL VERSION

la tu t'attaque a un monument de la chanson française ;) j'espere que tu passera de longues heures à apprécié ses musique comme nous

Ton français est vraiment bon, better than my english tbh. V.O. = Version originale (original version i think u get it). "Ce soir la femme du torero dormira sur ses deux oreilles" is translated into "Tonight, the bullfighter's wife will sleep loudly" a more literal translation could be "Tonight, the bullfighter's wife will sleep on both ears", this makes echo with the fact that bullfigther get the tail and both ears of the bull after the "fight". [in french "to sleep on both ears" means "sleeping loudly" (u probably guess it)].

VO means Original Version

VO means Version Originale . Good video.

Cette chanson contre la corrida est magnifique. On devrait interdire cela.

Small mistake in translation: the torero's wife won't sleep soundly but litteraly on her husband's ears (reference to the bull's ears that are cut off and given to the torero as a trophy).

"la robe et l'échelle "....un chef d'oeuvre de MR CABREL ou comment décrire les choses de la vie avec des mots si simples et si beaux .....vous qui aimez la chanson française , elle vous plaira ...

VO is for original version :)

Thank you for this video. Btw, 'VO' means 'Version Originale'.

VO is the abbreviation for Version Originale, Original Version.

nice to see someone who has exactly the same opinion on humans and bullfighting

VO = Version originale = Original version

y like the reaction

On a similar theme, but expanding further, there's "Dieu que l'amour est triste" (God how sad love is) by Daniel Balavoine.