woensdag 29 november 2006

Ouragan


Princess Stephanie of Monaco was the Paris Hilton of her time (the eighties) - a beautiful heir who witnessed the death of her mother (actress Grace Kelly), partied like there was no tomorrow, had lots and lots of well-publicized and very short-lived relations (ranging from actor Rob Lowe to an elephant trainer) and had an equally short-lived pop career. Her biggest hit was Ouragan - Irresistible in the English translation, probably because the literal translation 'tropical storm' didn't have enough appeal. She dabbled in fashion design, modelling and ofcourse had a perfume named after her. After Ouragan, Stephanie duetted with Michael Jackson - rock royalty meets the King of Pop. After that, the princess refrained from making music. Her mark was made. Ouragan, not a good song but certainly a defining eighties-track, has been covered a few times. Never better than the original (au contraire), but it keeps popping up. French popsuperstar Leslie and German indie-queen Elke Brauweiler are the most recent additions.

Stephanie - Ouragan
Stephanie - Irresistible
Dejaé - Ouragan
Kelly G - Ouragan
Leslie - Ouragan
Elke Brauweiler - Ouragan

7 opmerkingen:

  1. I would hope they called it IrresistIble, not IrresistAble

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  2. Ha! Eat your heart out, Máxima Zorreguieta!

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  3. Toute une époque!!!
    Je trouve que cette chanson a un petit côté aviateur mais en plus lourd.
    Je suis honteux encore une fois mais j'aime bien quand même...

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  4. Flash pour la vie!

    Elle chantait tellement mal :)

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  5. Damn, I had never heard the English version of it !!! This is great. Thanks for this.

    "Ouragan" is soooo eighties. so bad, so, so good.

    I am kind of ashamed to be born in the eighties. I was raised with this shit, ya know.

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