Je dis aime is the second studio album by French singer-song-writer Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...

 in his persona as -M-, described by reviewers as a "conceptual icon to rival Bowie's

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 Ziggy Stardust

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 and Aladdin Sane

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". The album manages to take a remarkable variety of musical directions and pull them together into a consistent whole. Another reviewer describes the album as sounding like a 'French Lenny Kravitz

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' and notes the 'vintage 70s sound and textures'.

Wordplay

Je dis aime is a play on words in French as 'aime' (love) is pronounced exactly the same as '-M-'. Many of the tracks use similar word play as is common in French songs but particularly rich in -M-'s work.

Track listing

1. Monde virtuel
2. Je dis aime (written by Andrée Chedid, -M-'s famous grandmother)
3. Onde sensuelle
4. À celle qui dure
5. Faut oublier
6. Le Festival de connes (pokes fun at the pretentiousness of the Cannes film festival changing Cannes to connes - ie idiots)
7. Le Mec hamac
8. Close to Me (loosely a cover of the song by The Cure
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    but using only one line in English from the original)
9. Émilie 1000 Volts (salsa flavoured track)
10. Qui est le plus fragile
11. Le Complexe du corn flakes
12. Au lieu du crime
13. Bonoboo (written by Andrée Chedid
    Andrée Chedid
    Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...
    
    , -M-'s grandmother, the song refers to a type of pygmy chimpanzee
    Bonobo
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    that shares over 98% of its DNA with humans)
14. Le Commun des motels
15. Mama Sam (Mama Sam as compared to Uncle Sam. Spot some of the punning like Nike for Nique)