La Belle et le Bad Boy
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"La Belle et le Bad Boy" (The beauty and the bad boy) is the seventh song on the album Cinquième As
by the French Hip hop
artist MC Solaar
and the only single released in America. The track's instrumental was produced by Hassan Ansari.
This single had moderate success after being featured on the series finale of Sex and the City
. It was also featured in Britain on the BBC series World Cup Stories, France: Black, White and Blue. Here it was used to help emphasise the multi-cultural nature of the team which won the 1998 World Cup.
NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics featured the song in a segment on the scandalous swimming rivalry between the French Laure Manaudou
and the Italian Federica Pellegrini
.The song's title is a take off on the traditional folktale Beauty and the Beast
.
The song was also featured during a scene in episode 30 of HBO's supernatural series True Blood
.
The song ends with the young woman being shot to death.
Cinquième As
Cinquième As was the fifth studio album by MC Solaar released in 2001. It is slightly different than his previous works because of a stronger emphasis on a string background. The album gained exposure in the United States after "La Belle et le Bad Boy" was played on an episode of Sex and the City...
by the French Hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
artist MC Solaar
MC Solaar
MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....
and the only single released in America. The track's instrumental was produced by Hassan Ansari.
This single had moderate success after being featured on the series finale of Sex and the City
Sex and the City
Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes...
. It was also featured in Britain on the BBC series World Cup Stories, France: Black, White and Blue. Here it was used to help emphasise the multi-cultural nature of the team which won the 1998 World Cup.
NBC's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics featured the song in a segment on the scandalous swimming rivalry between the French Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou |Rhône]]) is a French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother.- 2004 Olympics :...
and the Italian Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini is an Italian swimmer. A native of Mirano, in the province of Venice, she is currently the women's 200 m freestyle and 400 m freestyle world record holder...
.The song's title is a take off on the traditional folktale Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
.
The song was also featured during a scene in episode 30 of HBO's supernatural series True Blood
True Blood
True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...
.
Story
The lyrics tell the story of two young lovers. They meet in school and the girl is quickly pulled into the world of crime by her rebellious boyfriend. While they dream of a good life, the crime-laden context in which they find themselves overcomes that dream.- Elle vit le grand amour, qui commence dans la cour
- Se poursuit dans les tours et rime toujours avec toujours
- Mais le contexte est plus fort que le concept.
- Son mec se jette dans les flammes et il se lave avec.
- She's living the love of her dreams, the one that begins in the schoolyard,
- It follows in the [apartment] towers and rhymes always with always.
- But the context is stronger than the concept,
- Her guy throws himself into the flames and washes himself with them.
The song ends with the young woman being shot to death.
- Deux balles de 22. Vingt deux ans adieu
- Two .22 bullets. Twenty-two years, goodbye