And they also do the English version of this on the AT sessions - Sweet Escape 😎

@haccapel4526

2 жыл бұрын

I really suggest checking the original english version too. Helps understand the french version better too

Fun fact, on April Fool’s Day, before the video and song were released, they posted a ”We’re going to record the next song in French”-announcement on their social media pages. Everyone went ”Yeah … right!” 😁 And then they did it. 😁 Btw, I had listened to both versions before, but only seen the English video prior to your reaction, and I was like ”that charming smile towards the end is not in the English version, I would remember that!” So today, I played both videos side by side, and although they both continue a few scenes that are identical, the parts where he sings are totally different. I had always assumed he just walked the same route several times for the two versions, but no … very interesting, I never noticed that before. And I was right, there’s no smile or eye contact with the camera in the English version. It looks a little like a ”Told you I’d do this!”-smile for everyone who thought it was an April Fool’s joke. 😜

I do not even know why it is so nice to see familiar places on a music video. This was filmed down town Helsinki where I walk almost every day. On the Sweet Escape video, the English language version of this song, there is a section filmed from a drone, and there I could pinpoint exactly where my apartment is. I agree with your Roxy Music comment.

I love this song, and was so surprised when they released a song in my language! How unexpected of a Finnish band! His pronunciation is actually quite good too! And yes Mike, you got that right, it translates to "Leave with Me", and that wordplay you mentioned about "Avoir son coeur sur la main" being reworked into "J'ai mon coeur dans ta main" is spot on. Suggestions for more Potf: of course the Alexander Theatre Sessions, but also the Genelec Studio ones are really super good!

@pastlink

2 жыл бұрын

Forgot to mention, love the ultra 90's power-ballad vibe of this one!!

Thanks for doing this version of this song. Nocturnal Helsinki, My beautiful hometown... ❤️

Neon background with a Roxette feel....superb

Perfect. We were having a Poets Of The Fall night, last night. A perfect start to the day, guys Keep them coming

Thank you for doing the French Edition. French ver. gives this song another depth and beauty.. my recommendation still stands. 1. Temple of thoughts (Unplugged) 2. Cradled in love

Oh wow finally a reaction for Poets of the Fall. Awesome

@MikeandGinger

2 жыл бұрын

We have a few!

@abhishekkanchan2769

2 жыл бұрын

@@MikeandGinger I know but very few channels react to this amazing band so thank you much for doing this. Please also react to John Mayer, I can suggest some great songs from his side, live and album versions

Excellent, such a good voice. So easy to listen too. As I have mentioned before love listening to French, without ever knowing how to speak. Have enough trouble with English. ❤️🤘🇦🇺

Merci très jolie song et music. Une discovery 👍❤️🇨🇵

Listen to it in english.The Sweet escape is the title. Keep up the good work you people ;) Greetings from Sweden

Nice reaction. POTF is one of my favourite bands. 😍 I really recommend next their song Temple of Though, accoustic version.

@Idefixu

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Unplugged Studio Live.

This is my favorite song of theirs 😍

❤Finland

this was good but i still like english version more :) what a melody uuuh lalaaa this song have. thanx great reaction and have awesome weekend there. that guitar reminds sometimes lethal weapon (movie) music.

Two more POETS you really will like/love (both *live* versions): *_”Carnival of Rust”_* : kzread.info/dash/bejne/c3uE0reNgN25Zs4.html *_”Cradled in Love”_* : kzread.info/dash/bejne/pmiDzqmlk6_Wqqw.html

If you think that was different stuff, try something like Poets of the Fall - Grinder's Blues. It's a country style blues song.

This was LEGENDARY Luciano pdvarotti James Brown 💌💐👍

The French Bryan Ferry, pairs nicely with a single malt neat.

@MikeandGinger

2 жыл бұрын

I bet 👍🏻 - G

Speaking of French music, I just remembered an artist I haven't thought about for many years! She's called Emilie Simon and she's covered many different musical styles over the years. Maybe 10-12 years ago she released an album that was a bit more electronic than she had done before, and around that time she released what she called the Bedford Avenue Sessions on KZread where she performed some very different versions of some of her songs. Occasionally she reminds me a bit of Kate Bush. You really should check her out! I highly recommend "Rainbow" from that session: kzread.info/dash/bejne/poWupM6cgMaqXbw.html

"Partir avec moi" on your Sexy Time list? Good choice. 👏

No, they are Finntastic! 😉

Pardon my French, but hell yeah.

I still favor the official music video in English, but this is also lovely; the setting is the same. I was thinking the same thing as you mentioned about the guitars: '80s, something you might hear in an episode of Miami Vice.

@TimTheTuner

Жыл бұрын

I think the drum machine also reminds me of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," which I connect indelibly to Miami Vice, as well as that lovely guitar work. That jazz guitar does not appear in the original studio version found on their album "Ultraviolet." I have to listen to the music video version of "The Sweet Escape" to feel that the song is complete.

....if you missed it _the singer is from a diplomatic-family , and got eng, fre, and finnish as motherlanguage + meeting Sibelius Academy_ guitarists Finland ; and singer, a tuun' to them ; .. how is the Las Vegas _ bet : to academic shooled players meet a " a'round the wourld guy" - who zing as hobby ....?

I didn't know about French version 🤔

Please react to False Kings mv and Sleep live from Moscow concert 2013.

I think Mike's level of French is about the same as mine - I understood most of the song, but from the subtitles, not from listening - for me it takes a while for my ears to acclimatise to the spoken language. A demain, tout les deux! (probably apelled wrong...)

@litogor

2 жыл бұрын

As I said on an old G&M video, almost 50% of the words used in the English language come directly from the French language but it is true that they are often difficult to recognize because the pronunciations are so different in the two languages .... In the French language for example, the "U" (alone) has a sound that is only found in a few languages in the world and its equivalent is not found in English. . Many English speakers think that the French "E" is like the English "I" and this is a very common mistake ... French can become easy as long as you start with the right basics .... if this is not the case, you will lead to complications that can definitely stick to you .... lol

@Skraeling1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@litogor yup, all thanks to the Norman invasion. French became the language of the ruling class while the commoners spoke English. Hence the landowners farmed beef and mutton while the poor raised chickens. And so on. As an aside, most swear words are English/Germanic in origin, not French.

@litogor

2 жыл бұрын

@@Skraeling1000 Ok at the beginning the Normans but then especially the Plantagenets. The York and Lancaster Houses are in reality Plantagenets and therefore the famous war of the two roses is not a war between English but between powerful French families in England. The irony is that it is the Tudor House that will take advantage of this situation as it descended from another French royal family (Valois). At that time, we can estimate that these French families were like the "Mafia" and that the little English people were like "normal" and poor people .... ^^

@Skraeling1000

2 жыл бұрын

@@litogor Exactement!

@MisterHowzat

10 ай бұрын

Well, you spelled "spelled" wrong 😂 I know: it's easy to hit the "a" instead of the "s".

I prefer the english version, because i dont understand french

A little too "linear" for me (and yet I am French, which makes me more indulgent on this performance. Because it's not easy for a foreigner to sing in my language. I'm aware of it), I hoped for a musical "jump" at one point or another. But that didn't happen. For the rest, yes, the comparison with Roxy Music is well seen. Speaking of French song, I offer you two reactions which should normally please and surprising you. "Daniel Balavoine - Le chanteur ENGLISH SUBS" (1978). An incredible criticism of the world of show-bizz, of "overperstarisation" (a phenomenon currently amplified by social networks) with lyrics quite daring for the time. And then "Daniel Balavoine - Tous les cris les SOS (son HQ)". But be careful not to confuse "Tous les cris, les sos" with "Sos d'un terrien en détresse" covered by Dimash Kudaibergen for which you've already reacted. Even if the two songs were originally performed by Daniel Balavoine, they're indeed two different songs. For "Tous les cris, les sos" it's really important to find the translation of the lyrics to fully understand the power of this song from 1985 which musically was also at the forefront of electronic music through the use of samples environmental sounds to represent the ocean at the start of the song in an unprecedented way (no sample of the sea is used, but on the contrary the sounds of a train siren, car braking, etc.), its movement, the surf, the crash of waves on rocks etc. By the way, you'll also discover the incredible voice of this very committed singer who unfortunately disappeared too soon in a helicopter accident while following the "Paris-Dakar" race with the race organizer Thierry Sabine. This in order to install water wells in African villages and thus bring water to these villages through the charitable association created by Daniel Balavoine on this occasion.