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DavidL

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1. Ye' Ye' is a style of singing
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 08:48 AM
Sep 2012

Last edited Wed Sep 26, 2012, 10:11 AM - Edit history (1)

It corresponds to the "Yeah Yeah Yeah" in American (or Beatles) pop songs.

It is basically a pop music culture of the 50's and 60's in France Spain and somewhat in England and elsewhere.

Yé-yé enjoyed a slight rekindling in the United States in 2012, when French-Canadian actress Jessica Paré performed a cover of "Zou Bisou Bisou" in the fifth-season premiere of the television series Mad Men. Reaction to the song was such that the AMC network released the song as a single, both in digital download and the traditional 33 1/3 vinyl formats.

Your translation (from Google Translate?) is a bit rough, too.

Non rien n'aura raison de moi translates more to
"Nothing (not a single thing) will be right for me" (poetic lyric triple negative)

The song is basically a bit of satire about the music style.

This article in Wiki might give you some more background on Ye' Ye' music

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A9-y%C3%A9

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