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When I lived on the UC Santa Cruz campus, I, as a Catholic, could go off-campus for church services. But the closest, Holy Cross, next to the Mission, was sort of difficult to get to. So if I wanted on-campus services, the so-called Newman Club brought in priests, who gave Sunday evening Mass.
When living in the dorms, I'd quickly eat dinner at the dining hall, which opened at 5:00p. If I attended Newman Club, and then waited for dinner, you risked the dining halls being closed.
But anyway, you'd quickly learn which fellow Catholic students from your residential college used the Newman Club. While most were wannabe hippies, one of my dorm neighbors, Michele, was not. She was a modern-day brunette, with better clothes and the designer glasses. Snooty Michele said she was ethnically "mostly French." She had all of the guys in the palm of her hand. Those pathetic wannabe hippie guys did anything, to get downwind of Michele.
During our junior year, Michele and I lived in the same apartment complex. And once again, she and I would walk together to Newman Club services on Sunday evenings.
Sometime in the middle of the 1991-92 school year, I was over at Michele's apartment. She popped in some VHS recording, and announced, "This was huge in France." It was a long music video for some Europop song, "Desenchantee," by Mylene Farmer. At first, we thought it was like Le Miserables, but it was Mylene Farmer's character leading a breakout from a concentration camp. No green screen back then, this was filmed in Hungary.
When the prisoners end up on a snowy plain, the ending is ambiguous. None of Michele's friends understood French, so we did not know what the gloomy and pessimistic lyrics meant. But we liked the Eurodance music, which, even though the singing was in French, was still infinitely preferable to the grunge scourge.
Over on Cable Asylum, I am reviewing the AudioQuest Quartz and Lapis interconnects, both of which hailed from the early-90s. As with all of my new posts, this one here was done in conjunction with another audiophile. He and I were talking about "foreign films" of the late-80s and early-90s, and that re-triggered my memories of Mylene Farmer's "Desenchantee," and all that was going on in my life then. I leave it to other audiophiles, especially those who speak French, to tell us more about "Desenchantee."
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Topic - Mylene Farmer, "Desenchantee" - Luminator 18:39:50 06/15/19 (0)
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