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- Published on Feb 11, 2026
- Stromae - papaoutai (official video / clip officiel)
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LYRICS (FR)
[Couplet 1]
Dites-moi d'où il vient
Enfin je saurai où je vais
Maman dit que lorsqu'on cherche bien
On finit toujours par trouver
Elle dit qu'il n'est jamais très loin
Qu'il part très souvent travailler
Maman dit "travailler c'est bien"
Bien mieux qu'être mal accompagné
Pas vrai ?
[Pont]
Où est ton papa ?
Dis-moi où est ton papa ?
Sans même devoir lui parler
Il sait ce qui ne va pas
Ah sacré papa
Dis-moi où es-tu caché ?
Ça doit, faire au moins mille fois que j'ai
Compté mes doigts
Hey !
[Refrain]
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es
Où t'es...
[Couplet 2]
Quoi, qu'on y croit ou pas
Y aura bien un jour où on n'y croira plus
Un jour ou l'autre on sera tous papa
Et d'un jour à l'autre on aura disparu
Serons-nous détestables ?
Serons-nous admirables ?
Des géniteurs ou des génies ?
Dites-nous qui donne naissance aux irresponsables ?
Ah dites-nous qui, tiens
Tout le monde sait comment on fait des bébés
Mais personne sait comment on fait des papas
Monsieur Je-sais-tout en aurait hérité, c'est ça
Faut l'sucer d'son pouce ou quoi ?
Dites-nous où c'est caché, ça doit
Faire au moins mille fois qu'on a
Bouffé nos doigts
Hey !
[Refrain]
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es
Où t'es...
[Pont]
Où est ton papa ?
Dis-moi où est ton papa ?
Sans même devoir lui parler
Il sait ce qui ne va pas
Ah sacré papa
Dis-moi où es-tu caché ?
Ça doit, faire au moins mille fois que j'ai
Compté mes doigts
Hey
Où est ton papa ?
Dis-moi où est ton papa ?
Sans même devoir lui parler
Il sait ce qui ne va pas
Ah sacré papa
Dis-moi où es-tu caché ?
Ça doit, faire au moins mille fois que j'ai
Compté mes doigts
Hey !
[Refrain]
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, papaoutai ?
Où t'es, où t'es où, papaoutai ?
Où t'es
Où t'es...
Song:
"I'm missing my father..."
World:
* intensive Vibing *
The beat is indeed amazing 😂
France: We understand the lyrics but we are still vibing
ruclips.net/video/-EjktN3be6U/video.html
Cringe 😬
Really tho
"Everybody knows how to make babies, but nobody knows how to make Papas"
that's a line that hits me everytime
Grandfather
same
True.
bro, there's kids here
@oceanhu9332 that's what the song says you dunce
strome: singing about kids who lost their fathers
everybody in the room: 🕺🤸💃
So accurate 😭🤣😭
No u r wrong not just about losing
There are many kids whose parents are alive but actually not alive and i was one of those kids i cried when i saw this song
Literally everyone in French class lol 😂
@aliabdulkaream9328 im sorry for that man, but i meant that the melody is catchy and danceable not the lyrics... best wishes for u
Hes singing abt his dad dying in a genocide too...
Stromae: **sings a song about his dad dying in the rwandan genocide**
French teachers: YO THIS IS A BANGER
First time I heard this song I was.. about 13 on my birthday in french class 😂 teacher thought it was a good song. Cant blame him honestly I agree
Lol that's not what the song is about. It is about irresponsible fathers
S0
Guu
@imenharzi2344 ,
6th grade france class be like:
Traumatized kid: Looks out of the window
Some random kids: Lemme flex my dad real quick.
actually
Koala LMQOSKBCUKWHOWJEWDILBWUKEDDWEDIHBAEIBDKBWD
ZOO 🐅🐆🐅🐂🐗🐫🐒🐼🐨🐢🐘🐀🦂🍗🍔🌯🍙🍘🍣🍡🍦🍨🍡🍙🍤🍝🍿🍚🍥🍦🍼🚻
This song usually makes me cry for the message, but this comment made me laugh
Omg😂😂
People who understands French : 😭😭
People who don’t : 💃🏻🕺🏼💃🏻🕺🏼🕺🏼💃🏻
You know there’s lyrics..
its kinda both tbh incredible song with a sad story .but i still dance to it
And i thout it was Spain 😳🤣🤦
You copied this comment
@antin2777 ça parle d'un fils qui a perdu son père... C'est triste.
It's about a son who lost his dad. That's sad
The song is about the absence of a father, a story the singer himself experienced. Born of a Belgian mother and a Rwandan father, he had a fickle father, killed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The singer confessed during an interview to have cried during the writing probably for the lived side.
@benleaper5390 I speak French and I can tell you he had right, it's about the fact he don't have a father.
Ben Leaper French is my native language and your comment is misleading, the singer has not mentioned war once in the song and the song is not about the effects of war but about the absence of fathers.
ik
@benleaper5390 Erm, no Stromae said it's about growing up without a father, also English is my native tongue but I've been studying French for 4 years now
Allô français canadien Québec ?
Stromae’s dad was killed at the Rwanda genocide, and his dead body was cut into peaces. As a child I never understood the meaning of this song and just thought it sounded good, but now it really hits me hard...
😳😳😳
Charlie Hebdo also made a sickening drawing, with in the middle Stromae saying “papaoutai” meaning “daddy where are you?” Then pieces of the dead body of his dad saying “ici” meaning “here”.
😢 💔.....
@DailyDejmux Condolences
Pain turned into art
I took 3 years of french in high school, and I’m proud to say I now understand the word “papa”
Sterre Valenteijn LmAo
Congrats man ! 😍😍😍
Papa ! Papa papa papa, papa ? Papa :D
Salut. Comment ca va. Je mappelle Alejandro. Bonjunee
Aletron DJ je ne parle pas Francais
Who’s here because they actually liked the song
Who wouldn't be?
@Aleix_lx Hhhhhhh Maybe
Wanna know what the title means
I heard this at school
My french teacher played this everyone went ew but me and my frend were looking at each other we both liked it 😂💀
This man is an actual genius and this song is a masterpiece.
Yeah thats so true
Littéralement
This one and any other song from him, he's a GOD by himself
Mdlol calme toi frr nan jdec en vrai t’a raison
Oui
i never had father, i never even seen his picture. But i will try my best to become good father to my own son one day.
Edit: Now I have a 1-year-old daughter and i am enjoying every minute, and I’m trying my best. Thanks everybody.
Same situation bro...but as a woman i will find the best father for my kids
U can marry each other, lol
@ahmedjameel4578 Nooo 😂😂😂😂
@nancypapa5200 Ok 😂 but it's a good idea tho 😂
@ahmedjameel4578 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Many people don't seem to understand the serious backstory behind this song. The father of Stromae died during the Rwandan Genocide of 1991, thus making our beloved singer grow up without a father.
lol noice
It's not about that, it's about an absent father (as in "not able to be a father"). There's a verse in the song saying that everybody is able to make a baby, but not everybody is able to make a father.
*1994
What a sad story, may his soul rest in peace!
🦊🐅🍆🍓🍆🍒🥔
My respect to this man. Wrote a song about his dead father and gets people dancing.
Goated🐐
incredible song
I will kill my dad and post a banger song,stay tuned
@Ben10_0 same
SİUUU
Well, this SONG WILL NEVER DIE.
its so true!
Still a bop
2020- TikTok joined the chatroom.
*youTube algorithm has entered the chat*
It's so popular on the Internet, I'm wondering how popular it is in France.
C‘mon Stromae, the world needs your music again..
Is stromea died
@muratcakir6782 no
@muratcakir6782 really no i dknt belive it
@muratcakir6782 he is not died
Selin X yes we need him
Now that I am going to be a father, this song hits me a lot, I want my son to never have to wonder where his father is and that he always sees me as his support...thank you MAESTRO I heard this song as a child and now I understand it as an adult.
Pd: my boy have 1 year old and he likes this song!!!
My boy have 3 years old, and he's learning hoy to dress alone. I try to teach the dance of this song!!
Good luck 🤞
Good luck
I wish you a lot of love
Sometimes fathers be present physically but not emotionally or mentally.This is the reason my friend favours and respect her mother more.I think this songs also talks about that.
@sha78962 also talk about that you right
"Où est ton papa?"
me: I SAID HE AT THE STORE
ARMYYYY💜💜💜
gvghhhh
yyyuuhģvb j
He bring the milk
LMAOO💀
АРМИ❤
It still gives me goose bumps, the emotions it carries is incredible
❤️❤️❤️❤️
👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤
i needed to listen to it because of a french homework, it brought me back memories
@leonardop.6450 M 😁e ŵ uuffitrrrffffyihk
What was this famous for again?
Something related to football?
Okay, can we please acknowledge that kid's dancing skills? He got talent!!!
Yeah, he's also very expressive.
Ikr!!!
Which one? All the dancers in this video are really good
The girls too
All of them have talents really..!!
Almost 9 years and I still come back here to listen to this masterpiece
same
frfr
This is so good
*The ETERNAL GOD would do anything for you!!*
Even out of love for you he went to the cross as a human!!
Philippians 2:5-8
You explained my whole life in so few characters. Thank you
9 février 2026 ? 👇
Wesh la mdr
I
9 fèvrier 2026 😅 Lundi
You😊
Oui
It's crazy how we are listening to these songs again as different people,
Right.. this song just popped into my head because I loved it as a 10 yr old but didn’t understand a word and now years later I graduated from high school and speak French fluently it’s crazy
Lis pas mon pseudo
Im from Greece and I don't know how to speak French. But i wanted to know what the lyrics mean and i googled it. I am wondering how many of that kind of songs we are enjoing while others crying....
I fully agree.
@miran4205 ٢
it's very rare nowadays to find a dance track with meaningful and impactful lyrics... this is timeless, stromae's a legend
All his songs are legendary,he is not only making music,but he has hard observation of society.He is brave also becouse he speaks abouth things that nobody speaks
Slt Je viens de sortir un son qui parle d'amour, votre soutien m'apportera beaucoup merci
ruclips.net/video/ZdQbpxOZplw/video.html
Ps: laissez votre avis..
@tvrealite4576 tenue pour iuduuruururur
للبة
xxx yyy لةوةىةةا
Bravo à toi qui a trouvé ce commentaire français
Enfin
@nourelnour9079 ouai enfin😅
Mdr c’est devenu quoi les commentaires de stromae mtn
@kata_edits j'avoue mdr
ct le pr mdr (Traduction : C'etais le premier dans la liste Mdr)
Still listening to this song. Simply a masterpiece
same
Same
Right
iiDanixi ❤️
Kllmn123 Kllmn123 +1 innit
De la frappe son mannequin challenge à Stromae
mdrrr mais par contre il fait le buzz
Ait louhi WALIM ca Cest sur 😅
ahahah
The gameur a le gamin
The gameur
Something I find fascinating about the choreography of this video is the differences of the types of fathers and sons shown through their dance. In the first pair, the paperboys in pink uniforms, the father and son do a dance that relies heavily on partnership. A dance meant for two people to work and they help each other to pull it off. The second pair, the garbage collectors in orange, are perfectly in sync performing the same dance but separately. One person could do it solo but they're both a mirror of each other. They even do elegant ballet style leaps and turns that feel in direct contrast to the rigid robot style of the business men in the yellow and green suits. With the business man he's not dancing with his son or mirroring him, but trying to teach him and force him to do it his way even if the son is unhappy about it. But he still tries to have that connection with his father. The way the fluid ballet moves are cut in between the stiff pop and lock type moves are amazing and amplify the different ways of parenting via dance. But of course whether the sons are helping, mirroring, or learning from their fathers, they still have fathers who engage with them unlike the boy who is observing all these interactions. This is an amazing video. 💙🇫🇷 I want to learn french just to better appreciate stromae's videos but the language seems too difficult for me. 😞
Thank you for this beautiful comment
Ne te décourage pas pour apprendre le français, je peut te comprendre car c’est aussi difficile pour moi d’apprendre le français alors que je suis français.Il y a tellement d’irrégularités et de vocabulaire différent, certains modes verbaux ne sont meme pas utilisé dans le quotidien pourtant ils existent, c’est ce qui fais la richesse de ma langue et cette richesse stromae l’emploie très bien. C’est pour tout ça que j’encourage fortement les personnes qui trouvent la motivation d’apprendre cette langue. Je t’encourage !🇫🇷
I'm sorry, I'm italian and my english is not so good but I want to tell you this story. This morning I woke up and I listened to this song then I saw your comment. Is 6AM, I read this beautiful comment and I decide to rewatch this music video. I litteraly cried for one our. Is so beautiful, THANK YOU :)
Even the only female duo seem to have a particular feel to their dance, like the duality of beauty and strength in a woman. Their moves, similar to the garbage collectors, are also completely syncronized down to the outfits they wear, even walking dogs of the same breed. It's probably because the daughter is notably older than any of the sons -- most of the boys look from pre-teens to mid-teens, along with the subject of the song -- and thus has had the most time to grow up to be just like her mother.
With a little training you could know the basics of French, I am French and I totally agree with you stromae shows us the realities of life in one song
Qui est la le 08 fevrier 2026😅
😅😅😅c’est moi
Merci pout les deux like
On est là🎉🎉🎉
Tellement la chacques jour 😅
Moi 😄❤
me😂..I am From Bangladesh 😊
Happy Father's Day to those who deserve to be fathers.
and to those that had to grow up quicker without dads
Everyone deserves a father but some don't have. But thank you to the mothers are the mother and father to their children
yeah, well, i still waiting for the milk
@i_aint_posting Well keep waiting
Almost everyone. Stop overreacting
Everyone gangsta until anyone understands the meaning of this song
Thx guys for the 1k 💛
Even with the meanings this song has, it's still amazing
anyone who speaks french knows the meaning of the song i mean even the title shows it pretty clearly
French : 😞😥😭
Rest of the world: 💃🕺🤸🤟
😂😂🕺🕺
Right 😂😂😂😂
😎😂🤣😅🕺💃👌
Pour de vrai, l'origine de la chanson Vien du fait que le père de Stromae (chanteur) est mort lors du génocide rwandais en 1991
@MitchelDhldfwcb❤❤❤❤❤❤iwayo
Who's watching in 2026?
Stromae: talks about his lost dad
Me who doesn‘t understand french: 💃💃💃
Based
🤣🤣
"Stromae"
Theif
I understand French and I still dance to it 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
This song never gets old.
After all these years, I still love it
ruclips.net/video/PTc1YRqs160/video.html
Yeah, me too
I think so too
yea
T'as raison, j'adore.
It's really impressive that this song is almost 9 years old but still has about one million views in every two weeks. Never gets old.
ruclips.net/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html
@sarahfnnd hahah
it sounds like it could be released in 2022. SO FREAKIN GOOD
Welcome to gcse students across the UK doing french
@sarahfnnd bro....
Anyone 12 February 2026 😅
Me😅
"Everyone knows how to make babies, but no one knows how to be a father"
So true...
How to make a father*
@thisiz_akram I know, I wrote it like that to be more clear... I can understand French don't worry :D
No matter how bad they are. They are our father
@Sam2223eehhhhhdh nope, they won't have my full gratitude if they're bad. They always repeat the sentence "you're old, you know what's right or wrong" even though their sons aren't old just so that they can escape from responsibility, and then they wanna get treated like they're father of the year.
o
ojk
My favourite line is "everybody knows how to make a baby but nobody knows how to make a father"
@MsquaredPOV first , you should have a brain
Can As moue ça dépend
@canas2231 bruh
@ZeGhostXz
R/whooos
@fixafix69 I didn't even fall for.Lol
Stromae: exists
French teachers: It’s free real estate
English teachers as well lmao
Pretty much yeah, my french showed this to us before school ended
True
c'est vrai mdr
lmao my french teacher used this song to teach us yes
12 February 2026👇
Me/non french speakers:
“🥳Oh what a song, 10/10!”
Closed caption on: “Oh, 😢, what a song, 10/10”
Hello
I made 8 bits of this video. Can you see?
Its sadder if you know the story about his dad:
His dad went away when he was young, and he'd ask where his dad was and his mom would say "He's away on business." Things went on like this until he was 12 or so, when his mom told him the truth- His dad's father was having difficulties in his old age and needed help, so he returned back to his home country, Rwanda, in 1994. Stromae's father was killed in the genocide.
To be absolutely fair, a lot of songs have the same connotations lol
La Macarena is about a girl cheating on her boyfriend "Vitorino", while he was talking his oath as a conscript
"Macarena tiene un novio que se llama,
Que se llama de apellido Vitorino
Y en la jura de bandera del muchacho
Se la dió con dos amigos"
"Macarena has a boyfriend
He goes by the name of Vitorino
And while he took his oath of conscript
She was giving it to 2 friends"
Smooth criminal literally describes the murder of 2 people, presumably a couple.
"He came into your apartment
Left bloodstains on the carpet
Then you ran into the bedroom
You were struck down
It was your doom"
I don't care has a depressing bit about sometimes feeling okay, and sometimes not because nothing in life matters
Run along, nothing to say
'Cause all along it never mattered anyway
Sometimes, I feel like I'm okay
Sometimes, I feel like I wanna run away
@8bitsongs z
Everyone: This song is so sad.
Me without understand the lyrics: Damn, this song is fire. Let's dance!
I'm French and yes in reality this song is sad 🥲
You should say alors in dance
@Senshi-78 I am swiss and it is sad but then the beat drops and i dont care anymore
this song is a hard hitter
I don’t understand the lyrics but this is sad
"Everyone knows how to make a baby, but no one knows how to make a papa." ........... Deep......... (minute 1:38 )
Thanks for all the likes btw!!!
Tier Halibel what?
JULIA CELESTE I think he's asking if you consider it deep because of experience such as your father not being a father to you.
JULIA CELESTE rjcbgc😇
ChillCentral I don't have a father at all so.....
JULIA CELESTE be strong brother
Just imagine how many people are listening to this song with u right now
IT'S OVER 9000!!
no it's my clone,
my dad
"Everybody knows how to make babies but nobody knows how to make papas" deep
Sabbath Foai, truth 😣
Sabbath Foai papas=daris
deep 😞
That part hit me hard
Brandon Tang Nah m8, u dont understand if u had a good father.
Guy: singing about how he didnt had a father figure in his life
Rest of the world: ude Papa ude
This guy made dancing song about lost of ambition in life (alors on danse), cancer (Quand c'est?), hard break-up (formidable), and everyone could dance on it.
@phildragonbleu That's true
@phildragonbleu so fuccking true
Actually (just for the fact), Stromae did had a father figure. He was killed in the Ruanda genocide, in 98 something like that, I could be wrong about the date. But yeah, that’s what happened to Stromae’s papa.
@edmondvalmont1546 the genocide happened in 93 when he was 7-8. Stromae, growing up in Belgium, learned it in 97, but he confessed , in 2019, that his father figure was already dead to him before he was killed, since he almost never was here with him and had a lot of step siblings in Ruanda.
الموسيقى مثالية لــ... 🔊
"Everbody knows how to make baby"
"But no one knows how to make papa"
Ou t'est papa ou t'ai papa ou t'ai ou t'ai ou t'ai ou t'ai
because men have walked away from society as a result of divorce rape in the courts, civil commitment is dangerous because most women today want a wedding, not a marriage, are men to blame you simps? plus, remember: the modern woman needs a man as a fish needs a bicycle, men are simply adapting.
@ruganzundoli3633 bruh chill
@ruganzundoli3633 bruhh
Wooooow That Is Legitness
But doesn't make sense
THAT WHY I LOVE IT!!!
The line "Everybody knows how to make babies but nobody knows how to make Papas" is what gets me everytime
Isn't it?
I died when I first turned on caption and read it
tupac shakur ???
Hi Eris
@deepest406 i see you're a man of culture👌
the first mannequin challange clip :D
Esad Alışık yup
Esad Alışık hahahahha
You fucking dumnbasses!
Esad Alışık lol
Esad Alışık no, the first one was SNSD
We need more songs that tell something important.
You are right I miss Stromaes songs so hard
'Cause Stromae songs explain reality. Stromae really needs to come back in musical industry 💓
@shoaibahmed9071 Yes, he does.
@latifaboujrad3705 So do I.
AND SHES LOOKING AT
YOU YOU YOUYOU YOUY YOUT YOTU YOU YUPUY YUPU YOU YUPY YOU YOU YOU YOU YOJ YOU YOUY OYI YOYI YOU TOU YOUUUUUUU
I don't even understand French but this is the best song i ever
It's pretty much just saying Where Are you Dad? We've been looking for you and Mum says you're working
+Danny Boy read the lyrics! they're powerful, and the strength comes also from the puns
+RedEyeGaming Not really dude
+RedEyeGaming More complicated than that, lol.
+listen to my mixtape its fire to whom are you talking to dear? You feel okay? (:
Nobody:
French teachers: *aye lemme show yall somethin’.*
Uh why did you steal that comment someone has already written that like 2 weeks ago
Good things are meant to be shared! So continue sharing!
@yuh6186 Because why the fuck not? He already has 454 likes so its useless bringing that up now.
I'm dead 😂😂😂
It’s the Same with German Teachers and Traum by Cro, and for some reason we got shown this by our schools French teacher when the German Teacher was Sick.
All those dancers are just trying to rub it in that he is missing a parent
MegaMGstudios that’s-thats the point..
I- do you know what the song is about?
@ヤスミン-h5r vaguely, but not completely
I don’t think they’re trying to rub it in that he doesn’t have a dad, he’s just observing these father-son relationships and wishes to have his own. Because he doesn’t have a dad he has to pretend he is real by creating a “doll” that he imagined he dances with. I think the dancing represents fathers’/parents’ influence on determining children’s characteristics. For example, the dad and son dressed in suits you can see the son doesn’t want to listen to the dad and his dad shows frustration which eventually causes his son to start dancing like his dad. This is like a dad forcing a kid to go to college or join a certain career. But I don’t think they’re trying to flex their dads lol
@PfoxMC i think he's joking
I can’t believe this came out seven years ago already
time goes by so fast
More like eight
Ikr what a banger
ikr our lives on earth are short
@husain3190 exactly
It's sad how he finally accepted the fact that his father is not going to be with him just like the neighbours
Anyone watching this after 12 years?? 👇🏻👇🏻
When you listen this song for the first time: 💃🕺💃🕺
When you understand the lyrics: 😭😭😭😭
When you're a French reading the English comments of people who don't understand the lyrics : bruh.
30th like also
It‘s true.First time i dont understand the lyrics,but later understood.Now i‘m crying from this song😭
Bibou I turned on the caption thing in English to translate it
@bibou4758 When you’re British but you understand enough French to get the lyrics:
B r u h
This song is still legendary after all this years
Yes
😎😎😎
Yes
😎😎😎
YES BRO
Yeah 💝💝
YES BRO
The dislikes are from all the dads who left their families
bruh straight up they're all at the milk store rn disliking this video, those jerks
Eternalblue Animations hahaha
Right !!!
don't wanna like your comment cuz it's 420 likes 😔🤙
Hi Naruto
Who is here in 2026
I'm watching this in 2017
the first day
honnestly me too 😅
wtf is this?
Même les anglophone parle encore de Papaoutai...
same
when your dad is physically present but not emotionally
Felt that
It's not about that his dad died to the tutsis
My dad is both
You sound spoiled
@makaveli1595 huh?
The song is so meaningful, and it's the ugly truth with sad ending.
......،،،،،طط
Yeah its a ugly truth
Zharkyn Zhanzhumayeva iaa, aitpanyz ((
Zharkyn Zhanzhumayeva what’s it mean?
Metalkid1500 It’s about a kid who’s wondering where his dad is, he is asking where he is hiding and where he is.
2026
👇🏽
Stromae : Sings a sad song about a boy finding his lost father
The Entire World not knowing French: 🕺oote🕺oote💃🏻oote💃🏻
Où t'es not oote
@Elsaed1 i know....
But they don't
@jotsingh3645 I just wanted to improve you so that wasn't meant badly.
@i.03.8 what?
@Morgana-Brawlstars lol don't worry bro 😁✌️✌️
Ils avaient de l'avance sur nous , le mannequin challenge..eh ouai 😅
By Marie mdr
Omelette du Fromage?
Berdthday Boy What ?
By Marie That's the most complex french sentence I know. :D
Berdthday Boy Ah well, it's normal you're not French 😊
Pay attention to the outfits they're wearing; they all have the colors of the flags of different African countries that neighbor Rwanda.
Really??
Stromae = Rwanda flag colors ✓
1:06 = Rep. of Congo flag colors (you'll find the yellow) ✓
1:08 = Uganda flag colors (no yellow) ✓
1:53 = ???????? (orange, white and yellow)
2:03 = Rep. of Congo flag colors (not sure if blue or green shirt) ✓
where's Burundi flag colors?
No kenyan
@wilsonbrian4494 Kenya wasn't a Rwanda border country. Anyway thr "snapback robot dudes" colors seems to match with Kenya... There's some green.
@Chevette1793 Orange white and yellow, I believe, is meant to represent UNAMIR (united nations assistance mission for Rwanda). They're acting as 'cleanup' in the video.
I can’t believe I found this song by typing “hute hute”
Its sad he stopped makin music :( he was a legend
He did?
he left due to illness
@МоеМоя-и6р какой болезни?
@МоеМоя-и6р Which illness?
andrey starchikov говорят, что поехал а Африку и заразился малярией. Поздно начал лечение. И потом решил не возвращаться на сцену((
That one line "Everybody knows how to make babies. But nobody knows how to make dads"
CHILLS
yah
+masab. .123 masab.123
The best line in the song 😍😍😍
so deep
I can feel the intense pain in this song I realised that he lost his Papa in Rwanda genecide quite disappointing tough it shaded on his life So he showing emotions in ritually dance
6yyh
4 1a11
Thanks Obama.
god i can feel the utter pain, france will be deserve an eternal hell for what have done
If you all came here because of what sir Muladinga did in AFCON like i did please kindly drop a like or even a comment in respect for Mr Muladinga.❤❤❤
Ok, but no one is gonna talk about how sad this song actually is
Lol everybody is talking about
The song made me cry. I don't have a dad too. Like stromae. Last i've seen HIM i was 5 years.
Now i'm 11. I forgot how he sounded Like. His smile. All i remember is he's face. Kinda. I have depressions SOMETIMES. and i changed alot. Stromae's music is in my heart.
@yogurtgaming0 OH... Im sorry, I wish I could understand how you feel... But it must be Unthinkable
@yogurtgaming0 hey :) if he's the one that left you, then it's not worth crying. my father didn't care for me in 16 years and to this day he never spend a cent on me. But I don't care anymore, I don't need a father who wouldn't care about me anyways.
Stromae is one of those very rare moments in pop where the artist isn't just a singer, they're an _artist_ in terms of how they direct their production, delivery, themes, and imagery...
Diseña ropa tambien 😅
❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 salut
Perfectly said. The man truly lives for his art; no compromises made.
Gros talent mais psychologiquement faible. Les grands artistes on fini ainsi. Dommage 😢
De verdad? Donde lo puedo ver? @Missi_Bi
C'est pour tout les papa qui sont partis sans jamais revenir aussi😶
It's crazy how many people come back to this everyday. This song is Iegendary
aye. tbh i didnt enjoy the song years ago when it was so popular, but now that I've learnt french and i can enjoy it more, it feels like a classic
@altijd gaming armin quite your enticement to flex on, arent you ? :)
Absolute legend!
True
I showed it today in the france lesson to my students. It was so cool!
This guy is so fucking creative. One of the most unique Artists out there.
Glad I found him today
But so fucking creepy
@Majkl. when you understand the lyrics it's not creepy but sad
🤫
ruclips.net/video/PTc1YRqs160/video.html
Facts
Stromae: *Sings about growing up with an absent dead father*
French speakers: *tears up from meaningful strong lyrics*
Non-French Speakers: *bopping at the club*
i see people dancing to this while for me my throat starts hurting . i lost my dad when i was in the age of getting really attached to him i was 4 ( he got killed so it hurts even more that i lost him because of another human )
Glouglou lg’est b’CHF g
But there're subtitles on English
You just gotta bop through the pain
🤣
Grandmaster Stromae Papa Africa 👑
this song hits different when u realise what it actually says...
Where are u papa 😢
@isseihyoudou6878 go away we wont listen that „freestyle“ we like more stromae
This song was a lot less depressing before I learned French
I've just turned on captions and now I'm in tears. People really need good dads
I got introduced to this song from french class. We had to translate the lyrics ourselves. It was fun though
@lavishlovergirl um... actually Stromae's dad was killed when he was 7 or 8 in the Rwanda genocide so... he flew to Belgium with his mother and grew up there, that's why he's saying "Où t'es papa où t'es ?" which means "Where are you daddy where are you ?"
Same😭
But i was 10 so it has something in it too
Bro I can unverstande the song is sad but its gives me vibe
This video is still alive after 8 years and will be forever
This video is legend 🥺🥺
Literally 😭
Agree
Woaw. It was a long time since I did not watch this clip and in my memories the video has something like 2-300 millions views which is already amazing. But now, although the song is 8 years old, it's at 800M !!!! I guess it never gets old
@Nicotine46 yes👍
Because the story of a child searching for a parent's presence never gets old
Anyone here in 2026😊❤
Didn't understand the point as a child
But for now, yes.
Touching and nostalgic
Your image is touchjng and nostalgic too
هههههههه
بق فيق
*Music: Eh, Papa, Where are you?*
*My head: Where is his mother?*
alive
I think the same 😂
His mother probably died, he only had his father, and now it's Father is gone, too.
@Maissa la beste He knows, but he means that there is no mom.
ahahaha 😂😂😂😂
I don't understand a word but I still love this song...
Jelly Penguin. papa ou est tu? =Dad where are you?
Sérine Mosbah
I know what the English lyrics are but I forgot most of them
il ne parle même pas francais
Jelly Penguin f fds h et urjr, yd t k t b yryyiyyuyyyyyyyuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijfr se gré. Le
Me either and i learn french on school 😂
Anyone 2026? 👇
every time i listen to this song I legitimately feel hurt and just want to cry. stromae is such a good artist to be able to convey such emotion in just one song.
❤️
me too
Because this story is close to a big part of our planet's population, but no one talks about it , all songs are about sex and love
I'm not crying my eyes are sweating
Fot me its a.good party song. Ute papa ute, ute papa ute ute ute 🎉🎉
10 years later and this music video is still so freaking cool. Love how they use the different dances to express emotions.
Dude FR
Je dokonalé 🙏👏👏👏
bff
yep
turn on subtitles
when the French teacher is playing Papaoutai and the class is vibing too hard she has to turn it off
haroldVoDkAstyles I was listening this song in french class, When i came to the online excerside 6. They said “Ecouté le chanson le papaoutai” (Listen to the song Papaoutai” i knew all lyrics and made the excersise within a minute,
bruh, i had french an hour ago and they played this, and now i see this comment lol
Respeto
#
lmao this is true
This song will survive time itself. Miss my old man. Hope to be a better man and father.
Random person: Can you speak French?
Me while I listen to this: Uhm, yes.
outai papaoutai outai papaoutai.
J'écoute cette chanson: Oh, tu connais le français?
Я: ммм нет
- Can you speak French?
- It depends. Ouai ton papa?
*person whose father left home to buy cigarettes starts crying*
little prince Jongho Oui I speak French
If you want to know if someone speaks french, show them this song. If they cry they french if they’re happy they lying
no one:
french teachers: y'all ain't ready for this bop
I thought it was Italien 😂
Dumb
nemo But actually mine was. She has spoken about this song
actually no 😔🤘🏻
Omg yes
"Everyone knows how to make babies but no one knows how to make fathers"
This song hits harder than my dad's belt
Same
Yeah 😒
Hurts
I didn’t understand anything but thanks for the insight.
@vaughnwalker1840 it's about someone who has dad issues
11 février 2026👇
This video is still sad as fuck.
J'en m'en bat les couilles ...
Altaril Darmunir Je m'en bats les couilles*. Si tu veux utiliser la langue française, tâche de l'utiliser correctement.
Donthatejustskate Le Problème de l'iPad Monsieur ! :P Et je ne corrigerais pas ma faute :D !
Altaril Darmunir D'une manière ou d'une autre, je respecte votre détermination :) .
one punch man
Stromae: Wrote a sad song about his dad
Everyone in this world: *dancing*
هم
Every time lol😂
alor was same
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Dont get me wrong but... The people dancing in front of this poor kid are basically flexing at this point
True
That is exactly what I thought
Virus : I think that's partly the boy's perception of how things are: Because he is frustrated and upset about his father being absent, every parent-child pair he sees stands out to him, and acts a bit like salt in a fresh wound. Even if they're just going about doing normal things and not consciously noticing him, his anger and jealousy sees them as flaunting the connection and involvement they have with each other.
Why are you still commenting this in 2019
@thi5aut91 randomly testing new earbuds xD