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  • @trevordance5181
    @trevordance5181 3 года назад +545

    This has got to be the most heartfelt performance of any song I have ever heard, and at 66 years old I have heard many. I don't speak French, but even without understanding the lyrics he conveys such passion and desperation in his voice, and when you actually see the lyrics translated they are without doubt a masterclass in song writing. So well chosen. Brilliant! Without parallel or as they say in French "Sans Pareil"

    • @Rase-moi-pas
      @Rase-moi-pas 2 года назад +12

      I’m French… it’s a really beautiful song, yet he wrote it for his paramour, after they broke up…

    • @Macouilledofus
      @Macouilledofus 2 года назад +17

      this song this song was written for his ex-wife who left it for another man, he loved his wife so much that in France, he stopped singing for 4 months, he is one of the greatest artists in our country. to this day, even after his death. And if you could understand the french you will feel even more the emotions and the lyrics are so perfect ..

    • @Rase-moi-pas
      @Rase-moi-pas 2 года назад +7

      @@Macouilledofus it was not is ex-wife, it was « sa maîtresse », so in English his paramour…

    • @Lucas_98_1
      @Lucas_98_1 2 года назад +17

      And he was Belgian

    • @dieanalyste1143
      @dieanalyste1143 2 года назад +2

      So,you are human.

  • @the_sigil4340
    @the_sigil4340 2 года назад +154

    As a Belgian myself, it is nice to see someone not speaking French be so receptive to the art of this national treasure

    • @georgiapeach7666
      @georgiapeach7666 2 года назад +6

      Bedankt!

    • @thomasrougeot9026
      @thomasrougeot9026 2 года назад +8

      Jacques Brel, le plus beau cadeau de la Belgique à l'humanité. Quel homme. Quel artiste. J'aurais tellement voulu le voir, lui parler, juste une fois.

    • @elisabettacrott2169
      @elisabettacrott2169 10 месяцев назад

      La più bella canzone del ventesimo secolo...
      Meravigliosa ❤

    • @jorgmehring2660
      @jorgmehring2660 Месяц назад +1

      As a Belgian myself from Ost Belgien, I would say. The best song ever.

    • @stephaneleblanc6395
      @stephaneleblanc6395 29 дней назад

      ​@@jorgmehring2660as a french i say the best song from the best singer belgium national treasure a legend...

  • @dylangoureman5850
    @dylangoureman5850 2 года назад +65

    Quand on est français et qu'on parle le français, il est presque impossible de rester impassible devant ce chef-d'œuvre absolu

  • @juliemerian6181
    @juliemerian6181 3 года назад +294

    Merci 🙏
    Jacques Brel est un immense artiste…
    Il vit les textes …
    Son œuvre est une Grande fresque sociale de l’époque …

  • @MLWitteman
    @MLWitteman 3 года назад +288

    The Master from Belgium. I can’t think of a singer that can tell a story like he does.

    • @jennyange59000
      @jennyange59000 3 года назад +15

      It was really a blessed generation for francophone, I mean Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Dalida, Charles Aznavour, Léo Ferré.

    • @dylandescamps6917
      @dylandescamps6917 2 года назад +3

      You should to listen "SCYLLA", he's one of the best belgium contemporary Rapper , and the way that it takes to telling story are so amazing !

    • @khaelamensha3624
      @khaelamensha3624 2 года назад +3

      For me Stromae is his heir... belgian too...

    • @thaeros
      @thaeros 2 года назад

      if my memory is good he don't wanted to be called "belgium" but prefered "french"! After that's all just something i heard or read i don't remember...

    • @celinewirard7583
      @celinewirard7583 2 года назад +8

      Lara Fabian, another storyteller master from Belgium

  • @JJosephineify
    @JJosephineify Год назад +19

    This is Jacques Brel a fantastic Belgian singer with passion and deep presence in all of his performance. Ne me quitte pas is made of passion and
    profession. You can hear his heart beating of love.

    • @InXLsisDeo
      @InXLsisDeo 11 месяцев назад

      Also author of all his songs. Hundreds of them.

  • @rvb2986
    @rvb2986 3 года назад +123

    A phenomenon of a breed you don't see anymore. He just is giving everything he's got until there is nothing more left to give. RIP Jacques et merci pour votre larmes.

  • @oliyuprimizhu1326
    @oliyuprimizhu1326 2 года назад +164

    This song is about Jacques Brel's mistress, who he refused to leave his wife and three children for. She left and he wrote this song. He's commented on it and said it was "an hymn to the cowardice of men. How much a man can humiliate himself, though I know it pleases women who quickly assume it's a love song as it is comforting, and I understand that well. But it's the story of an idiot and a loser."

    • @Briselance
      @Briselance 2 года назад +8

      Cowardice of men? Dude, he refused to leave his legal wife and his three kids.
      He chose that way instead of eloping with his mistress.
      How is that cowardice?

    • @oliyuprimizhu1326
      @oliyuprimizhu1326 2 года назад +23

      @@Briselance I don't know either, it's a quote XD Though it might have to do with the difference between "cowardice" and "lacheté". It's not a perfect translations, there are nuances. "Lacheté" can mean lack of courage and bravery, though it also englobes 'moral cowardice', like excessive passivity, not doing the 'right thing' (maybe a bit like spineless?). So I think it might have to do with him still wanting his mistress, though he wasn't willing to leave his wife for her. He 'should've' chosen either his wife or his mistress but he clings on to both by "lacheté" (weakness in character).

    • @klonck06
      @klonck06 2 года назад +14

      well for a loser he wrote and sang a masterpiece known everywhere in our planet so ....^^

    • @mandarina4157
      @mandarina4157 2 года назад +6

      It’s still a love song though? I don’t see how any of that negates the fact that it’s a love song. Because the woman was his mistress? Yeah, immoral, but that’s still a love song for her. He’s consumed by his love for her.

    • @oliyuprimizhu1326
      @oliyuprimizhu1326 2 года назад +12

      @@mandarina4157 Once again, this is just my interpretation, but I think it might be that the song is less about all he would do for her and more about how he could lower himself for her. (Like becoming the shade of her dog). It's like how far he's willing to abase himself for her to stay. It's not a healthy love, it's not noble, it's just a man who won't give her what she asks (his whole heart and for their love to be more than a dirty little secret) but will promise all manner of impossible thing. Is his love really all that grand? Are his promise worth anything, if it's never for what she wants?

  • @4belle2
    @4belle2 3 года назад +82

    My French teacher in high school ( Mavo in The Netherlands 1981) 'forced' my class to listen to french chansons. I loved those classes, I still listen to those songs.... it;s so intense... Thanx!

    • @MLWitteman
      @MLWitteman 3 года назад +9

      That was a great teacher!

    • @antinea45
      @antinea45 3 года назад +2

      At the time, my English teacher, she was working hard to teach us English with songs from the Beatles. i hate the beatles. I listened to the Rolling stones, Queen or Genesis and so on ... it was awful. I couldn't take it anymore with the Beatles 🤣

    • @gekkegerrit933
      @gekkegerrit933 2 года назад

      de fransen vonden Brel boers omdat ie van vlaanderen was, je franse leraar was elitair, Brel was flamane: ruclips.net/video/ooxDl31VrKk/видео.html

    • @gealifiedx.114
      @gealifiedx.114 2 года назад +1

      I cheated, I knew Brel had done for example this song in Dutch :-)

  • @5223lp51
    @5223lp51 3 года назад +90

    All the covers of this song are just a faint shadow of the original.

    • @dsply
      @dsply 2 года назад +2

      exept for Nina Simone one !

    • @BalderTray
      @BalderTray 2 года назад

      Actually, there is a live cover by Johnny Halliday that I find really powerful too : ruclips.net/video/s5p1ZoZfvPI/видео.html

  • @chap9578
    @chap9578 2 года назад +5

    I'm french and I love that song so much, it is very precious to me and I wanted to say I'm touched to see that it goes through the barrier of language to reach others... Thank you for your reaction.
    Fun fact : Jacques Brel is one the most famous and favourite singers in France, so much that some have forgotten that he is from Belgium, thks Belgium.
    As a note, I think the video was filmed just after his mistress (Suzanne Gabriello) left him at the time and when they broadcast the song there was a technical problem so that camera was the only one working. I like that these circumstances captured a very pure emotion he must have been feeling at the time.

  • @PPOSEC1
    @PPOSEC1 3 года назад +4

    Man!!!! All my youth coming up watching this. I’m a Belgian living in Brazil for 22 years! Jacque Brel was a monument back then 70’s and 80’s back home and I
    must say my dear late father was a friend of him and yes he came to our home sometimes when I was a kid and crawling from upstairs to see my parents have diner with him in the dining room in our house in Brussels..Man!!! I am overwelmed😭
    Pierre, Balneario Camboriu, SC, Brasil😘😘😘😘😘

  • @johngosling1
    @johngosling1 3 года назад +81

    So good to see someone from the 21st century who is able to look back 60 years and appreciate the wonderful music of the French chansonniers. When I was 13 years old, back in the early sixties in the middle of the British pop revolution, I discovered Brel and became hooked. And you might also want to give us your 'reaction' to another great performer from those times, Leo Ferré. If you are amazed by Brel's performance of 'Ne me quitte pas', you will be equally amazed by Ferré's performance of 'Avec le temps'.

    • @Fingolfin3340
      @Fingolfin3340 2 года назад +4

      yes Leo ferré "avec le temps" is such a beautifull but so sad song. love it so much but feel so sad after hearing it each time.
      i am french and i really recommend it. but not sure there will be a vidéo with lyrics in english.

    • @CharlesManue
      @CharlesManue 2 года назад +2

      As a French who grew up and constructed himself with British and American rock and heavy metal, it feels good to hear that French music can be liked outside our continent (since Brel was Belgian). You should listen to Stromae, who, in a modern pattern, has the same talent both with lyrics and on his way to sing outside the tempo/pattern of the song like Brel did.

    • @franciscouderq1100
      @franciscouderq1100 2 года назад +2

      Belge

    • @raychidiac6098
      @raychidiac6098 2 года назад +2

      And the list is long! I hail for Brassens and Nino Ferrer, jean Ferrat and the mighty Gainsbourg! All different and giants in their "genre".

    • @klonck06
      @klonck06 2 года назад +1

      "avec le temps" de léo ferré is a BIG BIG MASTERPIECE but you have to understand the lyrics to comprehend, the melody is really beautifull also

  • @flavioantonino
    @flavioantonino 3 года назад +25

    This is my parent's generation, but I heard it often on the radio. Even the younger ones liked his musical poetry.

  • @elainecourteau6231
    @elainecourteau6231 3 года назад +8

    You don’t hear poetry like that anymore. Mr. Jacques Brel is a master of lyrics and delivery. What a gift! 🤗

  • @Lulisette
    @Lulisette 2 года назад +37

    In Belgium, Jacques Brel is still "alive". I always liked him. He is special. Don't stay with only this one. Listen to "Dans le port d'Amsterdam", "Le plat pays", "Marieke", "Madeleine" and the gem : "Les bourgois"

    • @lyseloriau2749
      @lyseloriau2749 2 года назад +3

      and 'les vieux amants'

    • @Lulisette
      @Lulisette 2 года назад +1

      @@lyseloriau2749 of course, I would forget this other gem.

    • @stmaurice2045
      @stmaurice2045 2 года назад +5

      Faudrait surtout pas oublier "Voir un ami pleurer" et "Un soir d'été".

    • @Lulisette
      @Lulisette 2 года назад +4

      @@stmaurice2045 Je sais, si on connait Jacques, on sait que sa liste de chansons est longue. Je suis Belge, j'ai grandi avec Jacques via mes parents.

  • @khalidamajoud4114
    @khalidamajoud4114 2 года назад +14

    Brel was a phenomenon. His lyrics, his melodies, his vocal performance, his literally burning on stage every single time...A genius.

  • @elliotwalton6159
    @elliotwalton6159 Месяц назад +1

    A massive hit in English as "If You Go Away" recorded by everyone back in the day including Neil Diamond and Barbara Streisand.

  • @sanderevers9396
    @sanderevers9396 3 года назад +47

    Even without the lyrics or knowing what he is singing, just watching his performance makes me well up with tears from the emotion he puts into it. You feel his desperation.

  • @anthonyl.6879
    @anthonyl.6879 3 года назад +20

    French is the language to express feelings in a powerful poetic manner. Brel was part of the 3 "B": Brel, Brassens and Barbara.
    Jean Ferrat singing his poems and the ones of Aragon can be added to them

    • @anthonyl.6879
      @anthonyl.6879 2 года назад +2

      @Thierry Leo ferre aussi... Sur le moment je l'ai oublie.

    • @philippechartier3970
      @philippechartier3970 2 года назад +2

      Le troisième B ne correspond pas à Barbara mais à Guy Béart!!!
      Quant à Léo Ferré, il ne plane qu'en dessous de ces trois là

    • @isabellenicaud3725
      @isabellenicaud3725 2 года назад

      And Léo Ferré !

    • @isabellenicaud3725
      @isabellenicaud3725 2 года назад

      @@philippechartier3970 Barbara est immense, une musicienne née, pianiste, chanteuse lyrique, un don d'écriture éclatant, des mélodies toutes plus somptueuses les unes que les autres, elle est indissociable de Brassens, Brel et Ferré. La longue dame brune éternelle de l'amour des mots et des notes

  • @blaeckingceorl4161
    @blaeckingceorl4161 2 года назад +15

    I absolutely love the imagem he paints of "pearls of rain from countries where it never rains" and "to dig up the earth to cover the lover's body with gold and light". That's so powerful. I loved Brel from first time heard him.

  • @douguette1
    @douguette1 2 года назад +5

    this dude was a genius. He was not sweating because e was nervous but because he was giving it all

  • @pocaland
    @pocaland 2 года назад +7

    As a French person I feel so lucky to understand these lyrics and growing up with these songs that my mom used to sing to me...

  • @davidmoracvitanic210
    @davidmoracvitanic210 3 года назад +43

    I love his interpretation, the hearbreak he felt.... he is in pain, his suffering... I love this song

    • @myname-mz3lo
      @myname-mz3lo 2 года назад +2

      brel wrote this song to showcase how low a man would go for love and how he will throw away self respect. he said it oftejn and he knew that women would love listening to it as a love song. and that made him laugh

    • @alterego3590
      @alterego3590 2 года назад +2

      It is not an interpretation David, it is him bleeding his heart straight out.... you know, we have all been there one's or twice.... but we never had the talent to translate it into this... please stay healthy brother, we've lost enough good people by now ....

  • @Dany-wc5wu
    @Dany-wc5wu 2 года назад +3

    For us in France this song is one of the best song ever.
    So thx a lot to share this master piece.
    Thx thx!

  • @flora729
    @flora729 2 года назад +68

    Belgium and French artists have always been known for their beautiful texts and lyrics! The French language is so rich and beautiful 🥰

    • @fredschepers5149
      @fredschepers5149 2 года назад

      There are some non Belgium's and French artists who can sing the same....
      Think it's the language rather than the artist.
      Example? Dion?

    • @sjefhendrickx2257
      @sjefhendrickx2257 2 года назад

      French an Walen ate snobs…..

    • @alfje5492
      @alfje5492 2 года назад

      @@sjefhendrickx2257 En Vlamingen zijn geen dikkenekken zeker?

    • @alfje5492
      @alfje5492 2 года назад +1

      @@fredschepers5149 Dion is a good singer, but she's nowhere near the real deal, have a listen to Brassens, Ferré or Barbara.

    • @christophepena2212
      @christophepena2212 Год назад

      @@fredschepers5149 euh no...dion is a voice...but she's not a creator...she doesn't write songs of that quality...she's not brassens,brel or barbara...she's not a poet...and as a singer she can't sing with that intensity...she's a technician mostly.

  • @commenter6722
    @commenter6722 2 года назад +3

    I have no idea who you are but your response is wonderful. He's not just putting generalized passion into it. There's full life experience in the exact words he's singing in each moment. I'm guessing you don't speak French but he's got this so deeply inside of him it's excruciating and gorgeous at the same time. Excruciating because of his regret and sense of loss and gorgeous because what it was at its best is still coming through. I've known this song from long before you were born and I want you to know that the level at which you get it and feel it is deeply gratifying for me because it shows me that what it is comes from inside of all of us, he just happened to have seized it, said it, and got it out, and it's still touching people like you.

  • @avatar5g788
    @avatar5g788 2 года назад +2

    tears in my eyes , one of the most text in the world , and Jacques Brel , extraordinary , singer who lives his song . i m french , excuse me for my english , thanks to you too

  • @elisan685
    @elisan685 2 года назад +5

    the translation absolutely did it justice wow, first one ive seen thats this good

  • @kotoal
    @kotoal 3 года назад +14

    His poetry is something else, unforgettable, rich, and beautiful. An artist that the years can not damaged.

  • @jolanda.c
    @jolanda.c 3 года назад +14

    There is so much beautiful music in the world that is hidden, because it is not english or populair these days.

  • @gerbeklebelge
    @gerbeklebelge 3 года назад +65

    Il est belge,pas français😉❤🇧🇪

    • @adanadam4779
      @adanadam4779 11 месяцев назад +3

      C’est pareil pour eux😂

    • @danielmalo173
      @danielmalo173 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@adanadam4779peut-être pour c’est autres! Mais pour les Belges, cet homme est une richesse culturelle tout simplement unique dans l’histoire du monde. Rien ne peut être comparé à ce performer. Un trésors humain unique. Daniel, québécois de St Émile de Suffolk

    • @onsenfout1316
      @onsenfout1316 10 месяцев назад +6

      En tout cas pour nous en France il est admiré soyez en sûr, qu'il soit belge et que le vous le revendiquiez c'est tout à fait normal il aurait largement sa place au panthéon s'il avait été français. Merci à la Belgique 🙏

    • @gerbeklebelge
      @gerbeklebelge 9 месяцев назад

      @@didierpetit7566 effectivement, vous avez entièrement raison❤️🇧🇪🇨🇵

    • @lesjolissouvenirs7751
      @lesjolissouvenirs7751 5 месяцев назад

      Exactement !

  • @jemeritte
    @jemeritte 3 года назад +12

    Love this song.. It so deep..
    Luckely I understand French..
    I listen to a lot of French chansons.
    Glad you liked it.

  • @heinedietiker4943
    @heinedietiker4943 3 года назад +31

    My favorite Brel song is *JEF*, where he describes how je tries to make a depressed friend happy again.

    • @hagsebeemden
      @hagsebeemden 2 года назад

      More a heartbroken friend than depressed.

    • @ladorez
      @ladorez 2 года назад +1

      Jojo, the greatest frienship song from Jacques Brel

  • @andreletourneau
    @andreletourneau 3 года назад +16

    This is a song that marked my youth my parents were huge Brel fans. He is one of the greats. Not as well known is America but he was a huge star is Europe in the days of Edith Piaf. That particular song was voted the most important song of the last century. Brel was also an excellent actor. He had a lot of influence to some known artists (David Bowie to name one). His songs were translated in many languages. Actually Angelina Jordan sings an excellent version of this song in english called "If you go away".

    • @christinestromberg4057
      @christinestromberg4057 2 года назад

      I haven't heard Angelina's version yet. I remember the song from the film Camelot, many years ago.

  • @1957PLATO
    @1957PLATO Год назад +3

    Hé was and IS forever ‘Le grand Jacques’. Maybe one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. He had it all. The voice, the lyrics and the passion.

  • @yvesbresson7837
    @yvesbresson7837 Год назад +5

    He’s was from Belgium like Lara fabian

  • @annettebuckens2311
    @annettebuckens2311 3 года назад +9

    You're learning French in the process 😁👍😘

  • @jasonsmith4114
    @jasonsmith4114 2 года назад +64

    The biggest misunderstanding of this incredible piece is that it's a love song. It's a song about how low men can go for love, "Let me become the shadow of your dog" wich is a feeling all men have to fight at one point in their life, I think you call it "simping" in America. It actually made him laugh that most women would listen to this as a love song, because it proved his point that, contrary to the popular belief, men are not those tough creatures who dominate women, when it comes to love, women are not powerful, they're almighty.

    • @lorenzovasnormandy9892
      @lorenzovasnormandy9892 2 года назад +5

      In fact, "Do not leave me" refers to a passionate affair that the singer had with another singer, Suzanne Gabriello. She decided to put an end to their affair because Brel refused to leave his wife and three children.

    • @alterego3590
      @alterego3590 2 года назад

      Jason.....spot on mate..... those who have been there know....and there are a lot of us..... see you all at the Styxx, pay Charon and ask him to bring you to Hades. It is the only place where you will be safe amongst peers.

    • @sergejean8309
      @sergejean8309 2 года назад +1

      For Brel, he said it often, the most important feeling is not love but friendship ! I heared him saying once, in an interview, "women are always under love", the most deep, powerfull and important relation for a man is friendship ! He leaved Europe for the Marquises islands just after the death of his big friend for years and wrote a masterpiece about him, a wonderfull song which is called "Jojo", the name of his friend. His daughter, recognize this too. I apologize for my bad english.

  • @cmouamem9096
    @cmouamem9096 2 года назад +1

    The beauty of the text cannot be reproduced in any other language than that of its author. Only native French speakers can understand that this is true.

  • @christophegeorget9855
    @christophegeorget9855 3 года назад +7

    Thanks for reacting! A true classic from a poet who mastered French language, that song brings me to tears every time. Even Nina Simone covered this song in French. Merci!

  • @simonvanmeenen6383
    @simonvanmeenen6383 2 года назад +7

    I’m from Belgium and Jacques Brel is the best singer of her time

    • @xXTheoLinuxXx
      @xXTheoLinuxXx 2 года назад

      Of her time? Excuse me, but it is without a doubt the best Belgium singer ever.

  • @Mimi-zr7ey
    @Mimi-zr7ey 3 года назад +5

    Great reaction- thanks! The sweat was mixed with his tears, and he did write the song (released in 1959). He WAS a singer, songwriter, actor and poet, but I was told by another singer (my late husband) who personally knew the French singers of that day that Jacques Brel became so emotional whenever he performed it that it seemed to tear him apart. I didn’t know him, but I always had the feeling that it was very personal to him and drawn from his personal life. Can’t hear it without crying.

  • @annemieverhoeven2566
    @annemieverhoeven2566 2 года назад +1

    Here in The Netherlands we now have a show on "Chansons" presented by Mathijs van Nieuwkerk and Rob Kemps ( yes the guy from the Snollebollekes) the gued us through the French Chansons througout the years.. very intresting show. Edith Piaff was on, some Brell too.. Dalida... and some Aznavour... and short pieces of random other French chansons

  • @julienmans3359
    @julienmans3359 3 года назад +10

    This song gives me shivers on every listening even though I know it by hart (I'm Belgian (Like him))

  • @j0hnn13K
    @j0hnn13K 3 года назад +30

    One of the greatest chanson singers to ever walk the earth, Jaques Brel, Charles Aznavour, and Serge Gainsbourg (oh and let's not forget the amazing Edith Piaf) are all amazing story tellers with amazing voices, singing in the beautiful French language.
    Their music is pure poetry set to music, truly beautiful and emotional.. you really dont have to understand a word of it because if you allow it.. you'll feel every word being sung.
    Keep these legends of music alive man, their music needs to be heard by newer generations too, what they gave us is too important to "be stuck in French speaking regions only" this is music for everyone.

    • @robertjaget5742
      @robertjaget5742 3 года назад +7

      Et gilbert becaud

    • @j0hnn13K
      @j0hnn13K 3 года назад +1

      @@robertjaget5742 oh yes, another great singer (and pianist)

    • @celinel9750
      @celinel9750 3 года назад +1

      Et Léo Ferré

    • @soloparaplaystation6624
      @soloparaplaystation6624 3 года назад +1

      Joe dassin

    • @robertjaget5742
      @robertjaget5742 3 года назад

      @@soloparaplaystation6624 auteur compositeur desole mais joe dassin ne l est pas il y a renaud dans cette categorie

  • @NinaPaulHeartofCompassion
    @NinaPaulHeartofCompassion 2 года назад +3

    This version of him singing this song just tears me up. I don't weep.... I sob. I cry copious tears.

  • @annacaona
    @annacaona Год назад +7

    the French singers ( mainly the classic ones ) are very poetic, those kind of lyrics are not an exceptions, to the contrary, they are the rule of French music perfection. Anyone who wants to learn to speak French, should listen to those classic singers and some new ones like Stromae. No wonder the Voltaire's language is considered the most romantic of all.

  • @ashleyftcash
    @ashleyftcash 2 года назад +1

    Do you know who is a big fan of Jacques Brel, the one guy who won the Dutch show 'the smartes human'. That one guy who has a somewhat photographic memory for song lyrics. That one guy who can move whole Netherlands from left to righ... Snollebolleke :) Jup no kidding, he made a whole TV program about his love for France chansons.

  • @williamwilde1
    @williamwilde1 2 года назад +3

    Jacques Brel est pour moi, le plus beau cadeau que la Belgique nous ait offert.. :)

  • @dementiev
    @dementiev 3 года назад +7

    yes - finally you are reacting to one of our most amazing Belgian singers!!! :)

    • @rudidevriendt2406
      @rudidevriendt2406 3 года назад +1

      And Lara Fabian, i know Jacques Brel is a legend but Lara 's not bad either, fantastic voice

  • @davydebrycke6106
    @davydebrycke6106 2 года назад +1

    He was born at 10 miles from where I live, at the border with France Nord and Belgium West Flanders

  • @fern8580
    @fern8580 2 года назад

    thank you HCReacts for finding this pearl, you are definitely above average!

  • @sundelong2727
    @sundelong2727 2 года назад +1

    There are many artists whose voice make me emotional but Jacques is the only singer make me cry every time I listen to this particular song .
    It’s interesting to know his widow Miche just passed away at age of 93 in 2020 despite she wasn’t loved by him during the last days of his life till he died from lung cancer at age of 49 .
    Absolutely one of the greatest singer ever!!

  • @jpdufresne8492
    @jpdufresne8492 2 года назад +1

    L une des meilleur prestation de tout les temps, que dieu le benisse.

  • @UbiquitousDavid
    @UbiquitousDavid 3 года назад +11

    Thank you for appreciating Brel, he's timeless. His songs were compiled into a Broadway musical back in the sixties (Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well). I think you might enjoy Marieke, one other song that was in that musical.

    • @suzettebakelaar
      @suzettebakelaar 3 года назад

      You can always request the song, the links are in the description!! Cheers Suzette #TeamHighly

  • @benvanwessel1984
    @benvanwessel1984 3 месяца назад +1

    you stole my heart with your reaction to garden of remembrance by fish, you handled the subject matter so respectfully this is in my humble opinion another of those absolute passionate songs out there. Hope you are doing well and please keep making videos like this.

  • @jonathankoskas9975
    @jonathankoskas9975 Месяц назад

    This is one of the greatest songs ever written, in any language and many artists paid credit to him, especially for that song. There are many covers by great artists such as David Bowie, Shirley Bassey...

  • @samaa2035
    @samaa2035 2 года назад +1

    I never thought that I will see reaction on this ♥️🥺🥺🥺

  • @franciscouderq1100
    @franciscouderq1100 2 года назад +2

    Thank you for getting thought with this very song and original version. A Hell of a masterpiece.

  • @Mugthraka
    @Mugthraka 2 года назад +1

    "I'll offer you Pearls of rain, coming from countries where it doesn't rain" its a really strong statement of what a desperate man is capable for his love.

  • @pabloesco2007
    @pabloesco2007 2 года назад +3

    This belgium's singer is super famous in Belgium and France ! Powerful songs and performance ! Many said Stromae (from Belgium too) is new "Jacques Brel".

  • @ericgabeau8148
    @ericgabeau8148 2 года назад +3

    The great Jacque was a superb singer but also a magnificent man, long life Belgium, Flamish and Walon

  • @Urgul_GiantKiller
    @Urgul_GiantKiller 3 года назад +6

    One of the most beautiful song of the world!

  • @Oneinquality
    @Oneinquality 6 месяцев назад

    Very deep song ! The story of "Ne me quite pas" (Don’t Leave Me) is very interesting. This song was written by Jacques Brel in 1959, after his separation from his mistress Suzanne Gabriello, with whom he had been in love since 1955, but who ended their relationship, Brel refusing to leave his wife and three children. Jacques Brel was also a very good actor!

  • @syssyviv3593
    @syssyviv3593 2 года назад +4

    Nowaday the french pupils can study Jacques brel's songs for the litterature test of the french "baccalauréat". Because of for us Jacques Brel was more than a singer. He Is a poet like Baudelaire, Byron etc....When I was teen my high school called lycée Jacques Brel.

  • @erichannedouche7933
    @erichannedouche7933 3 года назад +1

    Superbe chanson , moi je traduis vos paroles en Français en écoutant ce fantastique Jacques Brel , c était les adieux de BREL à l OLYMPIA, la standing ovation et son plublic qui le reclamait encore et encore cette soirée là, inoubliable MONSIEUR JACQUES BREL !!!!!

  • @dangroth8680
    @dangroth8680 2 года назад +1

    Thank you so much for this, I needed it!

    • @dangroth8680
      @dangroth8680 2 года назад

      Totally agree! Nice comment man, I still need it :)

  • @vgiard7932
    @vgiard7932 2 года назад

    Very glad to be from québec Canada I can understand the original version and hear you guys be amaze
    Brel is a master I know all his songs

  • @tuproc61
    @tuproc61 3 года назад +4

    Love this song very much in English it's called If you go away and is sung by many famous singers but i love the French version most. Barbara Streisand went to see him in a concert to hear tis song and then he didn't sing it. her version is great too by the way,

  • @PM1995DERENNES
    @PM1995DERENNES 4 месяца назад +1

    Merci la Belgique pour ce monstre de la chanson française

  • @poirouxalain7719
    @poirouxalain7719 2 года назад +2

    sa fait plaisir de voire un connaissaire de musique française avec des mots et un vraie sens a la chanson, respect a toi

  • @janettejacobs8420
    @janettejacobs8420 3 года назад +6

    Hé was ammaissing thank you for your reaction.

    • @Mazil_5
      @Mazil_5 3 года назад +1

      Beste Janet, de juiste spelling is ‘amazing’. There you go 🤗

    • @janettejacobs8420
      @janettejacobs8420 3 года назад +1

      @@Mazil_5 thank you .

    • @janettejacobs8420
      @janettejacobs8420 3 года назад

      @@Mazil_5 😘💕🙏😉👍🙋‍♀️

  • @vlinder6329
    @vlinder6329 3 года назад +13

    French songs sounds so harmonious and Romantic....
    Jacques Brel Sings this beautifully with so much feeling
    He was a Chansonnier and is a French word for Song poet or Cabaretier.
    Perfect just like Charles Aznavour I love it ❤️ Thank You 🦋 🐞 💕 💫

    • @scorpiusslave
      @scorpiusslave 3 года назад +2

      not a chansonnier, a chanteur. Un chansonnier is a comic who uses the news, often politics, to make people laugh.

    • @chriswebb9518
      @chriswebb9518 3 года назад

      He was amazing, although Belgian, not French.

  • @pitikiwi01
    @pitikiwi01 3 года назад +1

    oooh i cried agaiiiiiiiiiin!! every time i watch this video i cry ! "ces gens là " is also amazing.. well he has so many good songs , some funny too !

  • @Doaria
    @Doaria 3 года назад +15

    He was a great poet and singer.

    • @DaiBei
      @DaiBei 3 года назад

      And an actor. -:)

    • @charlesb944
      @charlesb944 2 года назад

      Brel n'écrivait pas ses paroles, mais ses musique.
      Immense compositeur, interprète, acteur.
      Mais pas parolier.

    • @Mimi-zr7ey
      @Mimi-zr7ey 2 года назад

      @@charlesb944 Jacques Brel stated publicly that he never sang a song he did not write himself. For him, the words were everything! And he never made an exception to this rule. NEVER. You should check your “facts.”

    • @charlesb944
      @charlesb944 2 года назад

      @@Mimi-zr7ey bonjour, j'ai vérifié, et effectivement j'ai tort.
      Merci pour ta correction 🙂

    • @Mimi-zr7ey
      @Mimi-zr7ey 2 года назад

      @@charlesb944 bonjour, et merci!

  • @michelzawartka2862
    @michelzawartka2862 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you so much to love this song....I can see your reaction....same reaction that a French who listen this song.....thank you so much...❤❤❤❤

  • @myname-mz3lo
    @myname-mz3lo 2 года назад

    brel wrote this song to showcase how low a man would go for love and how he will throw away self respect. he said it oftejn and he knew that women would love listening to it as a love song. and that made him laugh

  • @ponfed
    @ponfed 3 года назад +3

    He was a poet before he was a performer... and he was a hell of a performer. Love that you do Brel

  • @xertiasstrat8957
    @xertiasstrat8957 2 года назад

    As a french
    Made me cry a bit
    I dont listen to brel but this one is ...amazing
    Genious..

  • @larouchealain7356
    @larouchealain7356 2 года назад +17

    the two greatest musical poets , for me, is Jacques Brel in French and Leonard Cohen in english

  • @debycornejo8208
    @debycornejo8208 2 года назад +7

    Es grandioso que reacciones a estas canciones antiguas, pero que son una verdadera joya y obras de arte literarias y musicales.
    Ojalá tus videos tuvieran subtitulos en español.
    Saludos desde Santiago de Chile.

  • @dropzone9639
    @dropzone9639 2 года назад +2

    Every woman would love to be loved like this!

  • @murielmonballin5057
    @murielmonballin5057 Год назад

    Comment peux t'on encore précisé ? Et en même temps c'est un poète et un merveilleux poète.. Vive l'homme quelle que soit les frontières..

  • @DaiBei
    @DaiBei 3 года назад +3

    Finally finally. I asked may reactors to do this peace, and now it's here. Thank you so much. You did the two best emotional jewels from Brussels: this song and Lara Fabian "Je suis malade". You know that the English translation of this song "If you go away" was a hit by Sinatra, Streisand, Neil Diamond and Shirley Bassey. Listen to Shirley's, so strong. Of course the rawest is from Brel. Another strong performance from him is "Ces fens là". My favorite is "Le plat pays", song in Flemish (Dutch).

    • @JuliaBl
      @JuliaBl 3 года назад

      Don't forget 'les vieux'.

  • @maindon4396
    @maindon4396 2 года назад

    Merci de faire partager cette très belle chanson de Brel !

  • @YahyaangelTV
    @YahyaangelTV 2 года назад +3

    Jacq Brel is a master

  • @michel2075
    @michel2075 24 дня назад

    Quelles paroles. Quel grand homme...

  • @46numanr
    @46numanr 2 года назад

    I think this performs was recorded for the NTS (Netherlands Television) in a small local. With large film lights so it was very hot for him. I was always a fan of him. My mother to.

  • @ameressor2352
    @ameressor2352 2 года назад

    never has another man sung a broken heart that way, it s almost disturbing it s so honest and profound.
    'horse face', as he called himself, was a monster!
    A treat to see people who don t speak the language being touched also.
    Cheers from France.

  • @linmonash1244
    @linmonash1244 3 года назад +2

    Wow! I remember learning the English version of this song as a teen. Which I now see from the lyrics was a simplified version. Never saw the original. Thank you. How fantastic. He may have thought his voice wasn't the best in the world - but his songwriting - his storytelling is second to none. Wonderful. Powerful. I can't recall now which female singer did the English version - was it Piaf?

  • @aernocx8729
    @aernocx8729 2 года назад

    hello i wanted to you say if you see my comment that i am really enjoy to see that americans listen old french music there isn't a lot of people who listen old french music in france and i'm enjoy to see that even americans can feelings emotions in listening french music

  • @JoanReynaud
    @JoanReynaud 2 года назад +2

    It's more about the interpretation than the voice itself or the lyrics. Brel does not sing, he lives his songs.
    That's why he's always exhausted and sweaty in all the videos where we see him singing.
    And that's why it must have been impressive to see him sing live.

  • @JollyGraham
    @JollyGraham 3 года назад +2

    It’s great to see him reaching a wider audience even though he’s been dead for so long.

  • @francoisprotat9342
    @francoisprotat9342 2 года назад

    Hi, I'm Francois from Paris (France). I feel so proud that you discover my chilhood's songs, and appreciate them !
    Jacques Brel was born in Belgium in 1929, died in France in 1978.
    His long carier made him a singer, author, but also an actor (he created the Man de la Mancha in France), played in several films and realized also some films knowned as classical cinema in France.
    At the end of his life, he suddenly stopped all creation work, and moved to the Masquise" islands in Pacific ocean with the last women he loved.
    I'd be happy to make you know some other french singers from the same period, as Barbara or Serge Gainsbourg.
    By the way, I love your vlogs and the emotion you feel and transmite to us.

  • @robsteries
    @robsteries 2 года назад

    You just listened to one of the greats of our time!!

  • @fredschepers5149
    @fredschepers5149 2 года назад

    Yesss, very pleased to see this after a oke version earlier.
    This performance? The desperation, humiliation and selfishness. In one song.
    You've got painters, and you've got Rembrandt.
    You've got builders, and you've got Berlage.
    You've got beer, and you've got Heineken.
    You've got singers, and you've got Brel.
    The difference between us and artists.... Real artists.
    Check his rap songs as well as Vesoul or La Valse a mille temps.
    Really good choice.... Thanks...

  • @crotal3426
    @crotal3426 2 года назад +1

    So sad and powerfull! thank you.

  • @joaidane
    @joaidane 10 месяцев назад

    The most incredible, as in ludicrous, thing I remember is that when Brel died, the New York Times art reviewer wrote " a minor Belgian singer, Jacques Brel passed away today"! A minor singer, what an a+++++hole whoever that was who wrote that.
    It just confirmed to me, way back then, that the U.S. in those days anyway (to be kind) could never see beyond its belly button.

  • @mayori35
    @mayori35 2 года назад

    Je trouve que t'as pas mal résumé la musique dans ton réact, un grand classic, dont on ne se lassera jamais !