On April 1, 2015, the music video for “Carmen” was released to coincide with April Fool’s Day to emphasize how modern love is starting to become more and more a joke. Stromae’s lyrics are based off this popular stanza of the opera:
“L'amour est un oiseau rebelle”) of the 1875 opera Carmen.
Stromae’s “Carmen” interpolates the Habanera aria (a.k.a. I’m not so radical about Twitter, but I think it’s sometimes dangerous if you think that Twitter is real life. Like, you fall in love only for 48 hours or something, and I talk about that in my song. In my remix of it, I’m comparing love to the blue bird of Twitter. In the opera Carmen compares a bird to love. Stromae, in an interview with TimeOut New York: after Shakespeare, and Bizets Carmen, at Colorados Central City. “Carmen” was released as the sixth single of Racine Carrée on March 31, 2015, a long two years after the album’s original 2013 release. Original Form of the Opera Is Presented By Central City in English Translation.
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