This Place Where I Can Shout That I Love You

Christine and the Queens “Rendez-vous avec toi” Christine and the Queens have released two versions of this song – one sung in English, the other en français. I’m obviously fluent in the former, but can at best sorta comprehend the latter. So this is a fun little test for me: How much does singing in English actually matter to me? This has been on my mind recently because I’ve gone through one of my periodic phases of getting obsessed with Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “Águas De Março” and listening to every interpretation of the song I can find. (It’s a standard, so there are a LOT of versions.) The primary version of “Águas De Março” has lyrics written in Portugeuse, but Jobim also adapted the song to English. There were some changes in the adaptation – some local Brazilian references are removed, he changed some parts to account for March being the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere – but the melody and everything important…

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