Pierre Precieuse

May 21, 2008 4:54 PM

The unusual video for Tais Toi Mon Coeur, by Dionysos, featuring Olivia Ruiz.

Some backstory. Dionysos, led by Mathias Malzeau, has a history of interesting video productions, and the story behind "La Mecanique du Coeur" is being adapted by Luc Besson.

posted by scrump (15 comments total)

oh shit, it's in some foreign language...
posted by billybobtoo at 4:58 PM on May 21, 2008

Fear not, wilty flower types of lacking the translations (of which I am one!): there's a translated, subtitled version.

(Should have put that in the FPP.)
posted by scrump at 5:02 PM on May 21, 2008

Not that it isn't pretty engaging regardless of the lyrics.
posted by cortex at 5:11 PM on May 21, 2008

oh shit, it's in some foreign language...

Yes. It's called allegory.
posted by humannaire at 6:47 PM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yes. It's called allegory.

is that like esperanto?
posted by billybobtoo at 7:12 PM on May 21, 2008

is that like esperanto?

Ne.
posted by humannaire at 7:23 PM on May 21, 2008

Hey - that was really lovely. Thanks.
posted by Jody Tresidder at 7:31 PM on May 21, 2008

So cool.
posted by rtha at 7:38 PM on May 21, 2008

I approve.
posted by jeffamaphone at 8:20 PM on May 21, 2008

Thank you. That was beautiful.
posted by mykescipark at 9:41 PM on May 21, 2008

That was great, thanks.
On the YouTube page there are videos of other songs from the album. Among them, an amusing song about the word cunnilingus.
posted by From Bklyn at 12:15 AM on May 22, 2008

I've had the pleasure of seeing and hearing their live act, and it seriously, seriously rocks. The lead singer looks like John McEnroe and acts like the Keef on a very good day.
posted by Skeptic at 6:15 AM on May 22, 2008

This was beautiful! Thank you.
posted by spec80 at 8:38 AM on May 22, 2008

The video for "Neige" is really similar, and I personally like it more than much of "La Mécanique du Coeur" (I think Malzieu has let too much of his personal life into his professional one, namely putting his girlfriend Olivia Ruiz on so many tracks on that album...I like her on her own, but I preferred Babet's voice about a thousand times over considering the vibe that Dionysos has (check out the albums "Western sous la neige" and "Monsters in Love", the latter being their apogee, in my opinion).
posted by nonmerci at 3:51 PM on May 22, 2008

That was great, thanks.
On the YouTube page there are videos of other songs from the album. Among them, an amusing song about the word cunnilingus.
posted by From Bklyn at 9:15 AM on May 22 [+] [!]

This song isn't about the word cunnilingus. It is about having a pet hamster NAMED Cunnilingus. An important distinction.
posted by nonmerci at 3:53 PM on May 22, 2008