1) Barbara was a popular … Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists with this name:
1) Barbara was a popular French female singer born as Monique Andrée Serf (9th June 1930 - 25th November 1997) best known under her stage name. "Barbara" had been the title of a famous song in the fifties, whose text comes from Prévert.
Monique Serf, born in Paris, France, into a Jewish family, was ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II. After the war ended, a neighbourhood music teacher heard her sing and took an interest in helping her develop her talents. She was given vocal lessons and taught to play the piano, and eventually she enrolled at the Ecole Supérieure de Musique. However, money was a problem and she gave up her musical studies to sing at "La Fontaine des Quatre Saisons", a popular cabaret at the time in Paris.
A sensitive girl, she was deeply scarred by the war and her family's plight. Her inner feelings of emptiness showed in her appearance and in her songs. Serf wrote in her autobiography, Il etait un piano noir, that her father sexually abused her when she was ten. He later left the family, never to return; Serf went to his funeral in Nantes, which gave rise to one of her most popular songs, "Nantes".
2) Barbara is a band from Hove, England, formed by brothers Henry and John Tydeman. They describe their influences as The Kinks, The Divine Comedy, ELO and Blur, and their music as "Fop Pop". Their debut EP "Mildly Entertaining" was released in 2022 and they also supported The Divine Comedy on the UK leg of their 2022 tour.
3) Barbara is an Experimental Doom band from Israel
Current lineup:
Re-em H. Bass / Vocals
David Opp Drums / Vocals
4) A sound experience from North America. First cultivated in 2012.
5) Barbara is a creation/side project from the mind of enigmatic and legendary Tyler Semrick-Palmateer (formerly of Mare, Hydra Head Records) and his brother Raynor Semrick-Palmateer.
6) Korean singer who debuted in early 2011
Si La Photo Est Bonne
Barbara Lyrics
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Juste en deuxième colonne
Y a le voyou du jour
Qui a une petite gueule d'amour
Dans la rubrique du vice
Y a l'assassin de service
Qui n'a pas du tout l'air méchant
Qui a plutôt l'œil intéressant
Coupable ou non coupable
S'il doit se mettre à table
Que j'aimerais qu'il vienne
Pour se mettre à la mienne
Si la photo est bonne
Il est bien de sa personne
N'a pas plus l'air d'un assassin
Que le fils de mon voisin
Ce gibier de potence
Pas sorti de l'enfance
Va faire sa dernière prière
Pour avoir trop aimé sa mère
Bref, on va prendre un malheureux
Qui avait le cœur trop généreux
Moi qui suis femme de président
J'en ai pas moins de cœur pour autant
De voir tomber des têtes
À la fin, ça m'embête
Et mon mari, le président
Qui m'aime bien, qui m'aime tant
Quand j'ai le cœur qui flanche
Tripote la balance
Si la photo est bonne
Qu'on m'amène ce jeune homme
Ce fils de rien, ce tout et pire
Cette crapule au doux sourire
Ce grand gars au cœur tendre
Qu'on n'a pas su comprendre
Je sens que je vais le conduire
Sur le chemin du repentir
Pour l'avenir de la France
Contre la délinquance
C'est bon, je fais le premier geste
Que la justice fasse le reste
Surtout qu'il soit fidèle
Surtout, je vous rappelle
À l'image de son portrait
Qu'ils se ressemblent trait pour trait
C'est mon ultime condition
Pour lui accorder mon pardon
Qu'on m'amène ce jeune homme
Si la photo est bonne
Si la photo est bonne
Si la photo est bonne
"Si La Photo Est Bonne" is a song by French singer-songwriter Barbara. It was released in 1963 and became one of her most popular songs. The song is about the way the media portrays criminals and how easily people can be judged based on a photograph.
Throughout the song, Barbara sings about different criminals who are portrayed in the newspaper as dangerous and violent. She questions whether the photograph accurately portrays the person and whether they are truly guilty of the crimes they are accused of. Barbara also speaks about the power dynamics at play, with her as the wife of the president and her husband having the ability to influence the justice system.
The song is a commentary on the way society labels and judges people based on their appearance and the media's representation of them. Barbara encourages empathy and understanding for those who have been labeled as criminals and encourages people to question the way the justice system works and the way the media portrays people.
Line by Line Meaning
Si la photo est bonne
If the picture is good enough
Juste en deuxième colonne
Just in the second column
Y a le voyou du jour
There is today's thug
Qui a une petite gueule d'amour
Who has a little loveable face
Dans la rubrique du vice
In the section of vice
Y a l'assassin de service
There is the usual assassin
Qui n'a pas du tout l'air méchant
Who doesn't look at all mean
Qui a plutôt l'œil intéressant
Who rather has an interesting eye
Coupable ou non coupable
Guilty or not guilty
S'il doit se mettre à table
If he has to confess
Que j'aimerais qu'il vienne
I wish he would come
Pour se mettre à la mienne
To tell me his story
Il est bien de sa personne
He is good-looking
N'a pas plus l'air d'un assassin
Does not look like an assassin
Que le fils de mon voisin
More than my neighbor's son
Ce gibier de potence
This hangman's bait
Pas sorti de l'enfance
Not yet an adult
Va faire sa dernière prière
Will say his last prayer
Pour avoir trop aimé sa mère
For having loved his mother too much
Bref, on va prendre un malheureux
In short, we are taking a sad person
Qui avait le cœur trop généreux
Who had a too generous heart
Moi qui suis femme de président
As the wife of the president
J'en ai pas moins de cœur pour autant
I still have a heart nevertheless
De voir tomber des têtes
To see heads fall
À la fin, ça m'embête
In the end, it bothers me
Et mon mari, le président
And my husband, the president
Qui m'aime bien, qui m'aime tant
Who loves me so much
Quand j'ai le cœur qui flanche
When my heart is faltering
Tripote la balance
Manipulates the scale
Qu'on m'amène ce jeune homme
Bring me this young man
Ce fils de rien, ce tout et pire
This son of nobody, this everything and worse
Cette crapule au doux sourire
This scoundrel with a soft smile
Ce grand gars au cœur tendre
This big guy with a tender heart
Qu'on n'a pas su comprendre
Whom we did not understand
Je sens que je vais le conduire
I feel that I am going to lead him
Sur le chemin du repentir
On the path of repentance
Pour l'avenir de la France
For the future of France
Contre la délinquance
Against delinquency
C'est bon, je fais le premier geste
All right, I make the first move
Que la justice fasse le reste
Let the law do the rest
Surtout qu'il soit fidèle
Especially that he is loyal
Surtout, je vous rappelle
Especially, I remind you
À l'image de son portrait
To the likeness of his portrait
Qu'ils se ressemblent trait pour trait
That they look alike in every way
C'est mon ultime condition
It is my final condition
Pour lui accorder mon pardon
To grant him my forgiveness
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Monique Andree Serf
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