Beautiful Losers
Hocus Pocus feat. Alice Russell Lyrics

J'zappe du coq à l'âne: du coquard de Rihanna
I'm changing topics abruptly: From Rihanna's black eye to the geyser of Mentos and diet coke.

Au geyser de Mentos et Coca light,
From one topic to another, moving on to the eruption of diet coke and Mentos.

De canal en canal, d'Ilan à Youssouf Fofana,
Hopping from TV channel to channel, from the news of Ilan Halimi's murder to notorious gangster Youssouf Fofana.

D'Obama à la brasse de Loana,
Jumping from the topic of President Obama to reality TV star Loana's signature swimming style.

Deux nanas et leur "...".
Two women and their unmentionable act.

Pourquoi j'matte ça? Ça ne m'avance pas, ça va de soi!
Why am I watching this? It doesn't help me progress, it's obvious!

Daft Punk sur les dix doigts,
Ten fingers tapping along to Daft Punk's music.

Miss Amanda, le pe-ra et les francs CFA,
Mentions of singer Amanda Lear, pera (a Turkish music genre), and the West African franc currency.

Une blondinette en coupé-décalé Gwada,
A young blonde woman dancing to the upbeat music genre coupé-décalé from Guadeloupe.

Un ninja, coupe afro, joue du nunchaku,
A ninja with an afro hairstyle wielding nunchucks.

Les photos d'autopsie de Tupac Shakur.
Pictures of the deceased rapper Tupac Shakur's autopsy.

Chaque jour, j'passe du morbide au futile,
Every day, I switch between morbid and trivial topics.

Me perds dans un dédale d'images inutiles.
I get lost in a maze of useless images.

Une gamine empile des gobelets en pyramide,
A little girl stacking cups in a pyramid shape.

J'me dis qu'elle est rapide et qu'mon temps j'dilapide.
I think she's quick and I'm wasting my time.

Dans la tamise, on surfe à la dynamite, l'ami,
In the Thames river, people surf explosively, my friend.

Pour avoir son quart d'heure de gloire comme Andy l'a dit.
To get their fifteen minutes of fame, as Andy Warhol famously said.

People, people, people, people...
People, people, people, people...

Beautiful losers...
Beautiful losers...

Sit up straight and listen,
Get in a good posture and pay attention.

Just too much information,
There's too much information being thrown at me.

Please won't you let me be,
Please let me be on my own for a while.

Is it my own choice, that it puzzles me so?
Am I the one choosing this confusion?

Stop! Need to turn you off, yes it's time to go...
Stop! I need to turn off this constant stream of media, it's time to leave.

Calmness breeds imagination,
Being calm fosters creativity.

And silence punctuates the sound,
Silence breaks up the noise.

It's a very numbing feeling as
It's a very dull and lifeless sensation when

Our pencils hit the ground,
Our pencils fall to the ground.

The quiet fire of revolution,
The silent spark of revolution,

Once again starts inside.
Is reignited from within.

Une révolution sponsorisée par Nokia;
A revolution sponsored by Nokia;

La souffrance d'un Etat dans le regard de Neda,
The pain of a state reflected in Neda's eyes,

Pardonnez-moi, si je ne m'attarde pas
Forgive me for not lingering,

Mais je préfère l'hélicoptère façon Kâma-Sùtra.
But I'd rather watch a Kama Sutra inspired helicopter ride.

Amy sous crack, Britney la boule à Z,
Amy on crack, Britney with a shaved head,

Laure le boule à l'air, à l'aise, comme Paris t'as vu la scène?
Laure exposing herself with ease, like Paris Hilton, have you seen it?

J'ai la pupille carrée, les yeux injectés de sang
My pupils are square, my eyes bloodshot

A force de fixer l'écran dans l'écran.
From staring at an endless succession of screens.

Je rentre dans les rangs, lentement, sans élan,
I fall in line, slowly, without any enthusiasm,

Égarant mon temps dans l'errance, plan sur plan.
Wasting my time wandering aimlessly from one plan to another.

Truqué comme "Portables et pop corn",
Fake like the staged product placement of cellphones and popcorn.

Yankee comme Port d'armes et hot dog!
As American as guns and hot dogs!

Ray-Ban et top model, en pleine crise chausser les skis,
Ray-Ban sunglasses and top models putting on skis in the middle of a crisis,

Banquable comme Bruni Tedeschi.
As bankable as Bruni Tedeschi.

Peu d'esprit, juste du ness-bi,
Little intelligence, just mindless babble,

De la vie une pâle copie,
A pale imitation of life,

Une industrie qui balbutie,
An industry that stammers,

Une industrie qui balbutie.
An industry that stammers.