Mickey 3D (or using the correct capitalisation miCkey[3d] as per the band's… Read Full Bio ↴Mickey 3D (or using the correct capitalisation miCkey[3d] as per the band's own website) formed in 1997 in Saint-Étienne, France, an old mining and industrial town located near Lyon. This might explain the politically charged lyrics of their songs.

Three members started the band: Mickaël Furnon, Aurélien Joanin, and Najah El Mahmoud.

The style of the band can best be described as folk rock. Mickael has written many songs for other bands, most notably "J'ai demandé à la lune" for Indochine.

Discography :

- Mistigri torture (1999)
- La trêve (2001)
- Tu vas pas mourir de rire (2003)
- Live à Saint Etienne (2004)
- Matador (2005)
- La Grande Évasion (2009)
- Sebolavy (2016)

http://www.mickey3d.com/

Le Tube de l'Été
Mickey 3D Lyrics

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J'avais composé le tube de l'été
Oui mais l'été n'est jamais arrivé
Il a neigé tout le mois de juillet
Et tout le monde était terrorisé
Les gens n'avaient plus la tête à danser
Ils ne pensaient plus qu'à leur cheminée
J'avais l'air con avec ma mélodie
Pleine de soleil et sans intempérie

Hallucinantes sont nos humbles vies
Ultra violente la mélancolie
Triste variante de la nostalgie
Éclaboussante jusqu'à l'infini

J'avais trouvé un super slow qui tue
Oui mais l'amour avait tout disparu
C'est le refroidissement de la planète
Qui nous avait mis du plomb dans la tête
Et comme on avait tous un masque à gaz
Pour s'embrasser c'était plus trop l'extase
On pouvait même plus se saouler la gueule

Hallucinantes sont nos humbles vies
Ultra violente la mélancolie
Triste variante de la nostalgie
Éclaboussante jusqu'à l'infini
Fini la science, et les vieux érudits
Notre existence est menacée, tant pis
Si le silence est notre thérapie
Condoléances à tous les mariachis

Hallucinantes sont nos humbles vies
Ultra violente la mélancolie
Triste variante de la nostalgie
Éclaboussante jusqu'à l'infini
Fini la science et les vieux érudits
Notre existence est menacée, tant pis
Si le silence est notre thérapie
Condoléances à tous les mariachis

Hallucinantes sont nos humbles vies
Ultra violente la mélancolie

Triste variante de la nostalgie
Éclaboussante jusqu'à l'infini

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Mickey 3D's Le Tube de l'Été deal with the frustration and disappointment of not being able to enjoy the expected pleasures of summer due to external factors. The singer-songwriter had composed the perfect summer hit, but as it turns out, the summer never came. Instead, there was snow and terror all around. The people were not in the mood to dance, but rather concerned about basic survival. The melody seemed out of place and irrelevant in the midst of such adverse conditions. The second verse takes a turn towards a more global perspective, making a reference to climate change and the threat of extinction for all forms of existence. The slow and painful deterioration of everything we value and cherish is contrasted with the explosive power of nostalgia, which has the capacity to engulf and overwhelm everything up to infinity.

The chorus serves as a refrain, repeating the poignant message that life is both hallucinatory and humble, melancholic and violent, and that the sad variations of nostalgia are always present and ready to infuse our lives with their power. The disappearance of love and the need for gas masks, as well as the lack of scientific solutions, are all signs of the end of the world as we know it. The silence that follows is the only therapy left, but it comes at a cost. The mariachis are given a last goodbye, a final elegy for a world that is rapidly fading away.

Line by Line Meaning

J'avais composé le tube de l'été
I had composed the summer hit

Oui mais l'été n'est jamais arrivé
But summer never came

Il a neigé tout le mois de juillet
It snowed all through July

Et tout le monde était terrorisé
And everyone was terrified

Les gens n'avaient plus la tête à danser
People were no longer in the mood to dance

Ils ne pensaient plus qu'à leur cheminée
They were only thinking about their fireplaces

J'avais l'air con avec ma mélodie
I looked stupid with my sunny melody

Pleine de soleil et sans intempérie
Full of sun but without any fair weather

Hallucinantes sont nos humbles vies
Our humble lives are mind-blowing

Ultra violente la mélancolie
Melancholy is extremely violent

Triste variante de la nostalgie
A sad variation of nostalgia