Yelle is a trio formed in Saint-Brieuc, France in 2005, of lead singer Juli… Read Full Bio ↴Yelle is a trio formed in Saint-Brieuc, France in 2005, of lead singer Julie Budet (aka Yelle) and Jean-François Perrier (aka GrandMarnier), with Tanguy Destable (aka Tepr) joining prior to their début album.

Budet rose to fame on MySpace when she posted a song titled "Short Dick Cuizi", dissing Cuizinier, a member of the Parisian hip-hop group TTC.

With producer and close friend GrandMarnier, Budet has recorded a début album Pop-Up, after her hit single "Je veux te voir" (a finalised version of "Short Dick Cuizi"). The song, which samples the bassline from 20 Fingers' 1994 club hit Short Dick Man, received heavy airplay on MTV. She was also featured on Fatal Bazooka's song "Parle à ma main" in 2007. In February 2008 she performed the track "À cause des Garçons" on the BBC Three series "Lily Allen and Friends". The series claimed that this was her first appearance on UK television. She was MTV's 'Artist of the Week' for the week of 24th March-30th March 2008, appearing during adverts.

Yelle's second single "A cause des garçons/ACDG" is a cover song from an homonym 80's French band. A remixed version of the track by Riot in Belgium was featured on the soundtrack of Electronic Arts' computer game; Need for Speed: ProStreet. The song was also used as the opening song for the Moschino Spring Summer 2008 runway show

As of 2008, it is also featured in an advert being broadcast in Quebec for Telus, a Canadian telecommucations company and the 24th March episode of 'The Hills'. Her single "Je veux te voir" was featured on the series 4 final episode of Entourage, in the opening scene when the gang arrives in Cannes, and her single "Ce jeu" was played on Gap's and H & M's shop soundtrack in summer 2008.

The DJ Tepr has been touring with her and already remixed three Yelle's songs "A cause des garçons/ACDG" , "Je veux te Voir/Short Dick Cuizi" and "Ce Jeu".

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04. Ce Jeu
Yelle Lyrics

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Fou et tellement évident
Que je ne trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant
Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Je ferais l'effort, je te connais par cœur
Il suffit que je t'ignore
Pour que tu revienne en pleure
Je m'occupe de toi
Tu repars c'est ça
Toujours le même schéma
Et j'anticipe a chaque foi

Fou et tellement évident
Que je ne trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant
Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Passion, émotion
Et correction d'équations
J'agite la solution
Mais j'ai toujours la même sensation
C'est tellement évident
Que je ne trouve plus de sens
A ce jeux excitant
Si bon mais si lassant

Je ne veux pas d'un amour sans faille
Trop parfait tu ne m’intéresse pas
Folle de toi surtout quand tu pars
Fou de moi j'y vais de ce pas

Je ne veux pas d'un amour sans faille
Trop parfait tu ne m’intéresse pas
Folle de toi surtout quand tu pars
Fou de moi j'y vais de ce pas

Fou et tellement évident
Que je ne trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant
Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Je me perd parfois
Souvent c'est bien fait
Et tu caches ta joie
Parce que tu m'a eu
Comme une proie bête et gentille
Qui ne tire pas de leçons
Du piège grossier et facile
D'un charmant garçon

Mais c'est vraiment trop facile
Des que tu sourie tu me fascine
Comme un aimant sur un fil de fer
Tendue et habile
Mais c'est vraiment trop facile,
C'est ma pomme qui te fascine
Je tourne le dos pour partir
Tu sais qu'elle n'est pas acide.

Fou et tellement évident
Que je ne trouve plus de sens
A ce jeu excitant
Si bon mais si lassant
Tu aimes me manipuler
Et j'aime en faire autant

Nous sommes tout deux victime
De ce doux jeu d'amants

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Yelle's "Ce Jeu" speak of a manipulative and addictive relationship between two lovers. The singer seems to have grown weary of the game that they both play, finding it both exciting and tiring at the same time. She describes the familiarity of the cycle of the game, where she can predict how her lover will react, and how she can control the outcomes. This control gives her a sense of power in the relationship, but it also feels like a burden that she can no longer bear.

Despite her exhaustion, she admits that she still loves the game and her lover's manipulations. The lyrics suggest that the two are victims of their passion and emotion, unable to break free from the cycle they've created. There is a sense of addiction, as the singer admits to being "fou" or crazy for her lover, even if he is a manipulative charmer who plays with her emotions.

Overall, "Ce Jeu" is a song that explores the complex dynamics of a love-hate relationship that is both exhilarating and exhausting for those involved. It is a commentary on the ways in which we can become trapped in cycles of manipulation and control, unable to break away from the powerful emotions that keep us coming back for more.

Line by Line Meaning

Fou et tellement évident
This relationship is crazy and obviously dysfunctional

Que je ne trouve plus de sens
I can no longer make sense of it

A ce jeu excitant
This exciting game we play

Si bon mais si lassant
It's good but also exhausting

Tu aimes me manipuler
You enjoy manipulating me

Et j'aime en faire autant
And I enjoy doing the same to you

Nous sommes tout deux victime
We are both victims

De ce doux jeu d'amants
Of this sweet lover's game

Je ferais l'effort, je te connais par cœur
I'll make the effort, I know you inside out

Il suffit que je t'ignore
All it takes is for me to ignore you

Pour que tu revienne en pleure
For you to come back in tears

Je m'occupe de toi
I take care of you

Tu repars c'est ça
You leave again, that's how it goes

Toujours le même schéma
Always the same pattern

Et j'anticipe a chaque fois
And I anticipate it every time

Passion, émotion
Passion, emotion

Et correction d'équations
And correcting equations

J'agite la solution
I stir up the solution

Mais j'ai toujours la même sensation
But I always have the same feeling

Je ne veux pas d'un amour sans faille
I don't want a flawless love

Trop parfait tu ne m’intéresse pas
Too perfect, it doesn't interest me

Folle de toi surtout quand tu pars
Crazy about you, especially when you leave

Fou de moi j'y vais de ce pas
Crazy about me, I go for it

Je me perd parfois
I get lost sometimes

Souvent c'est bien fait
Often it's well deserved

Et tu caches ta joie
And you hide your happiness

Parce que tu m'a eu
Because you got me

Comme une proie bête et gentille
Like a silly and kind prey

Qui ne tire pas de leçons
Who doesn't learn any lesson

Du piège grossier et facile
From the crude and easy trap

D'un charmant garçon
Of a charming boy

Mais c'est vraiment trop facile
But it's really too easy

Des que tu sourie tu me fascine
As soon as you smile, you fascinate me

Comme un aimant sur un fil de fer
Like a magnet on a wire

Tendue et habile
Tense and skillful

C'est ma pomme qui te fascine
It's my apple that fascinates you

Je tourne le dos pour partir
I turn my back to leave

Tu sais qu'elle n'est pas acide.
You know it's not sour.

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Written by: JULIE BUDET, TANGUY DESTABLE, GLENN GREGORY, IAN MARSH, JEAN FRANCOIS PERRIER, MARTYN WARE

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