# Help identify this song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799 "2010-07-15T17:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/1 "2010-07-15T17:03:03Z")
My Googlle-Fu is weak! We heard this song a lot in France last month. It may be played in America also, I don’t normally listen to pop music here. It has a female singer and a catchy melody line. The verses have repetition of the final word of the line, in the style of Nelly Furtado’s Turn Off The Lights (“They say that girl you know she act too tough, tough, tough”). The only actual lyrics I can remember are from the break section, something like, “You don’t know what love (really?) is, if you did you wouldn’t treat me like this.” ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/2 "2010-07-15T17:19:24Z")
Alejandro by Lady Gaga is number 5 on a list of top 100 songs in France that I found, and it has some repetitive lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/3 "2010-07-15T17:22:49Z")
Just listened to it, that’s definitely not it (for which I am grateful). “My” song is not nearly as loud. It’s more melodic, less electo-drum rhythmic. ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/4 "2010-07-15T17:25:20Z")
Can you hum a few bars? ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/5 "2010-07-15T17:31:30Z")
I did in the OP - did it help? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/6 "2010-07-15T17:32:13Z")
Fight for this Love - Cheryl Cole? Maybe a little too techno. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/7 "2010-07-15T17:33:58Z")
By the way, apparently the French really like songs with repetitive lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/8 "2010-07-15T18:00:53Z")
Dang - Nope to Cheryl Cole also. I appreciate the effort! I heard this song at least 10 times in 10 days - is there a French version of Billboard? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/9 "2010-07-15T18:04:42Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > By the way, apparently the French really like songs with repetitive lyrics. ``` Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette, je te plumerai Je te plumerai la tête (Je te plumerai la tête) Et la tête (Et la tête) Alouette (Alouette) ``` I see what you mean. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/10 "2010-07-15T18:59:59Z")
[moderating] I moved this thread from General Questions to Cafe Society (where music discussions live). Hopefully, you’ll get more answers over here. [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/11 "2010-07-15T19:04:08Z")
Merci 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/12 "2010-07-15T19:14:17Z")
I can’t find a good cite, but Mel Brooks does a great bit (2000 yr old man?) in which he parodies Jacques Brel’s songs. Can’t do it justice but he certainly trades on the fact that they’re re_pet_itive. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/13 "2010-07-15T19:32:59Z")
> [@muttrox](#): > > Dang - Nope to Cheryl Cole also. I appreciate the effort! > > I heard this song at least 10 times in 10 days - is there a French version of Billboard? I was going off [this chart](http://top40-charts.com/chart.php?cid=11) when I was researching your question earlier today, but I didn’t find anything that fit your description. However, I may have overlooked a song. edit: And here’s the current [Top 100.](http://acharts.us/france_singles_top_100) ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/14 "2010-07-15T19:34:39Z")
They’re re_pet_itive. Very re_peti_tive. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-song/546799/15 "2010-07-17T20:32:25Z")
Found it! It’s [“She Said”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQjh9H-ymK4), by a rapper named Plan B. Still sounds like a girl to me!