# What is this song about?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 13, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389 "2005-12-13T06:33:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/1 "2005-12-13T06:33:14Z")
Its [Alizee](http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1130577022/French_hottie_Alizee) singing in French, of course. What is the song about. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/2 "2005-12-13T08:12:06Z")
It appears to be [this song](http://www.lyricsondemand.com/a/alizelyrics/imfeduplyrics.html) sung in French. Can’t tell you if the lyrics have the same meaning in both languages or if the song is completely different in the English version. ---
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/3 "2005-12-13T14:28:55Z")
Must be a bad translation. ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/4 "2005-12-13T16:03:53Z")
She was singing? sorry I must have been concentrating on her dance steps mmmmmmm 🙂 where was I? Sanibelman was right it was in french (removed by mod) ---
**Author:** ![scm1001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/5 "2005-12-13T16:06:43Z")
whoops just occured to me that I may have breached copyright. sorry mods you may want to delete most of the lyrics ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/6 "2005-12-13T17:04:27Z")
\ **scm1001** , thanks for realizing your error. If you wish to post lyrics, remember you may only use a small sample according to Fair Use policies. Dancing, however, is optional… 😃 \ ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/7 "2005-12-13T19:54:46Z")
Moved to CS. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Eurograff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Eurograff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eurograff)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-song-about/335389/8 "2005-12-14T17:34:50Z")
What’s the song about? Well, it’s about being fed up, being pissed off, or however you best phrase it. It also contains lots of certain suggestive innuendo if you listen to it that way. Fortunately there are resources for those Alizée fans with limited French skills. Official lyrics and quite a few translations [on this site](http://www.alizee-fanpage.com/page.php?language=en&content=lyrics), and here is [a literal translation of _J’en ai marre_](http://www.alizee-fanpage.com/page.php?language=en&content=showlyric&id=1&lang=gb). As you can see, it is quite different from the official lyrics of the English version, _I’m Fed Up_, but the meaning stays more or less the same. All her lyrics are written by renowned artist Mylène Farmer, so some Mylene fan pages include [Alizée translations](http://www.mf-international.com/viewforum.php?f=8), see for example [this thread](http://www.mf-international.com/viewtopic.php?t=248) for an alternate interpretation (and comments) of the French original.