Europe: stop recycling, the planet doesn’t need your help!

Ever sat in a café in Paris and coped a listen to the radio in the background? Aside from the very catchy jingles the French seem to love in their advertising (Eurostar travellers will be familiar with SNCF’s “ba da baaa da” at Gare du Nord), you’ll hear a lot of French language music. Actually, you’ll hear at least 40% of French language music on French radio due to the Pelchat amendment to the 1994 Broadcasting Reform Act requiring this. So there you are, sipping a erm.. cafe and you hear a really familiar tune on the radio but you don’t recognise the voice.. wait a minute.. it’s not even in English!

Living in the UK, we (thankfully) don’t get to experience much of this euro-recycling but today I came across a classic example of 3, count em, 3 songs from 3 different countries, performed by 3 different acts but all the same 1 song (this sentence was sponsored by 3 mobile broadband).

So from France we have L5, Deconnecter
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnYc21JiNBg]

From Spain we have Natalie, De Repente
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuql6ty7Tk4]

Finally, from Germany we have the er, talentless Sandy and Unexpected
[youtube=http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=utIGzfyqI6A]

Ok, that’s enough for one day. Sorry.