I'll talk to you about love.
Romantic songs or we could even say romantic music.
When I talk about this, I cannot help going back in time a little bit, or even a lot, when I think about minstrels or troubadours who in the Middle Ages went from castle to castle to sing about the beauty of fair maidens or impossible love between people of different backgrounds.
I will jump in time and go directly, while staying in the history of Western music, to the Romantic period.
We have Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, offering us this nostalgic music that is kind of adolescent, ephemeral, passing.
And if we keep talking about classical music, it's funny because love is very present in operas.
There's nothing better than operas for twisted love stories where antagonists often mutilate and assassinate, which often end with crimes of passion.
If we talk about romantic music, but in the twentieth century, well I think a lot about songs.
I think it's inevitable, I immediately think about American cinema.
It always ends well; love stories are a little mushy, a little too simple sometimes, with Marilyn and Elvis making us dream.
And still talking about today's English music, but this time rock music, I think about Jimi Hendrix whose music I love very much, who with his dirty guitar offers us love stories somewhat less advisable than those of the American cinema.
I'll talk about French music now, I just have to.
Piaf and Brel who sang about love that rips you apart, love that gives up everything even if it means giving up your life.
Still in France, we have Francis Cabrel who sang about love, I think there is not one teenage girl who did not fall head over heels for L'encre de tes yeux or Je l'aime à mourir.
Let's stop in the province of Québec for a while now.
We have so many beautiful love songs.
We have amazing singers.
I think of Vigneault singing about a love that has deep roots.
Desjardins singing about the North, and giving a voice to men who may not have been able to write poems or sing love songs.
No matter whether love stories have a happy or sad ending, I think we'll forever sing and write and be inspired by love.