Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir) Ã,? ( French Ã, [vule vu ku? e av? k mwa (s "Want to sleep with me (tonight)?") is a French phrase that has become famous in the English-speaking world through the song "Lady Marmalade".
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The origin and usage
In the literature
The use of phrases printed in the English-speaking world can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century.
American author John Dos Passos' 1920 novel Three Soldiers features the Americanized version, "Voulay vous couchay aveck moy?"
A poem by E. E. Cummings published in 1922 and known by the first line "more small ladies" contains the phrase "voulez vous coucher avec moi?" twice.
This phrase also appeared in the Tennessee Williams drama of 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire .
In media
In 1973 the Italian porn star turned into politician Ilona Staller (Cicciolina) achieved fame with a radio show called "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" on Radio Luna.
In music
The first question of romance comes at the very end of the Big Three Trio tune "Build Their Ladder, Madamoiselle" (Bullet 274 - (1947)). The Big Three Trio is the first music blues musician Willie Dixon
This phrase probably best known from the 1974 song "Lady Marmalade," was first popularized by Labelle and vocalist Patti LaBelle. In 1997, the song was closed by All Saints. In 2001, singers Christina Aguilera, MÃÆ'½a, Pink, and rapper Lil 'Kim and Missy Elliott did a remake of the song for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack! .
In 1979 ABBA released an album titled Voulez-Vous , with a song of the same name.
In 1983 country singers David Frizzell and Shelly West recorded a country music song called "Invitation Cajun" which contained a line.
Both 1989 or 1998 were used by the German Euro Disco Bad Boys Blue group in their song "Hungry For Love".
In 1993 the jazz rap group Digable Planet used the phrase in their song "Swoon Units".
In 1994 Belgian DJ Alain Deproost, also known as Daddy K, was recorded in a Eurodance song called "Want to sleep with me".
In 1994 the Mexican band CafÃÆ' Â © Tacuba used the phrase in the song "El baile y el salÃÆ'³n".
In 1996 this phrase was used in The Whitlams song "Love is Everywhere" from the album Eternal Nightcap .
In 1997 the phrase was used 13 times by Peter-Paul Pigmans (3 Steps Ahead) in the song "It's Delicious" from Most Wanted and Mad's album.
In 2006 Christina Aguilera used the phrase for the second time in her song "Nasty Naughty Boy" from the second CD part of her album Back to Basics. In the same year the Aquarium band used the phrase in a similar song from their album Carefree Russian Tramp .
In 2007 this was part of the remix of the song Swizz Beatz "It's Me Bitches".
In 2011 and 2013, Rapper Logic used this phrase in "All I Do" in the album Young Sinatra and Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever .
In 2013 the Serbian singer Ana Nikolic used this phrase as the title song of his album Milian Dolara .
On television
In 1993, the British soap opera Coronation Street featured an impressive comical moment when Ken Barlow taught French to mimic Raquel Watts blond hair:
Raquel: "I met a French man in Corfu who taught me how to say it is not a beautiful day today." Ken: "Right, let's make one sentence together, I want you to say it to me in French" Hello Ken, my name is Raquel, is not it a beautiful day today? " Raquel: "Ooh, clever, right, here it is." Bonjour Ken, Je m'appelle Raquel, Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir? "
In the September 2006 season episode of "Make Love, Not Warcraft" from the animated series South Park, Cartman is persuading one of the boys, Clyde, to join World of Warcraft to help lower a stronger player. by asking Clyde if he could go back in time and stop Hitler, whether he would do it (except Cartman would not because he admired him). When Clyde insisted on giving up, Cartman mentioned that when Hitler came to power, those who surrendered were French; he then mocked Clyde by asking if he was French and said, "voulez-vous coucher avec moi, Clyde?"
In the show Friends , Monica went on a double date as Phoebe dates have a friend, and a former date of a man fluent in French. She asked him, "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" do not know what that means. He replied, "It's a shame," and then explains what it means, embarrassing Monica in turn.
In 1990 S01E21 from Fresh Air Bel-Air Aunt Vivian told Will and Carlton a young girl came to dinner named Kayla Samuels who is a scholarship student and president of her high school club among other academics. achievement. As he enters, Will takes his hand in an effort to lure and ask; "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?" And the scene cuts to the intro.
In the Degrassi: The Next Generation, Zoe challenged Winston to ask Alli "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi". He immediately explained that it was courage.
At the Brooklyn Nine-Nine show, Jake Peralta asks this question without knowing what it means, to Capt. Holt before the Captain visits France to see Kevin. Holt, fluent in French translates the true meaning to Peralta
In Gilmore Girls show, Lorelai Gilmore scared her parents by quoting this line to their visiting friends as a demonstration of how little French she knows compared to her teenage daughter. (S03E09 - "A Deep-Fried Thanksgiving Korea"). The young man's wife recognized the line as an excerpt from "Lady Marmalade," becoming a fan of "chanson du pop", then enjoyed a new popularity after being included in Moulin Rouge.
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References
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