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Les bourgeois
We swore we'd never become them... 🥂
Who it's for
Brel sings about young men who mock the respectable middle class and eventually turn into them.
Uneasy about becoming ordinary→Wry acceptance
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Les Bourgeois" is a comic chanson by Jacques Brel and the title track of his 1962 album. In the song, Brel and his friends Pierre and Jojo drink together and jeer at wealthy, respectable people leaving a nearby hotel. In the final verse the narrators have grown older and become the bourgeois who are now the targets of the same mockery.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
This above all: to thine own self be true,William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3
