Elvis Costello has shared a new six-track EP of French-speaking tracks featuring Iggy Pop and more – listen below.‘La Face de Pendule à Coucou’ features French adaptations of songs from Costello’s 2020 album ‘Hey Clockface’.The EP was first previewed back in December with Iggy Pop’s version of ‘No Flag’.
Speaking on the difficulty of translating the lyrics into French, Iggy said: “There’s a uniqueness to the French language. No other language has vowels that sound like that.
Learning a song that’s as quick as ‘No Flag’ took a month of practice because my lips weren’t used to those combinations…“I [worked on it] for 40 minutes a day for about five weeks.
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