world market

I know I've had a lot of music and/or video posts here lately.  I can't help myself sometimes.  I really do love music. I realize, however, you may not love my love of music. So I will try to give you a break (I said try)... but after this post. Okay?


I was on You Tube (yes, again!) and watched some videos of an artist I like, Anggun.  She is an Indonesian singer/songwriter, who sings in both English and French.  I mentioned her in my Snow Playlist post. You can read more about her here. The song I included in the playlist, Snow on the Sahara, is probably her most popular song.


I watched the video for Snow on the Sahara.  It was good.  Visually interesting, beautiful woman, pretty song...



I generally enjoy what's known loosely as World Music, so when I saw the video for the same song in French, I was thrilled.  This version's video was obviously produced for a non-American market.



What do you think?  I think at some point, I just stopped listening to the song and started to try to figure out the video (which I didn't). What kind of message was that anyway?  I need to show it to Countrymouse next time he pisses me off doesn't see eye-to-eye with me. Another reason to be glad to be an American.