Side Note: French Pop

This note should really only contain one word: craptastic. There are certainly exceptions (I'd put Raphael or Corneille up against any American act), but sadly, these guys don't get played nearly as much as the other wincingly abysmal acts. It's so bad that the public's preference for English-language music is understandable, and oh my, but they do loves them some Amurican music; truly, you haven't fully lived until you've heard an entire bar full of French folks confidently declaring that Beeelly Jeeen ees nawt mai lawver. In fact, the preference for English-language music is so strong that in 1994 the government passed a law that 40 percent of every station's playlist much be in French.

Quotas. That's always a good system, right? The result, inevitably, is garbage like this:

His name is Tom Frager, and he's a surfer who owns a guitar, a dog and, I suppose, a video camera. (Seriously, if he spent more than $50 making this video, he got ripped off. Also, if he spent more than 5 minutes writing the song, he needs another hobby.) The song is called "Lady Melody" (which is French, right?) and the lyrics are so painful that by the time he gets to the verse about, and I swear, I am not making this up, "je fly away," it's all I can do not to smash the TV to pieces.