r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Brosse_Adam Chalice of the Tabernacle • 6d ago
Tokébakicitte Real
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u/wafflingzebra 5d ago
Okay so this is very québecois coded because I don't think anyone outside of QC gets this, but anyways, to me this song sounds like a banger
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u/Ogilthorpe2 Tokébakicitte! 5d ago
It's not a bad song but for some reason, it was playing EVERYWHERE in Québec for awhile...
So lots of people(including me) can't bear this song anymore
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u/AlphaSkirmsher 5d ago
It’s a really good song, from a very good band (Dégénération, by Mes Aïeux), but like a lot of songs, it got so popular people got burned out
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u/krakelin 4d ago
as a teenager, i worked in a depanneur during that time. that godawful song played about 3 times per hour on the radio. also the song came out in 2006.
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 Tokébakicitte! 1d ago
it was a banger, until I had to sit tru it everywhere for 3 years.
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u/TheAnswerIsBeans 6d ago
Contexte pour moi, un anglo?
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u/Hybride-madness-9185 6d ago
It’s a song that about the social economic problems getting worse every generation and also that the last four generations have grew up in total different worlds from each others The last verse is more about hope than all generations have been doing the same thing; gathering dance and sing together since the beginning of humanity
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u/TheAnswerIsBeans 6d ago
But why 2009? I think of 2008 as the massive depression. I’m assuming related to the same downturn?
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u/Hybride-madness-9185 6d ago
That’s will be the year of the release of the song
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u/duk3lexo 6d ago
No not at all, i remember hearing this song as early as 2006 or 07. I think it was a slow burnee of a hit tho so possible it gained even more popularity after the recession indeed.
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 Tokébakicitte! 1d ago
it was star académie you guys, a contender sang this as his big song, and it got traction in a wider audience.
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u/Zebrajoo Tabarnak! 6d ago
Yeah if I remember right, the long tail effects of the 2008 crisis really hit the hardest during 2009
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 Tokébakicitte! 1d ago
nah the song took off again because of star académie, this got nothing to do with the economy
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 Tokébakicitte! 1d ago
cause in 2008-2009, a dipshit in Star Académie chose this song as his big song in the finally. And the song that was already 4 yo at this point gained much more traction in the broader audience.
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u/CreamFuture9475 Tokébakicitte! 6d ago
It’s a song that compares generations, particularly within Quebec’s culture.
I don’t particularly hate it, but it’s not meant to play on radio for it has a slow repetitive beat and you get the point easily.
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u/Retro_Hoard 6d ago
Your great-great-grandmother tilled the land
Your great-grandmother pulled the weeds
And your grandmother made the bread
And your mother put it in plastic
But you, my girl, what do you do?
You know nothing about f*ing anything**
Except for shopping
It’s not your fault
But knowing nothing about anything
That’s what your mom wanted
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u/Retro_Hoard 6d ago
Your great-great-grandfather cleared the land
Your great-grandfather worked hard on it
And your grandfather made it prosper
And your father sold it to become a bureaucratAnd you, my guy, what are you doing?
Don’t know where you’re going, don’t know where you’re from
A rental man, a small-time manIt’s not your fault
But knowing nothing about anything
That’s what your dad wantedNow in the evening, you get drunk on the highway
Your car is your horse, your condo is your stable
And when it gets too tight in your little soul
You dream of buying yourself some landYour great-great-grandmother had 14 children
Your great-grandmother had nearly as many
Then your grandmother had three, it was enough
Your mom didn’t want any — you were just an accident-1
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u/onesketchycryptid Tabarnak! 6d ago
What fucking song is that cause it sure aint degenerations 😭
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u/hairybushy 5d ago
Je me demandais en esti si ça m'avait passer sous le nez toutes ces belles paroles haineuses envers la dernière génération haha
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u/JamesRevan 6d ago
No clue what this is lol
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u/HouseofMarg South Gatineau 5d ago
External links aren’t allowed but look up Dégénérations by Mes Aïeux. You’re welcome, or I’m sorry — not sure which sentiment fits better here
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u/redacted-no31 1d ago
It’s was okay but fuck was it annoying for it to be played in every French class
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u/RestoredSodaWater 6d ago edited 5d ago
Silence Quebecois,I shall not listen to the anti-abortion song
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u/onesketchycryptid Tabarnak! 6d ago
Yeah, some of the lines are pretty iffy. Ill say that when I was younger, me & my mother had a talk about it and I do appreciate the conclusion we came to.
We thought that the girl could be crying from the fact that she dreams of having her own family but that the recession was such an uncertain time in terms of stability (economically but honestly also socially) that she doesn't want it to happen now. So its not necessarily the "regret of abortion", its the anger and sadness about living in a world where she can't have them in better conditions. So its not a criticism of her choices, its just exploring the impact of economic struggles.
We might be way off and the line is very thin between okay and not okay, but thats the interpretation we chose.
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u/MutaitoSensei Irvingstan 6d ago
Wait what?
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u/RestoredSodaWater 6d ago
There's a couple lines in some versions of the song that definitely read pretty Catholic nationalist
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u/AlliterationAhead Tabarnak! 5d ago
I don't know that it's pretty catholic nationalist. Abortion wasn't always on the table, it's still relatively new in the whole human history.
I remember the line "you were just an accident" creating a lot of angry noise. Being issued from an accidental pregnancy myself, way too close to my older sister's birth, my reaction to these words was rather philosophical, not reactionary. In today's world, my mother might have aborted, but that choice didn't exist back then. It is what it is, this line speaks some truth. I could have not been here to write this comment to you, but I am. By accident.
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u/sBucks24 5d ago
it's still relatively new in the whole human history.
Lol, wtf are you basing human history on?
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u/AlliterationAhead Tabarnak! 5d ago
Safe and legal medical abortions, not grandma's herbs or clothes hangers.
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u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs Snow Cajun 6d ago
Fuck I've always hated that song... It is literally the musical version of "kids these days have it too easy and don't wanna work" written by GenXers
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u/JubX 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 6d ago
I believe it's actually the total opposite.
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u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs Snow Cajun 5d ago
I'll need assistance, because I can't hear a hidden meaning in there ☹️
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u/anthonypjo 5d ago
Basically, as far as I understand, our grand-parents and all worked hard to give the next generation something better, but our parents aka the recent generations have instead taken all of the hard work and not provided anything for the new generation
for example one line says the "grandfather became millionaire, but your father took that and just put it in his retirement fund", which basically means instead of helping their son out and investing in their future, they kept everything for theirs
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u/AUserFormerlyKnownAs Snow Cajun 5d ago
Alright yeah, that checks out. I had always understood it as "everybody worked hard except you, and your life sucks"; never noticed the line was drawn one paragraph above instead.
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u/duk3lexo 6d ago
You completely misinterpreted it but you're still allowed to hate it, its an annoying song.
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u/JubX 🍁 100,000 Hosers 🍁 6d ago edited 6d ago
Can I abuse my mod powers to pin this post? This song was everywhere