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9:02am October 27, 2013

➸ "You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": When your brain doesn't just get stuck on a song.

andreashettle:

youneedacat:

But gets stuck on ONE LINE of a song.

For TWELVE HOURS.

“Monsieur, le mayor, you’ll wear a different chain”

OVER

and

OVER

and

OVER

Interspersed occasionally with a line from a completely different song from the same play that has a similar melody:

“When I get free you won’t see me”

So…

It seems odd to me, though, that they would put one of the French words for “the” (le) in front of an English word, though.  Does the French word for mayor sound similar to the English one? Similar enough that non-French speaking Les Mis fans might not hear the difference when transcribing the lyrics?

I suppose you would have to find an official script used by people actually performing Les Mes to confirm which it should be.  Unless that’s already what you’ve been looking at?

Sorry your brain is stuck today, hope it gets unstuck soon.

Oh weird actually I was using an archaic Belgian spelling and pronunciation, I haven’t the foggiest idea where I picked that up.  It actually should be le maire.  Which makes sense because I kept wondering why on earth it was being pronounced so weirdly, and I kept thinking they’d messed with it to make it fit the rhythm of the song (like may'r or something).  So yeah the people doing it in English are doing it wrong.  I’ll re-edit my post.