When the song cuts the power

After the massive power outages in Spain and Portugal, let's listen to what artists have to say about the electricity fairy.

A power outage in the middle of a surgical procedure. In his song, Tiken Jah Fakoly also evokes the child who can't do his homework because the lights go out. This isn't a European reality, a priori, like the massive blackout that immobilized Spain and Portugal—we told you about it on France Info. No, this capricious electricity is the daily life of the capital of Guinea in 2009, when the power is switched on in each neighborhood—we wait for electricity like we wait at the hairdresser's.

In the first episode of These songs that are in the news this weekend, you will hear excerpts from:

Tiken Jah Fakoly, Conakry electricity, 2009

Vincent Gaffet, Cooking with Electricity, 2007

Jéronimo, Sound, Image and Electricity, 2003

Cléa Vincent, Electricity, 2016

Zoufris Maracas, The Electricity Fairy, 2015

Darbon, At the Electricity Exhibition, 1909

Joe Dassin, Give Me Electricity, 1974

Pascal Obispo, Electricity, 1997

Miossec, The Electricity Bill, 2006

Red October, White Nights, 2004

Jean Ferrat, The Fires of Paris, 1995

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