Rouge Sang

Rouge Sang
Studio album by
Releasedlate September 2006
Recorded1 November 2005/30 June 2006
GenreRock/Chanson
LabelVirgin
ProducerJean-Pierre Bucolo
Renaud chronology
Boucan d'enfer
(2002)
Rouge Sang
(2006)
Molly Malone – Balade irlandaise
(2009)

Rouge Sang is a studio album by French singer Renaud released on October 2, 2006. It gained particular media attention for the song Elle est facho (She's a fascist) which portrays a female Front National voter. The song brought about a controversy because of its last verse à la facho... qui vote Sarko (to the fascist... who votes Sarko); Sarko being a nickname for the then minister and candidate for presidential election Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy's party, UMP considered the song an unreasonable attack on the run up to the elections, but Sarkozy still won while Rouge Sang went platinum on the day of its release. The album spent nine weeks in the French top ten including two weeks at number 1[1] and it has gone on to sell over half a million copies.[2]

The album was later repackaged with a live CD of the associated tour, Tournee Rouge Sang[3]

Track listing

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CD1

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  1. "Les Bobos" - 3:58
  2. "Dans la Jungle" - 4:20
  3. "Arrêter la clope!" - 3:35
  4. "RS & RS" - 2:07
  5. "Ma blonde" - 2:55
  6. "Rouge Sang" - 2:55
  7. "Elle est facho" - 3:03
  8. "Les cinq sens" - 2:29
  9. "J'ai retrouvé mon flingue!" - 4:31
  10. "Nos vieux" - 4:30
  11. "Filles de joie" - 2:29
  12. "Danser à Rome" - 1:27

CD2

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  1. "Pas de dimanches" - 2:42
  2. "Adieu l'enfance" - 3:59
  3. "Jusqu'à la fin du monde" - 4:23
  4. "Sentimentale mon cul!" - 4:38
  5. "Elsa" - 3:48
  6. "Rien à te mettre" - 3:10
  7. "À la téloche" - 3:32
  8. "À la close" - 3:08
  9. "Leonard's song" - 3:56
  10. "Malone" - 2:50
  11. "En la selva" - 4:19
  12. "Je m'appelle Galilée" - 3:51

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]

The album received positive reviews.

References

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  1. ^ "Renaud - Rouge Sang". www.chartsinfrance.net. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  2. ^ RFI explains story of the Sarko-Renaud controversy (in English) Archived 2011-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Tournee Rouge Sang/Rouge Sang". 21 September 2010. Retrieved 31 May 2018 – via Amazon.
  4. ^ "Rouge Sang - Renaud - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 31 May 2018.