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Josey Greenwell:

As you can see, today, we're going to talk about Josey Greenwell. 

First of all, who is he ? 

Josey Greewell was born on 1989, in Kentucky. He is an artist, a pop singer, and song writter, but also a successful model. He appeared on several magazines covers, such as "DNA Magazine" "Out & About" and also, in France, "Têtu". 

At first, he began with a record company in Nashville, where he lives. But one day, while hanging around the gay district, he meets one of his workmate, a traine who denounced him. Josey get fired, but not the trainee. 

He was kind of depressed, and began to post videos on youtube, covering famous songs with his accoustic guitar and wonderful voice; in order to cheer himself up: Songs like Katy Perry or Adele. He became famous thanks to this, and reached over 4 millions plays. 

Then, another record company notices him, in Miami this time, and gives him the opportunity to realease his first single: "Stuck in my Head". He's know a well-known singer. 

Music :

"Gangnam Style", a unsual success.


 S ince its release on July 15th 2012, Psy's hit song  has known a universal success : Gangnam Style ranked first on You Tube's "Most Viewed Videos" with more than 1,500,000,000 views, and  received several prizes such as the MTV Europe Music Award (Best Video), the NRJ Music Award (NRJ Award of Honor,  International Song of the Year...)
The video started to become famous in Korea soon after it appears and as a continuation it became viral since it was released in Youtube, going beyond Justin Bieber's Baby.
Despite the first goal of the song, Psy's Gangnam Style lyrics and moves are sung and danced worlwide by fans and it was parodied as many.

You still can't dance it ?
I feel bad for you Dear reader......

There is no doubt that you have already sung the famous chorus, even without noticing it. But the fact remains that most of you don't even know what this song is about ! That is why I propose you to discover the secret aspects of "Gangnam Style"...

  What is Gangnam ? 
Gangnam the richest district in Seoul (South Korea). It's a modern area gathering luxury shops, restaurants, immense and prestigious buildings, and large avenues. The song is a reference to the way of life of the posh youth of Gangnam.


 What's the link between Gangnam, and the "Horse Dance" ? 

According to the historian Li Ogg, horses are famous in the Korean culture : Indeed, the horse is the totem of  Djumung, the son of Tangun, who is the supposed to be the founder of the ancient kingdom of Korea.

 Finally, does Gangnam Style belong to K-Pop Music ?  

The song is classified as a Korean Pop music however its goal is to mock this style. Indeed Psy wanted to explain the stupid acting of K-Pop , the music video looks crazy with complete non-sence as it's like in other K-Pop ones.

I guess you were singing this song again and again while reading this post, but I have bad news for you :
Psy's new hit song is now released, and it has already more 150 000 000 views on You Tube.

Here the link !  >> ♫♪ <<

 ( If Psy can be a gentleman... well, you guys have
no excuse not to be a gentleman anymore. )

Rwandan Genocide

~ Subject of the day ~

RWANDAN GENOCIDE

Dears readers,

Today we are going to talk about a subject that we didn't hear much about because it was not very mediatized. It took place from the 6th April to the 4th July 1994 in East Africa more precisely in Rwanda between Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. It was the fastest genocide in History with the most important number of deaths per day. During this mass murder 800,000 Rwandans were killed.

During the 1st World War Belgians inherited the Rwanda-Urundi colony from Germans who lost the war. Belgians separated the population in three groups: the Tutsis who were considered as the most intelligent and who were supposed to be physically closer to Europeans than the others. Colons called them "White-Niggers". The other important group were the Hutus who were in majority agricultors and were as inferior people. The last group were the Twas, the smallest one. During decolonisation Belgians placed Tutsis at the power until Hutus rebel.

Concerning the Medias, the radio "One Thousand Hills Free Radio and Television" played a major role during the genocide broadcasting hatred messages constantly like " Tutsis are croackroaches ! We will kill you !" . Those messages drove to te creation of district militia and massacres more and more planned .

We have to keep in mind that this massacre was approved by the Rwandan Government which supported the radio.The murder of the Rwandan President Habyarimana used as an excuse to beginning the genocide.

Rape was also used by the Interahamwe (a militia which committed the most of massacres and which was on the side of Habyarimana) as a weapon of war transmetting the AIDS to the victims often very young.

Moreover, militias were armed by major powers like France (firearms and munitions) and China (machetes).

However, we mustn't forget the fact that the International Community didn't do anything to stop this genocide, qualifying the massacre as an interethnic conflict.

At the end of the genocide, popular court were made by village people, called Gacaca to judge criminals or suspect. Witnesses told their stories and people decided of their culpability.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council to judge people responsible of the Rwandan Genocide and other serious violations of international law judges this crime against humanity.

To learn more about this tragedy, we advise you to watch a very good movie by Raoul Peck called Sometimes in April . Here the movie (it's legal ! )

By Prisca, William and Anissa,

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The pavlova

The pavlova is surely the fluffiest cake that you can find in the field of pastry. It is a meringue based dessert. Its specificity is to be crispy on the outside and soft inside. Whipped cream or ice-cream is spread over the cake, sometimes both, and it is covered with fruit.

This dessert was invented after a trip of the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova in Australia and New Zealand in the ‘20s. Both countries claim the invention of the pavlova, which is a source of conflict

The dessert is very popular and is an important part of the gastronomy of both countries. It is often eaten during important celebrations, such as Christmas dinner.

To make this dessert :

INGREDIENTS:

3 egg whites 1 pinch salt 1 cup white sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar 1 pint fresh strawberries

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Draw a 9 inch circle on the parchment. An easy way to do this is to draw around the outside of a 9 inch pan with a pencil.
2.	In a large bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until soft peaks form. Add 3/4 cup of the sugar gradually, while continuing to whip. Make sure sugar is completely dissolved. Mix together the remaining 1/4 cup sugar with the cornstarch; lightly fold into meringue with lemon juice.
3.	Spread a layer of meringue to fit circle on parchment, approximately 1/4 inch thick. With remainder of mixture, pipe or spoon swirls around the edges to form a shallow bowl shape.
4.	Bake at 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) for 1 hour. Turn off oven, but leave meringue in oven for an additional 30 minutes. When cool, the meringue should be hard on the outside, and slightly moist on the inside.
5.	In a large bowl, combine the cream and half a cup of confectioners sugar, and whip until thickened. Decorate with fruit of your choice; strawberries are excellent. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/the-best-pavlova/

Happy New Year from the Champs de Mars~!

With the New Year's event, we decided to do an article about the famous place: "Le Champs de Mars".
Next to the Effeil Tower, this place is always crawded. Often use as an end-line for demonstration, the Champs de Mars is a place of gatherly.

It name comes from the Champs de Mars Romain. On July, 14th 1790, the celebration of the federation took place there.

But nowadays, on last 31st of December, this place was full of people, french and tourists who came from all around the world in order to celebrate the New Year together !

Laura; Lexane; Nicolas.

Justin Timberlake make his comeback in the music industry after 6 years! In fact, he prefered to stop music for the moment to discover if he could be a good actor. He make a good job in the role he had to act. He really focused on cinema with The social network, Bad teacher, Time Out and Sexe Between friends. By this long experience, he showed that he succeed in all he tries. Justin knows how to be desired by his fans. He choose this title in order with his costume suit and tie   . After six years of absence, the singer give us the first title of his third studio album, The 20/20 Experience, which is due out in March. A first single, Suit & Tie, a duet with rapper Jay-Z is online on the website of Justin Timberlake. And Once again the realisation is made by Timbaland, a great producer and a good friend of Justin. On the social networks, this first song had diverse reaction sometimes good, sometimes bad . A lot of Justin fan was disappointed by it because the was in the attent of a better song, more hip hop. The defender of Justin said that it's just the first ong and the next song will be ten times better. This first single has had mixed reactions but the fun of justin fan will surely find so hard they forget their "disappointment" after the song. But He has the same voice and the same talent, so we will judge this album in march, so, wait and see.

You can see the video clip on youtube, you write Justin Timberlake-Suit and tie and you will find it.


Benjamin

Hi everybody,

I'm going to talk about a very famous french group who is a precursor of the Electronic Music ... Of course my topic is about Daft Punk ! 

The group compound of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo has been founded in 1992, they named it Daft Punk because a british music critic called their music, literally like a "daft punk". He was quite true when he said that, because the particularity of Daft Punk is to mix different music styles including rock with electronic sounding which makes their music unique. 

They became famous with their first album, entitled Homework where you can find their most famous singles as Around the World or Alive. Their music start off the infatuation about electronic music all around the world. As their first album, Discovery, their second one, generate a great enthusiasm, only fans know the name of the album, but everyone knows about the tubes which were One more time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. This album has also been used for the soundtracks of Instrella 5555. 

Nowadays, Daft Punk are well known for their spectacular music but also for their concert, which are always impressive, in France and everywhere in the world. 
As in our blog we love to bring you gifts for you to be aware of all the news about music, Daft Punk will certainly come out a new album in the early 2013, and perhaps a tour with it. 

I hope you enjoyed, and see you for the next topic !

André.