Les Bêtises
1985 song recorded by French artist Sabine Paturel
"Les Bêtises" (French translation for "Stupid Things") is a 1985 song recorded by French artist Sabine Paturel. Released in March 1986 as her debut single from her album Cœur Bébé, released two years later, on which it is the sixth track. The song was a smash hit in France, though it failed to top the chart. It was covered by several artists throughout the years and became a popular song.
Lyrics and music
Written and composed by Sylvain Lebel and Dominique Pankratoff, "Les Bêtises" is a song recorded as a nursery rhyme. Elia Habib, an expert of French charts, stated it is full of mischievousness and could be subtitled "the rhyme of a calamity" as, in the lyrics, "the performer tells the disasters which she carried out to punish her boyfriend for having left her". Paturel performs the song with a childlike voice.
Chart performance
In France, "Les Bêtises" debuted at number 50 on the chart edition of 22 March 1986, entered the top ten in its sixth week where it remained for 19 weeks, with a peak at number two for five consecutive weeks, but was unable to dislodge Princess Stéphanie of Monaco's hit "Ouragan" which topped the chart then; it fell off the top 50 after 30 weeks of presence. On the 1986 year-end chart, the song ranked number three, behind "Les Démons de minuit" and "Ouragan".
Track listings
7" single
"Les Bêtises" — 3:00
"J'crois que j't'aime" — 3:15
Charts
Certifications
Cover versions
"Les Bêtises" was covered in 2006 by Bébé Lilly.
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