As a music fan, I want to point out that you can enjoy French music in different ways: the lyrics, the rhythm, the musicality, and the historical context. So if I recommend a song, I’ll try to give you the context—why I like it and what makes it special. This is, of course, very subjective.

So, the first song is from Mylène Farmer’s "Desanchanté": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGmpqN9zZc

The first song could have been Stromae’s Papaoutai, but I chose Désanchanté by Mylène Farmer instead, because she’s one of the most prolific artists in French music. She has inspired countless artists through the themes she explores in her songs love, loneliness, transgression, religion, literature. She has contributed a lot to the French music scene through her style, her music, her choreography, and her very atypical personality.

Bonus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szouaJ22rZY