Song Information
After the huge success of her debut album, Mademoiselle chante le blues, still well placed on the French Album Chart, Kaas decided to release her second studio album, Scène de vie, which was mainly written by the famous composer Didier Barbelivien. The lead single, "Les Hommes qui passent", was released at the same time as the album, in April 1990. Written by Barbelivien, the music was composed by François Bernheim.
The music video is in black and white. In the lyrics, The narrator, probably a prostitute, explains to her mother how behave men with whom she dates and what they bring her at the material level. However, she expresses her desire to know love and keep a man only for her during a long period of time.
The song was part of Kaas' concerts tours in 1990, 1994 and 1998, and thus is available in a live version on the albums Carnets de scène, Tour de charme and Rendez-vous. The song also features on the best of Rien ne s'arrête and Ma Liberté contre la tienne, and on the French compilation Les Plus Belles Victoires de la Musique.
"Les Hommes qui passent" was covered at first by Oya Bora (then Grup Denk), who is a Turkish group and consists from Oya Küçümen and Bora Ebeoğlu, in Turkish language under the title "Şu Adamlar Anne" ("These guys mother") in Tiryaki album in 1990 as 2nd track, and later by Haris Alexiou in Greek-language under the title of "I andres pernoun mama (les hommes qui passent)". This version is available on her 2006 best of Anthology (CD 1, 18th track).
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