Starmania (2000) - full transcript
From New York to Tokyo
everywhere it's the same
We take the same train
to the same suburbs
Everyone in single file
At night, neon lights
replace the sunlight
And on every radio
it's the same disco
The day is gray,
the night is blue
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Monopolis
There won't be any more foreigners
We will all be strangers
In the streets of Monopolis
Who are these millions of people?
Alone in the middle of Monopolis?
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This city where nothing ever happened
Where we wouldn't call the police
unless someone lost their dog
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This newfangled city, this model city
With its air-conditioned tunnels
And light-filtering glass buildings
And suburbs heated with solar power
Where there's no more summer,
where there's no more winter.
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This city built for our happiness
Is now home to our terror
They can't go out after
dark in New York or Rome
When the sun goes down...
The Occident is spooked.
There's something afoot in Monopolis
There's something afoot in Monopolis
When the sun goes down...
The Occident is spooked.
When everyone is asleep
in their suburban dorms
You'll see the Black Stars
descending on the town
Who's been attacking girls
in parking lots at night?
Who's been torching buildings?
It's always the Black Stars
So there's panic in the boulevards
When we hit the town!
When we hit the town,
people cross the street
We don't look that manly,
but give everyone a fright
Seeing guys in makeup
makes passersby laugh
But when they see blood
on our razor blades
It's like a flash
of lightning in the fog
When we hit the town!
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We don't have time
to wait till we're thirty
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We take what we can
in the meantime
When we hit the town
We come out of nowhere
We live in the streets,
we sleep in warehouses
We're quiet during the day
We go incognito
At night we change our colors
and strike at random
So get ready for a fight
When we hit the town!
When the underground city
is plunged into darkness
Anyone out for a walk
will end up on a stretcher
We don't have a motive
I know that may seem strange
Maybe we are just stupid,
maybe we're desperate
At least, that is what
headlines always say
When we hit the town!
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We don't have time
to wait till we're thirty
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We take what we can
in the meantime
By the year 2000,
we'll be in our forties
If we don't live it up now,
tomorrow it'll be too late
What are we doing tonight?
Maybe smash everything up?
If you go out dancing
don't come home too late
In case that we scratch your Jaguars
Get ready for a fight!
There's panic in the boulevards!
When we hit the town!
From the capital of the
occidental hemisphere
This is Roger-Roger with a recap
of national and international news
Ladies and gents, good evening.
In the headlines tonight
again: the Black Stars.
These terrorists keep adding to the list
of their gratuitous crimes
In the cover of darkness last night
a hundred people nearly lost their lives
when the ventilation system
in an underground habitation
out in the industrial zone
was disrupted with criminal intent.
Elsewhere, a group of motorists
with black stars on their brows
and guns in their hands
attacked the sky rail this morning.
An armed convoy has been called
to the capital by local police
to contain these Black Stars
who want to weaken the power
during this election cycle.
For details, see our editorial.
Sometimes I turn down the volume
on the television
And listen in on conversations
It's wild what you can hear,
it's wild what you can see
When you spend your life behind a bar
In a press conference
that landed like a bomb
The richest man in the world,
Zéro Janvier
Famous for building skyscrapers
Announced his official candidacy
for the elections which will appoint
the President of the Occident.
As uncontested leader of
the Party Promising Political Progress
Zéro Janvier is vowing to
make the city great again.
Here's a little sample
of his campaign promises:
We will build the new atomic world
Where mankind won't be
a slave to nature anymore
Leave the past to the nostalgic few
Long live the adventurous future!
If we want to keep the world
From becoming one totalitarian state
The Occident
must build a border wall
To protect from foreign influence
This just in:
A message from the Black Stars
Taking credit for last night's attack
A man called Johnny Rockfort
is the muscle of these Black Stars
I could tell you something
about the Black Stars
We see them every night
at the Underground Café
This is where they plot
all of their attacks
Under the direction of a certain Sadia
A revolutionary
A daddy's girl
Whose word is always law
But from the looks of her
You would never know
She just got out of university
Look, here she is...
Sadia!
When I walk down the street
I hear men murmuring
Look at that woman, such allure!
You don't see women like that anymore!
Is she a fallen star?
Is she a rising star?
Take a look at that hair!
That azure blue hair
If you could see me wholly naked
Could see me beneath these clothes
Gentlemen, you wouldn't be disappointed
To find out what I'm really like
You'd sell your souls
to sleep in my arms
You'd leave your wives
to run away with me
Don't call me "Madam"
If you don't know who I am
I am not a woman:
I am a genderfuck!
Fucking with your bodies
Fucking with your souls
Fucking with your dreams
Fucking with your dramas
Fucking with your days
Fucking with your nights
Fucking with your loves
Fucking with your lives
You'd sell your souls
to sleep in my arms
You'd leave your wives
to run away with me
Don't call me "Madam"
If you don't know who I am
I am not a woman:
I'm a genderfuck!
Fucking with your bodies
Fucking with your souls
Fucking with your dreams
Fucking with your dramas
Fucking with your days
Fucking with your nights
Fucking with your loves
Fucking with your lives
I'm everything you want
I'm everything you think
I'm your wounded loves
Your stolen youth
I'm your secret desires
And your smothered hate
I'm sex demystified
I'm violence personified
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
The first time she came in
To the Underground Café
Everyone fell silent at once
And Johnny Rockfort stood up
She approached him
and introduced herself
They stood by the bar
and talked all night...
Flashback!
I've heard about you and
your little group of friends
You're making a lot of noise
but you could go further
What do you mean by that?
We have to break Zéro Janvier
He's the enemy number one
We have to do everything to stop him
From gaining even further ground
But I don't think like that!
You're exactly what I need
to reach my own ends
If you follow me, you'll be somebody
You'll be the leader of the Black Stars
And we'll seize power!
Why such a weird name?
"The Black Stars"?
Because in underground tunnels
starlight doesn't reach too far
Mr. Johnny Rockfort!
Because in underground tunnels
starlight doesn't reach too far
Mr. Johnny Rockfort!
There you go, that's how it all started
After that day Johnny
never left Sadia's side
And the Black Stars were on the
front page of every newspaper
Deep down, Johnny only wanted
to make people talk about him
You could say he succeeded
We all have to make the best of life
But I don't get involved in things
that aren't my business
I didn't ask to exist
I just want to be left in peace
I don't want to do
what everyone else does
But I have to pay my rent
I work at the Underground Café
I'm just a clockwork waitress
And that gives me time to dream
Even when I can't stay on my feet
I'm always ready to fly away
I work at the Underground Café
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun
What will I do today?
What will I do tomorrow?
I ask myself every morning
What am I doing with my life?
I don't want anything in particular
I just want to be okay
I don't want to work just
for the sake of working
To earn my living, as they say
I just want to do something I enjoy
I don't know what I enjoy,
that's my problem
Sometimes I pick at the guitar
It's that all I can do with my hands
I never wanted to be a star
I just want to be myself
This life isn't me
I work at the Underground Café
It's been a long time
since I saw the sun
In this underground existence
Every day is the same here
My life has no meaning
I'm like a broken neon light
I work at the Underground Café
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun.
What will I do today?
What will I do tomorrow?
I ask myself every morning
What am I doing with my life?
I don't ask for much
I just want to be okay
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun
In the sun
In the sun
Now it's time for the favorite
show of kids of all ages!
The number one show in all the polls:
Starmania, presented by Cristal,
the smiling face of TeleCapital.
PRESENTED BY CRISTAL
Why is it him, and why not me?
Starmania!
What's he have that you don't have?
Starmania!
Would you like to play with me?
A game that is called "Starmania"?
Write to me,
and tell me all
About your life,
about your dreams
Tell me who you wish you were
And who knows? Maybe you could be
My star for a night!
Starmania!
Her guest today: Zéro Janvier,
head of the PPPP,
whom she met in his office
in the Golden Tower
Where he granted her a
passionate, impassioned interview.
Here are some of the highlights:
Zéro Janvier, you're a man of the future
What advice do you have to give
To all the kids who dream of success?
"Believe in yourself",
that's all I can say
Every morning I receive tons of mail
From kids asking me to give them a shot
Look at me, I came from nothing
We each forge our own paths
Ladies, Lords and Gentlemen
Tonight before me is a man
who every woman wants to know
For a moment, Zéro Janvier,
I'll ask you to forget
The rich and famous businessman
You know my question:
If you weren't who you are
Tell me who you would like to be?
I've been successful in business
I've been successful in love
I go through a lot of secretaries
My office is at the top of a tower
From which I see the town upside-down
From which I control my own world
I've spent half my life in the clouds
Between New York and Singapore
I always travel first class
I have vacation homes
In every Hilton on Earth
I can't tolerate misery
But are you happy?
I'm not happy, though I seem to be
I lost my sense of humor
When I got my business sense
I've been successful and I'm proud
Deep down I only have one regret
I'm not doing what I wanted
What do you want, old boy?
We do what we can in life,
Not what we want...
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could put on my big act
Whenever the plane touches down
In Rotterdam or in Rio
I would have liked to be a singer
So I could cry out who I am
I would have liked to be an author
So I could invent my life
So I could invent my life
I would have liked to be an actor
To change who I am each day
So I could think that I look good
On a giant color screen
On a giant color screen
I would have liked to be a artist
So I could recreate the world
So I could be an anarchist
And live like a millionaire
And live like a millionaire
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could say why I exist...
Would you like to play with me?
A game that is called "Starmania"?
Starmania!
Starmania!
Starmania, Starmania, that's not me
But I know a boy whose only goal
Is to be on that show
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
He's not like the other guys
But I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
The first time I saw him
I threw myself at him in the street
And all that I told him
Was that I wanted him.
It was four o'clock in the morning
I was alone and I was in need
of talking to somebody
He told me "Let's go have a coffee"
and we shared the story of our lives
We laughed, and we cried
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
He's my only friend
There's only music in his head
He sells records in a shop
It's like he exists
in another galaxy
Every night, he takes me out dancing
In places that are fun and gay
Where he has so many friends
Yes, I know he only likes guys
And I should be sensible
And try to forget him, but....
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
He's not like the other guys
And I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back.
I'm a guy born into pollution
Nose to the wind,
I take a deep breath
For me smog is like a drug,
I can't do without
But nature and clean air,
they tend to make me cough
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
I'm a maniac for television
Just in playback
for some background noise
I need din in the night,
or I'm an insomniac
Don't like birds, don't like toads
They make me paranoid
When I go nighty-night
I need to hear a motorbike
The perfume of gasoline,
it calms my nerves
When I have a headache
I smoke a cigarette
And when I go jogging
among the buildings
Feet on the pavement,
I'm in my element!
Ev'ry Sunday
I will stay at home
Plug in the sound,
turn the volume up
Love to hear, near my ear
a ringing telephone
Countryside makes me blue,
it needs more CO2
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
I'm an agent of consumption
When I have dough,
I consume to the max
Get in debt 'cause I get
anything I come across
Throw myself like a slave
at every new gadget
Not a strife in my life,
just an average Joe
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
Bravo, bravo, bravo,
you just gave a good show!
Ziggy, what are you doing here?
I wasn't expecting you.
I wanted to show you
the letter I'm going to send
To compete on Starmania
What are you going to say?
I'll tell them about my life
You think that will be enough?
Your life?
But you don't know my life
And I want to tell them too
The things that l never told you...
Me, I was a mama's boy
And every night at bedtime
she'd say, "When you grow up..."
"You'll play Prince Charming
in Sleeping Beauty."
In Sleeping Beauty!
Every Saturday afternoon
While the other boys played
Football and volleyball
I took ballet classes
That must be why you had no friends!
When I was fifteen,
mother gave me
As a special birthday gift
A set of Tchaikovsky's complete works!
And I ran straight to the store,
on the next day, to give it back.
That was the day on which I met...
The first love of my life:
it was David Bowie
His music changed your life
I changed my name for him
You changed your name for him?
Ziggy! Ziggy!
I left my mother's house
I went back to the store
and they gave me a job
But now I know what I wanna do:
Yes now... I'm gonna be a drummer!
I'm gonna be a drummer!
I wanna be drumming rock!
I'm gonna be a drummer
I wanna be drumming rock!
The greatest drummer in the world!
He's not like the other guys
And I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back.
So Mr. Disco thinks he's a rock star
Johnny, you could show him
what a real rock star is
You could show him why
you're called Johnny Rockfort
Competitions for amateurs
aren't really my thing
I think that if anyone
should be on Starmania
It's not you, Ziggy,
it's rather Johnny!
That gives me an idea!
I'll call TeleCapital
and ask for Cristal
And pass myself off as a friend of hers
Someone I knew in another life
I'll offer her an interview
An exclusive with Johnny Rockfort
at the Underground Café
Underground block 30, corridor B
It's the scoop of a lifetime,
she can't pass it up
It's a hell of a scoop
if you're telling the truth
It's a hell of a scoop
if you're telling the truth
Three days late you should
have seen Cristal arrive
When Johnny Rockfort laid
eyes on her, it was all over
Like Sadia didn't exist anymore
It was all over, Sadia
didn't exist anymore...
Rolling!
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have before me tonight
Johnny Rockfort...
the leader of the Black Stars
Who for obvious reasons
won't be showing us his face!
Johnny Rockfort...
everybody talks about you
Johnny Rockfort...
who are you, where are you from?
Who is the real character
hiding behind all this makeup?
Johnny Rockfort...
do you want to be a star?
Johnny Rockfort...
why the Black Stars?
Is your terrorist philosophy
ecological or futuristic?
I don't care about politics
I've never read a newspaper
and I'm just as happy!
Johnny Rockfort...
a product of unemployment
Johnny Rockfort...
do you believe in marriage?
What kind of music do you like?
What's your astrological sign?
I am Johnny Rockfort
I was born in the northern projects
I grew up in the streets
I didn't choose to be a thug
My mother lost her mind
Because my father drank too much
I dropped school when I was fifteen
And I hopped onto the first train
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past, I've got no future
There's no future left on Earth.
What can we do?
There's no future left on Earth.
What can we do?
I've never worked in my life
But I've managed just fine
One day I found myself
At the Underground Café
That is where I met
All the friends I have today
When I don't know where to sleep
That's where I spend the night
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past, I've got no future
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past,
I've got no future
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
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No past!
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No past!
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No past!
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No past!
No future...!
Cut!
I was born
on the bright side of life
For a long time I stayed
an innocent little girl
But even I had to move one day
I wanted to live my life
When your name is "Cristal"
You tend to wish upon your star
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I'm a lot more like you than you think
I always wanted to meet an angel
I came into this world crying for help
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I came into this world crying for help
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I'm a lot more like you than you think
I always wanted to meet an angel
I came into this world crying for help
I need love...
A crowd of a hundred thousand,
say the organizers
Barely fifty thousand,
say the detractors
Gathered today in the municipal stadium
To hear Zéro Janvier unveil
his electoral program
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
To stop this new wave of terrorism
we'll take extreme measures
And impose a return to order
if we can't live in harmony:
We'll put the capital under martial law.
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Regarding the energy shortage,
you already know my strategy
Once we've emptied all the oceans
we'll go live somewhere else than Earth:
Our next capital will be a space station.
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
No more money for shithole countries
who only thank us with bombs anyway
We must take care of our people first!
I am the Occident's last chance.
I am the Occident's last chance.
We'll build a new atomic world
where man won't be a slave to nature
Leave the past to the nostalgic few
Long live the adventurous future!
Ladies and gentlemen, we must
interrupt our normal programming.
A special bulletin tells us that Cristal,
the smiling face of TeleCapital,
has been kidnapped during a brawl.
She went there with her neutron camera
to film the Black Stars in action.
You know you can't believe
everything they say on TV
If you want to know, if you ask me
I don't think that she
was kidnapped by Johnny
I think she ran away with him...
There's no future left on Earth
Something is off-course
In the solar system
Is there someone in the universe
Who could answer our questions?
Our prayers?
Our prayers...
Who will tell us
Why we are here
In this world that doesn't fit us
Who will tell us
Why we are here
In this world that doesn't fit us...
From New York to Tokyo
everywhere it's the same
We take the same train
to the same suburbs
Everyone in single file
At night, neon lights
replace the sunlight
And on every radio
it's the same disco
The day is gray, the night is blue
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Mirabelle or Roissy,
it's all the same
All around the world
are the same charter flights
To travel where the sky is blue
Once we'll forget
where to find sunlight
We'll move on to Mars or Jupiter
Everyone in single file
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Monopolis
There won't be any more foreigners
We will all be strangers
In the streets of Monopolis
We'll walk down the street,
hand in hand
Just like we did in 1980
Together in Monopolis
When our kids hit their twenties
We'll be from another time
A time before Monopolis
I can see us sitting on a bench
Alone in the middle of Monopolis
The police are all over town
It's gotten pretty quiet here
No one dares set foot in the
Underground Café anymore
And I read magazines
A glimpse of a sunnier life
where they drive limousines
And die of an overdose
The actress Stella Spotlight,
aka "la Divine"
Under pressure of
the feminist cause
threatening to turn
her into a martyr
decided to give up
the film industry.
Once she completes
her long-awaited film
In which, for the first time,
she won't be appearing nude
The movie is called
"Twilight Boulevard"
She's obviously not afraid of ridicule!
This film is a remake
of a famous classic
But she will change the plot
to better fit her life
And then she will retire
To her tropical villa
To write her memoirs
They called me Baby Doll
I was your idol
But I'm past the age
of my image
I should tie the knot
With an oil tycoon
I'm at that age,
time to turn the page
One day I'll say bye bye
To all this show business
To all this glitz, to all this stress
Bye bye to my youth
Oh, come and watch her die
The last sex symbol
Everyone come applaud
The end of an idol
I spent my life doing
only what they told me
Spent my life smothering
my own dreams and envies
Oh yes...
When I go out without makeup
nobody ever notices me
Not even those who dream of me
at night in their beds
You only see the surface
Of this Technicolor world
If you dream of being in my place
Come see the other side of the set
My drug is alcohol
I am old school
When I smoke weed
it doesn't do it for me
I'm afraid I'll go insane
Every night I dream of being raped
Me, who's always good
as a golden image
Like my divine image
Which you praise and adulate
My image in a magazine
Onto which you ejaculate
Alone in my Acropolis
I feel myself collapsing
I feel myself collapsing
It was just a flash in the pan
All this show business
Beneath the glitz there was stress
There was my youth
Oh, come and watch her die
The last sex symbol
Come and see, come and laugh
At the end of an idol
I wasted my life,
but I won't waste my exit
I wasted my life,
but I won't waste my goodbye party
Goodbye party
In front of the whole world's cameras
I'll descend the grand staircase
That leads to the bottom
of my gilded pool
Leave me, let me go
Leave me, let me die
Before I grow old
You who stole my whole life
Come snatch away my death
Leave me, let me go
Leave me, let me die
Before I grow old
You who have taken everything
Come and share my corpse
Oh yes...
I love you all and I blow you a kiss
I was only a meteor
Do you want to see my death up close?
It will be... in Technicolor!
Who could have sent me
This bundle of orchids?
It came with a telegram...
And it's signed: Zéro Janvier!
Allow me to impose, madame
It was with much emotion
that I learned of your intention
To leave your spectacular career behind
Let me remind you what you meant
to men of my generation
When we were on the front lines
defending the nation
Goddess of love,
goddess of war
I kept your photo with me
like a talisman
You guided my military career,
Would you like to govern
my political career?
Symbol of our values and our freedom
Would you honor me
by being by my side?
Would you honor me
by being by my side?
In the face of destiny,
I'm willing to give in...
To celebrate La Divine's farewell
the stars were out last night
At a grand ball for the premiere of her
latest movie at the Monopolis Opera.
Stella Spotlight made waves
when she arrived at the screening
With Zéro Janvier, the Western
World's most eligible bachelor
Stella Spotlight in
Twilight Boulevard
Meanwhile, still no news
on our friend Cristal
Who, we remind you, was kidnapped
a month ago, or so we think
By the Black Stars
I haven't seen Johnny or Sadia
since that fateful day
Apparently they're hiding
somewhere in an old warehouse
It would be hard to come out
with their girlfriend Cristal
They must be concocting
some lovely little scandal
Some lovely little scandal
Dearie, it's now time to claim
Responsibility for your abduction
Tonight I'm going to write up
A shocking press release
It would be a stronger move
To broadcast on TV
A recorded message where
I'd yell to the whole world:
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
I think that she is right
Let us do it in her way
We can see that the little boy
Has learned his lesson well
Okay, starting from today
I'm the one who calls the shots
Hey listen, I don't want to be
Second fiddle on the team
Well no one's keeping you here
Do whatever you want
Johnny, I'm warning you,
you're playing with fire!
Then his burning eyes met mine
Like a laser beam
And I was projected somewhere
Far beyond the Earth
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
The way the Earth needs the sun
I need love!
The way stars need other stars
I need love!
The way the sky needs the sea
I need love!
The way summer needs winter
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little love...
I need love!
The way I need music
I need love!
The way I need light
I need love!
The way I need water,
the way I need air
I need love!
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little,
just a little love
The way birds need their wings to fly
I need love!
The way the noon needs
the night to shine
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little love
I need love!
I need, I need, I need, I need,
I need, I need, I need, I need
I need love! I need love!
I need, I need, I need, I need,
I need, I need, I need, I need
I need love!
I need love...
COMMERCIAL BREAK
If you want a new man
Zéro is the man you need
If you want to go further with him
Vote for tomorrow, today!
ZERO IS THE MAN YOU NEED
After this ad of a rather
unusual nature
It's time for the long-awaited
interview with Zéro Janvier
Oh man, I don't want to miss that!
I'd better sit down,
there's gonna be trouble!
And here with the questions,
your friend Roger-Roger
What news do you have for us,
Mr. Zéro Janvier?
We'll build a new atomic world
Where mankind won't be a
slave to nature anymore
But don't you fear that your politics
might lead to a dictatorship?
A little courtesy, please!
I'm your guest!
I didn't come here to be insulted
It's not enough to repeat
your catchphrases
What will be the priorities
of your administration?
I'm here to talk about
making the world great again
Making a world where it
will feel great to exist
Where our first priority
Is to ensure our security
Are you referring to a police state?
Okay, sir, would you listen to me?
But what are you going
to do about poverty?
I'm here to talk about
prioritizing freedom
I'm talking about a world where
there won't be anything left
But order, beauty, luxury,
tranquility, and cleanliness.
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
Folks, apologies for that
unfortunate incident--
How could that happen?
It was organized sabotage!
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
This message from Cristal
was transmitted by spatial waves
The use of which is illegal!
Really, that Starmania will make
you do just about anything
I told you earlier that Cristal
was concocting a little scandal
As for Stella, let me tell you,
she's really hit a new low
If you want a new man, indeed
Zéro is the man you need!
Hurry up and get dressed
We'll be late for the concert
The proceeds go to cancer research
You know how important
it is for my career
Put on your white chinchilla-fur coat
The people who will be there tonight
Want to get their money's worth
I've had enough of working for you
I used to sell dreams,
now I'm selling vice
No, I'm on strike tonight
Then it's over between us
Then get out, I don't care!
I'm asking on bended knee
Will you marry me?
We only have one life, why share it?
Why be part of a pair
if it means living half a life?
Don't confuse love with pity
When you're unhappy
it's better to be with someone
We'll never be able to love each other
Without stepping on each others' toes
I'm with you because you're good for me
You're using me to achieve your own ends
Don't confuse love with work
We do whatever we can
to make ourselves happy
Yes, but we're never happy together
At the same time, no, no, no
Ego trip!
You're on an ego trip
Ego trip!
I'm on an ego trip
If we only love ourselves,
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an ego trip
My fortune at your feet
for an hour with you
I'd do anything it takes to possess you
One look from you and I'm in heaven
If you leave me I'm a ruined man
Do you want to be mine for life?
I'm begging you, say yes!
Ego trip!
You're on an ego trip
Ego trip!
I'm on an ego trip
If we only love ourselves
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an...
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, oh
Trip trip!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
If we only love ourselves
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an...
Ego trip!
Cristal has become the people's hero
Ever since we saw that spectacular image
Of her with Johnny Rockfort
dressed as a Dark Star
The poster has sold millions of copies
We have to do something big
Since I've been with you
I feel you pulling back
I've announced
on every channel
That I have joined your cause
I don't want to look ridiculous
All my life I've dreamed
of having someone to love
You know I'm afraid for you
We could leave all this behind
and start over again
I gave everything up for you
Don't make me doubt that decision
It's too late, we don't have a choice
We have to do something big
I thought that maybe we could
blow up a supermarket
Offer everyone a flaming hunk of meat
I have a better idea!
What if we blew up
the Golden Tower of Zéro Janvier?
We would make them all dance
surrounded by fire
They take us for fools
Whatever they think of us, we don't care
We don't care about anything
We don't care that we're unhappy
Our love is even deeper
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose
If you leave with me now
you'll never come back here
If I leave with you
I'll forget who I was
You'll be a fugitive!
If you chain yourself to me
you'll learn to like your chains
I'll attach myself to you
like ivy to an oak
Far from the tunnels
beneath Naziland
We're sure to find
a no man's land
Where we can live
desperately free
They take us for fools
Whatever they think of us, we don't care
We don't care about anything
We don't care about being unhappy
We're playing the real game
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose
Come with us, risk your lives
On highways filled with lunatics
Then you'll understand
how far we can go
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose!
Ziggy, what would I do without him?
He's my whole life
He always shows up at midnight
I'm afraid for him while I wait
I wonder what he's doing
I hope nothing happened to him
Oh, there you are! I was worried
Grab your coffee and I'll be ready
Marie-Jeanne, I'm sorry
Tonight we're not going dancing
I came to tell you something
That I guess will hurt your feelings
I'm not going to be stopping by
Every evening to take you dancing
I came to tell you I'm leaving
Our planets are parting ways
Ziggy, you're my only friend
You know I saw Sadia a few times
She got me a job as DJ at Naziland
Zéro Janvier's nightclub
What does Sadia have
to do with anything?
She has friends in high places
So she left the Black Stars behind?
If you want to know the truth...
Sadia works for Zéro Janvier.
Ziggy, you're pulling my leg!
Tell me it's not true!
Our planets are parting ways
From today until forever
Don't try to hold me back
Don't be angry if I go
Our planets are parting ways
Like night and day
What's the point of living
If you have to live without love?
What's the point of living
If you have to live without love?
We sleep pressed one against another
We live with one another
We caress each other,
cuddle each other
We understand each other,
console each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
We dance pressed one against another
We run after one another
We hate each other,
tear each other apart
We destroy each other,
desire each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
We sleep pressed one against another
We live with one another
We caress each other,
cuddle each other
We understand each other,
console each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
Still all alone in the world
I'm flying, flying, flying away
Sitting at the controls
Don't ask for anything slow
I'm the keeper of the disco
It's mechanical music
Apocalyptic music
I'm flying, flying, flying away
Sitting at the controls
Sitting at the controls
I'm flying away,
flying away...
I'm flying away sitting at the controls
To widespread surprise,
the actress Stella Spotlight
Has just announced her
marriage to Zéro Janvier
It will be a simple affair only,
at Notre-Dame of the Armies
Followed by a massive
reception at Naziland
The new rotating nightclub on top of the
Golden Tower owned by Zéro Janvier
The sun is shining on Naziland
On hundred-story buildings
I've got the whole world in my hand
On the hundred and twenty-first floor
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
We're already deep underground
It's back to the catacombs
Enclosed in massive tunnels
Man never sees his shadow anymore
The city has spread its wings
Spanning the entire country
The neon lights flash in the sky
And daytime looks like night
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
I know where the Black Stars are
I can tell you what they're planning
Don't be surprised when you see
them among your guests tonight
What are you talking about?
All the entrances are well-guarded
They're planting a bomb
right under your feet
You'd better go and verify
before they can escape
They won't get out alive
if we get there in time
The sun is shining on Naziland
On hundred-story buildings
I've got the whole world in my hand
On the hundred and twenty-first floor
Bombs are falling around us
No need to dig our graves
We'll all die partying
But who cares? Tonight we're dancing!
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
Help me please,
I need love...
Help me please,
I need love...
Why do I live, why do I die?
Why do I laugh, why do I cry?
This is an S.O.S.
from an Earthling in distress
I've never had my feet on the ground
I wish I'd been a bird
I'm not well in my skin
I'd like to see the world
turned upside down
It might be more beautiful
More beautiful from above
From above
I've always confused
real life with comics
I feel a desire to change
I feel something
Luring me, luring me
Luring me from on high
In the lottery of the universe
I must have drawn the short straw
I'm not well in my skin
Why do I live, why do I die?
Why do I scream, why do I cry?
I think I'm picking up waves
From another world
I've never had my feet on the ground
I wish I'd been a bird
I'm not well in my skin
I'd like to see the world
turned upside down
I wish I'd been a bird...
Sleep, child, sleep...
In a moment we'll know
the results of the election
In exactly three minutes,
we'll reveal the name
Of the President of the Occident
There were many candidates
But one person's positions
kept making headlines
Tonight we'll know
if yes or no
The popular vote is on his side
like the polls predicted.
Cristal's brutal death
and the arrest of Johnny Rockfort
have earned Zéro Janvier
a reputation for strength
which could lead him to
a resounding victory.
Folks, it's eight o'clock.
The winner is appearing
on your screens:
Zéro Janvier is President
of the Occident!
Here he is on the balcony
of the PPPP building
And Stella Spotlight has just arrived
at his side to make a speech
Stella Spotlight, we're listening
The honor of announcing
this victory falls to me
Zéro Janvier, the man at my side
Ladies and gentlemen,
you don't want to believe it
But after all, you're
the ones who voted
This was what the majority wanted
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
If you want to know
the moral of the story
Go home, take a look
at yourself in the mirror
Or just watch me cling to power,
See where to can lead
a desire to be a star
You'll be my victory,
I'll be your power
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
What's the point of wanting
to climb so high?
What's the point of wanting
to be so beautiful?
If nothing is left
at the end of the show
But the heat of a spotlight on your skin
The universe is a star system
And Earth is a speck of stardust
The moon will be my crown
At my cosmic wedding
The milky way will be my veil,
My wedding dress an aurora borealis
In front of my mirror
I dreamed of being a star
I dreamed of being immortally beautiful
Tonight I'll see through the mirror
Whether life is eternal
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could put on my big act
The way birds need their wings to fly
Whenever the plane touches down
The way the moon needs the night to shine
In Rotterdam or in Rio
Help me!
I would have liked to be an actor
The way the earth needs the sun
To change who I am each day
The way stars need the stars
And so I could look good
Help me!
On a giant color screen
I need love
So I could say why I exist
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
Stone...
The world is stone
I seek the sunlight
in the middle of the night
I don't know if the world
is turning upside-down
Or if it's just me making a scene
Making another scene
I seek the sunlight
in my darkest night
Stone, the world is stone
I don't want to fight anymore
I don't want to run anymore
Like all those clockwork people
Who build empires
Blowing away in the wind
Like a house of cards
Stone, the world is stone
Let me struggle
Don't come to my aid
Come finish me off instead
Put me out of my misery
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
Let me struggle
Don't come to my aid
Come finish me off instead
To put me out of my misery
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
And let me die...
everywhere it's the same
We take the same train
to the same suburbs
Everyone in single file
At night, neon lights
replace the sunlight
And on every radio
it's the same disco
The day is gray,
the night is blue
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Monopolis
There won't be any more foreigners
We will all be strangers
In the streets of Monopolis
Who are these millions of people?
Alone in the middle of Monopolis?
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This city where nothing ever happened
Where we wouldn't call the police
unless someone lost their dog
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This newfangled city, this model city
With its air-conditioned tunnels
And light-filtering glass buildings
And suburbs heated with solar power
Where there's no more summer,
where there's no more winter.
There's something afoot in Monopolis
This city built for our happiness
Is now home to our terror
They can't go out after
dark in New York or Rome
When the sun goes down...
The Occident is spooked.
There's something afoot in Monopolis
There's something afoot in Monopolis
When the sun goes down...
The Occident is spooked.
When everyone is asleep
in their suburban dorms
You'll see the Black Stars
descending on the town
Who's been attacking girls
in parking lots at night?
Who's been torching buildings?
It's always the Black Stars
So there's panic in the boulevards
When we hit the town!
When we hit the town,
people cross the street
We don't look that manly,
but give everyone a fright
Seeing guys in makeup
makes passersby laugh
But when they see blood
on our razor blades
It's like a flash
of lightning in the fog
When we hit the town!
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We don't have time
to wait till we're thirty
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We take what we can
in the meantime
When we hit the town
We come out of nowhere
We live in the streets,
we sleep in warehouses
We're quiet during the day
We go incognito
At night we change our colors
and strike at random
So get ready for a fight
When we hit the town!
When the underground city
is plunged into darkness
Anyone out for a walk
will end up on a stretcher
We don't have a motive
I know that may seem strange
Maybe we are just stupid,
maybe we're desperate
At least, that is what
headlines always say
When we hit the town!
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We don't have time
to wait till we're thirty
We just want to be happy
Be happy before we're old
We take what we can
in the meantime
By the year 2000,
we'll be in our forties
If we don't live it up now,
tomorrow it'll be too late
What are we doing tonight?
Maybe smash everything up?
If you go out dancing
don't come home too late
In case that we scratch your Jaguars
Get ready for a fight!
There's panic in the boulevards!
When we hit the town!
From the capital of the
occidental hemisphere
This is Roger-Roger with a recap
of national and international news
Ladies and gents, good evening.
In the headlines tonight
again: the Black Stars.
These terrorists keep adding to the list
of their gratuitous crimes
In the cover of darkness last night
a hundred people nearly lost their lives
when the ventilation system
in an underground habitation
out in the industrial zone
was disrupted with criminal intent.
Elsewhere, a group of motorists
with black stars on their brows
and guns in their hands
attacked the sky rail this morning.
An armed convoy has been called
to the capital by local police
to contain these Black Stars
who want to weaken the power
during this election cycle.
For details, see our editorial.
Sometimes I turn down the volume
on the television
And listen in on conversations
It's wild what you can hear,
it's wild what you can see
When you spend your life behind a bar
In a press conference
that landed like a bomb
The richest man in the world,
Zéro Janvier
Famous for building skyscrapers
Announced his official candidacy
for the elections which will appoint
the President of the Occident.
As uncontested leader of
the Party Promising Political Progress
Zéro Janvier is vowing to
make the city great again.
Here's a little sample
of his campaign promises:
We will build the new atomic world
Where mankind won't be
a slave to nature anymore
Leave the past to the nostalgic few
Long live the adventurous future!
If we want to keep the world
From becoming one totalitarian state
The Occident
must build a border wall
To protect from foreign influence
This just in:
A message from the Black Stars
Taking credit for last night's attack
A man called Johnny Rockfort
is the muscle of these Black Stars
I could tell you something
about the Black Stars
We see them every night
at the Underground Café
This is where they plot
all of their attacks
Under the direction of a certain Sadia
A revolutionary
A daddy's girl
Whose word is always law
But from the looks of her
You would never know
She just got out of university
Look, here she is...
Sadia!
When I walk down the street
I hear men murmuring
Look at that woman, such allure!
You don't see women like that anymore!
Is she a fallen star?
Is she a rising star?
Take a look at that hair!
That azure blue hair
If you could see me wholly naked
Could see me beneath these clothes
Gentlemen, you wouldn't be disappointed
To find out what I'm really like
You'd sell your souls
to sleep in my arms
You'd leave your wives
to run away with me
Don't call me "Madam"
If you don't know who I am
I am not a woman:
I am a genderfuck!
Fucking with your bodies
Fucking with your souls
Fucking with your dreams
Fucking with your dramas
Fucking with your days
Fucking with your nights
Fucking with your loves
Fucking with your lives
You'd sell your souls
to sleep in my arms
You'd leave your wives
to run away with me
Don't call me "Madam"
If you don't know who I am
I am not a woman:
I'm a genderfuck!
Fucking with your bodies
Fucking with your souls
Fucking with your dreams
Fucking with your dramas
Fucking with your days
Fucking with your nights
Fucking with your loves
Fucking with your lives
I'm everything you want
I'm everything you think
I'm your wounded loves
Your stolen youth
I'm your secret desires
And your smothered hate
I'm sex demystified
I'm violence personified
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
Genderfuck!
The first time she came in
To the Underground Café
Everyone fell silent at once
And Johnny Rockfort stood up
She approached him
and introduced herself
They stood by the bar
and talked all night...
Flashback!
I've heard about you and
your little group of friends
You're making a lot of noise
but you could go further
What do you mean by that?
We have to break Zéro Janvier
He's the enemy number one
We have to do everything to stop him
From gaining even further ground
But I don't think like that!
You're exactly what I need
to reach my own ends
If you follow me, you'll be somebody
You'll be the leader of the Black Stars
And we'll seize power!
Why such a weird name?
"The Black Stars"?
Because in underground tunnels
starlight doesn't reach too far
Mr. Johnny Rockfort!
Because in underground tunnels
starlight doesn't reach too far
Mr. Johnny Rockfort!
There you go, that's how it all started
After that day Johnny
never left Sadia's side
And the Black Stars were on the
front page of every newspaper
Deep down, Johnny only wanted
to make people talk about him
You could say he succeeded
We all have to make the best of life
But I don't get involved in things
that aren't my business
I didn't ask to exist
I just want to be left in peace
I don't want to do
what everyone else does
But I have to pay my rent
I work at the Underground Café
I'm just a clockwork waitress
And that gives me time to dream
Even when I can't stay on my feet
I'm always ready to fly away
I work at the Underground Café
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun
What will I do today?
What will I do tomorrow?
I ask myself every morning
What am I doing with my life?
I don't want anything in particular
I just want to be okay
I don't want to work just
for the sake of working
To earn my living, as they say
I just want to do something I enjoy
I don't know what I enjoy,
that's my problem
Sometimes I pick at the guitar
It's that all I can do with my hands
I never wanted to be a star
I just want to be myself
This life isn't me
I work at the Underground Café
It's been a long time
since I saw the sun
In this underground existence
Every day is the same here
My life has no meaning
I'm like a broken neon light
I work at the Underground Café
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun.
What will I do today?
What will I do tomorrow?
I ask myself every morning
What am I doing with my life?
I don't ask for much
I just want to be okay
One day you'll see the clockwork
waitress get out of this place
And start a tomato garden in the sun
In the sun
In the sun
Now it's time for the favorite
show of kids of all ages!
The number one show in all the polls:
Starmania, presented by Cristal,
the smiling face of TeleCapital.
PRESENTED BY CRISTAL
Why is it him, and why not me?
Starmania!
What's he have that you don't have?
Starmania!
Would you like to play with me?
A game that is called "Starmania"?
Write to me,
and tell me all
About your life,
about your dreams
Tell me who you wish you were
And who knows? Maybe you could be
My star for a night!
Starmania!
Her guest today: Zéro Janvier,
head of the PPPP,
whom she met in his office
in the Golden Tower
Where he granted her a
passionate, impassioned interview.
Here are some of the highlights:
Zéro Janvier, you're a man of the future
What advice do you have to give
To all the kids who dream of success?
"Believe in yourself",
that's all I can say
Every morning I receive tons of mail
From kids asking me to give them a shot
Look at me, I came from nothing
We each forge our own paths
Ladies, Lords and Gentlemen
Tonight before me is a man
who every woman wants to know
For a moment, Zéro Janvier,
I'll ask you to forget
The rich and famous businessman
You know my question:
If you weren't who you are
Tell me who you would like to be?
I've been successful in business
I've been successful in love
I go through a lot of secretaries
My office is at the top of a tower
From which I see the town upside-down
From which I control my own world
I've spent half my life in the clouds
Between New York and Singapore
I always travel first class
I have vacation homes
In every Hilton on Earth
I can't tolerate misery
But are you happy?
I'm not happy, though I seem to be
I lost my sense of humor
When I got my business sense
I've been successful and I'm proud
Deep down I only have one regret
I'm not doing what I wanted
What do you want, old boy?
We do what we can in life,
Not what we want...
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could put on my big act
Whenever the plane touches down
In Rotterdam or in Rio
I would have liked to be a singer
So I could cry out who I am
I would have liked to be an author
So I could invent my life
So I could invent my life
I would have liked to be an actor
To change who I am each day
So I could think that I look good
On a giant color screen
On a giant color screen
I would have liked to be a artist
So I could recreate the world
So I could be an anarchist
And live like a millionaire
And live like a millionaire
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could say why I exist...
Would you like to play with me?
A game that is called "Starmania"?
Starmania!
Starmania!
Starmania, Starmania, that's not me
But I know a boy whose only goal
Is to be on that show
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
He's not like the other guys
But I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
The first time I saw him
I threw myself at him in the street
And all that I told him
Was that I wanted him.
It was four o'clock in the morning
I was alone and I was in need
of talking to somebody
He told me "Let's go have a coffee"
and we shared the story of our lives
We laughed, and we cried
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
He's my only friend
There's only music in his head
He sells records in a shop
It's like he exists
in another galaxy
Every night, he takes me out dancing
In places that are fun and gay
Where he has so many friends
Yes, I know he only likes guys
And I should be sensible
And try to forget him, but....
Ziggy, his name is Ziggy
I'm crazy about him
He's not like the other guys
And I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back.
I'm a guy born into pollution
Nose to the wind,
I take a deep breath
For me smog is like a drug,
I can't do without
But nature and clean air,
they tend to make me cough
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
I'm a maniac for television
Just in playback
for some background noise
I need din in the night,
or I'm an insomniac
Don't like birds, don't like toads
They make me paranoid
When I go nighty-night
I need to hear a motorbike
The perfume of gasoline,
it calms my nerves
When I have a headache
I smoke a cigarette
And when I go jogging
among the buildings
Feet on the pavement,
I'm in my element!
Ev'ry Sunday
I will stay at home
Plug in the sound,
turn the volume up
Love to hear, near my ear
a ringing telephone
Countryside makes me blue,
it needs more CO2
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
I'm an agent of consumption
When I have dough,
I consume to the max
Get in debt 'cause I get
anything I come across
Throw myself like a slave
at every new gadget
Not a strife in my life,
just an average Joe
Comfy in my own skin
like a fish in a stream!
Bravo, bravo, bravo,
you just gave a good show!
Ziggy, what are you doing here?
I wasn't expecting you.
I wanted to show you
the letter I'm going to send
To compete on Starmania
What are you going to say?
I'll tell them about my life
You think that will be enough?
Your life?
But you don't know my life
And I want to tell them too
The things that l never told you...
Me, I was a mama's boy
And every night at bedtime
she'd say, "When you grow up..."
"You'll play Prince Charming
in Sleeping Beauty."
In Sleeping Beauty!
Every Saturday afternoon
While the other boys played
Football and volleyball
I took ballet classes
That must be why you had no friends!
When I was fifteen,
mother gave me
As a special birthday gift
A set of Tchaikovsky's complete works!
And I ran straight to the store,
on the next day, to give it back.
That was the day on which I met...
The first love of my life:
it was David Bowie
His music changed your life
I changed my name for him
You changed your name for him?
Ziggy! Ziggy!
I left my mother's house
I went back to the store
and they gave me a job
But now I know what I wanna do:
Yes now... I'm gonna be a drummer!
I'm gonna be a drummer!
I wanna be drumming rock!
I'm gonna be a drummer
I wanna be drumming rock!
The greatest drummer in the world!
He's not like the other guys
And I can't help loving him
Even if I know
That he will never love me back.
So Mr. Disco thinks he's a rock star
Johnny, you could show him
what a real rock star is
You could show him why
you're called Johnny Rockfort
Competitions for amateurs
aren't really my thing
I think that if anyone
should be on Starmania
It's not you, Ziggy,
it's rather Johnny!
That gives me an idea!
I'll call TeleCapital
and ask for Cristal
And pass myself off as a friend of hers
Someone I knew in another life
I'll offer her an interview
An exclusive with Johnny Rockfort
at the Underground Café
Underground block 30, corridor B
It's the scoop of a lifetime,
she can't pass it up
It's a hell of a scoop
if you're telling the truth
It's a hell of a scoop
if you're telling the truth
Three days late you should
have seen Cristal arrive
When Johnny Rockfort laid
eyes on her, it was all over
Like Sadia didn't exist anymore
It was all over, Sadia
didn't exist anymore...
Rolling!
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have before me tonight
Johnny Rockfort...
the leader of the Black Stars
Who for obvious reasons
won't be showing us his face!
Johnny Rockfort...
everybody talks about you
Johnny Rockfort...
who are you, where are you from?
Who is the real character
hiding behind all this makeup?
Johnny Rockfort...
do you want to be a star?
Johnny Rockfort...
why the Black Stars?
Is your terrorist philosophy
ecological or futuristic?
I don't care about politics
I've never read a newspaper
and I'm just as happy!
Johnny Rockfort...
a product of unemployment
Johnny Rockfort...
do you believe in marriage?
What kind of music do you like?
What's your astrological sign?
I am Johnny Rockfort
I was born in the northern projects
I grew up in the streets
I didn't choose to be a thug
My mother lost her mind
Because my father drank too much
I dropped school when I was fifteen
And I hopped onto the first train
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past, I've got no future
There's no future left on Earth.
What can we do?
There's no future left on Earth.
What can we do?
I've never worked in my life
But I've managed just fine
One day I found myself
At the Underground Café
That is where I met
All the friends I have today
When I don't know where to sleep
That's where I spend the night
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past, I've got no future
Godless, lawless
I want to live and die
with no house or home
I don't want to go back
to sleep in the projects
I burned all bridges when I left
I've got no past,
I've got no future
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
(No past!)
No future!
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
(No future!)
No past!
No future...!
Cut!
I was born
on the bright side of life
For a long time I stayed
an innocent little girl
But even I had to move one day
I wanted to live my life
When your name is "Cristal"
You tend to wish upon your star
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I'm a lot more like you than you think
I always wanted to meet an angel
I came into this world crying for help
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I came into this world crying for help
Whether we come from above or below
What difference does it make deep down?
I'm a lot more like you than you think
I always wanted to meet an angel
I came into this world crying for help
I need love...
A crowd of a hundred thousand,
say the organizers
Barely fifty thousand,
say the detractors
Gathered today in the municipal stadium
To hear Zéro Janvier unveil
his electoral program
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
To stop this new wave of terrorism
we'll take extreme measures
And impose a return to order
if we can't live in harmony:
We'll put the capital under martial law.
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
Regarding the energy shortage,
you already know my strategy
Once we've emptied all the oceans
we'll go live somewhere else than Earth:
Our next capital will be a space station.
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
No more money for shithole countries
who only thank us with bombs anyway
We must take care of our people first!
I am the Occident's last chance.
I am the Occident's last chance.
We'll build a new atomic world
where man won't be a slave to nature
Leave the past to the nostalgic few
Long live the adventurous future!
Ladies and gentlemen, we must
interrupt our normal programming.
A special bulletin tells us that Cristal,
the smiling face of TeleCapital,
has been kidnapped during a brawl.
She went there with her neutron camera
to film the Black Stars in action.
You know you can't believe
everything they say on TV
If you want to know, if you ask me
I don't think that she
was kidnapped by Johnny
I think she ran away with him...
There's no future left on Earth
Something is off-course
In the solar system
Is there someone in the universe
Who could answer our questions?
Our prayers?
Our prayers...
Who will tell us
Why we are here
In this world that doesn't fit us
Who will tell us
Why we are here
In this world that doesn't fit us...
From New York to Tokyo
everywhere it's the same
We take the same train
to the same suburbs
Everyone in single file
At night, neon lights
replace the sunlight
And on every radio
it's the same disco
The day is gray, the night is blue
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Mirabelle or Roissy,
it's all the same
All around the world
are the same charter flights
To travel where the sky is blue
Once we'll forget
where to find sunlight
We'll move on to Mars or Jupiter
Everyone in single file
In the cities of the year 2000
Life will be so much easier
We'll each have a number
on our backs
And a star on our skin
We'll blissfully follow the herd
In the cities of the year 2000
Monopolis
There won't be any more foreigners
We will all be strangers
In the streets of Monopolis
We'll walk down the street,
hand in hand
Just like we did in 1980
Together in Monopolis
When our kids hit their twenties
We'll be from another time
A time before Monopolis
I can see us sitting on a bench
Alone in the middle of Monopolis
The police are all over town
It's gotten pretty quiet here
No one dares set foot in the
Underground Café anymore
And I read magazines
A glimpse of a sunnier life
where they drive limousines
And die of an overdose
The actress Stella Spotlight,
aka "la Divine"
Under pressure of
the feminist cause
threatening to turn
her into a martyr
decided to give up
the film industry.
Once she completes
her long-awaited film
In which, for the first time,
she won't be appearing nude
The movie is called
"Twilight Boulevard"
She's obviously not afraid of ridicule!
This film is a remake
of a famous classic
But she will change the plot
to better fit her life
And then she will retire
To her tropical villa
To write her memoirs
They called me Baby Doll
I was your idol
But I'm past the age
of my image
I should tie the knot
With an oil tycoon
I'm at that age,
time to turn the page
One day I'll say bye bye
To all this show business
To all this glitz, to all this stress
Bye bye to my youth
Oh, come and watch her die
The last sex symbol
Everyone come applaud
The end of an idol
I spent my life doing
only what they told me
Spent my life smothering
my own dreams and envies
Oh yes...
When I go out without makeup
nobody ever notices me
Not even those who dream of me
at night in their beds
You only see the surface
Of this Technicolor world
If you dream of being in my place
Come see the other side of the set
My drug is alcohol
I am old school
When I smoke weed
it doesn't do it for me
I'm afraid I'll go insane
Every night I dream of being raped
Me, who's always good
as a golden image
Like my divine image
Which you praise and adulate
My image in a magazine
Onto which you ejaculate
Alone in my Acropolis
I feel myself collapsing
I feel myself collapsing
It was just a flash in the pan
All this show business
Beneath the glitz there was stress
There was my youth
Oh, come and watch her die
The last sex symbol
Come and see, come and laugh
At the end of an idol
I wasted my life,
but I won't waste my exit
I wasted my life,
but I won't waste my goodbye party
Goodbye party
In front of the whole world's cameras
I'll descend the grand staircase
That leads to the bottom
of my gilded pool
Leave me, let me go
Leave me, let me die
Before I grow old
You who stole my whole life
Come snatch away my death
Leave me, let me go
Leave me, let me die
Before I grow old
You who have taken everything
Come and share my corpse
Oh yes...
I love you all and I blow you a kiss
I was only a meteor
Do you want to see my death up close?
It will be... in Technicolor!
Who could have sent me
This bundle of orchids?
It came with a telegram...
And it's signed: Zéro Janvier!
Allow me to impose, madame
It was with much emotion
that I learned of your intention
To leave your spectacular career behind
Let me remind you what you meant
to men of my generation
When we were on the front lines
defending the nation
Goddess of love,
goddess of war
I kept your photo with me
like a talisman
You guided my military career,
Would you like to govern
my political career?
Symbol of our values and our freedom
Would you honor me
by being by my side?
Would you honor me
by being by my side?
In the face of destiny,
I'm willing to give in...
To celebrate La Divine's farewell
the stars were out last night
At a grand ball for the premiere of her
latest movie at the Monopolis Opera.
Stella Spotlight made waves
when she arrived at the screening
With Zéro Janvier, the Western
World's most eligible bachelor
Stella Spotlight in
Twilight Boulevard
Meanwhile, still no news
on our friend Cristal
Who, we remind you, was kidnapped
a month ago, or so we think
By the Black Stars
I haven't seen Johnny or Sadia
since that fateful day
Apparently they're hiding
somewhere in an old warehouse
It would be hard to come out
with their girlfriend Cristal
They must be concocting
some lovely little scandal
Some lovely little scandal
Dearie, it's now time to claim
Responsibility for your abduction
Tonight I'm going to write up
A shocking press release
It would be a stronger move
To broadcast on TV
A recorded message where
I'd yell to the whole world:
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
I think that she is right
Let us do it in her way
We can see that the little boy
Has learned his lesson well
Okay, starting from today
I'm the one who calls the shots
Hey listen, I don't want to be
Second fiddle on the team
Well no one's keeping you here
Do whatever you want
Johnny, I'm warning you,
you're playing with fire!
Then his burning eyes met mine
Like a laser beam
And I was projected somewhere
Far beyond the Earth
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
The way the Earth needs the sun
I need love!
The way stars need other stars
I need love!
The way the sky needs the sea
I need love!
The way summer needs winter
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little love...
I need love!
The way I need music
I need love!
The way I need light
I need love!
The way I need water,
the way I need air
I need love!
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little,
just a little love
The way birds need their wings to fly
I need love!
The way the noon needs
the night to shine
I need love!
I need love!
Just a little love
I need love!
I need, I need, I need, I need,
I need, I need, I need, I need
I need love! I need love!
I need, I need, I need, I need,
I need, I need, I need, I need
I need love!
I need love...
COMMERCIAL BREAK
If you want a new man
Zéro is the man you need
If you want to go further with him
Vote for tomorrow, today!
ZERO IS THE MAN YOU NEED
After this ad of a rather
unusual nature
It's time for the long-awaited
interview with Zéro Janvier
Oh man, I don't want to miss that!
I'd better sit down,
there's gonna be trouble!
And here with the questions,
your friend Roger-Roger
What news do you have for us,
Mr. Zéro Janvier?
We'll build a new atomic world
Where mankind won't be a
slave to nature anymore
But don't you fear that your politics
might lead to a dictatorship?
A little courtesy, please!
I'm your guest!
I didn't come here to be insulted
It's not enough to repeat
your catchphrases
What will be the priorities
of your administration?
I'm here to talk about
making the world great again
Making a world where it
will feel great to exist
Where our first priority
Is to ensure our security
Are you referring to a police state?
Okay, sir, would you listen to me?
But what are you going
to do about poverty?
I'm here to talk about
prioritizing freedom
I'm talking about a world where
there won't be anything left
But order, beauty, luxury,
tranquility, and cleanliness.
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
Folks, apologies for that
unfortunate incident--
How could that happen?
It was organized sabotage!
Help me please,
I need love!
Help me please,
I need love!
This message from Cristal
was transmitted by spatial waves
The use of which is illegal!
Really, that Starmania will make
you do just about anything
I told you earlier that Cristal
was concocting a little scandal
As for Stella, let me tell you,
she's really hit a new low
If you want a new man, indeed
Zéro is the man you need!
Hurry up and get dressed
We'll be late for the concert
The proceeds go to cancer research
You know how important
it is for my career
Put on your white chinchilla-fur coat
The people who will be there tonight
Want to get their money's worth
I've had enough of working for you
I used to sell dreams,
now I'm selling vice
No, I'm on strike tonight
Then it's over between us
Then get out, I don't care!
I'm asking on bended knee
Will you marry me?
We only have one life, why share it?
Why be part of a pair
if it means living half a life?
Don't confuse love with pity
When you're unhappy
it's better to be with someone
We'll never be able to love each other
Without stepping on each others' toes
I'm with you because you're good for me
You're using me to achieve your own ends
Don't confuse love with work
We do whatever we can
to make ourselves happy
Yes, but we're never happy together
At the same time, no, no, no
Ego trip!
You're on an ego trip
Ego trip!
I'm on an ego trip
If we only love ourselves,
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an ego trip
My fortune at your feet
for an hour with you
I'd do anything it takes to possess you
One look from you and I'm in heaven
If you leave me I'm a ruined man
Do you want to be mine for life?
I'm begging you, say yes!
Ego trip!
You're on an ego trip
Ego trip!
I'm on an ego trip
If we only love ourselves
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an...
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
Ego, ego, ego, oh
Trip trip!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah...
Ego, ego, ego, ego
Trip trip!
If we only love ourselves
how can we love each other?
Ego trip!
We're both on an...
Ego trip!
Cristal has become the people's hero
Ever since we saw that spectacular image
Of her with Johnny Rockfort
dressed as a Dark Star
The poster has sold millions of copies
We have to do something big
Since I've been with you
I feel you pulling back
I've announced
on every channel
That I have joined your cause
I don't want to look ridiculous
All my life I've dreamed
of having someone to love
You know I'm afraid for you
We could leave all this behind
and start over again
I gave everything up for you
Don't make me doubt that decision
It's too late, we don't have a choice
We have to do something big
I thought that maybe we could
blow up a supermarket
Offer everyone a flaming hunk of meat
I have a better idea!
What if we blew up
the Golden Tower of Zéro Janvier?
We would make them all dance
surrounded by fire
They take us for fools
Whatever they think of us, we don't care
We don't care about anything
We don't care that we're unhappy
Our love is even deeper
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose
If you leave with me now
you'll never come back here
If I leave with you
I'll forget who I was
You'll be a fugitive!
If you chain yourself to me
you'll learn to like your chains
I'll attach myself to you
like ivy to an oak
Far from the tunnels
beneath Naziland
We're sure to find
a no man's land
Where we can live
desperately free
They take us for fools
Whatever they think of us, we don't care
We don't care about anything
We don't care about being unhappy
We're playing the real game
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose
Come with us, risk your lives
On highways filled with lunatics
Then you'll understand
how far we can go
When there's nothing left to lose
When there's nothing left to lose!
Ziggy, what would I do without him?
He's my whole life
He always shows up at midnight
I'm afraid for him while I wait
I wonder what he's doing
I hope nothing happened to him
Oh, there you are! I was worried
Grab your coffee and I'll be ready
Marie-Jeanne, I'm sorry
Tonight we're not going dancing
I came to tell you something
That I guess will hurt your feelings
I'm not going to be stopping by
Every evening to take you dancing
I came to tell you I'm leaving
Our planets are parting ways
Ziggy, you're my only friend
You know I saw Sadia a few times
She got me a job as DJ at Naziland
Zéro Janvier's nightclub
What does Sadia have
to do with anything?
She has friends in high places
So she left the Black Stars behind?
If you want to know the truth...
Sadia works for Zéro Janvier.
Ziggy, you're pulling my leg!
Tell me it's not true!
Our planets are parting ways
From today until forever
Don't try to hold me back
Don't be angry if I go
Our planets are parting ways
Like night and day
What's the point of living
If you have to live without love?
What's the point of living
If you have to live without love?
We sleep pressed one against another
We live with one another
We caress each other,
cuddle each other
We understand each other,
console each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
We dance pressed one against another
We run after one another
We hate each other,
tear each other apart
We destroy each other,
desire each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
We sleep pressed one against another
We live with one another
We caress each other,
cuddle each other
We understand each other,
console each other
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
But at the end of the story
We find we're still alone in the world
Still all alone in the world
I'm flying, flying, flying away
Sitting at the controls
Don't ask for anything slow
I'm the keeper of the disco
It's mechanical music
Apocalyptic music
I'm flying, flying, flying away
Sitting at the controls
Sitting at the controls
I'm flying away,
flying away...
I'm flying away sitting at the controls
To widespread surprise,
the actress Stella Spotlight
Has just announced her
marriage to Zéro Janvier
It will be a simple affair only,
at Notre-Dame of the Armies
Followed by a massive
reception at Naziland
The new rotating nightclub on top of the
Golden Tower owned by Zéro Janvier
The sun is shining on Naziland
On hundred-story buildings
I've got the whole world in my hand
On the hundred and twenty-first floor
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
We're already deep underground
It's back to the catacombs
Enclosed in massive tunnels
Man never sees his shadow anymore
The city has spread its wings
Spanning the entire country
The neon lights flash in the sky
And daytime looks like night
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
I know where the Black Stars are
I can tell you what they're planning
Don't be surprised when you see
them among your guests tonight
What are you talking about?
All the entrances are well-guarded
They're planting a bomb
right under your feet
You'd better go and verify
before they can escape
They won't get out alive
if we get there in time
The sun is shining on Naziland
On hundred-story buildings
I've got the whole world in my hand
On the hundred and twenty-first floor
Bombs are falling around us
No need to dig our graves
We'll all die partying
But who cares? Tonight we're dancing!
Tonight we dance,
tonight we dance
We dance at Naziland
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
Tonight we dance!
Help me please,
I need love...
Help me please,
I need love...
Why do I live, why do I die?
Why do I laugh, why do I cry?
This is an S.O.S.
from an Earthling in distress
I've never had my feet on the ground
I wish I'd been a bird
I'm not well in my skin
I'd like to see the world
turned upside down
It might be more beautiful
More beautiful from above
From above
I've always confused
real life with comics
I feel a desire to change
I feel something
Luring me, luring me
Luring me from on high
In the lottery of the universe
I must have drawn the short straw
I'm not well in my skin
Why do I live, why do I die?
Why do I scream, why do I cry?
I think I'm picking up waves
From another world
I've never had my feet on the ground
I wish I'd been a bird
I'm not well in my skin
I'd like to see the world
turned upside down
I wish I'd been a bird...
Sleep, child, sleep...
In a moment we'll know
the results of the election
In exactly three minutes,
we'll reveal the name
Of the President of the Occident
There were many candidates
But one person's positions
kept making headlines
Tonight we'll know
if yes or no
The popular vote is on his side
like the polls predicted.
Cristal's brutal death
and the arrest of Johnny Rockfort
have earned Zéro Janvier
a reputation for strength
which could lead him to
a resounding victory.
Folks, it's eight o'clock.
The winner is appearing
on your screens:
Zéro Janvier is President
of the Occident!
Here he is on the balcony
of the PPPP building
And Stella Spotlight has just arrived
at his side to make a speech
Stella Spotlight, we're listening
The honor of announcing
this victory falls to me
Zéro Janvier, the man at my side
Ladies and gentlemen,
you don't want to believe it
But after all, you're
the ones who voted
This was what the majority wanted
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
If you want to know
the moral of the story
Go home, take a look
at yourself in the mirror
Or just watch me cling to power,
See where to can lead
a desire to be a star
You'll be my victory,
I'll be your power
Zéro Janvier,
President of the Occident!
What's the point of wanting
to climb so high?
What's the point of wanting
to be so beautiful?
If nothing is left
at the end of the show
But the heat of a spotlight on your skin
The universe is a star system
And Earth is a speck of stardust
The moon will be my crown
At my cosmic wedding
The milky way will be my veil,
My wedding dress an aurora borealis
In front of my mirror
I dreamed of being a star
I dreamed of being immortally beautiful
Tonight I'll see through the mirror
Whether life is eternal
I would have liked to be an artist
So I could put on my big act
The way birds need their wings to fly
Whenever the plane touches down
The way the moon needs the night to shine
In Rotterdam or in Rio
Help me!
I would have liked to be an actor
The way the earth needs the sun
To change who I am each day
The way stars need the stars
And so I could look good
Help me!
On a giant color screen
I need love
So I could say why I exist
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
Stone...
The world is stone
I seek the sunlight
in the middle of the night
I don't know if the world
is turning upside-down
Or if it's just me making a scene
Making another scene
I seek the sunlight
in my darkest night
Stone, the world is stone
I don't want to fight anymore
I don't want to run anymore
Like all those clockwork people
Who build empires
Blowing away in the wind
Like a house of cards
Stone, the world is stone
Let me struggle
Don't come to my aid
Come finish me off instead
Put me out of my misery
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
Let me struggle
Don't come to my aid
Come finish me off instead
To put me out of my misery
My head is pounding
I just want to sleep
Lay down on the asphalt
And let myself die
And let me die...