Vogue Paris Translation: Editorial, December 2011/January 2012
mercredi 11 janvier 2012 
Here is my translation from French to English of Emmanuelle Alt's editorial for the December/January issue of Vogue Paris in which she explains her decision to celebrate music in the issue rather than to follow the tradition of a guest editor that was established by Carine Roitfeld in recent years. I am not sure if she is leading off with a reference to the Beach Boys or Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch....
Bonne vibrations
Qu'elle parle d'amour, d'amitié, d'ici ou d'ailleurs, qu'elle évoque la nuit, la solitude, des gouffres ou des dérives, une chanson est une émotion. Si elle nous touche, c'est dans l'instant et sans doute pour toujours : ce fut mon cas avec les tempos électrisants de La Fièvre du samedi soir et de Grease, sortis à quelques mois d'écart. Les flirts d'été, les dance-floors trépidants, les rêves les yeux ouverts, les corps rapprochés : tout cela passe en remix sur la bande-son de nos tubes préférés. Pour ce numéro de Nöel exceptionnel, Vogue monte le son. Pas une guest-star, comme ces dernières années, mais une pléiade d'artistes qui donnent vie au sortilège de la musique. Compositeurs, producteurs, interprètes. Rockeurs, crooners, rappeurs, divas pop, soul, R'n'B. Légendes vivantes et jeunes pousses tendres. Idoles inoxydables et nouvelle vague chahutante. A Paris, Londres et New York, ils ont tous accepté notre invitation : de Charles Aznavour à Lou Reed, de Kanye West à Debbie Harry, de Ciara à Françoise Hardy, de Boy George à Etienne Daho. Plus d'une vingtaine de stars, toutes scènes confondues, orchestrent cette performance sensationnelle.
Good vibrations
It speaks of love, of friendship, here or elsewhere, it evokes the night, the loneliness, the abysses or the excesses, a song is an emotion. If it affects us, it is in the moment and probably forever: that was my case with the electrifying tempos of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, released a few months apart. The summer flirtations, the hectic dance floors, the dreams with eyes open, the bodies close together, this all goes into remixing the soundtrack of our favorite songs. For this special Christmas issue, Vogue turns up the sound. Not a guest star, as in recent years, but a host of artists who give life to the spell of music. Composers, producers, performers. Rockers, crooners, rappers, divas of pop, soul, R'n'B. Living legends and tender shoots. Stainless idols and new wave hecklers. In Paris, London and New York, they all accepted our invitation: from Charles Aznavour to Lou Reed, from Kanye West to Debbie Harry, from Ciara to Françoise Hardy, from Boy George to Etienne Daho. More than twenty stars, all stages combined, orchestrate this sensational performance.
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Emmanuelle Alt in Editorial, Music, Translation, Vogue Paris
Reader Comments (6)
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I utterly concur with your every remark except that I do think Lou Reed is talented. The Velvet Underground's influence on music is severely underrated. Would LOVE to have seen Adele here. As for Boy George, I guess she couldn't score her boy, George Michael... Do you really want to hurt me... I know that no guest editor hurt me...