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Toss some French lyrics into an American pop song and you immediately turn up the heat (cue Beyonce's "Partition," Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"). But when foreign artists attempt to crack the Billboard charts with a single in their native tongue, audiences tend to turn a deaf ear. (The last time a non-
Toss some French lyrics into an American pop song and you immediately turn up the heat (cue Beyonce's Partition, Lady Gaga's Bad Romance). But when foreign artists attempt to crack the Billboard charts with a single in their native tongue, audiences tend to turn a deaf ear. (The last time a non
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Belgian phenomenon Stromae takes music to North America