is best known as the frontman for the Britpop sensation Pulp before launching a successful solo career. Cocker voiced a character in Anderson’s 2009 animated film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and worked on a “French Dispatch” companion album of covers of French pop songs titled “Chansons d’Ennui” under the name of a fictional popstar Tip-Top referenced in the film.tells the tale of a “New Yorker”-esque English-language publication based in the fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France.
In the section with McDormand and Chalamet, titled “Revisions to a Manifesto,” the Chantal Goya song “Tu m’as trop menti,” also heard in Jean-Luc Godard’s aching 1966 portrait of young lovers, “Masculin Féminin,” is used, expanding the matrix of references. Among the songs covered by Cocker as Tip-Top is “Mao Mao,” originally performed by Claude Channes in Godard’s 1967 satire of student revolutionaries “La Chinoise.
“I wanted it to be a kind of sincere love letter to French pop music,” said Cocker recently from England. “I didn’t want it to be in any way kind of a pastiche-type thing. And that also meant that I had to work on my French pronunciation and stuff like that. So that to a French person listening to it, they wouldn’t listen and think, ‘Oh, that’s disrespectful’ or ‘That just doesn’t make sense.’”
“So that kind of obviated the choice of Jarvis,” said Poster. “And really the Tip-Top record was born out of the fact we were recording it in London with Jarvis and we’re like, ‘This is so great. Let’s do a whole record, a whole Tip-Top record.’ And then the three of us just had a fun time picking songs and talking about it.”
“He’s got good taste in music,” said Cocker. “I mean, for instance, that song ‘Aline’ that we do. So he played me that song before, I knew that was one of his favorite French pop songs. He just played me that as a thing of like, ‘Hey, listen to this song that I really like.’ And then years later he obviously thought it would be the song to use in that particular sequence in the film.
“I absolutely love it. It’s one of the great pleasures of my life,” said Poster of potentially bringing this music to new audiences as Anderson’s soundtracks have previously renewed interest in a wide array of artists.
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