(We've lost this notion today of handsome boys)
(When are they going to bring us some good-looking guys?)
(Or sublime girls?)
(After all, would you put a poster of Hoshi in your room?)
(But she is frightening)
(This girl has talent, really)
(But she should give her songs to sublime girls)

What is this musical era
Where we have to listen to those who have talent
Who have guts, who have balls, who are hungry
These little authors, overwhelming guitar scratchers?
What we want is beauty, is brilliance
It's clean, it's smooth, it's sublime
What we want is the return of pretty faces
To fill the glossy paper of magazines
What is this musical era
Where we listen to the lyrics of songs?
We've lost the notion of handsome males
The era when we launched very handsome boys
You know how to write lyrics, that's very good
But your little grain of voice, we don't care
Please, go give your songs
To the one who will look prettier on the poster

(We need beautiful people)

We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people

(Today we've neglected the role of the handsome singer)
(Today, the people who succeed, who make a career)
(It's all those who scratch a bit of guitar, who play the piano)

Hey sir, you who want to go back
To black and white, to the beautiful hours of the past
I'm not sure that the great Charles Aznavour
Could meet your success criteria
I'm not convinced that Edith Piaf
Had beautiful slender legs
That she would parade on beautiful podiums
With high brand wedge heels
Hey sir, you who are nostalgic
For well-built singers, for bimbos
You need to know an important secret
It's that Brassens didn't have beautiful abs
The singer-songwriters
Are not necessarily impostors
You know sir, sometimes you have to shut up
I want to see Hoshi on a poster

We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people
We need beautiful people

(Very handsome boys)
(We need beautiful people)

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