LITERAL TRANSLATION
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Pretty sixteen
Beautiful heroine
Of the [nineteen-] sixties
You twirl [runway-walk?] yourself
You're divine
When you dance in the eyes of Andy
Farewell be-bop
More to the top [of the charts, of fashion]
It's the pop-art [of Warhol]
That wears you down
Towards the trap
[of] Pop-corn and hoola-hop
Dream of glory and of fortune
Stylish in Chanel, love will always [be] "glamour"
At the [fashion] shows you pose, showing yourself at
400 ASA you dare [challenge]
All the breaks / musical-rests
Fifty-sixty
Born in 1950['s becoming] sexy [in the] 1960['s]
So exciting
Letting herself go into raptures
Naive she believes everything that Andy
That Andy says about her
That she is the most beautiful
Of all the models
Like an icon
Under the [lens of the] Nikon [camera]
You went to the
heads of [The] Velvet [Underground]
And Nico
Would like you far from Lou Reed
In East Village
There is no "age"
Everyone is young
Take [lead] me away
Yellow taxi
There [her?] whence comes the legend
Dream of glory and of fortune
Stylish in Chanel, love will always [be] "glamour"
I see you in polaroid [photographs]
You know that [the passing of] time has not
Taken [removed] a wrinkle
Fifty-sixty
Born in 1950['s becoming] sexy [in the] 1960['s]
So exciting
Letting herself go into raptures
Naive she believes everything that Andy
That Andy says about her
That she is the most beautiful
Of all the models
The "flower power"
Is dead on the dance-floor
The electro the punk [styles] don't exist yet
Take away the roll [swagger?] from the rockers
The epoque changed
The rock swaggers along on roller [-skates]
The pop [style] is pregnant
The flower power
Has died of its beautiful death
New-wave and techno don't exist yet
Go on there (&) play it, your final role
No longer there [is] the dandy
But you're still dancing in the eyes of Warhol
Fifty-sixty
Born in 1950['s becoming] sexy [in the] 1960['s]
So exciting
Letting herself go into raptures
Naive she believes everything that Andy
That Andy says about her
That she is the most beautiful
The most beautiful
Fifty-sixty
Born in 1950['s becoming] sexy [in the] 1960['s]
So exciting
Letting herself go into raptures
Naive she believes everything that Andy
That Andy says about her
That she is the most beautiful
Of all the models
ORIGINAL LYRICS 1
© 2007 Wisteria Song / Sony BMG Music
Éditions: Sony ATV Publishing - Sir Sid / Sir Sid
Pretty sixteenBelle héroïne
Des sixties
Tu te dandines
T'es divine
Quand tu danses dans les yeux d'Andy 2
Adieu be-bop
Plus au top
C’est le pop-art
Qui te sape
À la trappe
Pop-corn et hoola-hop
Rêve de gloire et de fortune
Chic en Chanel l’amour est toujours glamour
Aux expos tu poses et t'exposes à
400 ASA 3 tu oses
Toutes les pauses 4
Fifty-sixty
Née en cinquante sexy soixante
Si excitante
S’extasie 5
Candide 6elle croit tout ce qu’Andy
Qu’Andy dit d’elle
Qu’elle est la plus belle
De tous les modèles
Comme une icône
Sous le Nikon
Tu tournes
La tête 7 au Velvet
Et Nico
Te voudrait loin de Lou Reed
À East Village 8 y'a
Pas d’âge on
Est tous jeunes
Emmène moi
Taxi jaune 9
La 10 d’où vient la légende
Rêve de gloire et de fortune
Chic en Chanel l’amour sera toujours glamour
Je te regarde en polaroid
Tu sais le temps n’a pas
Prix une ride 11
Fifty-sixty
Née en cinquante sexy soixante
Si excitante
S’extasie
Candide elle croit tout ce qu’on dit
Ce qu’on dit d’elle
Qu’elle est la plus belle
De toutes les modèles
Le flower power
Est mort sur le dance-floor
L’électro le punk n’existent pas encore
Enlève le roll'n’ aux rockers
On a changé d’époque
Le rock roule en roller
La pop est en cloque 12
Le flower power
Est mort de sa belle mort 13
New-wave et techno n’existent pas encore
Vas-y joue le ton dernier rôle
N’est plus là le dandy
Mais tu danses encore dans les yeux de Warhol
Fifty-sixty
Née en cinquante sexy soixante
Si excitante
S’extasie
Candide elle croit tout ce qu’on dit
Ce qu’on dit d’elle
Qu’elle est la plus belle
La plus belle
Fifty-sixty
Née en cinquante sexy soixante
Si excitante
S’extasie
Candide elle croit tout ce qu’on dit
Ce qu on dit d’elle
Qu’elle est la plus belle
De toutes les modèles
1 Album version.
NB: some words
have been wrapped or split here
to flow
more easily with the sung rhythm
2Warhol, celebrated exponent of "pop-art"
3Film type designed for high-speed photography
4May mean to live life in the fast lane
5Over that lifestyle, those people
6An artless person, an ingénue
7Made them infatuated with you
8A New York district
9Another famous New York icon
10Ambiguous: apparently no accent in Là
11Maybe a bi-lingual wordplay on the expression
"taken for a ride" (an ingénue being fooled
or exploited by someone)
12Rock + Pop => New Wave?
13Suicide?
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Pretty sixteen
Belle ever seen
Hey sixties
Turn on the scene
You're the queen
When you dance in his eyes... Andy
Farewell be-bop
Hit the top
Selling pop-art
Where it's at
Follow that
Pop-corn and hoola-hop
Dreams glory ahead fortune
Chic in Chanel, loving glamourous for sure
Shows expose you pose it explodes at
High speed as you unfold
To let go
Fifty-sixty
Neon flashbomb sixties sexbomb
Excite beyond
Ecstacy
Can she believe in truth Andy
So can he tell
Really she's the belle
Of truth a model
Turn your look on
Seduce Nikon
To turn
Not yet a Velvet
For Nico
To be the one for Lou Reed
At East Village for
Ever young
They choose fun
Life's musical
Takes a song
To become immortal
Dreams glory ahead fortune
Chic in Chanel, loving glamourous for sure
And your polaroids so entrance me
To say that time has not
Set you free
Fifty-sixty
Neon flashbomb sixties sexbomb
Excite beyond
Ecstacy
Can she believe in truth Andy
So can he tell
Really she's the belle
Of truth a model
The "flower power"
No more on the dance-floor
Electro punkheads did not exist before
Too late the role for a rocker
Any changes they rock
The rock cruises out there
The pop takes a knock
The flower power
No more than they felt more
New-wave and techno did not exist before
As he loved, lost in your last role
There's no more the dandy
Dance for evermore in the eyes of Warhol
Fifty-sixty
Neon flashbomb sixties sexbomb
Excite beyond
Ecstacy
Can she believe in truth Andy
So can he tell
Really she's the belle...
In love's spell
Fifty-sixty
Neon flashbomb sixties sexbomb
Excite beyond
Ecstacy
Can she believe in truth Andy
So can he tell
Really she's the belle
Of truth a model