Artist: Sheila
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Juste Comme Ca: The Best of Sheila (CD2)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Juste Comme Ca: The Best of Sheila (CD1)
Year: 2006
Tracks: 25
Sheila (inborn Annie Chancel) was one of the more than successful of the legion young "ye-ye" girls to bask winner with cheerfully jejune pop/rock in France in the early and mid-'60s. As picayune of her blanket discography is easy to rule in the U.S., it's hard to make conclusive judgments about the telescope of her aesthetic sweep. What you're potential to try, withal, is lightweight regular by the lightweight standards of French rock from the time as a whole. Indeed, its relationship to bona fide rock is pretty fooling; it's excessively resilient, childish pop that happens to use some tilt elements in the arrangements. Her other hits order the cuteness into overdrive with her irrepressible upbeat vocals often backed by chirpy choruses and whistling. The perfect soundtracks, in other speech, for adolescent girls to plug gum along with as they walked the boulevards in crewman outfits; they can't fail to bring to mind musical scenes of corny low-budget youth-oriented films of the geological era.
Later a piece Sheila did get into less innocent sounds, largely by chastity of covers of American and British pop/rock tunes like "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," "Daydream," and "Bang Bang." Still, thither was an inescapable sense of some of the songs beingness more than worthy for fairground entertainment or Dixieland-based theatrical productions than for rock listeners. Pop singers tend to have thirster careers in France than they do in English-speaking countries, however, and Sheila continued to record throughout the end of the twentieth century. Indeed, she had some success in the disco era, collaborating with Chic at the end of the 1970s on "Spacer." Her impingement in the U.S., however, was virtually zip, although somehow she did let an American LP release in 1964 with Sheila, the Ye-Ye Girl.
Patrick Rondat
