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## Video: Belgian Superstar Stromae Decodes His Biggest Music Videos

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_Published 2014-09-24. "Nobody knows how to make fathers. But everyone knows how to make babies." Watch Belgian superstar Stromae decode his biggest music videos_


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## Transcript

We've got a special guest for you guys right now. Who's out special guest? I'm [ UNKNOWN ] My real name is Pulver Naver. I'm 29. I come from Brussels the capital of Belgium and I'm a composer, a songwriter and it's happy to be here. Hello. [ MUSIC ] Nobody knows how to make fathers but everybody knows how to make babies. That's the meaning of this video. Even a judge cannot. Explain to you what's a good father, what's a bad father. [ MUSIC ] Even if you hate him you will be exactly as him. [ MUSIC ] And just try to do our best and that's all. This is the video, Tous Les Memes, which means something like all the same.

We're just talking about love in this song. [ MUSIC ] I want to talk about the woman vision of love. Okay, you're all the same, all the cliché- like, the, the woman can say about the man. They are not completely true, but they are true. And yes, maybe we are pretty ridiculous sometimes. We were just discussing with the, the director to know what's, you know, are the big clichés of the position. The men used to me more like, you know, like this, and the woman is like. More with the, is it the breast? More in the, in the front? [ NOISE ] And Dior is like, [ NOISE ] like more, Abeo actually. [ LAUGH ] We can be mature, feminist, but at the end of the day, we just need each other.

[ MUSIC ] Formidable, a track about loneliness. That's for me the, the beginning of the extraordinary success of the second album. It was so obvious, maybe not for everybody but it was pretty obvious for me and for my brothers that. I had to make this hidden camera. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] Everybody was ignoring me. And at the same time voyeurism. And at the same time empathy. So some people tried to help me. [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] Why are we so, sometimes so, I don't have the word, but so, we just want to, I, actually voyeurists. You know, just want to, to see the other one just. Falling down. And you feel so better when you see some, somebody else so sad.

[ MUSIC ] We are just all human. And we just try to do our best. [ MUSIC ]

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