Les Cactus - Jacques Dutronc (1967)

Blast from the Past highlights Dutronc's exploration of cacti, realizes the world is like a cactus, and says Aïe aïe aïe!

The whole world is a cactus. Ouch!

Those cacti are everywhere. Another way to say it is you might get burned. Spurned. Stabbed in the back by betrayal and things that might seem tame enough. Ouch!

April is a cactus. 2025 is a cactus. What exactly isn’t a cactus?

I want to sit down. Who wouldn’t? Maybe at a table on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, but ouch! a…