Et si

"Et si" is a song by French popstar Shy'm, from her fourth album Caméléon. It was chosen to be the third single from Caméléon and the radio edit of the song (which features less prominent guitars, and a more uptempo chorus) was released to iTunes on 5 November 2012. "Et si" (which translates to English as "And If") is a midtempo pop song in which Shy'm questions whether her love will last forever. It is one of the more ballad-like songs on the album. The album version primarily features guitar and piano, while the radio edit strips away the guitar and includes more synths.

Music video

The music video for the song was shot in the French countryside, and switches between scenes in a house to scenes in a forest. At first, it focuses on Shy'm and her boyfriend in a country house, with friends arriving for a party of sorts. Throughout the house scenes, everyone ignores Shy'm, with some of her friends and her boyfriend nearly hitting her. It seems she is going through a breakup with her boyfriend until the final scene, in which everyone at the house travels to the woods. Shy'm is unsure of what they are doing there, until her boyfriend brushes the leaves off a grave. The grave is marked with Shy'm's real name, Tamara Marthe, and when she sees her name she breaks down into tears. Shy'm is actually a ghost, which is why nobody noticed her in the house.

Joe Dassin

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Joseph Ira "Joe" Dassin (5 November 1938 – 20 August 1980) was an American-born French singer-songwriter.

Early life

Dassin was born in New York city to American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994), a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. His father was of Ukrainian- and Polish-Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11.

He began his childhood first in New York City and Los Angeles. However, after his father fell victim to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, he and his family moved from place to place across Europe.

Dassin studied at the International School of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and graduated in Grenoble. Dassin moved back to the United States, where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in 1958 and earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts in 1963, both in Anthropology.