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I took a French class a while back, which should mean that I listen to French music now, right?  Wrong!  The problem I've found is that I don't really like French pop music.  I've tried some, but it was kind of bland pop.  Maybe I've just listened to the wrong stuff and if I tried scraping beyond the surface, I'd find something good.*  Instead, I

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Haha yeah French pop is pretty bad. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking this. I don't know what kind of music you usually listen to but I would recommend some bands like Louise Attaque, Tryo and well the more popular : Superbus and BB Brunes^^.

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I'll try these guys!

Since you seem to follow C-Pop, it should be easier to describe what kind of music I like to you: I like MandoPop, but not really "idol" singers, more singer-songwriters like Jay Chou, LeeHom Wang, Khalil Fong, etc. I also like oldies and folk, some pop rock, and I listen to enough indie music to have an Indievox account. I also love Superband's first EP.

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Unfortunately I don't know a lot about Cpop even though I'm trying to (only know SHE, Jay Chou, Angela Zhang,Rainie Yang and a little indie group Peppermints).Can't choose among all the choices lol....

If you like old popular "vintage" songs then you should just try Edith Piaf (well just in case you don't know) and Georges Brassens's Les amoureux des bancs publics. But that's REALLY old.

As for French rock, there are some 'modern groups" who sing in English like Phoenix or Pony Pony Run Run but if you want it in French... I would say : M (or Mathieu Chedid), Olivia Ruiz, Dionysos...
Some old but quite legendary groups : Indochine (personally I only like Alice et June), Rita mitsouko, Téléphone (Cendrillon, New York avec toi, La Bombe Humaine)... Hope I gave you enough landmarks even though it's quite biased =)