Bittersweet Pageantry
Tschabalala Self in CC Strombeek
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
My Cherie amour, lovely as a summer day
My Cherie amour, distant as the Milky Way
My Cherie amour, pretty little one that I adore
You’re the only girl my heart beats for
How I wish that you were mine
The romantic and somewhat naïve ‘la, la, la’ of Stevie Wonder’s ‘My Cherie Amour’ (1969), covered by the German-Caribbean disco-pop group Boney M (1985), is one of the connections between the various works in ‘Feed Me, Kiss (…)