The phrase "a chanson" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a song, particularly in the context of French music or a specific style of song.
Example: "She performed a beautiful chanson that captivated the audience."
Alternatives: "a song" or "a tune".
She raises a finger and launches into a chanson of romantic defiance, "Je M'en Fous Pas Mal" (I Don't Give A Damn).
A chanson designed for two or three had appeared; around 1460 the polytextual chanson was in evidence, with two or more singers singing different texts simultaneously.
According to Grace Jones, La Vie En Rose was a chanson that belonged to Paris before she gave it to the dancefloors of the world.
We have entered the consciousness of the troubadour Jaufré Rudel, who, in the first scene, is seen composing a chanson and contemplating unachievable love.
He did so in a student bedsit in Leeds, trying to do his own version of a chanson, dreaming of prostitutes and pop stars, dreaming of Soho.
The patriots assembled could only join in and salute what was ironically intended as a chanson of rebellion in the first place.
But this policy otherwise cost us a distinguished writer intent on a French chanson and an astronaut who wanted the lyrics of a song from a West End musical.
Accordion and saxophone make this one sound like an English chanson for a struggling saloon-bar philosopher.
During these early touring seasons, Russell launched some of her most famous skits: How to Write your own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera, For Loud Singers with no Brains (introducing the aria, Ah, Lover, from the mythical operetta The Prince of Philadelphia), For Singers with Tremendous Artistry but no Voice (with a German lied, Schlumpf, and a French chanson, Je n'ai pas la plume de ma tante).
Thomas Pigor, a cabaret performer who does a popular chanson about the Führer's aftershave, maintains that the only way to still get any comic mileage out of the Hitler impressions these days is to explore the gap between cardboard cut-out madman and the private human being.
On "Where No Endings End," a postmodern chanson that she played in a stark acoustic setting, Keren Ann referred to "a cold-blooded war" before cooing a dispirited refrain: But we can't change the world No we can't change the world It's been done By someone Long ago Another passage from the song was more direct.
