Casanova
Soolking & Gazo
How to study this song
Learning “Casanova” means 71 entries at A2+ — 26 French words, 9 adjectives and 36 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. The glossary is the place to begin — bagages, mélodie and époque are the song’s keywords. This one leans on its verbs: 36 distinct forms against 9 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the goal is recognition: hear a word, place it, keep going.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| FR | EN | ES | IT | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bagages | luggage | equipaje | bagagli | bagagem | bagage | Gepäck |
| mélodie | melody | melodía | melodia | melodia | melodie | Melodie |
| époque | era, time | época | epoca | época | tijdperk | Epoche |
| messages | messages | mensajes | messaggi | mensagens |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2+
- Vocabulary words
- 26
- Adjectives
- 9
- Word combos
- 18
- Expressions
- 16
- Verb forms
- 36
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
«Casanova» is a single by the Algerian singer Soolking featuring the French rapper Gazo, released on 6 July 2023 together with its music video. It runs a little over three minutes and came out through Capitol Music France, part of the Universal group. The songwriting credits name Soolking (Abderraouf Derradji), Gazo (Ibrahima Diakité), Nassim Diane and Nass Brans, and the production is credited to Voluptyk and Brans. The track mixes the sunny, danceable sound of Afro-pop with the rhythm and attitude of French rap, and it became the song of the summer of 2023 in France.
The title borrows a word that French took from a real person: Giacomo Casanova, the eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer whose memoirs turned his name into a synonym for a seducer. In everyday French, «un casanova» is a man who collects conquests. The song looks at that image from the side of the man who is being courted. The narrator suspects that a young woman sees him as a charming catch, while a voice in the background hints that she may really see him as an easy target: in French slang, «un pigeon» is someone who is easily fooled.
The verses are about success and its traps. The singer leaves the hard years behind, invites his partner to pack up and travel with him, and says he will stop answering a friend who has gone off the rails. He admits that for now he has locked his heart away (the word for heart is sung in Spanish), but he promises that he will not end up alone and that he intends to leave a mark on his generation while keeping a cool head. The chorus, built on one repeated syllable, warns that nobody should have played games with him, because he has already taken off. In the hook that comes back twice, he says he worked the whole summer to earn money and to buy jewellery for the woman he loves, and she asks him to make her dream.
Gazo’s verse brings the darker colour of drill, the style he helped to make popular in France: images of the street, loyalty to his partner on the track, distrust of fake friends and of enemies who would like to see them fall. It ends on a hopeful note, the old idea that as long as there is life there is hope. The last words before the outro are a wink at Magic System, the Ivorian group whose 1999 hit «Premier Gaou» tells the story of a man who was left by his girlfriend when he was poor and who turned her down once he became famous. The narrator of «Casanova» makes it clear that his story is a different one.