"Tassez-vous de d'là" is a song by the

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. The lyrics were written by Dédé Fortin, with a chorus in

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written by

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ese immigrant El Hadji Diouf; the music was written by Dédé Fortin and André "Vander" Vanderbiest. ''Tassez'' won the 1999

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award for best popular song of the year.Radio-Canada
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Meaning

The song is written in the conversational style of Quebec French (sometimes called

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), with the chorus in

. The title, translated, means "get out of the way"; the song describes the narrator's guilt at having abandoned a friend who had

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d, and his desire to see his friend again. The music video was shot in

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, more specifically on Emery Street between Sanguinet and St-Denis streets.

References

Les Colocs songs Quebec songs 1998 songs {{1990s-song-stub