This album was, to fans, a surprising break from his previous works, as it makes extensive use of vocal elements, as well as house, techno, trance, dance-pop, breakbeat, and downtempo sounds. The vocal elements are not short, sampled pieces as highlighted in his album Zoolook, but longer, more integral parts of the work, and thus quite surprising for an artist known for his instrumental works. Métamorphoses is also Jarre's first album to contain actual songs with lyrics. Jarre's own voice is heard through a vocoder in many of the songs, but the album contains several other singers as well, mostly female singers. "Rendez-Vous à Paris" features Sharon Corr on violin. "Rendez-Vous à Paris" and "Bells" are the only largely instrumental tracks on the album; in the former only the track title is repeated in rhythm, the latter does not have intelligible lyrics. Although the album was generally not badly received by critics, and despite the collaborations and a number of single releases ("C'est la Vie" and "Tout Est Bleu"), Jarre did not achieve great mainstream success with this album.
Jean Michel Jarre - "Light My Sky"
Lyrics:
Pas d'améliorationDes nuages
Du mauvais temps en prévision
No signs of any clearance
before the end of next week
il y a du sable jaune dans le vent
Gale force winds are to be expected
at high altitudes
Cloudy
Mais tout est bleu
Dans tes yeux
Des nuages sont attendus
pour la fin de journée
Rain and hail storms
should be no surprise
late afternoon
Low temperatures
Chorus
Le soleil n'apparaitra
Pas du tout
Pas du tout
Pas du tout
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