French pop and rock has been mostly ridiculed in the US. Phoenix is different � the success of the French band may be due to the fact they were influenced by the right musical role models. Lead singer Thomas Mars tells Marco Werman, when his older brother came back from the US, he played Thomas an album by Prince, and informed him that everything else he was listening to was garbage.
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