title: La Folie (song)
text: # La Folie (song)
  
  "La Folie" is a 1981 song by The Stranglers. The title track from La Folie, it was released as the follow-up to "Golden Brown" in April 1982, and peaked at number 47 in the UK Singles Chart. Sung in French by bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel, it was Burnel who convinced his bandmates of the song's potential as a single, despite Hugh Cornwell feeling that "Tramp" was the better choice. The song makes allusions to Japanese necrophiliac murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa.
  
  The music video was filmed on the Montmartre.
  
  