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3	''Non mais t'as vu ce que t'écoutes'', abbreviated as NMT, is a French VideoReviewShow focusing on {{Pop}} {{Music}}, created and hosted by Creator/LinksTheSun.
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5	The first episode came in 2011, in which he analyzed the song "Celui" from Colonel Reyel. In it, he provided critical commentary on the song, granting it points for every lyric he found good, resulting on a final grade out of 20. The concept went on for four episodes, before coming to a stop. It didn't come back until late 2013, in an entirely new format: the grading system was dropped entirely, and the humor relied more on comedic skits performed by Links and his brothers. A grading system was later reintroduced, but represented more of a global appreciation of the song.
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7	''NMT'' episodes follow a certain number of set rules: Links only talks about the lyrics themselves (thus excluding the music video), he can only criticize one song per album, the song has to be in French, and it has to be part of the current Top 50 best sales. Though the rules have been broken on occasion, they serve as a pretty solid guideline.
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9	Links retired the series in September 2020. The last episode was released on May 18, 2019, which was about Music/CharlesAznavour.
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11	[[folder: List of songs criticized on NMT:]]
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13	* "Celui", Colonel Reyel
14	* "Blue Orchids", White Stripes
15	* "Seemann", Rammstein
16	* "La rumeur", Christophe Maé
17	* "Bella", Maître Gims
18	* "On ira", Zaz
19	* "Game Over", Vitaa (featuring Maître Gims)
20	* "Formidable", Stromae
21	* "Dernière danse", Indila
22	* "Madame Pavoshko", Black M
23	* Creator/{{Disney}} songs
24	* "Toute la vie", Les Enfoirés
25	* "Magic in the Air", Magic System
26	* "Est-ce que tu m'aimes", Maître Gims
27	* "Toujours debout", Renaud
28	* "Je suis", [=BigFlo=] & Oli
29	* "Wesh alors", Jul
30	* French Songs: The Moment It Screwed Up[[note]]Special episode about silly successful French songs, and an attempt to determine the era they appeared[[/note]]
31	* "Despacito", Luis Fonsi (AprilFoolsDay episode)
32	* "Bella Ciao", Naestro (featuring Maître Gims, Vitaa, Slimane, and Dadju)
33	* Several songs by Music/CharlesAznavour
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39	!!''NMT'' provides examples of:
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41	* AccentuateTheNegative: Links will usually disregard positive elements for humorous purpose. In the "Est-ce que tu m'aimes" [[WordOfGod Commentary]], he even regrets that his NMT persona can't be positive towards Maître Gims and pushed him to be harder on the lyrics.
42	* AlternateUniverse: The InUniverse justification for the alternate Jul review (the one where Links calls out his audience for bashing the artists, instead of just reviewing the song) is that Links has been visited by a devil who showed him a parallel universe where NMT's orientation is different.
43	* BlindIdiotTranslation: In the episode on Disney songs, David sings a literal translation of "A Whole New World". Obviously, it doesn't fit the rhythm of the song at all.
44	* ButtMonkey: Jeremy. If there's a joke that involves {{Slapstick}}, he will be at the other end of the stick.
45	* TheCameo: [[spoiler:[=BigFlo=] & Oli make an appearence at the end of the episode on their song "Je suis".]]
46	* CaptainObvious: The professor explaining due to the eyelid being mostly opaque, one cannot see with his eyes closed. He then {{lampshade}}s that he's not sure there really was a need for him to explain that.
47	* CatchPhrase:
48	** From David's [[DeanBitterman school principal character]]: "Wow, you're a dumbass."
49	** From Jeremy's redneck character: "NAKED!"
50	* CerebusSyndrome: The episode on Music/CharlesAznavour is a ''lot'' less funny and a lot more personal.
51	* CoverVersion: In "Formidable", Links reacts to the common comparison making Music/{{Stromae}} a new Music/JacquesBrel by making a fake cover of "Ne quitte pas" on the tune of "Alors on danse".
52	* DevilsAdvocate: Lilith from the NMT videos, who is literally Satan's spokesperson. Her favorite thing is to give artists excuses for questionable choices (no, just because Black M is justified in criticizing the school system, does not mean he can advocate for school shootings), and to invoke discrimination to refute criticism.
53	--> '''Lilith:''' Oh, so your point is that you need a college education to succeed in life.
54	--> '''Links:''' What? No, that's not what I said at all.
55	--> '''Lilith:''' I know, I cultivate ambiguity so you'll get hated by people too lazy to think on their own. By the way, since this video started, you've been praising white people's work and dunking on black people's. Just saying.
56	* DudeNotFunny: "Madame Pavoshko"'s lyrics contain mention the singer has, once, imagined bringing a gun at school to commit a mass-shooting, which would be seen as "a minor anecdote". Links reacted with anger and consternation, pointing that school shootings, death, and tragedy aren't funny at all.
57	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: The alternate review of Jul's "Wesh alors", which barely approached the song and instead berated negative critics attacking both the song and the singer, while the main review featured the usual snarky comments by Creator/LinksTheSun.
58	* GrammarNazi: Links frequently corrects grammar mistakes from the singers he talks about.
59	* HeroicBSOD: Links reaction when he sees that "Madame Pavoshko" was released under the "WATI B" label.
60	* LargeHam: Several of the characters played by Links' brothers, David and Jeremy, during the comedy skits.
61	* LiteralGenie: In ''Bella'', Maître Gims declares he'd "like to be the chair on which she sits"... And gets his wish granted.
62	* LostInTranslation: Points out that the French translation of Disney songs tends to be more poetic but lose characterization or context (like how Bells of Notre-Dame forgoes the line "''And '''he saw''' corruption everywhere '''expect within'''''" for the sake of syllable count and rhyme).
63	* MundaneMadeAwesome: Cooking Breton wafers in "Magic in the air".
64	* NostalgiaFilter: This is his conclusion to the "French Songs: The Moment It Screwed Up" special, where he attempts to find the year where the songs topping the French musical top 50 became bad. After reviewing the most listened songs in France going backwards in time, Links concludes that there always were bad songs, and that they frequently topped the 50, which isn't a seal of quality, and that conversely there still are good songs today.
65	* RunningGag:
66	** "Who picks "Master" as their nickname?"
67	** "RHYME FAILUUUUUUUUURE!"
68	* SelfDeprecation: The end of the ''Je suis'' video. [[spoiler: After the most positive review featured in the show so far, the video switches to [=BigFlo=] & Oli reminding themselves to send money to Links.]]
69	* ShoutOut:
70	** Often invokes artists he admires as a point of comparison to the ones he's reviewing.
71	** Every episode includes a reference to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
72	** In the ''Game Over'' episode, Links starts talking to an alternate version of himself, just like Karim Debbache in ''WebVideo/{{Crossed}}''. It gets {{lampshaded}}:
73	---> '''Alt-Links:''' You're plagiarizing ''Crossed''. Karim Debbache show on jeuxvideo.com.\
74	'''Links:''' No, no, I'm not plagiarizing ''Crossed'', it's a shout-out... an homage... You know what, shut up.
75	** In the "Madame Pavoshko" episode, Links lists all of the ways Black M could've reacted to the teachers remarks, in a sequence clearly inspired by the famous "nose speech" from ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''.
76	** Lilith's design, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]:
77	--> '''Links:''' Why are you dressed as the Boss from [[WebVideo/SalutLesGeeks SLG]]?
78	--> '''Lilith:''' So your imbecilic audience can have a reference point to anchor a new character by stealing a concept from a show more popular than yours.
79	--> '''Links:''' Wow, you're a bitch.
80	--> '''Lilith:''' It's [[DevilsAdvocate my job.]]
81	** The parody of the simplicity of Tragédie's lyrics is directly lifted from Molière's Theatre/TheBourgeoisGentleman.
82	* SickeninglySweet: InUniverse, this is Links' reaction to Indila's interviews.
83	-->'''Links:''' Do you also shit butterflies?
84	* SitcomArchNemesis:
85	** Links once called Master Gims "the Master to [Links'] Doctor".
86	** [[MeaningfulName Tragédie]] and more specifically their song ''[[StalkingIsLove Hey oh]]'', first mentionned during the Magic System video, then explored in the French songs one.
87	* SoOkayItsAverage: Taken to the extreme InUniverse when he tries to review Grégoire’s 2008 hit "Toi + moi"… only to find that the lyrics are so vapid that he has literally nothing to say.
88	-->David: "When you write the lyrics of this song on a sheet of paper, it turns blank again. And when you try to listen to it backwards… plays a walkman there’s nothing."
89	* SourOutsideSadInside: The [[MidReviewSketchShow Mid-Review Sketch]] and central theme of the Charles Aznavour episode. Alexis has to deal with the fact that his brothers can't work with him on the show anymore, and is struggling with his fear of disappointing his audience with mediocre work. All of the songs he studies gravitate around this theme: ''J'aime Paris au mois de mai''[[note]]I love Paris in May[[/note]] reminds him that Jérémie left to live in Paris, ''Je m'voyais déjà''[[note]]I could already see it[[/note]] makes him fear he's being as terrible and delusional as the character of the song, ''Retiens la nuit''[[note]]Hold the night back[[/note]] illustrates his somber thoughts hidden beneath a fun-sounding appearance, ''Je bois''[[note]]I drink[[/note]] shows him at his lowest point, and ''La Bohème'' [[note]]The Bohemian Life[[/note]] makes him finally accept that things will never be the same again. The episode ends with him getting back on his feet and trying to make the show work on his own. However, that was the last NMT.
90	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Par for the course for a CausticCritic, but the speech against Black M's irresponsible lyrics deserves a special mention.

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