Nostalgie Pop Rock

Nostalgie Pop Rock comes out of France's Nostalgie family, and it drops the soft-focus crooning in favour of guitars. The playlist runs from 1980s French rock, Téléphone and Indochine, to Bon Jovi and Queen. For pop radio, France has plenty of options. Few go this hard. Expect RTL2-adjacent territory with a heavier nod to the home catalogue: Jean-Jacques Goldman, Noir Désir, Louise Attaque, Superbus. The curation is honest about what it is. It's a nostalgia machine, and it doesn't pretend otherwise. No baffling genre tourism, no chasing a younger audience with rap features. Just choruses you a…