"Transformers, pour un monde meilleur" (Transformers, for a Better World) is a song that was sometimes used as an opening for the French broadcast of Transformers original cartoon. It was first released on vinyl, with the song on side A and a remix of the original theme song on side B.
It was re-released for the broadcast of The Transformers: The Movie in 1987, sharing a disc and a brand new sleeve with another song, La Guerre des Robots. This second version is performed by a different person. The first version has then been re-released in several TV cartoon compilations. A third version has also been found, but it is unknown under what conditions the vinyl was released.
To this day it is still unknown who actually sings this song in the three versions, since the artists were not credited for any disc. The most probable candidate for the first version (the most popular one) is Joël Prévost, but we can sometimes read names including Bernard Minet, Cyril Assous, Marc Pascal or Lionel Leroy. Some early cartoon compilations vinyls credited Bernard Minet for the song, despite most people denying that possibility. Next compilations credited "unknown".
The singers pronounce Transformers as "Transformer", as the final s is silent in French. This pronunciation has never been used anywhere else, the name always being pronounced the English way. However in this case, this enables the rhyming of "Transformer(s)" and "Meilleur".
They also use "Deceptican" instead of "Decepticon", like the European dubbing team did for the cartoon.
Part of the song focuses on Alcazar and his anti-matter formula, despite the fact that they only appear in one episode of the series. They seemingly watched an episode before writing the theme song, which was pretty rare at that time.
The second singer pronounces "Cybetron" and "Alcaza". The lyrics written on his edition also spell "Alcatar". Give Professor a break.
Cosmotron is chosen to describe a potential spaceship that Optimus Prime uses, it has no link to the cosmitron.
The lyrics on the second edition strangely read "Decepticons franchit les galaxies" ("Decepticons crosses the galaxies") instead of "Son cosmotron franchit les galaxies" ("His cosmotron crosses the galaxies"). The guy in charge of the transcript seemingly did not want to search.
This song was used for several episodes as the ending credit theme. However, most episodes kept the original song. Some episodes edited by UFG Junior feature that song for the credits, it is unknown if it is intentional or kept the original way.
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