This song, which has words of "a derisive and light genre" according to French charts expert Elia Habib, "is crossed in the field of the classics".

A few months after the original release, in August 1987, the singer recorded a remixed version of her song which charted in the Netherlands, but she took the pseudonym of Carol'in.

In 1987, when French journalist Yves Mourousi asked President François Mitterrand about what songs he knew, the latter replied: "C'est la ouate".

[2] Arie Elmaleh performed a transformative show on the playback of the song in the 2003 film Chouchou by Merzak Allouache.

1[4] in 2003, Deldongo in 2005 and available digitally,[5] Bamby and the dogs, Gennaro Cosmo Parlato on the album Remainders[6] (Italy), Pornois, Biba Binoche (Belgium) and Mastercuts (U.S.) in 2006, Elio Riso,[2] Giori (available digitally)[7] and La Prohibida[8] (Spain) in 2007, Quentin Mosimann on his debut album Duel,[9] Carpacho and Yuyu in 2008.