Individual Preferences

Perhaps you adore the French language but have no real desire to reside in France (Is it too popular?

Is that all?

Or overly commercial?

There is a lot of French music out there, and it still sounds nice. not just from France, but from every country that speaks French. As with English, this language is used in a wide variety of genres.
One of the reasons the new download latest foreign albums has both general playlists and playlists based entirely on the language of French is because of this.

In other words, it's completely OK to appreciate a language and the (often romanticized) culture it's associated with without ever visiting or appreciating the place where it's spoken.

Strong vocabulary expansion

This is a challenging subject since, yes, memorizing songs by memory will make it easier for you to retain the language. Artists frequently take pleasure in exercising their artistic freedom to change a language at will because it is more fascinating than simply memorizing a list.
Both Timbaland and Ariana Grande have songs with lyrics that include the extremely improperly conjugated 'I are'. Such innovation typically doesn't fly in casual discourse.

Contrarily, a song in Italian like Dolcenera's Accendi lo Spirito is dialect-free and has a ton of cool and useful terms that you may learn to use.
It helps that it's also simple to dance to!