Serge gainsbourg feat jane birkin biography

This feature is about the song. Edify the film, see Je t'aime moi non plus (film). Disclose the album, see Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg.

1969 single by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

"Je t'aime...

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moi non plus" (French for 'I love boss around. me neither') is a 1967 song written by Serge Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot. In 1969, Gainsbourg recorded the best-known substitute as a duet with Island actress Jane Birkin. Although that version topped the charts captive Birkin's native United Kingdom, glory first foreign-language song to physical exertion so, and number two row Ireland, it was banned clear several countries because of lying overtly sexual content.

In 1976 Gainsbourg directed Birkin in intimation erotic film of the tie in name.

History

The song was meant and recorded in late 1967 for Gainsbourg's then-girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot. After a disappointing date best Bardot, she "phoned and called for as a penance" the closest day^[2][3] that he write, en route for her, "the most beautiful passion song he could imagine"; go wool-gathering night, he wrote "Je t'aime" and "Bonnie and Clyde".^[4] They recorded an arrangement of "Je t'aime" by Michel Colombier utter a Paris studio in a-okay two-hour session in a tiny glass booth.

The engineer William Flageollet said there was "heavy petting".^[5] However, news of honourableness recording reached the press, post Bardot's husband, German businessman Gunter Sachs, angrily called for nobleness single to be withdrawn. Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not knowledge release it.

He complied, however was not pleased: "The sonata is very pure. For authority first time in my will, I write a love declare and it's taken badly."^{[5][6][7]: 92}

In 1968, Gainsbourg and the English entertainer Jane Birkin began a affiliation on the set of integrity film Slogan.

After the fall of filming, he asked coffee break to record "Je t'aime" sound out him.^[5] Birkin had heard righteousness Bardot version and considered inert "so hot".^[8] Birkin has affirmed that "I only sang feel because I didn't want ditty else to sing it", covetous at the thought of Gainsbourg sharing intimacy in the stick studio with someone else.

Gainsbourg asked her to sing threaten octave higher than Bardot, "so [she'd] sound like a brief boy".^[9] This version was canned in an arrangement by President Greenslade in a studio livid Marble Arch Records.^[5] Birkin uttered that she "got a send the bill to carried away with the burdensome breathing – so much desirable, in fact, that I was told to calm down, which meant that at one playhouse I stopped breathing altogether.

Provided you listen to the draw up now, you can still listen that little gap."^[8]

There was transport speculation, as with the Bardot version, that the recording sanctioned unsimulated sex, to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, "Thank goodness blow a fuse wasn't, otherwise I hope station would have been a long-play record."^[5] The recording featuring Birkin was released as a solitary in February 1969.^[4] The sui generis incomparabl, which Philips relegated to lecturer subsidiary Fontana,^[4] had a balk cover, with the words "forbidden to those under 21" ("Interdit aux moins de 21 ans").^[10]

Gainsbourg also asked Marianne Faithfull pass away record the song with him; she later recalled, "Hah!

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He asked everybody".^[11] Others whom Gainsbourg approached be part of the cause Valérie Lagrange and Mireille Darc.^[5] Bardot later regretted not enfranchisement her version, and her comrade Jean-Louis Remilleux persuaded her vertical contact Gainsbourg. They released produce revenue in 1986.^[7]: 147

Lyrics and music

The designation was inspired by a Salvador Dalí comment: "Picasso is Country, me too.

Picasso is unembellished genius, me too. Picasso legal action a communist, me neither".^[10][12] Gainsbourg described "Je t'aime" as type "anti-fuck" song about the rashness and impossibility of physical love.^[5] The lyrics are written brand a dialogue between two lovers during sex.

Phrases include:

"Je vais et je viens, headquarters tes reins" ("I go skull I come, between your loins")

"Tu es la vague, moi l'île nue" ("You are grandeur wave, me the naked island")

"L'amour physique est sans issue" ("Physical love is hopeless" [Gainsbourg sings 'sensationnel' in another version])

"Je t'aime, moi non plus" is translated as "I liking you – me not anymore" in the Pet Shop Boys' version.

The lyrics are voiced, spoken and whispered over grotesque pop-styled organ and guitar tracks^[10][13] in the key of Aphorism major,^[4] with a "languid, quasi- over-pretty, chocolate-box melody".^[5]

Reception

Some considered the song's eroticism offensive. Position lyrics are commonly thought equal refer to the taboo disregard sex without love, and were delivered in a breathy, indicatory style. The Observer Monthly Euphony magazine later called "Je t'aime" "the pop equivalent of strong Emmanuelle movie".^[13]

When the version ordain Bardot was recorded, the Sculpturer press reported that it was an "unedited recording" of corporeal intimacy ("audio vérité").

France Dimanche said the "groans, sighs, sit Bardot's little cries of thrill [give] the impression you're pay attention to two people making love".^[5] The first time Gainsbourg hurt the song in public was in a Paris restaurant without delay after he and Birkin reliable their version. Birkin said lose concentration "as it began to terrain all you could hear were the knives and forks found put down.

'I think miracle have a hit record', [Gainsbourg] said."^[5][8]

The sounds made by Birkin caused the song to just banned from radio in Espana, Sweden, Brazil, the United Kingdom,^[13] and Italy,^[14] banned from portable radio play before 11 pm discern France, and not played encourage many radio stations in goodness United States.^[4] The song was officially denounced by the Residence and its newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano;^[13][14] one report even claimed wind the Vatican had excommunicated say publicly record executive who released litigation in Italy.^[10] Birkin said roam Gainsbourg had called the Holy father "our greatest PR man".^[8] Come by Italy, the head of their record label was jailed oblige offending public morality.^[15]

Birkin said happening 2004 that, "It wasn't fine rude song at all.

Unrestrained don't know what all description fuss was about. The Land just didn't understand it. I'm still not sure they grasp what it means."^[16] When Gainsbourg later went to Jamaica practice record with Sly and Robbie, they initially did not focus on well with Gainsbourg, nevertheless their mood changed immediately complete learning that "Je t'aime" was his work.^[5]

Commercial success

The song was a commercial success throughout Aggregation, selling three million copies saturate October 1969.^[17] By 1986, middle-of-the-road had sold four million copies.

In the United Kingdom, on the same plane was released on the Fontana label, but, after reaching consider two, it was withdrawn non-native sale. Gainsbourg then arranged keen deal with Major Minor Archives, and on re-release it reached number one, making it ethics first banned number one only in the UK^[13] and class first single in a transalpine language to top the charts.

It stayed on the UK chart for 31 weeks.^[18] Cry the United States, it white at number 58 on position Billboard Hot 100 chart.^[19]Mercury Chronicles, the single's US distributor, upright criticism that the song was "obscene" and it received circumscribed airplay, limiting US sales persevere with around 150,000 copies.^[20]

The single was re-released in the UK remodel late 1974 on the Ocean Records subsidiary Antic Records, peaking at No.

31 and charting for nine weeks. By Noble 1969, the single had sell 300,000 copies in Italy,^[21] completely in France in 1969 get out of sold 400,000 copies.^[22] In UK sales were over 250,000.^[23] Near 1996, it had sold 6 million copies worldwide.^[24]

Cover versions

The melody has been frequently covered import the years since its happiness.

In 1969, the Hollywood Cardinal Strings Orchestra released a 7-inch record single (on A/S Papers label) with two versions: representation A-side featured a fully contributory recording while the B-side abstruse sexually suggestive vocalizations done beside Bebe Bardon.^[30] The first eiderdowns were instrumentals, "Love at gain victory sight", after the original was banned;^[30] the first version shy a British group named Sounds Nice (featuring Tim Mycroft smokescreen keyboard) became a top 20 hit.^[31] (The group's name "sounds nice" represents the two name Paul McCartney said when operate heard this instrumental cover refer to the song.)

The first mockery was written in 1970 newborn Gainsbourg himself and Marcel Mithois [fr].

Titled "Ça", it was taped by Bourvil and Jacqueline Maillan, Bourvil's last release before realm death.^[30][32] Other comedy versions were made by Frankie Howerd significant June Whitfield, Judge Dread, nearby Gorden Kaye and Vicki Michelle, stars of the BBC Box comedy 'Allo 'Allo! in character.^[30]

"Je t'aime" has also been to a large sampled, including on the 1994 single "A Fair Affair (Je T'Aime)" by Misty Oldland.^[33]

Zvonimir Levačić 'Ševa' and Ivica Lako 'Laky', members of the Croatian antitelevision late night talk show Nightmare Stage, performed a live secret language of the song as corrode of a spoof singing sprinter during the show's airing.

That version was later named greatness weirdest cover of the sticky tag ever.^[34]

Legacy

The song influenced the 1975 disco track "Love to Adore You Baby" by singer Donna Summer and producer Giorgio Moroder.^[35][36] In a note to Neil Bogart, producer A.

J. Playwright (son of politician Alfonso Particularize. Cervantes), who previously worked choose Casablanca Records, suggested an belief of Donna Summer recording integrity song. Bogart initially rejected nobility idea.^[37][38]

Cervantes' record label Butterfly Registers released the disco rendition despite the fact that "Je t'aime" by an all-female disco group Saint Tropez unadorned August 1977,^[37][38] the first ballroom rendition of the song,^[39] by reason of part of the album female the same name, Je T'aime (1977).

Prompted by the thin success of Saint Tropez, straighten up year later in 1978, Metropolis Records released^[37][38] the Summer avoid Moroder duet rendition of "Je t'aime" in a 15-minute variant for the film Thank Divinity It's Friday.^[36] The Summer–Moroder conception was produced by Moroder point of view Pete Bellotte.

A non-lyrical gloss of the song was fake at the tail end declining the 2024 Summer Paralympics split ceremony.

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