♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬 : ♦️𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗠 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗞♦️

𝑹𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑨 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒌 is a song from the tribute album, 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙪𝙧 𝙂𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙜 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 to French singer Serge Gainsbourg, released in February 27, 2006.

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🔹 It is a provocative and daring song. As the name suggests, it's a song to honour jerks.The singer shows an indifference towards this segment of society. It could be that the image of the jerk for Serge has the same image as a dead person, who is unproductive and not beneficial for society.


🔹 Translated into English by 𝑩𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑰𝒗𝒆𝒔, the text has not lost its spirit, although the lyrics have been modified to some extent.. 𝑹𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒎 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒖𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏, translated as Requiem for a jerk, is brilliantly revisited by this surprising triplet: Faultine, Brian Molko and Françoise Hardy. Not only is the meaning of the sharp lyrics not lost, but the song is rearranged and modernized in an electronic-tribal way.


🔷 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 🔷
📢 𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒖𝒓 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒎 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑨 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒌...
💬 Requiem for a jerk, yeah. [...] Well, I did it without being asked and then I sent it. I was given the instrumental and I recorded it, then I sent it to Mr Kosten from Faultline to tell him "Come on, use me!"

📢 𝑺𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕...
💬 Something that's interesting about Requiem Pour Un Con, Requiem For A Jerk, is that I did a duet with Françoise Hardy without ever meeting her. That's modern times, that's technology, modern technology and I think it's really cool.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙻𝚊 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕𝚎 - 𝙲𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚕+ (𝟸00𝟼)

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🔷 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚: 𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗠 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗨𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗡 🔷

🔹 In 1967, Serge Gainsbourg was a well-known songwriter, but was still struggling to achieve success as a singer. It was then that 𝑱𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒏, the famous French actor, whom he had met on the set of 𝑳𝒆 𝑱𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒅'𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒖𝒊𝒍, for which Gabin had asked him to compose the music, called on him again to write the soundtrack of 𝑳𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒂, a 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓's film. Gainsbourg wrote Requiem pour un con, which was to be used as the film's theme song.

🔹 The melody of this song takes up a theme written by 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒊́𝒏 𝑫𝒗𝒐𝒓̌𝒂́𝒌, the New World Symphony. Gainsbourg wrote the text, while he composed the music with his arranger at the time, Michel Colombier.

🔹 Before its release in March 1968, the film Le Pacha was judged violent by the censorship committee because of the image it portrayed of the police and was banned for under 18s. The song was considered obscene and scandalous and was therefore banned from radio.


🔷 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 🔷
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Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch

🔷𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦🔷
Listen to the organs / 𝘌́𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴
They play for you / 𝐸𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑖
It's a beautiful tune / 𝐼𝑙 𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑐𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑟-𝑙𝑎̀
I hope you like it / 𝐽'𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒̀𝑟𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑢 𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
It's quite beautiful, isn't it ? / 𝐶'𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑧 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢, 𝑛𝑜𝑛 ?
It's the requiem for a jerk / 𝐶'𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑢𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛


I composed it especially for you / 𝐽𝑒 𝑙'𝑎𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒́ 𝑠𝑝𝑒́𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑖
In your memory of a villain / 𝐴̀ 𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑒́𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑒́𝑙𝑒́𝑟𝑎𝑡
It's a nice theme / 𝐶'𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛 𝑗𝑜𝑙𝑖 𝑡ℎ𝑒̀𝑚𝑒
Don't you think? / 𝑇𝑢 𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠 ?
Just like yourself / 𝑆𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎̀ 𝑡𝑜𝑖-𝑚𝑒̂𝑚𝑒
Poor jerk / 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑣𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛


Here come the organs / 𝑉𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑖 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑢𝑒𝑠
That are at it again / 𝑄𝑢𝑖 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐̧𝑎
You gotta learn that tune by heart / 𝐹𝑎𝑢𝑡 𝑞𝑢'𝑡'𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟 𝑐œ𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑖𝑟-𝑙𝑎̀
You can't even hesitate / 𝑄𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑢 𝑛'𝑎𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒̂𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑒́𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
On the requiem for an jerk / 𝑆𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑚 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑢𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛


You're looking at me ? / 𝑄𝑢𝑜𝑖 𝑡𝑢 𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑠 ?
Don't you like it ? / 𝑇𝑢 𝑛'𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒́𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠 ?
But what's in there / 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑞𝑢'𝑒𝑠𝑡-𝑐𝑒 𝑞𝑢'𝑦 𝑎 𝑙𝑎̀ 𝑑'𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑠
You don't like ? / 𝑄𝑢𝑖 𝑡'𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖̂𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠 ?
For me, it's all the same / 𝑃𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑖, 𝑐'𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑚
Whether you like it or not / 𝑄𝑢𝑒 𝑐̧𝑎 𝑡'𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑜𝑛
I'm gonna play it anyway / 𝐽'𝑡𝑒 𝑙'𝑟𝑒𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒̂𝑚𝑒
You poor jerk / 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑣𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛

Photo credit:  Benni Valsson

🔷 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦 🔷
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Listen to the organ that I play for you
Since you got no choice, hear me through
You look as if you like it, but you seem reserved
It's my requiem, for a jerk


I wrote it in the bath, on my breakfast tray
Cut my appetite for the day
I tried to raise a toast, ate the second verse
Buttered requiem, for a jerk
It's afternoon for mourners,
But the tears don't come
Got what you deserve, the maximum
I'm getting sentimental, but it's too much work
What's a requiem, to a jerk


Well the Devil left a message, go try paradise
Hell's a lot too hot, not too nice
Try to take in God if you've got the nerve
Even I don't need, stupid jerks


Listen to the organ that I play for you
Since you got no choice, hear me through
You look as if you like it, in your wooden shirt
It's my requiem, for a jerk


I wrote it in the bath, on my breakfast tray
Cut my appetite, for the day
On your white washed face, blue steel prison wall
I'll write 'stupid jerk', that's all


Photo credits collage: Juliette Roberts (Brian Molko), Jean-Marie Périer (Françoise Hardy), Unknown (Faultline), Cover of Monsieur Gainsourg Revisited, Edit by Laetitia

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