♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗘♦️

Today we celebrate the ♦️𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘♦️ of ”Smile”, Brian's duet with Jane Birkin. It was released as one of altogether 13 duets on Birkin's album ”Rendez-vous” 18 years ago today on March 29th 2004.

🎬 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 – 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗘
🎵 http://bit.ly/2zevqek 🎵

Photo credits: Nadav Kander, Kate Barry / edit by Silke

The song was written by Brian and composer Rachel Corkett. Maybe her name sounds familiar to you because her husband Paul Corkett produced Placebo's third album ”Black market music”.

The English actress, singer and model Birkin attained international fame for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. One of their most famous songs is ”Je t'aime... moi non plus” which was released in 1969 and caused an enormous scandal because of its sexual explicitness.
I guess we all know and love the cover version of ”Je t'aime... moi non plus” that Brian recorded for Dimitri Tikovoi's music project Trash Palace with Italian actress, singer and model Asia Argento in 2002. That's by the way an interesting similarity between the two women, isn't it?


📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 📌
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯. 𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ...
📢 ”Working with her was more than an honour. She has a dignity, a presence and incredible generosity. She is very English, but as a lady, actually. For me, she is like a member of the royal family.”
(Start Up n°110, Mars 2006 )


📌 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 📌
𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.
📢 "Oh no! He knows Serge songs, he has already made a version of Melody Nelson, he played my part in a version of Je t'Aime Moi Non Plus. It's a very well-read boy, very clever. I thought only the French were so careful with the words, as with the English we just have to understand the title and we can dance. Brian Molko wrote a very strong, sassy song, in which he often has the cunning as Cole Porter, to throw a word on the next verse. Even my mother was absolutely delighted with the keeness of the thing: it is not a reverent song."
(RFI musique, 2004)

Photo credits: Nadav Kander, Kate Barry (3) / edit by Silke

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
Don't stare at your face
With your nose out of place
At the wrinkles where zits used to be
And remember that smiling uses less muscles
And frowning just makes you look ugly


So smile, smile
And the whole world will smile with you
So smile, baby, smile
If the whole world just had a clue


Don't mess with your man
When he's selling you grams
He would kill you for less and then smile
And don't curse at a whore
As you open the door
coz your service wont be with a smile


So smile, smile
And the whole world smiles with you
And smile, baby, smile
If the whole world just had a clue


Don't sneer at your doctor
And Gamble & Procter
Coz they're just pawns in the game
The perfect prescription is one that you're given
it's filled out in jesus' name
Don't be scared of your preacher
Coz hes just a leech
Hes too busy cruising your ass
Theres a verse in the bible
That says we're all liable
For everything that comes to pass


So smile, smile
And the whole world smiles with you
So smile, baby, smile
If the whole world just had a clue
So smile, smile
Smile, smile
Smile, smile...

Post by Silke