⭐🎉💝𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘, 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄!💝🎉⭐

Today, the beautiful and charismatic French-English music, film and fashion icon ⭐𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲⭐.

Photo credits: Jun Sato/Wire Image, Bentley Archive/Popperfoto, Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Getty Images, Photo edit by Marti

Many themes are associated with the name Jane Birkin.
We remember her birthday because she is a woman that Brian adores, and 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 ⭐“𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄” 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 “𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐳-𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬”. 

🎶🔹𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3G1NVpv


🔹💬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)


𝐎𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟔 ⭐𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐔𝐊. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎.

Jane's first known film was 1966's ⭐𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐔𝐏, made while she was still living in England. After separating from her first husband John Barry (with whom she had a daughter Kate), she moved to France in 1968 to audition for the film ⭐𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐍. There she met ⭐𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 and this legendary relationship lasted 12 years.

Serge is the father of her second daughter, Charlotte Gaisnsbourg, a well-known musician and actress.
After their breakup, Jane married the director Jacques Doillon and with him has a third daughter - Lou.

Dear soulmates,
read a few points below for a more detailed description of this very wonderful and inspiring woman.
I wish you a lovely evening...maybe spent watching one of Jane's films.

Photo credit: AFP

⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑

During her career, she released 13 albums and collaborated with artists from all over the world, in the form of duets – for example with Brett Anderson (Suede), Bryan Ferry, Etienne Daho, Françoise Hardy.

𝘐𝘯 1969 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 “𝘑𝘦 𝘵'𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘪 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘴”, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯 2002.
🔹🎶 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 - '𝐉𝐞 𝐭'𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞... 𝐦𝐨𝐢 𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬' – 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟗
https://bit.ly/3AX6t7d


🔹'𝐉𝐄 𝐓'𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄... 𝐌𝐎𝐈 𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐒' 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘🔹
"Jealousy drove me to perform the song. I remember that Serge was getting a television crew and journalists to listen to the version he’d made with Bardot, which was never released, and there was a very pretty girl in a kilt lying on the sofa. When I saw how proud he was to get the journalists and the girl on the sofa to listen to it, I thought I’d better be the one to sing it, especially that other actresses were interested. Mireille Darc asked him: ‘So, Sergio, what has become of that little song ?’ I didn’t want him to end up in a telephone box with a beautiful girl recording another version of Je t’aime… moi non plus, as he’d done with Bardot. When he suggested I do it, I agreed immediately. We met up in a huge studio in Marbella and in two takes we had the final product. Back in Paris, we went for dinner in the wine cellar of the Hôtel des Beaux Arts. There was a record player, and without saying a word, Serge put the song on and all of a sudden all the couples around us stopped talking, their knives and forks in mid-air. Serge pinched me and said: ‘I think we’ve got a hit record.’ We never thought for a moment that the song would become such a symbol of freedom all over the world. People listened to it in secret, from Spain to Argentina. The Pope banned it, BBC banned it too, and in Italy, the head of Phonogram Records was thrown into jail. I was making another bad film in Oxford and every day we saw Je t’aime… moi non plus climbing higher in the charts. It was crazy.”
(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)

~🔹~🔹~🔹~

⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑

Jane has had a varied film and stage acting career.

Among my favorite films I can name - the already mentioned 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐥 with the very attractive Alain Delon, the controversial “𝐉𝐞 𝐭'𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐢 𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬” as Serge Gainsbourg's first directorial effort from 1976.

~🔹~🔹~🔹~

⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐍

Jane's fashion style was very casual and also very bold. She didn't try to hide her beautiful body.

She did not hesitate to wear a dress back-to-front at prestigious events. Her style was unique, she looked very charming even in plain jeans, a shirt unbuttoned to the waist and converse sneakers.„𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤̧𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 ... 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴' 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴!
…/.../
𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘺. 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘦̀𝘴 𝘣 𝘮𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴' 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨."
(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)

Photo credits: unknow (Birkin), Renaud Monfourny, Sebastien Dolidon, Screenshots (2), booklet of "Rendez-vous" / edit by Silke

⭐𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐒.

'In 1981, Birkin was on a short flight from Paris to London. Carrying her famous straw basket, she placed it in the overhead compartment of her seat. However, the lid of the basket opened, and the contents spilled all over the floor and on the seats around her. Sitting next to her and assisting her in retrieving the contents of her basket was the late executive of Hermès, Jean-Louis Dumas. Birkin complained to Dumas that she was unable to find a suitable leather weekend bag that she liked. According to folklore, the remainder of the flight consisted of the pair designing a bag together and sketching ideas on an air sickness bag. …/.../

Since the creation of the very first Birkin bag, Jane Birkin has always carried one. However, true to her unique style and fashion, she has continually customized her bags with beads, trinkets, protest stickers, and other titbits to create a unique look.

…/.../ Birkin bags is now a modern and trendy pastime practiced by celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Tamara Ecclestone, and many others.'
(𝐵𝑎𝑔ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑔)

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⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘

𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐬

Currently on her fifth bag after auctioning the first four for charity, Birkin’s philanthropy work is well documented. She often works with Amnesty International on humanitarian issues and donates her yearly royalties for the Birkin bag (approximately $50,000 per year) to a charity of her choice. In 2015, she had a brief disagreement with Hermès regarding the farming methods of alligators and crocodiles used to make the bags. Birkin’s request to remove her name from crocodile bags was swiftly met with a series of measures taken by the luxury manufacturer which satisfied Birkin and resulted in her dropping the request to remove her name from the bags.

(𝐵𝑎𝑔ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑔)

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⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘

𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴
"I suffered a lot because of my physique, especially at boarding school. The others said I was half boy, half girl. I had no breasts, not even a developing bosom. It was horrible. I was extremely lucky to meet Serge. When he was a student at the École des Beaux Arts, he drew a girl, who looked just like a boy, except that she had breasts like mine. He took me to the Louvre to show me Cranach’s paintings and explained that I was a Cranach and that big breasts frightened him. He was exaggerating though. He had just come out of a relationship with Bardot, but Cranach’s was the type of beauty he preferred. After the misery of the boarding school and my marriage, it was incredible meeting someone who found me beautiful and decidedly erotic. He reconciled me with myself. When a man loves you, it changes everything.”
(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)

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⭐𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄

“𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺𝘴! 𝘞𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘱, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴 [ … ]. 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺: ‘𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦’.”…/.../

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵. 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥; 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘶𝘱, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦. …/.../
𝘐’𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘰.”
(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)

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⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄'𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃

𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺
"I don’t believe in destiny. I think we can change everything all the time. Accidents are the best things in existence. They force you to leave a route that seemed to be mapped out, and it’s often when you branch out that you meet some incredible guy who changes your life or an unusual project that turns your career on its head. It’s often when things aren’t going well that we are forced into doing them differently and they suddenly become interesting.”

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⭐𝑯𝒊 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔,

After two weeks, we can return to our favorite series:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘧 𝘐'𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.

The shared video is the only live version ⭐"𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔"⭐ from 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝘂 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮, where Brian sang this beautiful song live and Asia Argento was projected from a video on the screen behind him.

🎶🔹„𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞 . . . 𝐌𝐨𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬“🔹🎶
𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨?
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴?

For me it is a very distant past... I was about twelve years old when my father, a big fan of popular music, got this record from friends, banned in our totalitarian Czechoslovakia. I saw it as a bright moment in our family, of which unfortunately there were not many.

My parents did not have a good relationship, they often argued. But while listening to this song, my mom would smile mysteriously and receive gentle eye contact from her husband. You could say that she melted like chocolate, and I still see it as one of the few very nice moments in the whole life of my parents.

⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:
The author of the song is ⭐𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐆⭐, who wrote it for his lover ⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐓⭐ in 1967 and recorded it together during a hot moment in a Paris recording studio.

𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩:
✨🔹𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭🔹✨
He was an ugly man who loved some of the world's most beautiful women, a shy man who spent most of his life in the spotlight - and a prankster who knew exactly how to outrage the public. …/.../

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠
The man who looked like an elegant turtle cross-bred with a particularly louche, chain-smoking wolf was also a singer, a songwriter, a cutting-edge soundtrack composer, a Eurovision Song Contest winner, novelist, photographer, actor, artist, drunk, director, screenwriter, populist, provocateur, sentimentalist, clown, lover, intellectual, and the man who single-handedly liberated French pop. …/.../

'𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐲𝐝𝐞' was the title track of Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's album together, released in 1968. It was one of a pair of songs Gainsbourg had written in the space of a night following a disastrous early date with Bardot. Struck dumb with either nerves or alcohol, his usual wit deserted him, the evening was a flop and he thought he had blown it. But Bardot phoned the next day and demanded as a penance that he write her "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦". In fact he wrote two - Bonnie and Clyde and '𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 . . . 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔'

Trash Palace, August 2002, Saint Malo, France. Photo credit unknown 

Late one night in the winter of 1967, Gainsbourg and Bardot went into a dimly lit studio in Paris and recorded Michel Colombier's arrangement of Je T'Aime in an intimate two-hour session. The two singers were squashed into a small, steamy glass booth; engineer William Flageollet witnessed what he described as "𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨". Word leaked to the press that it was an "audio vérité" recording, with the Sunday paper France-Dimanche reporting that the four minutes and 35 seconds of "𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦" set to almost churchlike organ music gave "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦".

…/.../ She (Bardot) wrote Gainsbourg a letter, pleading with him not to release the record. Gainsbourg protested: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺." But he had witnessed the public's love-hate relationship with Bardot, and put the tapes in a drawer. They would stay there 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 1986 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 "𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦" 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦 𝘛'𝘈𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵.

If you wish to know how this story continues with the wonderful ⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍⭐, read on here:
⭐◾ http://bit.ly/3gMjedQ


And here you can listen to both versions that Serge Gainsbourg recorded with these star ladies:

🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐭
http://bit.ly/3ETeo6L

🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 - 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩
http://bit.ly/3AX6t7d

Photo credit;  Lucille Brauscks

But the most important thing for us is that thanks to Brian and especially his friend ⭐𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐕𝐎𝐈, this song has once again become known to the younger generations.

Dimitri decided to prepare a project about how society perceives certain aspects of human sexuality - ⭐'𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄'⭐. And he invited Brian Molko, among several other music stars, to participate in this project, because, as they both say, they share the same sense of humour when it comes to sex:


𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄:
🔹💬“The collaboration was just for fun! Dimitri Tikovoï is my buddy. We have the same sense of humour, porn makes us laugh. What is strange is that people, the media, everybody took us very seriously."
(𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 2002)

🔹💬”The artist in question is a French named Dimitri, whose nickname is the vibrator. He made an electronic record in French about pornography on wich I figure as well as John Cale, Jean-Louis-Murat. We wrote texts for Dimitri. I wrote one a la William Burrough. But it was very interesting to work on this record because it's a kind of music that is very different from what we do usually, and I love this kind of music”.
(𝘔6 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 2001)

The result was the album ⭐'𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒'⭐, released in 2002, on which Brian lent his voice to three tracks:
🎶„𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺“ ,
🎶 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗞𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 "𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱“
🎶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 „𝗝𝗲 𝗧'𝗔𝗶𝗺𝗲 . . . 𝗠𝗼𝗶 𝗡𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀“.

🔹💬𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:
“I just wanted to push myself, my own knowledge of computer-based music so there was a lot of experimentation and trying to do things a bit differently. But I also had a theme which was sex, because firstly, everyone uses sex to sell things but they exploit it in a way that’s not very sensual or erotic. I thought that if I could combine some kind of eroticism into something that is as cold as electronic music, then it would be really interesting. Also I wanted things to be a bit deranged or slightly out of place…kind of the opposite of Britney Spears! Electronic music is so cold because it’s made with machines so if you try to put sensuality into it, it kind of gives it some soul.“
(𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 2006)

Photo credit; Dimitri Tikovoi's Instagram  

𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪:
🔹💬„I wanted to have different views, different moods and different sorts of perversions on the album and that's why there are so many different people involved.“

That Dimitri is as persuasive as he's well-connected is clear from the characters he tracked down, who include Velvet Underground legend John Cale and Placebo singer Brian Molko. He also managed to seduce Italian sex siren Asia Argento into performing a version of „Je T'Aime“, though admits he didn't actually know her until she walked into the studio to lay down her part.

„I had this idea of doing Je T'Aime because I've always loved the track, but my idea was to invert the characters roles,“ says Dimitri.

„In the original track, Serge Gainsbourg is fucking Jane Birkin, he's doing the act of penetration and I wanted to invert the roles; to have Asia doing the role of penetrating someone else. Brian (Molko) said he would do it so I asked Asia by sending her an email. Immediately, she sent me an email back saying 'yeah, I really want to do it' so I flew to Italy to record her voice.

She was very nervous when she did it because she's not a singer and she didn't know what I was going to ask her to do, she was still shooting movies at the time,“ he continues.

„We did it in a small room with a very basic recording set-up and I remember her chain smoking with me sitting in front of her. It was a little bit of a tense atmosphere but that was good for the track. She didn't know me, I didn't know her so it was a slightly bizarre environment.“

With Asia being generally acclaimed as one of the world's sexiest starlets, the resulting track is as salacious as Dimitri presumably hoped it would be, reflecting the overall highly polished standards of all 11 tracks on Positions. Musically, he's succeeded in tapping into the talents of all his various collaborators, to produce an album of punk, funk and electro songs that genuinely (and unusually, in this day and age) truly rocks.
(𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘪, 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, 2004)

Do you also find Dimitri's idea of switching the roles of the lovers as brilliant as I do?
I admit that the video from the concert, where both Brian and Argenta are so sexy, is breathtaking and dazzling for me.
„Je T'Aime“ is one of the hottest songs I know, even though Gainsbourg himself wrote about it 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒚𝒎𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕, 𝒂𝒏 "𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌" 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.

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🎶”𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘”🎶

”𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘” is a song from “Never let me go” which was released on March 25th 2022. It was Placebo's eight studio album and produced by Adam Noble who was also the producer of the previous record “Loud like love” (2013). “Sad White Reggae”, like all other tracks on the album, was recorded at RAK Studios in London, UK, and mastered at 24-96 Mastering in Karlsruhe, Germany.

What's different about “Never let me go” is the process how it came into being because everything was done in reverse order to the usual way of working. The song titles were chosen before the lyrics were written, the work on the record started with the album artwork and picking the cover photo instead of ending with those decisions. Stefan explained that Brian came to him with that idea to try to do everything backwards. “So, there were a few factors in starting this record that were a little bit different. And I think we needed that. I mean, the end result might still sound very much like a Placebo record” (Chaos, March 4th 2022).
Brian: “This process of renewal, of looking for something new, is imperative for me, I really don't want to be bored with Placebo. You have to really push yourself to find different methods, challenging situations, things to say that you find important, to basically do something that feeds you, because without that self-feeding, why would you do that? I would ask myself that question all the time” (France Info, March 30th 2022).


📍 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩: Placebo once did something similar with “Infra-Red” from the album “Meds” when Brian wrote the lyrics of the song backwards. He admitted that because of that he first had no idea what “Infra-Red” was about. “I started with the last line and worked my way to the first. I’d never done that before. So it wasn’t until I got to the first line that I was able to take a step back and understand what it was about” (Suicide Girls, May 14th 2006).


Different to the previous albums Brian and Stefan also started to work on “Never let me go” without a drummer. “We wanted to make an album without drums and just do it with a drum machine and that has influenced the process a little bit. [...] And just having those beginnings a little bit different from the previous records, the result is very different from all the last records. I don't know, but it was important to incite to make the journey a little bit different”, Stefan explained in an interview with Alfa 91,3 FM Mexico. But in the end they even had two drummers instead of none at all: Matt Lunn, who is a touring member of the band and first joined them in 2004, and Pietro Garrone of Husky Loops.


Brian said that “Sad White Reggae” was written during a period of insomnia. In the middle of the night he decided to play something by The Police but ended up writing his own song (see quotes below). He stated that the title is a private joke for him. The song includes references to Jane Birkin, Samye Ling and Lama Yeshe, Dundee and Brian's mother.

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📍𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘆𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴 is a Buddhist monastery in Scotland. On the band's Instagram page Brian posted this text in 2021: “My friend and teacher 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗬𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗲 etablished the first Buddhist monastery in Europe, Samye Ling, Scotland. It is now under threat from US army. Please help us protect the monastery by signing this petition. And album8 is most deginitely on its way!”
Explanation: The military wanted to use the area for target practice. – The petition was successful and the place was safe in the end.


📍𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻 is an English-French singer and actress who Brian admires. She is best known for her releationship with Serge Gainsbourg and their scandalous duet “Je t'aime moi non plus” which Brian and Asia Argento covered for Dimitri Tikovoi's music project Trash Palace in 2002. Two years later Brian recorded a song called “Smile” with Birkin, it was released on her album “Rendez-vous”.


📍 “Sad White Reggae” is not the first song that has a 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 in the lyrics. There's also “Blue American” from the 2000 album “Black market music”. Amongst others it include the line “I wrote this novel just for Mom / For all the mommy things she's done”.


📍 𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗲 is a coastal city in Scotland where Brian partly grew up. Despite the fact that he had to move a lot with his family when he was young he also once said that if he were to have some patriotic feelings it would be for this place.


“Sad White Reggae” is part of the current tour. The shared video was recorded at Bearded Theory's Spring Gathering festival on May 27th 2022. This song is one of my absolute favorites on the new album and also live.

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗦𝗔𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗘 ” 📌
📢 "A lot of these songs were written during periods of insomnia and 'Sad White Reggae' is one of them. It's about three o'clock in the morning. Can't sleep. And for some reason I decided I was going to work out how to play Roxanne by The Police, and I couldn't and I ended up writing this song instead. And because I was trying to copy The Police I called it, 'Sad White Reggae' because that's essentially what the first two Police albums is. It's just 'Sad White Reggae', so it's a little in-joke for me, private joke, which kind of makes its way onto the album. That's my song for Scotland. I think Dundee is going to give me the key to the city when this record comes out. I managed to get Jane Birkin, Lama Yeshe, and my mum into the same song and Dundee. "
(Maniacs, March 25th 2022)


📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗠𝗘 𝗚𝗢” 📌
📢 “I wanted to express something visceral, something very human. I just hope that other people will understand it and that it will move them. I hope that I’ve been somewhat courageous with this record so that it might inspire courage in others. It might help them stand up for what they believe in. That’s all. That’s what music did for me.”
(The Guardian, November 12th 2021)


𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 (𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰) 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦.
📢 “For me, it was also about trying to create discomfort. My friend and mentor David Bowie always used to say `if you're feeling comfortable, you're doing it wrong.’”
(Vice Magazine, January 17th 2022)


📢 “I wanted to do something that had a certain brutality to it, either sonically or lyrically.”
(Rolling Stone UK, February 1st 2022)


📢 “It is our “Fuck you record”, quite right. It is by far the most angriest and most upset we ever did . And it is very focused in its vexation and anger. Because of my lifestyle change I got much more clarity as in former times. The drugs no longer stand in the way of my attitude. I’m more precise and concrete in these songs. I communicate big ideas in a few words as possible.“
(SLAM Issue 121, April 2022)

Photo credit: Matej Grgić

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
I got the man on the way
I wanna sleep on the way down
So many miles away
I used to dance in a fountain


I got the man on the way
Measure for measure
So many miles away
Drunk on a mountain


I got a message for Jane
Float on a feather
I hope the kids are okay
Now for the kicker


I'm stuck on a train
Heading for Scotland
They took my mom away
Illuminati


And I'm thin as rake
I'm no longer fleshy
I'll go to Samye Ling
See Lama Yeshe


Where the skies are grey
And the skies are cloudy
And every river flows
Back to Dundee


I won't give into the pain
I'll smile in the mirror
There's no one else to blame


Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never
Collapse into never, collapse into never

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♦️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...

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🎈🎉𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘: 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍🎉🎈

Today English-French singer, songwriter and actor Jane Birkin celebrates her 75th birthday. She is a woman that Brian adores, and in 2004 they recorded the song “Smile” together which was released on the album “Rendez-vous”.

🎈🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄! 🎉🎈

Photo credits: Getty Images, Kate Barry (2), S. Dolidon, Jenny Lewis, Screenshot, Robin / edit by Silke

💿 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻 & 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗴 - 𝗝𝗲 𝘁'𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗺𝗼𝗶 𝗻𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝘀
🎵 https://bit.ly/3G1KVqQ 🎵

On December 14th 1946 Jane Mallory Birkin was born in London, UK. She began her career as an actress at the age of 20.
In 1969 she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in the film “Slogan”, and this encounter marked the beginning of a working and personal relationship that lasted for decades. In the same year Jane and Serge released the scandalous song “Je t'aime moi non plus”, which Brian covered with Asia Argento in 2002. She also acted in the same-titled controversial 1976 film under Gainsbourg's direction.

💿 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗘 – 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼
🎵 https://bit.ly/3cV0jp9 🎵

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Jane also appeared on his 1971 concept album “Histoire de Melody Nelson”, she portrayed the Lolia-like teenage protagonist in the song and on the cover. With “Ballade de Melody Nelson” Brian also covered a song from that record.
After separating from Gainsbourg in 1980 Jane continued to work as both an actress and a singer, appearing in various independent films and recording numerous solo albums.
Birkin has resided mainly in France since the 1970s. She is the mother of photographer Kate Barry (d. 2013), actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, and musician Lou Doillon. In her career she has released 14 studio and six live albums and starred in more than 70 film productions. Her humanitarian interests have also led her to work with Amnesty International on immigrant welfare and the AIDS problem.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 📌
📢 "Working with her was more than an honor. She has a dignity, a presence and an incredible generosity. She is very English, but like a lady, actually. For me, she is like a member of the royal family."
(Start Up, 2006)

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INTERVIEW WITH DIMITRI TIKOVOI

⭐𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊 𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒊: „𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.“⭐

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🔹𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐢 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 - 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐭)🔹

Dear friends, I have no complicated Placebo theme for you tonight. I have found an amazing interview for you that Dimitri Tikovoi gave to a Hong Kong Nightlife Guide Magazine in 2004.
We already know who 𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐕𝐎𝐈 is. A prominent French DJ and producer who has inspired many of Placebo's works with his amazing talent and thanks to him, the MEDS album is still one of the most exceptional Placebo creations.
In 2002, Dimitri formed a group of artists for his solo project called
𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄 and released a single and completely unique album called 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 under the auspices of this project.
Among the most famous artists from this album are 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨.
⭐🔹⭐
I have a very nice Instagram experience with Dimitri. Last year I shared a video on my IG account from the performance of his project Trash Palace in Saint-Malo, France in 2002, it was the song The Metric System, on which Brian Molko was invited to collaborate.
I tagged Dimitri in this post and he didn't hesitate and commented early in the morning that it was a blast of the past for him and that he had played this concert but never seen it again. He even asked me to send him a video to DM, which I was very happy to do.
Dear Dimitri kindly exchanged a few sentences with me and shared this video on his profile with these words:
„𝐴 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 (𝑦𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 :-)) 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 30.000 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.“
👍Thanks man, I appreciate that you are not only a great musician, but you also like your fans.😊


So, take a nice moment at my post and read Dimitri's view of sex as part of our lives and his amazing mentions of working with Brian and the beautiful Asia Argento, who added her sexy vocals to the song
𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔.

Trash Palace. Photo credit unknown

📌 Sitting in a west London bar on a sunny afternoon, Trash Palace main-man and former Parisien producer Dimitri Tokovoi, speaks softly as he outlines the centrality of sex in his electronic rock band and more specifically the importance of real sex behind Trash Palace's aesthetic.
„There are so many programmes about sex on TV here but when you watch them you feel like you're at school studying a subject such as how you should give a blow job,“ he snorts.
„Sex is not about that in reality at all; it's fashion, perversion, love, whatever; it's much more complex than just the image that's portrayed in the media at the moment.“
He equally opinionated about Trash Palace's perfectly formed fusion of rock & roll and electro-disco, which he created with the help of a highly impressive cast list of collaborators.
„I deliberately set out to find different people to collaborate with because sexuality is about a relationship between two people, it's very hard to have sex by yourself,“ he points out.
„I wanted to have different views, different moods and different sorts of perversions on the album and that's why there are so many different people involved.“
That Dimitri is as persuasive as he's well-connected is clear from the characters he tracked down, who include Velvet Underground legend John Cale and Placebo singer Brian Molko. He also managed to seduce Italian sex siren Asia Argento into performing a version of „Je T'Aime“, though admits he didn't actually know her until she walked into the studio to lay down her part.
„I had this idea of doing Je T'Aime because I've always loved the track, but my idea was to invert the characters roles,“ says Dimitri.
„In the original track, Serge Gainsbourg is fucking Jane Birkin, he's doing the act of penetration and I wanted to invert the roles; to have Asia doing the role of penetrating someone else. Brian (Molko) said he would do it so I asked Asia by sending her an email. Immediately, she sent me an email back saying 'yeah, I really want to do it' so I flew to Italy to record her voice.
She was very nervous when she did it because she's not a singer and she didn't know what I was going to ask her to do, she was still shooting movies at the time,“ he continues.
„We did it in a small room with a very basic recording set-up and I remember her chain smoking with me sitting in front of her. It was a little bit of a tense atmosphere but that was good for the track. She didn't know me, I didn't know her so it was a slightly bizarre environment.“
With Asia being generally acclaimed as one of the world's sexiest starlets, the resulting track is as salacious as Dimitri presumably hoped it would be, reflecting the overall highly polished standards of all 11 tracks on Positions. Musically, he's succeeded in tapping into the talents of all his various collaborators, to produce an album of punk, funk and electro songs that genuinely (and unusually, in this day and age) truly rocks.

Photo credit: Claudia Schmölders

𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒔?
DT: „It was mainly down to luck. I was working with those people in different ways as a producer or programmer, and most of them I was introduced to them through my work. I told them about my project and usually I got a really enthusiastic response from them.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑰𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇?
DT: „No, I like to be in the shadows, I'm quite happy to be the man behind the keyboards and the computer, I prefer that, I find it more exciting not to be seen.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑰𝒔 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝑷𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆?
DT: „No, they're two different things, Trash Palace is my fantasy, it's something that I'm taking out of my mind. Sometimes I come very close to living it as well (chuckling) but essentially I don't want it to be an explanation of my life. If I try to recreate my life through Trash Palace it will have limitations, whereas my fantasies or those fantasies that I'm generating with other people, are limitless. With fantasies there are more possibilities.“
𝑺𝒌𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒇: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒙 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔?
DT: „Sex is more diverse here and more pretentious in Paris. There are a lot more taboos in England which makes it a lot better because it makes everything a bit more perverse, so more interesting. There are more rules to break and places to go in the dark to break them, which I find really interesting. One of the aspects of sex I like is its danger; that makes it more exciting. In France, people are more upfront; there is less perversion in France, I think, perversion is more a part of the English culture.“📌
♦You can read the whole interview here:
https://bit.ly/3nx6B5l
⭐🔹⭐

The shared video is the only live version 🔹"𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔"🔹 from the Trash Palace performance, where Brian sang this beautiful song live and Asia Argento was projected from a video on the screen behind him.
As we already know, this song is a cover version of the immortal song of 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏.
It was put out as a single in 1969 and reached no. one in the UK, but it was banned in several other countries due to its overtly sexual content. Gainsbourg wrote “Je t'aime moi non plus” for the famous actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot with whom he had a short love affair in late 1967.
Like many of us, I have known this song since childhood because my father loved it.
Dimitri's idea of overturning the roles of lovers then seemed brilliant and very amusing to me, and Brian's live performance just took my breath away🔥💗.

Personally, I wish Dimitri many more successes, because he still has a head full of ideas and shares posts about his musical collaboration with many young artists on his IG account.
⭐And who knows, maybe there will be another collaboration with our beloved band?⭐🥰


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𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁. 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼 – 𝗦𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲

Today we have the ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of a special collaboration to celebrate: Exactly 17 years ago was the release date of ”Smile”, Brian's duet with Jane Birkin, a woman who he really admires.

🎬 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 & 𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 – 𝗦𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗘

🎵 http://bit.ly/2zevqek 🎵

Photo credit: Scarlet Page, Kate Barry (3)

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?


Let's get back to ”Smile”, I haven't told you everything about this collaboration. 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”. I find it very interesting how all those people are connected with each other in different ways. How about you?


”Smile” was released as one of altogether 13 duets on Jane Birkin's album ”Rendez-vous” on March 29th 2004.

Photo credit: Photo credit: Robin, Kate Barry 

📌 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)

📜 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...


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