After two weeks, we can return to our favorite series:
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด ๐ง๐ช๐ง๐ต๐บ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด, ๐ช๐ง ๐'๐ฎ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต.
๐ถ๐น„๐๐ ๐'๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ . . . ๐๐จ๐ข ๐๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ“๐น๐ถ
๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ต, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ?
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด?
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.
⭐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐:
The author of the song is ⭐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐⭐, who wrote it for his lover ⭐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐⭐ in 1967 and recorded it together during a hot moment in a Paris recording studio.
๐๐ฆ๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ต๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ:
✨๐น๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฌ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐น✨
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. …/.../
๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐
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. …/.../
'๐๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐' 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 "๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ". In fact he wrote two - Bonnie and Clyde and '๐ฑ๐ ๐ป'๐จ๐๐๐ . . . ๐ด๐๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐'
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| Trash Palace, August 2002, Saint Malo, France. Photo credit unknown |
…/.../ She (Bardot) wrote Gainsbourg a letter, pleading with him not to release the record. Gainsbourg protested: "๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ." But he had witnessed the public's love-hate relationship with Bardot, and put the tapes in a drawer. They would stay there ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ญ 1986 ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ "๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ" ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฆ ๐'๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ด ๐๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต.
If you wish to know how this story continues with the wonderful ⭐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐⭐, read on here:
⭐◾ http://bit.ly/3gMjedQ
And here you can listen to both versions that Serge Gainsbourg recorded with these star ladies:
๐ถ๐น๐๐ ๐'๐๐ข๐ฆ๐- ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ญ
http://bit.ly/3ETeo6L
๐ถ๐น๐๐ ๐'๐๐ข๐ฆ๐- ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง - ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ
http://bit.ly/3AX6t7d
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| Photo credit; Lucille Brauscks |
Dimitri decided to prepare a project about how society perceives certain aspects of human sexuality - ⭐'๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐'⭐. 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:
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐:
๐น๐ฌ“The collaboration was just for fun! Dimitri Tikovoรฏ 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."
(๐๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, 2002)
๐น๐ฌ”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”.
(๐6 ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค, 2001)
The result was the album ⭐'๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐'⭐, released in 2002, on which Brian lent his voice to three tracks:
๐ถ„๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ“ ,
๐ถ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐น๐ถ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ผ๐ด๐๐ฒ'๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ด "๐๐ฎ๐ป'๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ“
๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ „๐๐ฒ ๐ง'๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ . . . ๐ ๐ผ๐ถ ๐ก๐ผ๐ป ๐ฃ๐น๐๐“.
๐น๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
“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.“
(๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ, ๐๐ถ๐จ๐ถ๐ด๐ต 2006)
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| Photo credit; Dimitri Tikovoi's Instagram |
๐น๐ฌ„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.
(๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ณ๐ช ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช, ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ, 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 ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ "๐๐๐๐-๐๐๐๐" ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐.
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