Do not listen to the idols

does not listen to the idols is a Chanson French written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg and interpreted by France Gall in 1964.

Artistic card

  • Title: does not listen to the idols
  • Paroles and music: Serge Gainsbourg
  • Interpreter of origin: France Gall on the super 45 turns Philips 434-874-BE
  • Arrangements and musical direction: Alain Goraguer
  • Orchestra:
  • : Middle-class Denis
  • Year of production: 1964
  • Editor: Sidonie
  • Publication: March 1964
  • Lasted: 01:46
    • Video
  • extracted the '' Top in Cassel '', emission ORTF of March 14th, 1964

Comment

Even if France Gall, with her first 45 turns, were registered with the hit-parade 1963 thanks to her song of émancipée girl would not be so stupid , its repertory of beginner does not remain about it less very conventional, the teenager mutine testifies to a frankness indiscutable.
As of this first song for France, Serge Gainsbourg transgresses the limits of the repertory gentillet of the singing young girl. does not listen to the idols implies that the teenager is already informed adventures in love without a future (which it does not approve however). She is not any more the little girl a little nunuche of would not be so stupid for which the exploit was to give this council to the boy in order to receive (finally!) a kiss…
In addition, the teenager of does not listen to the idols is a schizophrene who handles the boy, object of his love or, rather, of her obsession? :

Tu pourras
Plus to only listen to the idols
Ça you apprendra
Que me I am folle
Folle of toi
Lucien Rioux had already raised the paradox of this song in his study devoted to Gainsbourg in 1986.
Christian Eudeline, in Jukebox Magazine, carries out the same analysis: “It is a fantastic acidulous song Planing above its contemporaries, Serge concocte here for France a very humorous piece where a girl asks her boyfriend to listen to it in the place of all these nymphettes who invade the waves. Obviously, France does not specify that it has the privilege to be addressed to this same boy through the same radio. It is undoubtedly about a diverted means used by Gainsbourg to make fun of the lolitas of then! ”
This schizophrenic topic will again be exploited by Gainsbourg in very famous the Poupée of wax, headstock of sound.
Musicalement, with an intense orchestration minimalist but and a vocal interpretation very selected, its execution ensures this song created it has more than 40 years, the perenniality of succeeded works which one says that there is nothing to remove and nothing to add.

does not listen to the idols out of CD (compilations)

  • 1992 - Headstock of sound - Best off France Gall 1963-1968 (1 CD Polydor/Universal)

  • 2001 - France Gall - the years Philips 1963-1968 (Long Box 3 CD Polydor/Universal)

See too

See also: List of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg

See also: Taken again songs of Serge Gainsbourg

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