Drop the girls

Drops the girls is a Chanson French written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg and sung by France Gall in 1964.

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In this 2nd work for France Gall, Gainsbourg makes stress with its young interpreter a throbbing leitmotiv and ambiguity. Indeed, France orders to the unsteady boy to give up the girls while uttering threats if it persists in this (bad?) sees:
This disillusioned future predicted by “an innocent heart” (sic) is quite foreign with the concerns of the singing banked-up beds of the time and the complexity of these words left the mouth of a young girl is not always well perceived. Gilles Verlant writes on this subject: “The texts of Gainsbourg do not have obviously anything to see with the universe nunuche-pet of the remainder of the Yéyé S, which has its charm, of course, but not an atom of distance nor of depth. From the start, it imposes a reading on the second degree or is shown deliberately negative. In the songs that he writes to him, there is a clearness, a refusal to let itself take with the “great joke love”, that where one says oneself “never” and “always”. However, this time, it is not a man of thirty or thirty-five banks which sings, but a teenager… ”
The vindicatory song of France always is supported by the immutable team of jazzmen aguerris guided by clever “the Gogo” (the same team with which Gainsbourg records at the time). The deployment of coppers and the percussions in the architecture of the song is not foreign with its success. The Anglo-Saxons will envy this “french pop sound” which makes that this song continues to be still begun again nowadays.

Recoveries

  • 1995 : by April March on the album Chick Dress , 1 CD Record Industry (the United States), in French and English ( Chick Dress ).
  • 1996 : by Alice Dona on the album more French beautiful songs - 1964 , 1 CD, Editions Atlas.
  • 1997 : by God is my Co-Pile on the album I am too content .
  • 2006 : by Mareva Galanter on the album Ukuyéyé by Mareva , 1 CD, Warner Music.
  • 2007 : April March on BO Death Proof , 1 CD Maverick, music of film of Quentin Tarantino Boulevard of dead (Death Proof) the , in English ( Chick Dress ) and in French (generic of end).

Drops the girls 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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