What are you listening to right now?

[yoco]

I listened to ATB so much back in the day, even using Don't Stop and Hold You as background music for two school presentations Everything he made up to Future Memories inclusive was very good.

I have original CD album!

[anon]

I have the V0 quality rips I downloaded from What.cd and Waffles... if they survived my hard disk crash The Seven Years compilation and disc one of Future Memories provide a great summary of his best work!

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[Renk]

Some venomous & controversial video here. I still don't understand how it was possible for this video not to be rated R by Youtube.
"Lemon Incest" is a song written and composed by the french singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg for his daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, with whom he is singing it here. This is the official video.

Charlotte Gainsbourg is nowadays mostly known as an actress. To get a better idea of what roles she is capable of playing, watch e.g. "Antichrist" (from Lars von Trier, with W. Dafoe) , or "Nymphomaniac" Volume l and lI (Lars von Trier again). But she has also played roles in mainstream movies, like "Independence Day: Resurgence."

No extremely great vocal performance here, but the most interesting parts of the song are the music itself (a tribute to "Tristesse" ("Sadness/Sorrow") from F. Chopin, some might saying "plagiarism"), and above all, the lyrics. I give a translation in English below, as well as some keys to better understand them.

Here is the video of the song:

Spoiler English translation of the lyrics:

[Refrain: Charlotte Gainsbourg, George Simms & Steve Simms]
un zeste de citron
Lemon incest
I love you, love you
I love you more than anything
daddy, daddy

[Verse 1: Serge Gainsbourg]
Naive as a canvas
From the Nierdoua Sseaurou
Your kisses are so sweet

[Refrain : Charlotte Gainsbourg, George Simms & Steve Simms]
Un zeste de citron
Lemon incest
I love you, love you
I love you more than anything
Daddy, daddy

[Verse 2: Charlotte Gainsbourg]
The love that we'll never make together
Is the most beautiful, the most violent
the purest, the most intoxicating

[Serge Gainsbourg]
Exquisite sketch
Delicious child
My flesh and my blood
Oh, my baby
My soul

[Refrain: Charlotte Gainsbourg, George Simms & Steve Simms]
Un zeste de citron
Lemon incest
I love you, love you
I love you more than anything
Daddy, daddy

[Verse 3: Serge Gainsbourg]
Naive as a canvas
From the Nierdoua Sseaurou
Your kisses are so sweet

[Refrain : Charlotte Gainsbourg, George Simms & Steve Simms]
Un zeste de citron.
Lemon incest
I love you, love you
I love you more than anything
Daddy, daddy

[Verse 4: Charlotte Gainsbourg]
The love that we'll never make together
Is the rarest, the most disturbing
The purest, the most moving

[Serge Gainsbourg]
Exquisite sketch
Delicious child
My flesh and my blood
Oh, my baby
My soul

There is 2 keys for a better understanding of the lyrics:

Spoiler Keys and Personnal Interpretation:

1) The choir is singing "lemon incest" while Charlotte Gainsbourg is singing "un zeste de citron". There is a first word game here: "Lemon Incest" translates in French to "inceste de citron", phonetically close to "un zeste de citron", which translates in english to a "lemon peel" or "a lemon zest", so referring to something with a tangy, light and fresh taste.


2) The second important play of word is the reference to the artist painter "Nierdoua Sseaurou". It's written in verlan. In French, Verlan consists in phonetically inverting syllabs of words:"a l'envers" in French means "backwards"/"in reverse" in English. The verlan form of "l'envers" is... "verlan".

So "Nierdoua Sseaurou" is the verlan form of "Douanier Rousseau", the greatest French artist painter representative of the "naive art" which is characterized, in painting, by rather simplistic drawings, non respect of the perspectives and bright colors.

In comparing his daughter to a Douanier Rousseau's canvas, S. Gainsbourg is evoking all that is most moving and touching about the child: innocence and naivety. In the lyrics, S. Gainsbourg is also comparing his daughter to an (exquisite) "sketch", that is to say a work of art in the process of being made, and which is not yet finished.

Note that Serge Gainsbourg was a great lover of painting and painter himself before turning to letters and music.



3) In my interpretation, "Lemon Incest" (refer to "The love that we'll never make together/Is the rarest, the most disturbing/The purest, the most moving") is a love song between a father and her daughter, telling that the father-daughter bond is precious and that no physical love equals it.

[anon]

A bit creepy, but ultimately harmless. I may have been decalibrated by tons of eroge and eromanga, mind you, but I'm able to tell fantasy from reality for now.

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