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Having scored a pan-European smash three years earlier with her debut single, "Joe le Taxi," including nearly three months at the top of the charts in her native France, Vanessa Paradis reunited with producer Franck Langolff for this follow-up album. The legendary Serge Gainsbourg provided lyrics, but the results are hardly up to the treatments given his material by Jane Birkin. Paradis' vocals are wispy and pleasant enough, but the music is strictly pedestrian, slick dance-pop on tracks such as "Au Charme Non Plus" and "Amour Jamais." There's even a bit of grinding guitar bolstering "L'Amour en Soi," which seems blandly aimed at replicating Janet Jackson's "Black Cat." Her reading of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" has a quirky charm to it; although hardly making anyone forget the original, it wisely eschews the processed feel of the rest of the album and therefore stands out.
© Tom Demalon /TiVo
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Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Carole Fredericks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Philippe Osman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bertrand Chatenet, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - FRANK LANGOLFF, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ann Calvert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Marina Albert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jus d'Orange, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Carole Fredericks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Philippe Osman, Producer, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer - Bertrand Chatenet, Producer, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - Jean-Jacques Milteau, Harmonica, AssociatedPerformer - FRANK LANGOLFF, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ann Calvert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Marina Albert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jus d'Orange, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Carole Fredericks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Philippe Osman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Serge Gainsbourg, ComposerLyricist - Vanessa Paradis, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Franck Langolff, Producer, Guitar, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ann Calvert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Marina Albert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jus d'Orange, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Carole Fredericks, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Philippe Osman, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Bertrand Chatenet, Recording Arranger, Interprète Instrumental, AssociatedPerformer - FRANK LANGOLFF, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ann Calvert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Marina Albert, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Jus d'Orange, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Serge Gainsbourg, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Composer, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Lou Reed, Composer, Author - Vanessa Paradis, MainArtist - Franck Langolff, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 Barclay
Album review
Having scored a pan-European smash three years earlier with her debut single, "Joe le Taxi," including nearly three months at the top of the charts in her native France, Vanessa Paradis reunited with producer Franck Langolff for this follow-up album. The legendary Serge Gainsbourg provided lyrics, but the results are hardly up to the treatments given his material by Jane Birkin. Paradis' vocals are wispy and pleasant enough, but the music is strictly pedestrian, slick dance-pop on tracks such as "Au Charme Non Plus" and "Amour Jamais." There's even a bit of grinding guitar bolstering "L'Amour en Soi," which seems blandly aimed at replicating Janet Jackson's "Black Cat." Her reading of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" has a quirky charm to it; although hardly making anyone forget the original, it wisely eschews the processed feel of the rest of the album and therefore stands out.
© Tom Demalon /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:50:28
- Main artists: Vanessa Paradis
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Universal Music Division Barclay
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1990 Barclay ℗ 1990 Barclay
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