Je t'aime... moi non plus: Difference between revisions

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When the version with Bardot was recorded, the French press reported that it was an "[[wikt:audio vérité|audio vérité]]". ''[[France Dimanche]]'' said the "groans, sighs, and Bardot's little cries of pleasure [give] the impression you're listening to two people making love".<ref name=simmons/> The first time Gainsbourg played it in public was in a Paris restaurant immediately after they recorded it. Birkin said that "as it began to play all you could hear were the knives and forks being put down. 'I think we have a hit record', he said."<ref name=simmons/><ref name=telegraph/>

The song culminates in [[orgasm]] sounds by Birkin: mostly because of this, it was banned from radio in Spain, Sweden, Brazil, the UK,<ref name=omm/> Italy,<ref name=italy/> and Portugal,{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} banned before 11 pm in France, not played by many radio stations in the United States because it was deemed too risqué,<ref name=evene/> and denounced by the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] and the ''[[L'Osservatore Romano]]'';<ref name=omm>{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/the10/story/0,,1487369,00.html|title=The 10 most x-rated records|last=Spencer|first=Neil|date=22 May 2005|work=Observer Music Monthly|publisher=Guardian Newspapers|access-date=3 August 2010|___location=London}}</ref><ref name=italy>{{cite book|last1=Cheles|first1=Luciano|last2=Sponza|first2=Lucio|title=The art of persuasion: political communication in Italy from 1945 to the 1990s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vy1NMicVUEEC&pg=PA331|year=2001|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=0-7190-4170-8|page=331}}</ref> one report even claimed the Vatican excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy.<ref name=zwerin/> Birkin says Gainsbourg called the Pope "our greatest PR man".<ref name=telegraph/>

Birkin said in 2004 that, "It wasn't a rude song at all. I don't know what all the fuss was about. The English just didn't understand it. I'm still not sure they know what it means."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/aug/15/popandrock1|title=Serge needed all the love he could get|last=Solomons|first=Jason|date=15 August 2004|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|access-date=3 August 2010|___location=London}}</ref> When Gainsbourg went to [[Jamaica]] to record with [[Sly and Robbie]], they initially did not get on well. They said "We know just one piece of French music, a song called 'Je t'aime… Moi Non Plus', which has a girl groaning in it." Gainsbourg said "It's me", and their mood changed immediately.<ref name=simmons/>