Sunday Samples 66
I am, it may be understandable, not in much of a mood for anything heavy this week. So let’s just sit down for a charming little yéyé song about candy. If you don’t speak (or, rather, understand sung) French, it’s just a sweet melody about a girl who simply adores her anise-flavored lollipops.
From 1966, written by Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall’s “Les Sucettes”
Annie aime les sucettes
Les sucettes à l’anis
Les sucettes à l’anis d’Annie
Donnent à ses baisers un goût ani-
Sé. Lorsque le sucre d’orge
Parfumé à l’anis
Coule dans la gorge d’Annie,
Elle est au paradisPour quelques pennies, Annie
A ses sucettes à l’anis
Elles ont la couleur de ses grands yeux,
La couleur des jours heureuxAnnie aime les sucettes
Les sucettes à l’anis
Les sucettes à l’anis d’Annie
Donnent à ses baisers un goût ani-
Sé. Lorsqu’elle n’a sur la langue
Que le petit bâton
Elle prend ses jambes à son corps
Et retourne au drugstorePour quelques pennies, Annie
A ses sucettes à l’anis
Elles ont la couleur de ses grands yeux
La couleur des jours heureuxLorsque le sucre d’orge
Parfumé à l’anis
Coule dans la gorge d’Annie,
Elle est au paradis
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Man, both the song and the video are fun-nee! Vive la France!
I really think that we’re missing some of the subtext here. Just like “Don’t stand so close” gets even creepier if you’ve read Lolita.
Heather, I’m shocked, shocked to think that Serge Gainsbourg would weave some sort of tawdry double-entendres into a song for an innocent 18-year-old girl that would make her quit performing for five years should she find out what she was really thinking about.
In 1966 most English T.V. stations on this side of the Atlantic would have lost their license had they run that clip.