Vintage record album cover for Je t'aime moi non plus showing…

“Je t’aime… moi non plus” by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Released in 1969, “Je t’aime… moi non plus” by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg became one of the era’s most famous—and most controversial—love songs, with its breathy vocals, hypnotic organ line, and unapologetically sensual atmosphere making it unlike almost anything else on the radio. Despite bans and restrictions in several places, the controversy only added to its fascination, and the record became a major international hit: it reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom, as well as No. 1 in Switzerland, Austria and Norway, while climbing to No. 2 in the Netherlands and Belgium and No. 3 in West Germany. More than half a century later, it still carries that unmistakable late-1960s mixture of romance, provocation and French cool—less like an ordinary pop song than a private moment somehow captured on record.

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