One of the triumvirate* of the original French ye-ye girls, France Gall may mostly be remembered nowadays for her winning song in Eurovision song contest. But before she was a wax doll, she was just a girl who especially enjoyed aniseed flavored lollipops.**
Les Sucettes - France Gall
Click here for the promotional video (can't embed but, really, click). Or you can watch the straight singing version below:
Lorsque le sucre d'orge
Parfum l'anis
Coule dans la gorge d'Annie,
Elle est au paradis
And when the barley sugar [ed lollipop]
Perfumed with aniseed,
Slides down Annie's throat
She is in paradise
*I've already mentioned another one of the trio several times before, but I'll post some more of her in a little while.
**Supposedly, Gall was completely oblivious to the double entendre of this and all other songs written for her by Gainsbourg; apparently, once she caught on, she completely disassociated herself from him. Okay, so maybe she was naive enough to not read anything into it, just singing the lyrics straight-up but then...I don't know, she still didn't get the subtext after participating in the promotional video, being a young French teenage girl in the swinging 60s? Ye-ye indeed.
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Subtle.
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