Not only would Jane Birkin never win ‘La Voz’, ‘OT’ or ‘Eufòria’, she wouldn’t even make it through the first qualifier. What is this young lady trying to work out that vocal cord! The jurors were horrified, paying attention to the affected nightingales and imitators. But Birkin won us over without overwhelming him with his singing, using equal or more important resources: a compassionate executive smoothness, that convincing identification with every stanza, an apparent lack of role-play.
He wasn’t a composer either (yes, he was a lyricist on his last two albums), but despite these shortcomings, he shaped an extremely enjoyable recording effort. There are artists like these who are creative, if not literally like this: here’s her friend Marianne Faithfull. Well, fascinating keys fly around the character and the echo of the scandal still resounds, but we should not forget Jane Birkin’s recordings that deserve attention beyond her scrutiny in the key to social life.
It is true that his discography is largely a reflection of the fantasies of Serge Gainsbourg, who composed his best-known songs for him. catalog already distributed as stand-alone, Delicious tracks like ‘Ex fan des sixties’ (1978) and ‘Baby Only in Babylon’ (1983). There is no one better than him to sing genius. After leaving him, out of a mere sense of survival, he became the already crumbling ‘Gainsbarre’, tried to relate to other writers, and other good records came out of there. However, despite his alliance with Serge (the magical ‘Arabesque’, 2002), he did not give up on returning to Serge. Etienne Daho.
After all, he liked to give his adventures a relaxed air. That’s what he told me fifteen years ago, when I interviewed him at his home in Paris, On the ‘rue de Jacob’, in the heart of the ‘rive gauche’. Rooms full of books and black wallpaper, antique furniture and a sense of heaviness, all in contrast to her endless light smile. He admitted that he was naive as he went to talk to Sarkozy. So that France does not invest in the Burma of the military dictatorship, which placed her Nobel Peace Prize-winning friend Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest and described her breakthrough into the art world as “accident”. “I started doing things because someone chose me and offered me.” And of course you couldn’t help thinking it was, because looking at it was the most natural thing in the world.