Je t'aime... Moi non plus - wikipedia Je t'aime... Moi non plus This article is about the song. For the film, see Je t'aime moi non plus ( film ). For the album, see Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg. `` Je t'aime... moi non plus '' Artwork for pressings of the French release ( Fontana printing pictured ), some continental European releases and some re-releases Single by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin from the album Jane Birkin / Serge Gainsbourg B - side `` Jane B. '' `` 69 Année Érotique '' ( Belgium only ) Released 1969 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1969 Genre Pop, chanson, psychedelic pop Length 4 : 22 Label UK : Fontana, Major Minor, Antic US : Fontana Songwriter ( s ) Serge Gainsbourg Producer ( s ) Jack Baverstock `` Je t'aime... moi non plus '' ( French for `` I love you... neither do I '' ) is a 1967 song written by Serge Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot. In 1969, Gainsbourg recorded the most well known version with Jane Birkin. The duet reached number one in the UK, and number two in Ireland, but was banned in several countries due to its overly sexual content. In 1976, Gainsbourg directed Birkin in an erotic film of the same name. Contents 1 History 2 Lyrics and music 3 Reception 4 Commercial success 5 Covers 6 Selected list of recorded versions 7 See also 8 References 9 External links History The song was written and recorded in late 1967 for Gainsbourg 's girlfriend, Brigitte Bardot. She asked him to write the most beautiful love song he could imagine and that night he wrote `` Je t'aime '' and `` Bonnie and Clyde ''. They recorded an arrangement of `` Je t'aime '' by Michel Colombier at a Paris studio in a two - hour session in a small glass booth ; the engineer William Flageollet said there was `` heavy petting ''. However, news of the recording reached the press and Bardot 's husband, German businessman Gunter Sachs, was angry and called for the single to be withdrawn. Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release it. He complied but observed `` The music is very pure. For the first time in my life, I write a love song and it 's taken badly. '' In 1968, Gainsbourg and English actress Jane Birkin began a relationship when they met on the set of the film Slogan. After filming, he asked her to record the song with him. Birkin had heard the Bardot version and thought it `` so hot ''. She said : `` I only sang it because I did n't want anybody else to sing it '', jealous at the thought of his sharing a recording studio with someone else. Gainsbourg asked her to sing an octave higher than Bardot, `` so you 'll sound like a little boy ''. It was recorded in an arrangement by Arthur Greenslade in a studio at Marble Arch. Birkin said she `` got a bit carried away with the heavy breathing -- so much so, in fact, that I was told to calm down, which meant that at one point I stopped breathing altogether. If you listen to the record now, you can still hear that little gap. '' There was media speculation, as with the Bardot version, that they had recorded live sex, to which Gainsbourg told Birkin, `` Thank goodness it was n't, otherwise I hope it would have been a long - playing record. '' It was released in February 1969. The single had a plain cover, with the words `` Interdit aux moins de 21 ans '' ( forbidden to those under 21 ), and the record company changed the label from Philips to Fontana. Gainsbourg also asked Marianne Faithfull to record the song with him ; she said : `` Hah ! He asked everybody ''. Others approached included Valérie Lagrange and Mireille Darc. Bardot regretted not releasing her version, and her friend Jean - Louis Remilleux persuaded her to contact Gainsbourg. They released it in 1986. Lyrics and Music The title was inspired by a Salvador Dalí comment : `` Picasso is Spanish, me too. Picasso is a genius, me too. Picasso is a communist, me neither ''. Gainsbourg claimed it was an `` anti-fuck '' song about the desperation and impossibility of physical love. The lyrics are written as a dialogue between two lovers during sex. Phrases include : `` Je vais et je viens, entre tes reins '' ( `` I go and I come, between your loins '' ) `` Tu es la vague, moi l'île nue '' ( `` You are the wave, I the bare island '' ) `` L'amour physique est sans issue '' ( `` Physical love is a dead end '' ( Gainsbourg sings ' sensationnel ' in another version ) ) `` Je t'aime, moi non plus '' is translated as `` I love you -- me not anymore '' in the Pet Shop Boys ' version. The lyrics are sung, spoken and whispered over a baroque organ and guitar track in C major, with a `` languid, almost over pretty, chocolate box melody ''. Reception The lyrical subtleties were lost on late - 1960s Brits. What they heard was an expertly stroked organ, orgasmic groans and a soft - focus melody, the musical equivalent of a Vaseline - smeared Emmanuelle movie. It was confirmation that life across the Channel was one of unchecked lubriciousness, and Je t'aime became as essential a part of any successful seduction as a chilled bottle of Blue Nun. -- Sylvie Simmons, Serge Gainsbourg : A Fistful of Gitanes, 2001 The eroticism was declared offensive. The lyrics are commonly thought to refer to the taboo of sex without love, and were delivered in a breathy, suggestive style. The Observer Monthly Music magazine called it `` the pop equivalent of an Emmanuelle movie ''. When the version with Bardot was recorded, the French press reported that it was an `` 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 ''. 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. '' The song culminates in orgasm sounds by Birkin : mostly because of this, it was banned from radio in Spain, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, Italy, and Portugal, banned before 11 pm in France, not played by many radio stations in the United States because it was deemed too risqué, and denounced by the Vatican and the L'Osservatore Romano ; one report even claimed the Vatican excommunicated the record executive who released it in Italy. Birkin says Gainsbourg called the Pope `` our greatest PR man ''. Birkin said in 2004 that, `` It was n't a rude song at all. I do n't know what all the fuss was about. The English just did n't understand it. I 'm still not sure they know what it means. '' 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. Commercial success The song was a commercial success throughout Europe. By 1986, it had sold four million copies. In the UK, it was released on the Fontana label, but, after reaching number two, it was withdrawn from sale. Gainsbourg arranged a deal with Major Minor Records and on re-release it reached number one, the first banned number one single in the UK and the first single in a foreign language to top the charts. It stayed on the UK chart for 31 weeks. It even made the Top 100 in the United States, reaching number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Mercury Records, the US distributor, faced criticism that the song was `` obscene '' and there was limited airplay, limiting US sales to around 150,000. It was re-released in the UK in late 1974 on the Atlantic Records subsidiary Antic Records and charted again peaking at No. 31 and charting for nine weeks. Chart ( 1969 ) Peak position Ö3 Austria Top 40 German Musikmarkt / Media Control Charts Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) Irish Singles Chart Mexico ( Radio Mil ) 5 Norwegian VG - lista Chart Swiss Top 100 Singles Chart UK Singles Chart US Billboard Hot 100 58 Covers Donna Summer ( pictured in 1977 ) covered the song as `` Je t'aime '' in duet with producer Giorgio Moroder for the 1978 film Thank God It 's Friday The song has been covered dozens of times, both serious and comedic. The first covers were instrumentals, `` Love at first sight '', after the original was banned ; the first version by a British group named Sounds Nice ( featuring Tim Mycroft on keyboard ) became a top 20 hit. ( The group 's name `` sounds nice '' actually represents the two words Paul McCartney said when he heard this instrumental cover of the song ). The first parody was written in 1970 by Gainsbourg himself and Marcel Mithois. Titled `` Ça '', it was recorded by Bourvil and Jacqueline Maillan, Bourvil 's last release before his death. Other comedy versions were made by Frankie Howerd and June Whitfield, Judge Dread, and Gorden Kaye and Vicki Michelle, stars of the BBC TV comedy ' Allo ' Allo !, in character. The song influenced the 1975 disco classic `` Love to Love You Baby '' by singer Donna Summer and producer Giorgio Moroder. In a note to Neil Bogart, producer A.J. Cervantes ( son of politician Alfonso J. Cervantes ), who previously worked for Casablanca Records, suggested an idea of Donna Summer recording the song. Bogart initially rejected the idea. Cervantes ' record label Butterfly Records released the disco rendition as `` Je t'aime '' by an all - female disco group Saint Tropez in August 1977, the first disco rendition of the song, as part of the album of the same name, Je T'aime ( 1977 ). Prompted by the minor success of Saint Tropez, a year later in 1978, Casablanca Records released the Summer and Moroder duet rendition of `` Je t'aime '' in a 15 - minute version for the film Thank God It 's Friday. The Summer -- Moroder rendition was produced by Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Je t'aime has been sampled in many other songs, including : `` A Fair Affair '' by Misty Oldland ; `` Guitar Song '' by Texas on the album The Greatest Hits and released as a single in Belgium in 2001 ; and a version of `` Breathe '' in Kylie Minogue 's 2003 Money Ca n't Buy concert at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Selected list of recorded versions 1968 -- Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot. It was not issued until 1986. When Universal Music made their back catalogue available to purchase online in 2006, this song was the third most popular download. 1969 -- Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin 1969 -- Giorgio Albertazzi and Anna Proclemer Ti amo... ed io di più cover in Italian 1969 -- Sounds Nice featuring Tim Mycroft ( instrumental, entitled `` Love at First Sight '' ). It reached number 18 in the UK and stayed on the chart for 11 weeks. 1970 -- Bourvil and Jacqueline Maillan -- Ça. The first parody, and Bourvil 's last release. 1971 -- Frankie Howerd & June Whitfield as `` Up Je t'aime, '' a `` no sex please, we 're British '' parody ( wife keeps saying `` Je t'aime '', husband wants to get ready for golf ) 1972 -- Hot Butter ( instrumental, as `` Love at First Sight '' ) 1973 -- Abigail. This cover reached the top 10 in Australia - 1973, # 5 Sydney, # 4 Adelaide, # 8 Melbourne. 1975 -- Judge Dread. It reached number 9 in the UK in July 1975 and spent 9 weeks on the chart. 1977 -- Saint Tropez -- the first disco rendition 1978 -- Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer 1981 -- Einstürzende Neubauten ( as `` Jet 'm '' ) 1984 -- Trafassi as `` Me jam ''. Dutch - language version. 1986 -- Psychic TV, Je T'Aime. It was variously credited to Genesis P - Orridge and The Angels of Light or Psychic TV and Mistress Mix. The 1985 version was a limited edition 12 '' vinyl of 5000 copies, with `` Supermale '' on the B - side. The 1989 version had a B - side called `` Wicked ( Lucifer Mix ) ''. 1986 -- René & Yvette from ' Allo ' Allo. It reached 57 on the UK chart. 1989 - Les Femmes Erotiques ( Italo house cover version ) 1991 - Actors Heiner Lauterbach and Sabine von Maydell, Je T'aime Ich Liebe Dich ( German Cover ) 1992 -- Chayanne & Natalie as `` Extasis '' on his album Provócame. 1993 -- Barry Adamson with Anita Lane on his album The Negro Inside Me 1994 -- Malcolm McLaren on his album Paris. 1996 - 2Defy as `` Je t'aime Moi Non Plus... Forever My Lady '' 1997 -- Cibo Matto with Sean Lennon, `` a cute romp '' that was part of the tribute album Great Jewish Music : Serge Gainsbourg on Tzadik Records. 1997 -- Nick Cave with Anita Lane as `` I Love You ( Nor Do I ) '' on the album Pink Elephants by Mick Harvey. CMJ New Music Monthly called it `` perhaps the worst cover version in history ''. 1998 -- Pet Shop Boys & Sam Taylor - Wood, with some of the lyrics digitally voiced. 1998 -- Bob Downe & Julian Clary 2000 -- Koffi Olomide & Nayanka Bell, an afro - zouk version. 2001 -- Sven Väth featuring Miss Kittin ( electronic version ) 2002 -- Böhse Onkelz as a B - side on the single Keine Amnestie für MTV 2003 -- Brian Molko & Asia Argento ( with the male and female roles inverted 2004 -- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. An `` hilariously deadpan '' version. 2006 -- Cat Power & Karen Elson ( sung in English as `` I Love You, Me Either '' ) 2010 -- Baggalútur ( sung in Icelandic `` Saddur '' ) 2011 - Jason Kouchak on his album Comme d'Habitude 2014 -- M'barka Ben Taleb, an etno funk version See also List of songs banned by the BBC References Jump up ^ 1969 Album on the AMG. 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Question: je t'aime moi non plus meaning in english
Answer: I love you… neither do