France Gall & Serge Gainsbourg - The story behind "Les Sucettes" video free download


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Duration: 05:09
Uploaded: 2010/01/06

A lot has been said about the "Les Sucettes" and there are plenty of videos about it scattered online, so I put some of them together to tell a little bit about the story of this controversial song.

I have also added english subs.

Thanks RobinGoodFellovv for helping me with the translation.

*****French speakers, let me know if I need to correct something******

Comments

8 years ago

Votre Prénom

Mazette, elle était sacrément ridée pour 18 ans !! (ses joues ?? ça ne vous choque pas ça aussi ?)

8 years ago

Anel Aguilar

No English subtitles listed. ???? 

8 years ago

PierrotHD

She doesn't say that she was ashamed because Gainsbourg set her up, but rather because the song made her aware of the image she was unintentionally projecting (0:40). Besides her previous single with Gainsbourg (winner of eurovision contest "poupée de cire, poupée de son") was already about a woman-child growing aware of masculine desire ("doll of wax, doll of sound" is also a sexual metaphor, though a much subtlier one than the "sucettes") "Am I better, am I worse than a fashion doll ?I see life through rosy-tinted glassesDoll of wax, doll of soundThey ("the rag dolls") let themselves be seducedFor any reasonLove isn't only in songsDoll of wax, doll of sound"

8 years ago

eric despineto

juste...... mouhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

9 years ago

karo. gagne

frank je crois qu'elle ne voulait pas donner suite a ce personnage(serge)apres ca mousse sa populairite toute cette histoire pervers jusqu'à la fin lui loque humaine puant qui ne se donnait meme plus d,ouvrir la bouche pour parler et vomir ses salete quand il était invite.

9 years ago

iVenge

she like suckee suckee 

9 years ago

Steve Martin

Ha ha ... she knew all along the difference between 'like', 'love', and 'true love' is 'spit', 'swallow' and 'gargle'. Vive la France!

9 years ago

cagnaccio110

I think the sexual meaning is not the "real" and only meaning of the lyrics, there are the literal one and that we are induced to imagine, parallely running and passing one from another and it's the indecibility between the twos that makes the song simultaneously catchy, amazing, innocent and lascivous without separation, all in one: so i think concentrating only on the sexual side betrays half of the lolitian sense and puritanely prohibites to let oneself go to hear THE song masterpiece of the yéyés!!

9 years ago

Tina Colandrea

come on, girl, she knew, its too obvious ! hahaha i love serge and she's adorable w that lolita look, that's why she was perfect for the song !

9 years ago

plastimin

Betrayed by the adults around her. That's gotta give you trust issues

9 years ago

Victoria Etchart

I remember thinking she was faking it, thinking Serge was just being "typical Serge", thinking it was kind of funny. Funny. Because now it just creeps me out. That's freaking sexual assault. Serge is a disgusting, mysoginist man.

9 years ago

Tracey Rice

A girl with the voice and look of a small child, singing about sucking lollypops and appearing in a video so obscenely sexual that it makes my stomach turn ... Music Biz 1 - Innocents 0 ... same old story. What a sick prick Serge clearly was.

9 years ago

Frank Parker

Bonjour tout le monde,Ce que je voulais dire, personellement je trouve que toute cette histoire sur "les sucettes" révèle beaucoup plus quel homme était Serge et de ce qu'il était capable que sur l'ignorance de France en toute sa pureté de jeune fille.

9 years ago

Linkdezelda

Le pire... C'est que comme elle, j'ai vraiment pas compris le sous-entendu. Pour moi, c'était clairement une petite fille qui adore les sucette au parfum anis et qui va les acheter au magasin... Mais quand je lis vos commentaires, je vois que je suis vraiment super pure quoi, c'est rassurant ^^Elenwë

9 years ago

ALGERIEN GAY

La chanteuse Jenifer, qui a un contentieux avec France et qui a, sans scrupule, plagié ses chansons a été moins stupide et naive que l'ex-égérie de Gainsbourg..Elle n'a pas inscrite cette chanson dans son répertoire..

9 years ago

lobo_de_las_estepas

ahahahaha...that was the greatest troll action ever!!!!!....trolling since the 60s!!

9 years ago

Birgit Bauhaus

At the End of 60ties/beginning 70ties we are not so "innocent " and naive as you like to believe!This are the age of Hippies, Love & Peace and "Free Love"! But maybe....we don't think "dirty", we believe in "Live is a Gift for free", and it was FUN! In this was we are really innocent!

9 years ago

Birgit Bauhaus

9 years ago

MrRegis7188

Le double-sens fait frémir, même aujourd'hui. Mais ce qui est le plus étonnant au final, c'est à quel point les jeunes filles de l'époque étaient innocentes.

9 years ago

Lucrèce Noc

Il n'y a rien de plus laid, à mon sens, que d'abuser ainsi de l'innocence d'un être sensible et pur.

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