Feb 25, 2010

France's Favorite Daughter


Over reading week I spent a lot of time  listening to Charlotte Gainsbourg's IRMThe daughter of Jane Birkin and French singer-songwriter, Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte was born in London and raised in Paris. Hailing from a creative family she 
has been involved in music and film since 
her teens. Released 2009 IRM reflects on her strugglewith a 2007 near death experience. With some help from cowriter and producer Beck 
song like Masters Hands, In the End and
Dandelion exude her carefree confidence. There is a good mix of French and English 
for those of us who are not fully bilingual. 
The video for her first single, Heaven Can Wait, is completely off-the-wall but worth a watch! 
Flaunt magazine recently did a feature of Charlotte and IRM. They said "Graceful, weird, and defiant, Gainsbourg is exactly the type of quirky offspring that France would be fiercely proud of." The spread seems to reflect the playful nature of her music and the lace dress isn't bad either. 

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