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...songwriting is revealed by the constantly shifting references to an “It,” which appears at the beginning as “a vision, complete illusion,” but later becomes, “a sickness, a manic weakness.” The song addresses the intense, overwhelming excitement of falling in love, like a pleasant but tortuous emotion that constantly picks up momentum...

Author: By Kelsey C. Nowell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Beach House | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...collaboration cuts across a variety of different musical styles - blues, electronica, rock and folk. And Gainsbourg proves she's more than just his muse. Although her vocals sometimes sound like mere whispers, she conveys intense emotion throughout the album. On "Le Chat du Café des Artistes," - the only song sung entirely in French - her dark intonations complement the song's haunting strings. On "Voyage," she channels Enya at a drum circle - and somehow manages to give the song a spiritual quality. (See pictures of Paris expanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...year-old Charlotte sing that "the love that we will never make together is the most beautiful." In the video, they lie together in bed, Serge shirtless and Charlotte wearing nothing but panties and a shirt. Critics claimed it was a celebration of incest and pedophilia, but the song rocketed up the French charts. (Read: "Serge Gainsbourg: A Colorful Life Brought to the Big Screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...about the pure love of a father and a daughter," she says, defending the song all these years later. "There was a lot of shyness about frankly saying, I love you. My father would say it to other people and through song, and wanted me to know it through other people as a public thing." (Read about Serge Gainsbourg in the pages of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...response, Hathaway broke into song with several lines from famous film tunes, such as those from “The Sound of Music”—to which Klyce retorted, “I think what you mean to say was appearing topless in movies...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anne Hathaway Gets Royal Treatment | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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