his cries recorded without his knowledge, his forced nudity… Bambou returns to the painful memory of “Love on the beat”, the hit by Serge Gainsbourg

It was forty years ago. In 1984, Serge Gainsbourg released his new title Love on the beat, which has now become one of his most famous hits. But at the time, as is often the case with the artist's songs, the song caused a scandal: the lyrics were particularly equivocal – “You want an overdose, fuck here I'm breaking in”; “The more you scream, the deeper I will go”; “All your orifices are burning”; “A discharge of six thousand volts has just erupted from my pylon” – and are punctuated by female cries of pleasure. And the clip features a young woman with completely bare breasts. This woman who screams and dances to the rhythm of the singer's words is Bambou, his companion at the time. But as she reveals today, four decades later, the recording of Love on the Beat was not a cakewalk for her, quite the contrary.

Saturday November 16, 2024, Bambou went to the set of L'invite, a daily TV5Monde show, to discuss the recent release of her book Pas à pas dans la nuit (ed. XO). She took the opportunity to “finally tell the truth about Gainsbourg” and notably reveal the behind the scenes of this song which has become cult. “I was a little angry because he wanted me to be shirtless, and I didn’t like that…”, first confided the 65-year-old singer, revealing that she “had no choice” of this partial nudity in the clip: “I was almost blackmailed,” she admits, without giving more details. (…)

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