Genre
Pop and rock, with chanson française influences. Consistently described as Paradis's most cohesive album, the record benefits throughout from Serge Gainsbourg's lyrics - which frequently carry innuendo or double entendre, beginning with the album's title itself, a Gainsbourg coinage alluding to his celebrated "Je t'aime" with Jane Birkin.
Release
Released on May 28, 1990, by Polydor/PolyGram, France. It was Paradis's second studio album, recorded in April 1990 — the last album Gainsbourg worked on before his death in March 1991.
Production
Produced and arranged by Bertrand Châtenet, Franck Langolff, and Philippe Osman - the same team as her debut album - with Serge Gainsbourg co-writing and overseeing the creative direction. All songs published by Melody Nelson Publishing/Savatipitoi, Gainsbourg's imprints. Recorded at Studio Guillaume Tell, Suresnes, and Local Studio, Rueil-Malmaison, France; mixed at Studio Guillaume Tell.
Reception
The album charted higher than Paradis's debut and produced two significant singles: "Tandem" - whose video, directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, featured model Emma Sjöberg - and "Dis-lui toi que je t'aime." In February 1990, the album earned Paradis the Victoire de la Musique for Best Female Singer - an award she received from Gainsbourg himself at the ceremony, where the two met for the first time.
Vanessa Paradis
Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born December 22, 1972, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France) is a French singer, actress, and model who became a child star at fourteen with the international success of "Joe le taxi" (1987), which topped the charts in France and reached the top ten in the United Kingdom. The niece of record producer Didier Pain, who facilitated her first recordings, she left school at sixteen to pursue her career. Following "Variations sur le même t'aime", she recorded her third album - Vanessa Paradis (1992) - in New York with Lenny Kravitz as producer and co-writer, having met him through her relationship with him. From 1991 onward she has been a spokesmodel for Chanel's Coco fragrance. Her later career balances acting - notably Patrice Leconte's La Fille sur le Pont (1999) and Jean-Marc Vallée's Café de Flore (2011) - with music, culminating in the album Love Songs (2013), which earned her a further Victoire de la Musique in 2014. She received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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