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Je te rends ton amour
"Je te rends ton amour" (English: "I Give You Back Your Love") is a song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. The second single from her fifth studio album Innamoramento, it was released on 8 June 1999. The song became another top 10 hit in France for Farmer, and its controversial music video gained considerable attention at the time, being censored by several television channels.
After the release of "L'Âme-stram-gram", it was rumoured that "Dessine-moi un mouton" would be the second single from Innamoramento, with a video inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, featuring the crash of an airplane. However, Farmer decided to release her favorite song of the album, "Je te rends ton amour", instead. This song, which was composed by Laurent Boutonnat originally for Nathalie Cardone, enabled the album to remain in the top of the charts during the summer of 1999.
The single was released in various formats along with "Effets secondaires", as well as two remixes produced by Perky Park. The image used for various covers, made by Marino Parisotto Vay, shows Farmer being crucified. The designer Henry Neu said to be particularly proud of having made the velvet envelope containing a promotional cross-shaped CD.
The lyrics contain several references to painting, including Egon Schiele (referenced by name in the refrain), an Austrian painter born in 1890 and died at 28, who painted many thin red-headed women, and who was much appreciated by Farmer. His painting Femme nue debout is even mentioned in the chorus. French painter Paul Gauguin is also cited in the lyrics, as well as the lexical field of painting. In the song, Farmer evokes a Schiele's painting, La Femme nue debout, and personifies the model painted. She also uses the typography of Schiele's signature to write the song's title on the cover of the CD and vinyl. According to the author Erwan Chuberre, the song deals with "a too heavy love to hold or with a weight of an artist on his work".
For the first time in Farmer's career, the video was directed by François Hanss. Shot for two days in the Notre-Dame-du-Val abbey of Mériel (Val-d'Oise, France), this Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production cost about 100,000 euros. The screenplay was written by Mylène Farmer.
At the beginning of the video, we see a blind woman, Farmer, wearing a pink dress, with a Bible in her hand. She goes out of a tunnel and walks in a forest, touching trees to locate. She comes to a church, and then enters the confessional, followed by the Devil, in the form of a man dressed in a black robe. She opens her Bible written in Braille and starts to read it with her fingers; then she removes her alliance ring and places it on the Bible. The Devil, meanwhile, plunges his fingers with long nails into the holy water font, extinguishes the candles and knocks down chairs, then moves to the other side of the confessional. His eyes are similar to those of a snake. Gargoyles and statues of Christ are shown on several occasions. Blood starts to flow along the woman's hands and legs. The Devil then knocks over the Bible and grabs the woman by the neck. She tries first to resist, but soon she is caught hold of by the Devil who smears blood all over her naked body. Gagged and tied, she is then shown in a crucifixion position on the beams of the nave. The video then shows the woman crouching on a pool of blood in manner of a still-unborn fetus in the womb. Having had a bath in it, she leaves her alliance ring suggestively in the same pool of blood, and finally she exits the church in a black dress and with her vision restored.
The video caused considerable controversy in France, due to its scenes of nudity and blood, and of its apparent criticism of Christianity and the Church. It was considered as being "too daring". The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel gave a negative opinion, but it did not ban television channels from broadcasting it. A committee, mainly composed of housewives, decided to broadcast a shortened version of the video during the day so as to not shock children. Therefore, M6 aired a short two-minute version that stopped when the demon wildly caught Farmer, at the second chorus. In response to this censorship, Farmer asked Hanss to cut the shocking scenes for the airing on television and decided to release the video in its full version as a VHS with a booklet of unpublished photos by Claude Gassian. All funds collected from the 70,000 sales of the tape were returned to Sidaction, an association fighting against AIDS. In 2000, in an interview on MCM, the singer said about this censorship:
"Ça n'a aucun intérêt de vouloir choquer à tout prix pour qu'on s'interesse à vous. Il se trouve que j'aborde des sujets qui sont peut-être un peu épineux voire tabous. C'est un risque... Maintenant, la censure, spécialement en France est un peu sévère et s'attaque à tout et n'importe quel sujet ce que je trouve vraiment regrettable."
(English translation: "It's not interesting to want to be shocking at all costs in order to be relevant/interesting. I deal with subjects that are maybe a little tricky, taboo. It's a risk... right now the censorship, especially in France, is a bit harsh and it attacks everything and any subject... I find this truly regrettable.")
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Je te rends ton amour
"Je te rends ton amour" (English: "I Give You Back Your Love") is a song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer. The second single from her fifth studio album Innamoramento, it was released on 8 June 1999. The song became another top 10 hit in France for Farmer, and its controversial music video gained considerable attention at the time, being censored by several television channels.
After the release of "L'Âme-stram-gram", it was rumoured that "Dessine-moi un mouton" would be the second single from Innamoramento, with a video inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince, featuring the crash of an airplane. However, Farmer decided to release her favorite song of the album, "Je te rends ton amour", instead. This song, which was composed by Laurent Boutonnat originally for Nathalie Cardone, enabled the album to remain in the top of the charts during the summer of 1999.
The single was released in various formats along with "Effets secondaires", as well as two remixes produced by Perky Park. The image used for various covers, made by Marino Parisotto Vay, shows Farmer being crucified. The designer Henry Neu said to be particularly proud of having made the velvet envelope containing a promotional cross-shaped CD.
The lyrics contain several references to painting, including Egon Schiele (referenced by name in the refrain), an Austrian painter born in 1890 and died at 28, who painted many thin red-headed women, and who was much appreciated by Farmer. His painting Femme nue debout is even mentioned in the chorus. French painter Paul Gauguin is also cited in the lyrics, as well as the lexical field of painting. In the song, Farmer evokes a Schiele's painting, La Femme nue debout, and personifies the model painted. She also uses the typography of Schiele's signature to write the song's title on the cover of the CD and vinyl. According to the author Erwan Chuberre, the song deals with "a too heavy love to hold or with a weight of an artist on his work".
For the first time in Farmer's career, the video was directed by François Hanss. Shot for two days in the Notre-Dame-du-Val abbey of Mériel (Val-d'Oise, France), this Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production cost about 100,000 euros. The screenplay was written by Mylène Farmer.
At the beginning of the video, we see a blind woman, Farmer, wearing a pink dress, with a Bible in her hand. She goes out of a tunnel and walks in a forest, touching trees to locate. She comes to a church, and then enters the confessional, followed by the Devil, in the form of a man dressed in a black robe. She opens her Bible written in Braille and starts to read it with her fingers; then she removes her alliance ring and places it on the Bible. The Devil, meanwhile, plunges his fingers with long nails into the holy water font, extinguishes the candles and knocks down chairs, then moves to the other side of the confessional. His eyes are similar to those of a snake. Gargoyles and statues of Christ are shown on several occasions. Blood starts to flow along the woman's hands and legs. The Devil then knocks over the Bible and grabs the woman by the neck. She tries first to resist, but soon she is caught hold of by the Devil who smears blood all over her naked body. Gagged and tied, she is then shown in a crucifixion position on the beams of the nave. The video then shows the woman crouching on a pool of blood in manner of a still-unborn fetus in the womb. Having had a bath in it, she leaves her alliance ring suggestively in the same pool of blood, and finally she exits the church in a black dress and with her vision restored.
The video caused considerable controversy in France, due to its scenes of nudity and blood, and of its apparent criticism of Christianity and the Church. It was considered as being "too daring". The Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel gave a negative opinion, but it did not ban television channels from broadcasting it. A committee, mainly composed of housewives, decided to broadcast a shortened version of the video during the day so as to not shock children. Therefore, M6 aired a short two-minute version that stopped when the demon wildly caught Farmer, at the second chorus. In response to this censorship, Farmer asked Hanss to cut the shocking scenes for the airing on television and decided to release the video in its full version as a VHS with a booklet of unpublished photos by Claude Gassian. All funds collected from the 70,000 sales of the tape were returned to Sidaction, an association fighting against AIDS. In 2000, in an interview on MCM, the singer said about this censorship:
"Ça n'a aucun intérêt de vouloir choquer à tout prix pour qu'on s'interesse à vous. Il se trouve que j'aborde des sujets qui sont peut-être un peu épineux voire tabous. C'est un risque... Maintenant, la censure, spécialement en France est un peu sévère et s'attaque à tout et n'importe quel sujet ce que je trouve vraiment regrettable."
(English translation: "It's not interesting to want to be shocking at all costs in order to be relevant/interesting. I deal with subjects that are maybe a little tricky, taboo. It's a risk... right now the censorship, especially in France, is a bit harsh and it attacks everything and any subject... I find this truly regrettable.")