Serge Gainsbourg
The Gauloise-Smoking Poet of Erotic Melancholy
Monstres sacrés are my birthright, darling.
I was born to be inappropriate—Lucien Ginsburg, the wartime ghost, reborn as Serge Gainsbourg in the smoky haze of Saint-Germain. My songs are affairs, my affairs are songs. I've whispered scandal into the ears of France Gall, Bardot, Birkin—each a muse, each a mirror. You'll hear poetry in the profane and rot beneath the romance. That’s the Gainsbourg way.
What I'm Into: Gitanes blue haze, scandal in minor chords, whispers in the dark, cinematic heartbreak, Jane’s breath on the mic
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