Having scored a pan-European smash three years earlier with her debut single, "Joe le Taxi," including nearly three months at the top of the charts in her native France, Vanessa Paradis reunited with producer Franck Langolff for this follow-up album.
The legendary Serge Gainsbourg provided lyrics, but the results are hardly up to the treatments given his material by Jane Birkin.
Paradis' vocals are wispy and pleasant enough, but the music is strictly pedestrian, slick dance-pop on tracks such as "Au Charme Non Plus" and "Amour Jamais." There's even a bit of grinding guitar bolstering "L'Amour en Soi," which seems blandly aimed at replicating Janet Jackson's "Black Cat." Her reading of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" has a quirky charm to it; although hardly making anyone forget the original, it wisely eschews the processed feel of the rest of the album and therefore stands out.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | L' Amour a Deux | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:55 | 11 MB | 29 MB |
| 2 | Dis Lui Toi Que Je T'AimeSerge Gainsbourg, Franck Langolff | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| 3 | L' Amour en Soi | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 05:07 | 11 MB | 30 MB |
| 4 | La Vague a Lames | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 03:21 | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| 5 | Ophélie | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:00 | 9 MB | 25 MB |
| 6 | Flagrant Delire | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:00 | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| 7 | TandemSerge Gainsbourg, Franck Langolff | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 03:28 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 8 | Au Charme Non Plus | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 03:51 | 8 MB | 23 MB |
| 9 | Variations Sur le Meme T'Aime | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:32 | 10 MB | 28 MB |
| 10 | Amour Jamais | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:24 | 10 MB | 26 MB |
| 11 | Ardoise | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:22 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 12 | Walk on the Wild SideLou Reed | Vanessa Paradis | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 25 MB |
| 50 mins | 116 MB | |||||
| 50 mins | 310 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marina Albert | Choeurs |
| 2 | Anne Calvert | Choeurs |
| 3 | Bertrand Chatnet | Arranger, Choeurs |
| 4 | Carole Fredericks | Choeurs |
| 5 | Serge Gainsbourg | Composer |
| 6 | Franck Langolff | Arranger, Composer, Guitar |
| 7 | Phillip Osman | Arranger, Clavier, Guitar, Programming, Synthesizer |
| 8 | Vanessa Paradis | Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 9 | Lou Reed | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |