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Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson

Gainsbourg’s 1971 concept album, Histoire De Melody Nelson, tells the tale of an explicit love affair between an older French gentleman and a young English Lolita. Despite my inability to understand French, Gainsbourg unfurls his narrative through every skin crawling, not-so-subtle sexual coo, leaving no doubt of the subject matter. In fact, Gainsbourg and Humbert [...]