I’ve been watching various french pop videos on YouTube and came across France Gall this morning after discussing neo-pop success April March with my younger brother last night over dinner. First of all, I love her dress. Her hair is astonishingly straight. Nor do I mind the fact that she is surrounded by four dudes.
Gall, whose full name is Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall, was sort of the Britney Spears of ’60s French pop, hitting the charts at the tender age of sixteen. Walt Disney tried to cast her as Alice in Alice in Wonderland shortly before his death. Serge Gainsbourg did some songwriting for her during her snakes and kissing Madonna phase. By 21 she was chewed up and spit out, and musically barren until meeting her future husband and composer Michael Berger. Anyway, here’s a song called Vieille Fille (Old Girl), which, sadly, is what she is now.
