"Poupée de cire, poupée de son" (; English: "Wax doll, rag doll") is a song written by

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and recorded by French singer

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. It is best known as the Luxembourgian winning entry at the

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, held in

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. The song was inspired by the 4th movement (Prestissimo in F minor) from

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's '' Piano Sonata No. 1''. It was nominated as one of the 14 best Eurovision songs of all time at the ''

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'' special held in October 2005. As is common with Gainsbourg's lyrics, the words are filled with double meanings, wordplay, and puns. The title can be translated as "wax doll, rag doll" (a floppy doll stuffed with bran or chaff) or as "wax doll, sound doll" (with implications that Gall is a "singing doll" controlled by Gainsbourg). Sylvie Simmons wrote that the song is about "the ironies and incongruities inherent in baby pop"—that "the songs young people turn to for help in their first attempts at discovering what life and love are about are sung by people too young and inexperienced themselves to be of much assistance, and condemned by their celebrity to be unlikely to soon find out."Sylvie Simmons, ''Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes'', , page 42 This sense of being a "singing doll" for Gainsbourg reached a peak when he wrote "

Les Sucettes "Les Sucettes" ("Lollipops") is a French pop song written by Serge Gainsbourg and first recorded by France Gall in 1966. One of Gall's biggest hits, it was an unusually risqué song for its time, although she has said she was unaware of the fa ...

" ("Lollipops") for Gall. The day after her Eurovision victory the single had sold 16,000 copies in France, four months later it had sold more than 500,000 copies.

Summary of the lyrics

The central image of the song is that the singer identifies herself as a wax doll (poupée de cire), a rag doll (poupée de son). Her heart is engraved in her songs; she sees life through the bright, rose–tinted glasses of her songs. Is she better or worse than a fashion doll (poupée de salon)? Her recordings are like a mirror where anyone can see her. Through her recordings, it is as though she has been smashed into a thousand shards of voice and scattered so that she is everywhere at once. This central image is extended, as she refers to her listeners as rag dolls (poupées de chiffon) who laugh, dance to the music, and allow themselves to be seduced for any reason or no reason at all. But love is not just in songs, and the singer asks herself what good it is to sing about love when she herself knows nothing about boys. The two concluding verses seem to refer to Gall herself. In them, she sings that she is nothing but a wax doll, his doll, under the sun of her blond hair. But someday she, the wax doll, will be able to actually live her songs without fearing the warmth of boys.

Self–referentiality, puns, wordplay, and double meanings

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, and

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s are integral to Gainsbourg's style of lyric writing. These factors make it difficult for non–French speakers to understand the nuances of the lyrics, and even more difficult to translate the lyrics.

Self–referentiality

At a young age, France Gall was too naïve to understand the second meaning of the lyrics. She felt she was used by Gainsbourg throughout this period, most notably after the song "Sucettes", which was literally about lollipops, but with multiple

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. Poupée de son can also mean "doll of sound" or "song doll" – France Gall could be said to be the doll through which Gainsbourg channels his sounds. Eurovision Song Contest 1965 - France Gall

Eurovision Song Contest 1965 - France Gall

As Sylvie Simmons wrote in ''Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes'':

"Poupée . . . " was catchy, and on the surface pretty annoying – perfect Eurovision fodder, in other words – but closer examination revealed perspicacious lyrics about the ironies and incongruities inherent in baby–pop."

In typical Gainsbourg fashion, the song is first of all self–referential in that it is written for a baby–pop performer to sing about herself—complete with reference to Gall singing beneath her "sun of blond hair" and double meanings clearly tying the song to Gall's own life situation: Singing songs created by adults and carrying themes purposefully introduced by those controlling adults which the young performer only partially understands. Gall herself is the "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" of the song's title. But the self–referentiality goes far beyond this. The writing of "Poupée" by Gainsbourg and its performance by Gall is itself an example of this very dynamic at work, and Gainsbourg knew that Gall, at her age, would understand the ramifications of this dynamic only partially, even at the same moment she was performing a song about it. In writing "Poupée," Gainsbourg is purposefully exploiting the very dynamic that is the subject of the song. It was this extra dimension, in part, that made the song interesting and attractive to audiences, helping catapult it to the top of the Eurovision contest. It was this same element that made Gainsbourg feel that this portion of his songwriting output was particularly groundbreaking and daring,Sylvie Simmons, ''Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes'', , page 44. yet simultaneously made Gall feel profoundly uncomfortable with this material — that she was being deliberately manipulated and exploited by the adults around her—particularly in retrospect as she matured.The Story behind Les Sucettes
/ref> In later years, Gall dissociated herself from the Eurovision Song Contest, and refused to discuss it in public or perform her winning song.

Poupée de cire, poupée de son

In a literal sense, ''poupée de cire'' means "wax doll". ''Son'' in the context of ''poupée de son'' means 'bran' or 'straw', of the kind used to stuff children's floppy dolls . ''Poupée de son'' is a long–standing expression in French meaning "doll stuffed with straw or bran". It is also used in the expression ''syndrome du bébé "poupée de son"'', "floppy baby syndrome" ( infantile hypotonia), and can even refer to someone too drunk to stand up. So in the first place, ''poupée de son'' refers to a floppy type of doll like a rag doll, with no backbone of its own but which, like a puppet, is under the control of others. The double meanings of the two terms ''cire'' and ''son'' come in because of the subject matter of the lyrics, which contain many references to singing and recording. ''Cire'' ('wax') brings to mind the old

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records, commonly known in France as "wax disks". ''Son'' has a second meaning–"sound". These double meanings are amplified in Gainsbourg's lyrics. For instance, the first verse refers to the fact that the singer's heart is engraved in her songs, much in the way the sound vibrations are engraved in a wax recording. A later reference is made to the singer being broken into a thousand pieces of voice, as though she herself is made of sound. English versions of the lyrics often translate the title as "Wax Doll, Singing Doll", "The lonely singing doll" (the version sung by

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), or something similarAlex Chabot translation
accessed 25 June 2007—translations that are not literally correct but which capture some of the double meaning implicit in the original version. As Sylvie Simmons summarized the theme of this song: "The songs young people turn to for help in their first attempts at discovering what life and love are about, are sung by people too young and inexperienced to be of much help and condemned by their celebrity to be unlikely to soon find out."

Voir la vie en rose bonbon

"Voir la vie en rose" means "to see life through rose–tinted glasses", while "rose bonbon" refers to the lurid pink colouring used in children's sweets. So the entire phrase as found in the lyrics – "Je vois la vie en rose bonbon" — can be translated as something like, "I see life through pink candy–coloured glasses".Diggaloo Thrush website
accessed 25 June 2007

Briser en mille éclats de voix

Like "Voir la vie en rose bonbon", "Briser en mille éclats de voix" is a combination of two separate phrases, put together to mean something more than either alone. "Briser en mille éclats" means "to smash to pieces". "Éclats de voix" means "shouts" or "screams". Thus "Brisée en mille éclats de voix" could be translated as "Broken in thousand pieces of voice"Morgan Trouillet translation
accessed 25 June 2007 or "Smashed in a thousand shouts".

Pour un oui, pour un nom

"Celles qui dansent sur mes chansons . . . Elles se laissent séduire pour un oui, pour un nom" translates literally as "Those who dance to my songs . . . They give in to a yes, to a name". However, the phrase "Se laissent séduire pour un oui, pour un nom" sounds like the phrase "Se laisser séduire pour un oui, pour un non" which means literally "to let themselves be seduced for a yes, for a no". This can more colloquially translated as "to give in to the slightest temptation" or "to let themselves be seduced for any reason at all". As Alex Chabot writes:

The French here, Pour un oui pour un nom, sounds very much like Pour un oui pour un non, which is for a yes for no, or "for any reason at all." In this case, the suggestion is that a name, in the context of a casual introduction, for instance, is sufficient. This is really a very subtle, and clever, play on words.

At Eurovision

The song was performed 16th on the night, following 's

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with " For din skyld" and preceding 's Viktor Klimenko with " Aurinko laskee länteen". At the close of voting, it had received 32 points, placing first in a field of 18. The French public retrospectively reproached Gall and Gainsbourg for having represented nd won forLuxembourg and not for their own country. Two years later

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entered the contest and won with another puppet themed song, " Puppet on a String".

In other languages

Versions of "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" in other languages include: * ar, دمية من الشمع، ودمية من نخالة, Dumya min aš-šamʿ, wa-dumya min nuḫāla ("Doll of wax, and doll of bran") * zh, c=大飯寶, p=Dà fàn bǎo, j=Daai2 faan6 bou2 ("The big rice cooker"), sung by The Chung Brothers, for the animated movie '' McDull: Rise of the Rice Cooker'' * cs, Vosková panenka ("Wax doll"), sung by

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and then by

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* da, Lille dukke ("Little doll"), sung by

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* nl, De modepop ("The fashion doll") sung by Marijke Merckens (1965) and ''Was'' ("Wax"), sung by

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(2007) * en, A Lonely Singing Doll, sung by

* et, Vahanukk ("Wax doll"), sung by Tiiu Varik; ''Laulev vahanukk'' ("Singing wax doll"), sung by

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* fi, Vahanukke, laulava nukke ("Wax doll, singing doll"), sung by Ritva Palukka * german: Das war eine schöne Party ("That was a nice party"), sung by France Gall; ''Das Puppenhaus'' ("The doll's house"), sung by the Swiss singer Cornelia Grolimund (1995) * hu, Viaszbaba ("Wax Doll") by performed by

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* he, אל תכעסי זה לא אסון, Al tichasi ze lo ason ("Don't be angry, it's not a disaster") by

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, performed by Yarkon Bridge Trio; ''Bubat kash'' ("Rag doll"), performed by Gila Edri. * it, Io sì, tu no ("I do, you don't"), sung by France Gall * ja, 夢みるシャンソン人形, Yumemiru shanson ningyō ("Dreaming chanson doll"), sung by France Gall; there are also other versions sung by

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and Juán "Corazón" Ramón * sv, Det kan väl inte jag rå för ("I really can't help it, can I?"), sung by

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; a dance version by

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Covers

* The Swedish metal band Therion did two versions of the song on their album ''

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used part of the main melody in their song "Corazón de plomo" ("Heart made of lead"), talking about a toy soldier, quite similar to the song of

. * The Spanish singer Javier Corcobado covered the song on his album ''Fotografiando al corazón'', released in 2003. *

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have sung a cover of "Poupée de Cire, poupée de son" throughout their 2007 tour in promotion of their album ''

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''. They later released a studio version of it on their split 7-inch single with

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. * The German band Welle: Erdball covered the song on their album ''Chaos Total'' from 2006. * The Swiss band

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covered the song on their album ''By Popular Demand'', released in 2005. * New York City band Les Sans Culottes covered the song on their 2004 album, ''Fixation Orale''. *

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performed a live version for the

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, recorded to video for the ''

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series '' Ai Tenshi Densetsu Wedding Peach'', titled "Yumemiru ai tenshi", is both a direct reference to the Japanese version of the song (both start with ''yumemiru'') and samples exactly the same chord progression and parts of the melody. * The German punk band

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had a cover of this song on their album '' Herrénhandtasche'' released in 1995. * The Spanish band

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performs a cover in their album ''Nadie hablará de...'' * The Spanish band

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performed a cover in the TV programme ''Eurovisión 2009, el retorno'' which was broadcast at TVE1 on Saturday 21 February 2009. * The Spanish singer

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performed a cover (titled "Muñeca de Alcorcón" (meaning "Doll of Alcorcón") in the television programme ''Los mejores años de nuestra vida. Especial Todos con Soraya a Eurovisión'', which was broadcast at TVE1 on 12 May 2009. * Norwegian band Sterk Naken og Biltyvene (SNoB) did a cover of the Norwegian version "Lille Dukke" on their 1994 album ''Tretten Røde Roser''. * Belgian singer

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recorded a dance version in 1998. * Jenifer did a cover in her 2013 album ''Ma déclaration''. It was the first single from the album charting in SNEP in April and May 2013.LesCharts.com Jenifer - "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" page
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Chart positions

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Kim Kay version

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. It was released on 13 November 1998 on

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as the third

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and as well as the twelfth track from her debut

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'' (1998). It is a Eurodance song that was written by Serge Gainsbourg and produced by Phil Sterman and Lov Cook.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

References

Sources and external links

Official Eurovision Song Contest site, history by year, 1965.

Detailed info and lyrics, The Diggiloo Thrush, "Poupée de cire, poupée de son".

Vietnamese Pop version (01:05:25 – 01:09:50) on Paris By Night 52
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