The songs of the eternal Brigitte Bardot

After his moving interview in “Le Monde” last week, let’s listen to his legend in popular music, in France and abroad, in the sixties and today.

Brigitte Bardot herself drew her own myth. And the songs she chose to record constituted a kind of self-portrait forever frozen in the 1960s – the years of all the freedoms that were offered to the body.

Last week, this sublime woman with windblown hair gave an interview to the newspaper The Worldin which she evokes – at almost 90 years old – the solitude and serenity of her present existence. And one cannot help but think back to the myth of Brigitte Bardot, “the most beautiful woman in the world”, and also the most desirable according to the songs. Because, even though she is on the cover of magazines and on the front of movie theaters, we find her in 45s, where she makes singers fantasize.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Brigitte Bardot, Naked in the sun, 1962

Brigitte Bardot, Hair in the wind, 1964

Claude Nougaro, The Cinema, 1962

Adamo, Newspaper Loves, 1968

Leo Ferré, The 400 Blows, 1961

Sacha Distel, Brigitte, 1958

Serge Gainsbourg, Initials BB, 1968

Dario Moreno, Brigitte Bardot, 1961

Jorge Veiga, Brigitte Bardot, 1960

Bob Dylan, I Shall Be Free, 1963

Elton John, I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself, 1972

Drake feat. Lil’ Wayne, Grindin’, 2014

Kali Uchis, Tyrant, 2017

Bertrand Burgalat, Bardot’s Dance, 2012

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