Video: Serge Gainsbourg - Lemon Incest

A series of unrelated and entirely coincidental events, non-events, and observations over the past several weeks has left me wondering the darndest thing: where have all the wincingly great songs of underage lust gone? I don't mean to be controversial here. Fact is, the theme of illicit underage lust and love is one of the most time-honored - and lucrative - in all of rock music. I mean, we always tend to ascribe the 1950s a Puritanical glow, free from the complications and moral ambiguities of modern life, but yet back then such naughty subject matter was [...]

Up in heaven, Serge Gainsbourg is surely laughing. Only after banging a young hottie and sucking back a good smoke, of course. That thought went through my mind when pictures of teen-pop superstar Miley Cyrus posing with her dad, country music has-been Billy Ray Cyrus, appeared in Vanity Fair earlier this month. There was outrage in some corners of the media and blogosphere as many believed 15-year-old Miley looked more like Billy Ray's jailbait girlfriend than his teenaged daughter. And, with Miley perched between Billy Ray's legs, the media critics might have a point. (See photo here [...]

• Serge Gainsbourg - Lemon Incest

Compare and contrast: First Choice Holidays advert (currently showing on UK television) Serge Gainsbourg et Charlotte Gainsbourg – Lemon Incest You can imagine the F*rst Ch**c* project brief was to come up with a poignant, yet heart-warming image of family holidays (with none of the usual trappings: arguments, tantrums, sunburn, fry-ups, etc). And the music? A stark and lilting piano version of Serge Gainsbourg's 'Lemon Incest'. Look! There he is cavorting on black satin sheets with his [...]

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