A look back to an early release by Charlotte Gainsbourg, the track Charlotte For Ever from her debut album of the same name,Interesting to look back to see just how she has progressed as an artist. Her early work was very much in the considerable shadow of her father, although I don't think it was necessarily his best work.
This track features him duetting with her. All the songs on the album were either written by Gainsbourg or co-written by him.
It's not an album I listen to frequently, I disliked it when I first heard it, although it has since grown on me.
I found much of the production and arrangement a bit dated. The album felt similar to other Gainsbourg project's in the late 80s / early 90s with female singers, whether Isabelle Adjani or Bambou, quite good but ultimately quite disappointing.
However, tracks like this one make the album a worthy inclusion in a Gainsbourg collection, whether Serge or Charlotte.
There was a long period between her initial Charlotte For Ever album (1986) and 5.55 (2006), during which time she established herself as an actor.
Perhaps putting that time and distance between her debut album and her later career gave her the opportunity to be taken seriously as an artist without reference to her father's work, perhaps during that time she
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