Saturday 5 January 2008

The Most Tasteful Nude Video Ever


Sexy and chaste at the same time: Mylène Farmer in L'Amour N'Est Rien. A kind of striptease you can watch with your mother without embarrassing yourself. " La vie est bien, elle est de miele ! "



Not that it's important, but Mylène is 46 in this video.

Mylène became huge in Russia in the early 90s and in 2006 L'Amour N'Est Rien was the most played song on Russian radio stations. Her never-ending appeal to the Russian heart is complex and has many levels.

1) She's a hypersensitive introvert who managed to externalise her dominant function to to turn her inner strength outward. Exactly what the Russian national anima is like.

2) Most generations of Russians were brought up on French movies (we didn't really have American ones), so the aesthetics appeals to us in a very direct familiar way.

3) Last but not least, she's a brilliant package: the lyrics, the melodies, the looks, the sartorial taste, the tasteful sexiness that Russians can respect so much.

She manages to reach the innermost of my heart and soul like only a few others can: Nakajima Miyuki, Tori Amos and Kate Bush, as well as earlier Alla Pugacheva, all in a very Jungian way being the personification of their respective nations' mass consciousness anima, a sort of the archetypical mother figure, a national Virgin Mary.



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