To: I Heart Paris
From: Entertainment Muse
Date: Coachella April 18, 2010
Subject: Oh La La
Charlotte Gainsbourg teams with Beck for her third album. Together they have produced a unique piece, upbeat & alluring yet at times dark & mysterious.
In The Artist's Words
I didn't want Beck to write songs on his side and just give me the lyrics and melodies to sing. I wanted to be involved in the creative process too. So he ended up creating everything from scratch with me being there. He always progressed according to how I reacted and what I had to say.
Beck is very, very prolific and I was amazed at the amount of work he could do. Because he was doing practically everything on his own, he would also write the lyrics very quickly and I was there to show him bits and pieces of what I'd written which he would always take so much further. My own input was important in the sense that I was there when he did it. He was channeling my personality in a sense.
Gainsbourg was raised in Paris. She is the daughter of British actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor/singer Serge Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg's longtime partner and spouse is the French actor/director Yvan Attal, with whom she has two children, Ben and Alice.
See Charlotte perform live at Coachella April 18, 2010
