Jane Birkin Could Never Understand Why People Thought The Orgasm She Simulated On Je T’Aime Was Sexual?

The late Jane Birkin always maintained that Je T’Aime, the global hit she recorded with Serge Gainsbourg, ‘was not about sex’: a proposition best described as ‘Jesuitical’.

Birkin maintained the sexually explicit song, was really about not believing in sexual love. Which, as many have observed, is as close as you can get to having your cake and eating it. Or Mick Jagger claiming “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was about poor customer service.

Despite moaning and panting while she sang lines like, “I go and come between your loins”, Birkin complained that “the English just didn’t understand it. I’m still not sure they know what it means”.

However, speaking long after the recording was made, she once revealed “I got a bit carried away with the heavy breathing – so much so in fact, that I was told to calm down.”

Perhaps, a behavioural therapist later speculated, that’s why the English didn’t understand it wasn’t about sex?