But she maximized her strengths (a cheerful exuberance, and a most effective poutily flirty lower register heard to best effect on jazz-tinged numbers like ‘Pense a Moi’ and ‘Bebe Requin’) and hid her weaknesses enough that even when she was slightly out of her depth, she got by on sheer attitude. Like many pop singers of her era, no matter what their nationality, Gall does not have a particularly great voice in a technical sense it's high, a little breathy and a little weedy. Pretty, pert and spunky, the teenage France Gall is the definitive ye-ye singer, and this impressive box set containing virtually everything she recorded during those years ( 72 songs in all) is the perfect encapsulation of her charms. Although Francoise Hardy and Serge Gainsbourg are better known to non-Francophone audiences, both are simply too idiosyncratic to really give any sense of the style by themselves. The best possible starting place for anyone who wants to explore the French ye-ye scene of the '60s in any depth.
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