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Brigitte Bardot Croons Alien Love Song

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Here’s another scifi song to take to that barren asteroid with you: Brigitte Bardot singing Serge Gainsbourg’s “Contact.” “A meteorite has pierced my heart,” chants Brigitte in this tale of wounded interplanetary love, “I need a transfusion of mercury. … Remove my spacesuit …”

https://gizmodo.com/ten-scifi-songs-you-should-take-to-a-barren-asteroid-343613

Actually, given the reference to mercury, maybe the song is about an outer-space STD. (If you want to give your fractured high school French a workout, the lyrics are here.) Whatever it means, this scopitone from 1968 is a little bit Dada, a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, and a whole lot of spacey weirdness.

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