Brigitte Bardot: history (and cover) of the song with her name
Brigitte Bardot: impossible to read the name of the iconic French actress, who passed away today at the age of 91, without humming the Brazilian song titled with his name (did you know that in parallel with her career as an actress Bardot had released a series of singles and albums? We have collected some of them here). It was the 1960 when the Brazilian composer and journalist Miguel Gustavo wrote a song dedicated to the French star, simply titled “Brigitte Bardot“. The lyrics of the song were born as a ironic and winking portrait of an absolute female icon of European cinema. In those years the French actress represented a revolution in the female imagination: sensual, free, modern, far from the more traditional stereotypes. The text does not tell a complex story: it is one explicit celebration of the mythalmost a jingle ante litteram. Brigitte Bardot is evoked as an ideal of beauty and desire, rather than as a real person. She is the symbolic woman, the unattainable star, seen through the collective gaze of an era fascinated by pop culture and the star system. The song would have been recorded by Jorge Veiga: «Brigitte Bardot Bardot / Brigitte beijou beijou / no background of cinema todo o mundo se afogou», read the text. Translated: «Brigitte Bardot Bardot / Brigitte kissed kissed / at the bottom of the cinema the whole world drowned».
Miguel Gustavo was a master at creating songs immediate, catchy and linked to current eventsoften inspired by famous people or social phenomena. The song was a great success, even conquering Europe. Both in the original version sung by Jorge Veiga and through some covers. In Italy the first to reinterpret “Brigitte Bardot” was Michelinoreal name Michele Gramazio, Italian star of the cha cha cha music of the 50s and 60s, who in 1961 published his version of the hit:
In 1984 he then thought about recording “Brigitte Bardot”. Mina. La Tigre di Cremona reinterpreted the song for the album “Catene”:
In 1998 the Bandabardò he reworked the text transforming it into his own manifesto: «La Bandabardò, bardò…».
