24 thoughts on “SNARK WEEK: Mylène Farmer Does 18th Century (NSFW)

  1. I’m amazed and know not what….
    Forget Adam Ant, what about Bowie in Labyrinth?

  2. So the French can just put full frontal nudity in music videos? Incredible.

    Can I also just say thank you for these posts. I love snark week every year in general and I love especially any posts about bizarre 18th century themed 1980’s music videos.

  3. French here ! Those clips are famous – when I was a kid I had a VHS of those. Also 100% kinky. The second song translates as “As long as they are soft” and is fully about having sex, just using a different kind of orifice that is not on the front ;). I don’t think this would be allowed today !

  4. I could just imagine Alan Cumming (in full Plunkett & Macleane kit) in the first one. It looks like for the second, they rented the uniforms from Barry Lyndon. While I’ve certainly seen better costumes, Ghod knows I’ve seen worse! Truly silly videos, but a fun waste of time.

  5. OH MY GOD what a perfect ending to Snark Week. You all always knock it out of the park.

  6. Omg, thank you so much for posting this! My high school best friend is a huge francophile and showed me Mylène’s videos back then (although she advised me against watching these, lol) and we had so much fun watching all the rather bizarre stuff in those clips! I love Libertine for being all the ‘debauched French aristocrats’-tropes rolled into one video combined with a sick synthesizer beat…absolutely amazing artistry :’D

  7. I literally laughed out loud and nearly spit out my wine! Giggling in the tub with full beaver may be new favorite phrase.
    I am going to have to look up this video now.
    Thank you for all the laughs!

  8. Thank God I’m not at work, because I’m cackling hysterically. Maybe you should do a post about “Historically Accurate Pubes.”

    1. And historically accurate underarm/axilla hair; historically accurate non-head hair in general, including eyebrows. (21st-century eyebrows on non-21st-century people bother me no end.)

  9. How did I not know these existed until now? Nonsensical plot, big dresses, androgyny and historically accurate bush are absolutely my jam!

  10. In France, whipping for sexual gratification used to be called ‘the English vice’ and I suspect the whipping thing is an allusion to this but aside from that, well, I got nothing.

  11. Oh, goodness, my twenties are back from the (long) dead!
    And yes, we French have beavers and are not afraid to show it!

    Or, well, we used to… sometimes I think pubes and hairpins eloped together Goddess knows where.
    I miss Mylene a bit, she was so wonderfully weird.

  12. I sit here stunned that I never knew these were a thing!!! I feel like my life has been but an empty shell until this moment.

    Also “Giggling in the tub with full beaver” will totally be the title of my memoirs.

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