{{Infobox song | name = Lemon Incest | cover = Lemon incest.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg | album = Love on the Beat and Charlotte for Ever | B-side = Hmm Hmm Hmm | released = 1985 | recorded = 1984 | studio = | genre = Pop | length = 5:12 | label = Philips | writer = {{hlist|Serge Gainsbourg|Frédéric Chopin}} | producer = {{hlist|Philippe Lerichomme|Billy Rush}} | prev_title = Love on the Beat | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = No Comment | next_year = 1985 | chronology = Serge Gainsbourg | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Charlotte Gainsbourg | type = single | prev_title = | prev_year = | title = Lemon Incest | year = 1985 | next_title = If | next_year = 2004 }} }}
"'''Lemon Incest'''" is a song recorded by French father and daughter Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It was recorded in 1984 and released as a single from Serge's 1985 album ''Love on the Beat'' and on Charlotte's 1986 debut album ''Charlotte for Ever'', marking her musical debut. It is a pop song about a relationship between Serge and Charlotte, the latter of whom was 12 or 13 years old at the time, set to the melody of Frédéric Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 3. Its title is a play on the French term ''un zeste de citron'', which translates to lemon zest in English.
"Lemon Incest" and its music video, which showed Serge and Charlotte half-naked together in bed, were highly controversial in France due to their implications of pedophilia and incest. As an adult, Charlotte routinely defended the song, which both she and Serge have denied was about incest. Retrospective reviews of the song have been generally negative, with some critics describing the lyrics as disturbing and the song as creepy. It peaked at number two in France, where it spent 14 weeks on the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) chart and was also certified Silver by the SNEP.
==Release== "Lemon Incest" is a "sultry" and "suggestive"<ref name="laist">{{cite web |last1=Shifflett |first1=Jonathan |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg's New Album Deals With Grief -- Her Father's Death And Her Sister's Suicide |url=https://laist.com/news/entertainment/charlotte-gainsbourg-embraces-her-famous-surname |website=LAist |access-date=30 September 2022 |language=en |date=2 August 2018}}</ref> pop<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hawking |first1=Tom |title=10 of the Creepiest Pop Songs of All Time |url=https://www.flavorwire.com/126977/10-of-the-creepiest-pop-songs-of-all-time |website=Flavorwire |access-date=11 November 2022 |language=en |date=28 October 2010}}</ref> duet and ballad<ref name="nyt" /> recorded and composed<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goudot |first1=Juliette |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg «Être soi, j'y travaille» |url=https://www.moustique.be/culture/cinema/2022/05/25/charlotte-gainsbourg-etre-soi-jy-travaille-238819 |website=Moustique |access-date=11 November 2022 |language=fr |date=25 May 2022}}</ref> by Serge Gainsbourg and his then-12- or 13-year-old{{efn-ua|Some sources list Charlotte's age at the time as 12 years old;<ref name="dbeast" /><ref name="popmatters" /> others list it as 13.<ref name="npr">{{cite web |last1=Lyden |first1=Jack |title=Scanning The Mind Of Charlotte Gainsbourg |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/02/21/123889020/scanning-the-mind-of-charlotte-gainsbourg |website=NPR |access-date=27 September 2022 |language=en |date=21 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="censoredstory">{{cite web |last1=Wignall |first1=James |title=The (censored) story of Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/nov/06/serge-gainsbourg-bob-dylan#comments |website=The Guardian |access-date=27 September 2022 |language=en |date=6 November 2008}}</ref> Charlotte herself has variously stated that she was 12 years old<ref name="ebertjane">{{cite web |last1=Sobczynski |first1=Peter |title=Eyes of Her Mother: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Jane by Charlottere |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/charlotte-gainsbourg-jane-by-charlotte-interview-2022 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=29 September 2022 |language=en |date=21 March 2022}}</ref> and 13 years old.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Frei |first1=Matt |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I don't want it to become a male witch hunt' |url=https://www.channel4.com/news/charlotte-gainsbourg-i-dont-want-it-to-become-a-male-witch-hunt |website=Channel 4 |access-date=2 October 2022 |date=20 November 2017}}</ref>}} daughter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who made her musical debut with the song.<ref name="ebertjane" /><ref name="guardianchar" /> It was recorded in 1984 and included on Serge's controversial new wave album ''Love on the Beat'', which was released the same year, as well as on Charlotte's 1986 debut album ''Charlotte for Ever''.<ref name="allmusic" /><ref name="scandallist">{{cite web |last1=Gorman |first1=Francine |title=Serge Gainsbourg's 20 most scandalous moments |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2011/feb/28/serge-gainsbourg-20-scandalous-moments |website=The Guardian |access-date=29 September 2022 |date=28 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="tribunegeneve" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Larocca |first1=Amy |title=62 Minutes With Charlotte Gainsbourg -- New York Magazine - Nymag |url=https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/65899/ |website=New York |access-date=11 November 2022 |language=en-us |date=6 May 2010}}</ref> ==Composition== The title of "Lemon Incest" is a play on the phrase ''un zeste de citron'', the French term for lemon zest.<ref name="vicedeath" /> Its lyrics, written by Serge,<ref name="spin50" /> describe an incestuous<ref>{{cite web |last1=Geisler |first1=Oliwia |title=Serge Gainsbourg's Paris home to open to the public in spring |url=https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Mag/Culture/Serge-Gainsbourg-s-Paris-home-to-open-to-the-public-in-spring |website=The Connexion |access-date=30 September 2022 |date=10 December 2021}}</ref> relationship between Serge and Charlotte, the latter of whom sings in French, "The love we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the purest."<ref name="popmatters">{{cite web |last1=Perrouin |first1=Airelle |title=The Continuing Cult of French Provocateur Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://www.popmatters.com/serge-gainsbourg-jeremy-allen-biography/2 |website=PopMatters |access-date=27 September 2022 |date=8 June 2021}}</ref> The song's melody is taken from Étude Op. 10, No. 3 in E major by Frédéric Chopin.<ref name="spin50" /> Critics have described her vocals as "wobbly",<ref name="nyt">{{cite web |last1=Dupont |first1=Joan |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: From Grim Pain to Hell in Eden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/03iht-dupont.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=30 September 2022 |date=2 June 2009}}</ref> "shrill",<ref name="tribunegeneve">{{cite web |last1=Gottraux |first1=Fabrice |title=«Lemon Incest», un zeste de Gainsbourg |url=https://www.tdg.ch/lemon-incest-un-zeste-de-gainsbourg-532397936088 |website=Tribune de Genève |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=fr |date=22 August 2019}}</ref> "breathy", and a "cracking whisper". The song has a disco beat and is backed by synths, keyboards, and a chorus singing the song's title.<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |last1=Jurek |first1=Thom |title=Serge Gainsbourg - Love on the Beat Album Review |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/love-on-the-beat-mw0000764423?1664587873172 |website=AllMusic |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Jeremy |title=Jeremy Allen On Mick Harvey's Intoxicated Women |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/21594-mick-harvey-intoxicated-women-album-review-serge-gainsbourg |website=The Quietus |access-date=2 January 2023 |date=19 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="firstpost">{{cite web |last1=Manickavel |first1=Kuzhali |title=From 'Lemon Incest' to Prince's 'Sister', songs that make you wonder, 'What were they thinking?' |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/from-lemon-incest-to-princes-sister-songs-that-make-you-wonder-what-were-they-thinking-7749531.html |website=Firstpost |access-date=27 September 2022 |language=en |date=10 December 2019}}</ref>
==Music video and controversy== thumb|left|225px|A frame from the music video for "Lemon Incest" The music video for the song shows Serge, shirtless and in jeans,<ref name="firstpost" /> with Charlotte, wearing a blue dress shirt<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Melissa |title=Melissa Anderson on Agnès Varda's Jane B. par Agnès V. and Kung-Fu Master! |url=https://www.artforum.com/film/melissa-anderson-on-agnes-varda-s-jane-b-par-agnes-v-and-kung-fu-master-55683 |website=Artforum |access-date=11 November 2022 |date=19 October 2015}}</ref> and panties.<ref name="scandallist" /> They lie side-by-side in a large white double bed.<ref name="guardianchar" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunn |first1=Lily |title=How the French bohemian elite celebrated predatory behaviour |url=https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-french-bohemian-elite-celebrated-predatory-behaviour |website=Aeon |access-date=29 September 2022 |language=en |date=9 December 2021}}</ref> Serge caresses Charlotte and the two are surrounded by cracked rocks and covered by smoke.<ref name="chareverything" /><ref name="telelist" /><ref>{{cite journal |author1=Noonan, David |title=Life in Film: David Noonan |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/life-film-david-noonan |journal=Frieze |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=1 October 2006|issue=102 }}</ref> The music video was widely panned in France based on accusations that they glamorised paedophilia and incest, which Serge denied.<ref name="vicedeath">{{cite web |last1=Joyce |first1=Colin |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg Searches for Answers in Death |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/charlotte-gainsbourg-rest-interview-feature/ |website=Vice |access-date=January 2, 2023 |date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> Charlotte also later denied claims that the song was actually about incest, saying that, although the song uses the word "incest", "[Serge is] just talking about the infinite love of a father for his daughter and of a daughter for her father."<ref name="chareverything">{{cite web |last1=Mahdawi |first1=Arwa |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'Everything now is so politically correct. So boring' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/26/charlotte-gainsbourg-everything-now-so-politically-correct-boring |website=The Guardian |access-date=30 September 2022 |language=en |date=26 October 2019}}</ref> According to ''The Guardian''{{'}}s Francine Gorman, "Lemon Incest" "caused one of the biggest scandals of [Serge] Gainsbourg's career" and was "his most highly contested release".<ref name="scandallist" /> Sylvie Simmons wrote in her 2001 biography ''Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes'' that the song's music video "hit [a] 10 on the scandalometer".<ref name="censoredstory" /> Simon Vozick-Levinson of ''The New York Times'' wrote that it "nearly outdid the scandal caused by her parents' explicit duet, 'Je t'aime... moi non plus,' in the late '60s".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vozick-Levinson |first1=Simon |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg Finds Her Own Voice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/music/charlotte-gainsbourg-rest.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=January 2, 2023 |date=November 9, 2017}}</ref> ''The Telegraph'' listed it as one of the most controversial music videos of all time.<ref name="telelist">{{cite web |last1=Ranscombe |first1=Si N |title=The 10 most controversial music videos |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/11585580/The-10-most-controversial-music-videos.html |website=The Telegraph |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=10 May 2015}}</ref>
Charlotte remained unaware of the controversy surrounding the song during its popularity, as she was attending boarding school in Switzerland when it was released.<ref name="tribunegeneve" /><ref name="guardianchar">{{cite web |last1=O'Hagan |first1=Sean |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: 'I had no idea how scared I was of dying' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jan/10/charlotte-gainsbourg-interview-beck |website=The Guardian |access-date=27 September 2022 |language=en |date=10 January 2010}}</ref> As an adult, Charlotte described both her and Serge's relationship and the song itself as "very innocent" and "very pure", adding that she understood the lyrics when she sang them.<ref name="dbeast">{{cite web |last1=Ayuso |first1=Julia Webster |title=Singer Serge Gainsbourg Promoted Incest and Pedophilia. Now He's Being Honored. |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/serge-gainsbourg-promoted-incest-and-pedophilia-now-hes-being-honored |website=The Daily Beast |access-date=26 September 2022 |language=en |date=9 April 2022}}</ref><ref name="ft" /> She also stated that it was "very generous" of her mother, actress Jane Birkin—who called the song "a bit dodgy"—to "let [her] be free like that".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ahead of show with Iggy Pop, Jane Birkin talks Serge, #MeToo |url=https://www.rfi.fr/en/wires/20200306-ahead-show-iggy-pop-jane-birkin-talks-serge-metoo |website=RFI |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=en |date=6 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="nyt" /> Birkin later stated that the song "never came as a shock or a surprise or even a worry [to her], knowing Serge's great love for Charlotte".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eckardt |first1=Steph |title=Jane Birkin Looks Back, And Back and Back: A Conversation with an Icon |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/jane-birkin-charlotte-gainsbourg-aging-lincoln-center-retrospective |website=W |access-date=January 2, 2023 |date=January 29, 2016}}</ref> Charlotte was, however, critical of the video, stating, "But that video—''ack''."<ref name="vult1">{{cite web |last1=Swanson |first1=Carl |title=Lars's Real Girl: Charlotte Gainsbourg on Nymphomaniac and Working With von Trier |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/03/charlotte-gainsbourg-on-nymphomaniac-lars-von-trier.html |website=Vulture |access-date=30 September 2022 |language=en-us |date=13 March 2014}}</ref>
==Critical reception== For ''The Guardian'', James Wignall wrote retrospectively that he "actually quite like[d]" the song and that its lyrics were "quite benign" despite accusations that they were pro-paedophilia.<ref name="censoredstory" /> ''Flavorwire''{{'}}s Alison Nastasi stated that the song was "pretty damn catchy" but "totally bizarre", calling "Charlotte’s trembling, adolescent delivery" "intriguing".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nastasi |first1=Alison |title=Serge Gainsbourg's Most Memorable Music Collaborations |url=https://www.flavorwire.com/271126/serge-gainsbourgs-most-memorable-music-collaborations |website=Flavorwire |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=20 March 2012}}</ref> AllMusic's Thom Jurek compared Charlotte's vocal performance on "Lemon Incest" to her mother's on "Je t'aime... moi non plus" and described the song as "one of a kind" and "sick, cheap, and somehow strangely compelling." He also wrote, however, that the song was "nothing special" musically.<ref name="allmusic" />
For ''Spin''{{'}}s list of the "worst songs by otherwise great artists", Liza Lentini praised Charlotte's "beautiful" voice on the song, but wrote that its subject matter "never, ever sat quite right for [her]", also writing, "I don't think the song itself...has much merit."<ref name="spin50">{{cite web |author1=Spin staff |title=The 50 Worst Songs By Otherwise Great Artists |url=https://www.spin.com/2022/07/the-50-worst-songs-by-otherwise-great-artists/ |website=Spin |access-date=29 September 2022 |date=20 July 2022}}</ref> Derrick Clifton of Mic called "Lemon Incest" "perhaps one of the most disturbing songs and music videos ever recorded", and saw it as an example of "rape culture" in music videos due to its implications of statutory rape.<ref name="mic">{{cite web |last1=Clifton |first1=Derrick |title=Rape Culture Is Everywhere Our Kids Can See — Watch Your Favorite Music Videos to Prove It |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/101318/rape-culture-is-everywhere-our-kids-can-see-watch-your-favorite-music-videos-to-prove-it |website=Mic |access-date=8 October 2022 |date=17 October 2014}}</ref> Josh Gray of ''Clash'' and ''Vice''{{'}}s Kim Kelly called it "creepy".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Josh |title=Live Report: Charlotte Gainsbourg - KOKO, London |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/live/live-report-charlotte-gainsbourg-koko-london/ |website=Clash |access-date=January 2, 2023 |date=December 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Kim |title=A Brief History of Incest in Popular Music |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/history-of-incest-in-popular-music/ |website=Vice |access-date=January 2, 2023 |language=en |date=January 30, 2015}}</ref> Melissa Anderson of ''The Village Voice'' wrote that it "provoke[s] a certain unease" and Benjamin Ivry of ''The Forward'' described it as "salacious", "bizarre", and "icky".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=Melissa |title=Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg Enthrall — and Flout Taboo — at FSLC |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/01/26/jane-birkin-and-charlotte-gainsbourg-enthrall-and-flout-taboo-at-fslc/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200822122109/https://www.villagevoice.com/2016/01/26/jane-birkin-and-charlotte-gainsbourg-enthrall-and-flout-taboo-at-fslc/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 22, 2020 |website=The Village Voice |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=26 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ivry |first1=Benjamin |title=The Man With the Yellow Star: The Jewish Life of Serge Gainsbourg |url=https://forward.com/culture/14621/the-man-with-the-yellow-star-02882/ |website=The Forward |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=26 November 2008}}</ref> It was listed as one of the creepiest father-daughter duets of all time by VH1 in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Donovan |first1=Frank |title=The 10 Creepiest Father-Daughter Duets In Music History |url=https://www.vh1.com/news/ow8o8g/creepiest-father-daughter-duets |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103003925/https://www.vh1.com/news/ow8o8g/creepiest-father-daughter-duets |url-status=live |archive-date=January 3, 2023 |website=VH1 |access-date=January 2, 2023 |date=June 20, 2015}}</ref> Ludovic Hunter-Tilney of the ''Financial Times'' compared "Lemon Incest" to "Je t'aime... moi non plus", Serge's 1969 duet with Birkin, his then-wife, writing that Charlotte "disturbingly reprised the erotic role her mother played in the Serge-penned 1969 hit."<ref name="ft">{{cite web |last1=Hunter-Tilney |first1=Ludovic |title='I like being manipulated' |url=https://www.ft.com/content/97796e0a-3bb2-11e1-bb39-00144feabdc0 |website=Financial Times |access-date=29 September 2022 |date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
==Legacy and aftermath== "Lemon Incest" was called Charlotte's only hit record by Shawn Levy of ''The Oregonian''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Levy |first1=Shawn |title=Just like a woman: swooning for Charlotte Gainsbourg |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2010/04/just_like_a_woman_swooning_for.html |website=The Oregonian |access-date=11 November 2022 |language=en |date=17 April 2010}}</ref> A snippet of "Lemon Incest" was included on Serge's 1985 live album, ''Gainsbourg Live'', in which the song begins before he stops to tell the audience, in French, "Charlotte has to go to school tomorrow, she has homework to do."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Pinnock |first1=Tom |date=January 2016 |title=Serge Gainsbourg - Casino de Paris 1985 Review |url=https://archive.org/details/Uncut_January_2016/ |magazine=Uncut |publisher=IPC Media |access-date=10 November 2022 |via= |quote= |page=88}}</ref> Two years after the release of "Lemon Incest", Serge directed the film ''Charlotte for Ever'', which he starred in alongside Charlotte. In it, Serge plays a screenwriter who becomes sexually attracted to his daughter, played by Charlotte.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Horwitz |first1=Simi |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: Not Your Typical Jewish Mother |url=https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/430941/charlotte-gainsbourg-not-your-typical-jewish-mother/ |website=The Forward |access-date=30 September 2022 |language=en |date=6 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Collin |first1=Robbie |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg on bad reviews, growing up with Serge, and baring her soul to Lars von Trier |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/charlotte-gainsbourg-bad-reviews-growing-serge-baring-soul-lars/ |website=The Telegraph |access-date=3 January 2023 |date=7 June 2018}}</ref>
The controversy surrounding "Lemon Incest" further increased when Serge kissed Charlotte on the lips after she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 1986 for her role in ''An Impudent Girl''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Olding |first1=Rachel |title='I feel completely free': how Charlotte Gainsbourg stopped caring |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/i-feel-completely-free-how-charlotte-gainsbourg-stopped-caring-20190101-p50p14.html |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=11 November 2022 |language=en |date=11 January 2019}}</ref> Serge produced Charlotte's debut album of the same name, which was released the same year and featured two other duets between the two: "Plus Doux Avec Moi" and the title track. On the latter, she sings, in French, "Daddy, daddy, I'm afraid to taste your flavor."<ref name="tribunegeneve" /> She did not return to music until over a decade later, and her second album, ''5:55'', was released in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tangari |first1=Joe |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whisper |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16094-stage-whisper/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=1 October 2022 |date=7 December 2011}}</ref><ref name="guardianchar" /> {{As of|2019}}, she regularly closes her tours with a performance of "Lemon Incest".<ref name="tribunegeneve" /> The track was also used in the 2009 film ''Genova''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indymedia.be/nl/node/33920 |title=Genova: "Genova, mon amour" |publisher=Indy Media |date=7 March 2009 |accessdate=8 January 2010}}</ref> It was covered by French singer Alex Beaupain for his remake of ''Love on the Beat'' in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lacube |first1=Nathalie |title=Alex Beaupain reprend « Love on the Beat » en Gainsbourg romantique |url=https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Alex-Beaupain-reprend-Love-the-Beat-Gainsbourg-romantique-2021-11-07-1201184042 |website=La Croix |access-date=3 January 2023 |language=fr-FR |date=7 November 2021}}</ref>
==Chart performance== On the SNEP's Top 50 chart, "Lemon Incest" debuted at number four for the week of 27 October 1985, then peaked at number two the following week. The song spent a total of 14 weeks on the chart, 10 of which were spent in the top-10 of the chart.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dicale |first1=Bertrand |title=Ces chansons qui font l'actu. "Lemon Incest", trente-six ans après |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/ces-chansons-qui-font-l-actu/ces-chansons-qui-font-l-actu-lemon-incest-trente-six-ans-apres_4261201.html |website=Franceinfo |access-date=1 October 2022 |language=fr-FR |date=31 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="guardianchar" /> The song did not make an impact in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yeo |first1=Amanda |title=Robin Sparkles from 'How I Met Your Mother' is so fun. There's just one thing... |url=https://mashable.com/article/himym-robin-sparkles-kpop |website=Mashable |access-date=8 October 2022 |language=en |date=28 November 2020}}</ref>
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==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top}} {{certification Table Entry|type=single|title=Lemon Incest|artist=Charlotte & Serge Gainsbourg |region=France|award=Silver|source=infodisc|certyear=1985|access-date=18 April 2022|refname=FrenchC}} {{Certification Table Bottom | noshipments=true}}
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