Françoise Hardy (1962 album)
| Tous les garçons et les filles | ||||
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| Studio album by Françoise Hardy | ||||
| Released | November 1962 (France) | |||
| Studio | Studio Vogue, Villetaneuse, France | |||
| Genre | Yé-yé | |||
| Length | 28:55 | |||
| Language | French | |||
| Label | Disques Vogue | |||
| Producer | Jacques Wolfsohn | |||
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| Singles from Tous les garçons et les filles | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Exclaim! | (10/10) |
| Pitchfork | (8.6/10) |
Tous les garçons et les filles is the debut studio album by French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy, released in November 1962 on Disques Vogue. Like many of her following records, it was originally released without a title and to be referred to, later on, by the name of its most popular song. Released when Hardy was 18 years old, the album was a commercial success and "went on to top charts". It was originally released in the United States under the title The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl From Paris! in 1965 on "proto-world music label" Four Corners.
Tous les garçons et les filles is a yé-yé album that combines elements of rockabilly, folk, jazz and blues. Marc Hogan of Pitchfork felt that the album "finds an enduring middle ground between rockabilly shimmy and Gallic introspection". It has been noted for its simplicity, featuring a minimalist jazz percussion, prominent bass, and twangy guitars. Stewart Mason of AllMusic considered the album to be "the '60s pop equivalent of Shaker furniture: free of ornamentation and exquisitely simple." This distanced Hardy from the "bombastic" music of her yé-yé contemporaries. John Paul of Spectrum Culture felt that, although Hardy's music has "its origins in the American girl group sounds and their trademark harmonies," it is interesting that it "[features] little more than this stripped down approach, allowing for her voice to ring through clearly without being saddled with superfluous instrumentation and backing vocals."
Although Tous les garçons et les filles followed the formula of the yé-yé movement—characterized by attractive teenage girls singing innocent pop songs about adolescence—Hardy set herself apart from her peers by writing most of her own material. Moreover, her love-focused lyrics were "devoid of older, male sexualization or control, a privilege not many others of her era enjoyed. Hardy's vocal delivery has been described as "disarmingly conversational". Mason felt that throughout the record, she sings "in an attractive but chilly drop-dead monotone that's far removed from the perkiness of almost every other female singer (minus Nico and Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las) of the '60s." Hazel Cills wrote in 2015:
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