"Ça plane pour moi" (French pronunciation: [sa plan puʁ mwa]) is a 1977 song by Belgian musician Plastic Bertrand.

[7] Producer Lou Deprijck always maintained that he performed the vocals on the original recording, and the question remains controversial.

[8] This did not, however, alter the 2006 ruling, and media statements by Deprijk to the effect that his claim to be the singer had been "recognised by the justice system"[9] were ill-founded.

[8] (All of the proceedings between 2006 and 2010 arose from disputes between the record company AMC, which owned the catalogue of Plastic Bertrand's Belgian label RKM, and Deprijck, whom it believed to be making inappropriate use of the material.

[13] This echoed a similar incident in the 1990s when Bertrand seemed to tell journalist Gilles Verlant that he was not the singer before quickly retracting.

[17][18] Deprijck explained:[17] Everything started from the text of Pipou [Lacomblez], which required a very staccato singing, as did, in the United Kingdom, the then fashionable punk singers.

I only brought to the text the title, by reference to a song by Michel Delpech, "Tu me fais planer".

Once in the studio, with this text and my three chords, I told them "Get by yourselves" and we did it.The music was recorded by Mike Butcher (guitar), John Valcke (bass guitar) and Bob Dartsch (drums), and the song was released as a B-side to "Pogo-Pogo",[18] which was chosen to launch the solo career of Plastic Bertrand.

[17][18] "Ça plane pour moi" is a three-chord rock song based on a twelve-bar blues progression that features nonsensical French lyrics with occasional lines in English.

[17][20] Steve Huey of AllMusic describes the song's melody as a "four-note hook which sounds like something straight out of an early Beach Boys or Four Seasons song", accompanied by "... mildly distorted guitars, plus a steadily pumping rhythm section and an old-time rock & roll-style saxophone.

"[20] The song has been described as having "largely nonsensical French lyrics about whiskey-drinking cats and a divan king" and "with words seemingly plucked at random from two entirely different languages.

My cat, Splash is rolling around on my bed He swallowed his tongue as he drank all my whisky As for me: hardly slept, I feel empty and reprimanded I had to sleep in the gutter where I had a flash of inspiration Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!

[24] The song was praised by Joe Strummer of The Clash: "Plastic Bertrand compressed into that three minutes a bloody good record that will get any comatose person toe-tapping, you know what I mean?

The song is also a well known part of the Australian radio station Triple M’s “Rush Hour with JB and Billy” afternoon show, where it is played in response to co-host Billy Brownless’s closing joke if it is considered funny by the producer (Ryan “Rabs” Warren).

The song was produced by Denniz Pop and Douglas Carr, and achieved moderate success on the charts in many European countries.

"[54] Pan-European magazine Music & Media remarked that here, the Plastic Bertrand French-language punk classic had been "re-styled in an electronic dance fashion à la Billy Idol.

Head of music Peter Kricek at Czech Republic's Bonton Radio/Prague said that the original from 1978 was known in his country in the communist days, but it was more of an underground thing.

"[55] Alan Jones from Music Week gave it three out of five, stating that the song "is transformed into technopunk by the self-proclaimed 'queen of the divan' who, although better known as a rapper is in singing mode here."

A delirious synth whirl which hollers and spits and pouts not unlike EMF in a Electrolux spin-cycle without their guitars.