"Je t'aime mélancolie" (English: "I Love You Melancholy") is a 1991 song recorded by the French artist Mylène Farmer.

Characterized by its gloomy lyrics and its music video shot on a boxing ring, it achieved success, becoming a top ten hit in France and Belgium.

At the time, a fan from Nancy who wanted to meet Farmer killed the receptionist of Polydor, her recording company in Paris, shooting him with a rifle because he refused to give him the singer's address.

[7] The fact that Farmer is singing in low notes in the verses, like on "Porno graphique" and "C'est dans l'air", is deemed by the psychologist Hugues Royer as a sign of humor.

This Requiem Publishing and Heathcliff SA production cost about 75,000 euros and was shot in Los Angeles for four days: two for the fight in the boxing ring, and the two others for the choreography.

[citation needed] The sexy clothes that Farmer and her dancers wear - notably black garter belts - while they are on the boxing ring in the video were made by the French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

[11] According to biographer Bernard Violet, the colors chosen highlight the flamboyant hair of the singer which contrast with her very white face.

Unlike Farmer's previous videos, this one is very simple and deals with a story in which everyone can find a moral and metaphysical duality between Good and Evil, God and the Devil.

[19] Farmer performed her song in playback in three French television shows : Sacrée Soirée (11 Décember 1991, TF1), Tous à la Une (27 December 1991, TF1; she also sang "L'Autre"), and Stars 90 (13 January 1992, TF1).

She also appeared in a German television program in which she sang "Je t'aime mélancolie", as the song was recorded in the country too: Ein Kessel Buntes, in March 1992.

The few words ("Allô oui c'est moi / Tu n'est pas là / Je me sens toute seule") of this mainly musical song were sampled from a singer's message left on the answering machine of Laurent Boutonnat, a day that she seemed to be sad[23][24] after seeing a depressing television show.

[25] The song was included on the Mylenium Tour, but in fact Farmer does not sing it on this occasion: Valérie Bony, one of the dancers, replaces her to give her the time to change her costume.

[28] In 2003, Biba Binoche, a young woman who had participated in the European reality show Big Brother, and most known under the pseudonym BB, covered the song in various techno and electro version.