Dealing with parental relationships, the song enjoyed many remixes and formats and achieved success in France where it reached number seven.
[1] A promotional envelope, limited to 150 copies, was sent to radio stations, but several of them were stolen within the recording company, generating a judicial inquiry.
However, some verses clearly refer to incest: it is evoked through an allegory ("petit bouton de rose, aux pétales humides un baiser je dépose") and a phonetic pun ("tes câlins cessent toute ecchymose").
[7] According to the psychologist Hugues Royer, this word symbolizes the fact that the father is able to communicate to his child an optimist that fills with enthusiasm.
The screenplay was written by Farmer, and, like the majority of the singer's videos, it is a Requiem Publishing and Stuffed Monkey production.
It was shot in Prague over three days[10] with a budget of about 150,000 euros, making it the second most expensive singles video from the album Innamoramento after "L'Âme-stram-gram".
The Road Safety Department wanted to censor the end of the video because the position of the singer - standing in the back of a truck - was considered as a bad example that young people could reproduce.
Then, the magician dresses Farmer with a white coat and puts her into a big red box, which is then pierced by some dwarfs with swords.
[13] According to some analyses, the fact that Farmer moves in balance on a ball would symbolize "the cycle, the eternal repetition", and would evoke "the idea of a route to accomplish".
In addition, the video would be "fraught with frequent allusions to the phallus" (knives, daggers, skittles pins, whips, elephant trunks, all of which are used in a suggestive manner).
[15] Several elements of the video, including the monkey on Farmer's shoulders, refer to Hector Malot's novel, Sans Famille.
As a result, this single "confirmed the disciplined loyalty of the singer's fans, ready to pounce on any new disc from its first week of release".
Farmer wore a black costume composed of a woven trousers open on the upper thighs, a transparent bustier, a shimmering jacket closed, high shoes with heels, a large necklace and two iron false-buttocks.