Originally recorded as a charity single, the song deals with AIDS and caused some controversy as lyrics seem to encourage the rejection of condoms.

[3] As a result, instead of using "Que mon cœur lâche" for the charity album, Farmer re-recorded her 1988 song "Dernier sourire" (which dealt with the death of a sick person) in an acoustic style.

This track was used for the compilation album Urgence – 27 artistes pour la recherche contre le SIDA.

This was the second time that Farmer had recorded one of her singles in a foreign language (the first one being "My Mum Is Wrong" in 1984, the English version of "Maman a tort").

In an interview, Ira Israel said that it was especially difficult to write the lyrics of "My Soul Is Slashed" as Farmer was insistent that the song had to convey the right wording, rhythm, meaning, and feeling of the original, rather than being a direct and literal translation.

Contrary to what some people thought,[11] Farmer's text does not recommend against using condoms, but is simply an observation on this subject, on the complications that it entails.

[12][13] For the first time in Farmer's singing career, Laurent Boutonnat did not direct the song's video, as he was busy working on his feature film Giorgino.

Before the song begins in the video, dialogue between Farmer and the two people who respectively portray God and Jesus, are in English language.

Initially she does not hear what God tells her because she is listening to music on a walkman (the song being played is actually the 'extended dance remix' version of "Que mon cœur lâche").

Two men, an older one and a younger one, are not allowed to go into this discothèque and get slapped in the face; the angel offers them to breathe in an oxygen ball.

Michael Jackson appears, briefly performing some of his signature dance moves, only to be crushed when a huge cross falls from the sky, accidentally dropped by Jesus.

The angel is quite intrigued by the nightclub, so she dresses up in black clothes, blows a white feather from her wrist and enters into the discothèque.

[16] Instant-Mag said the video was inspired by Federico Fellini and Mel Brooks' works, and especially by David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet.

Moreover, according to some analyses, the video explains that to give free rein to sexual fantasies, it necessary to transgress social and religious norms (respectively represented by the bouncer and God).

[16] This video is very different from previous ones of Farmer, as it is much more humorous and ironic,[1] especially when Jesus asks God: "Father, why don't you send me on Earth?"

The song was accompanied by a sexy choreography in which Farmer is dancing around a vertical iron bar and was surrounded by muscular male dancers in Plexiglas bubbles with bare buttocks.