Song · Charlotte Gainsbourg
“Deadly Valentine” by Charlotte Gainsbourg
From the album Rest (2017)
“Deadly Valentine” by Charlotte Gainsbourg appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 2019 and 2025. It was first released in 2017 on the album Rest. Its best result is #469 on the KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,368 indie & aaa song of all time.
Charlotte Gainsbourg wrote the words to "Deadly Valentine", and SebastiAn, the French electronic musician who produced most of Rest, wrote the music, produced the track and plays its synthesizers and bass synth, with Vincent Taeger on drums and Tom Elmhirst mixing. It was one of two songs from the album, along with the title track, to get a single and a music video, and Gainsbourg directed the clip herself.
Rest, released on 17 November 2017 through Because Music and Atlantic, was the French and British singer and actress's fourth album and her first in eight years, a record shadowed by the deaths of her father, Serge Gainsbourg, and her half-sister Kate Barry, and sung in both English and French.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 469 | KEXP | KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time | 627 |
| 2025 | 841 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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