It was a song that was fundamentally an homage, a hymn to liberty. It was: Liberate yourself, in the context of communist oppression, but it could have for any oppression, fascist, or in any form, and I was saying to women, finally, “Seize power”, dare to impose on us your ukases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of this, it was a play on phonetics as well, I thought of the Caucasus Mountains, evidently it’s the first word that comes to mind when we think of the East – Dare to cause us Caucasus, Dare to impose on us your Ukases, dare, dare…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So from this foundation, Alain added on “Josephine.” So Josephine, it would not be until much later that I learn that Josephine Bashung is the sister of his father in the Alsace village of Wingersheim. She was a woman who we could say today, who we would describe, as a liberated woman, which was, actually, in the countryside of the 40’s and 50’s, was not so much well regarded. She was apparently a liberated woman who didn’t give a damn about the rumor mill, a strong personality who certainly greatly impressed Alain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So this woman, somehow she connected with, here it’s really [each of us contributing] 50-50, all of a sudden myself I find “Dare” without him ever having spoken to me of his aunt, and all of a sudden she comes into this song, because if ever there was someone who dared, it was the actual Josephine Bashung of Wingersheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the end it’s an engaging song, and in a good sense an anti… anti-dictatorial song, and pro-, extremely feminist, so as to say, go on, dare, it is you who will change history, we are counting on you…<\/p>\n\n\n\n