TODAY’S pop performers lower the bar so far that aesthetic simplicity and understatement seem primitive. In fact, they are the end products of high civilization. This lovely version from the sixties by the French chanteuse Françoise Hardy of “Tous les Garçons et les Filles,” is the sort of thing crowded out by Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus. Loveliness, the smiles of a summer night, feminine purity, these have become so quaint and unreal that some even argue that parents are not preparing the young for life if they don’t expose them to the bleakest of alternatives.

The video was sent by Thomas F. Bertonneau, who writes “there is no gyrating, no electronic processing of the voice, very little cosmetic makeup — simply a beautiful feminine voice singing a song about every young person’s dreadful worry that everyone except he or she has someone to love.”

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