Vanessa Paradis let house into her album: Julien Jabre’s remix of ‘Les épines du cœur’

Julien Jabre has made a house version of a new Vanessa Paradis song — and it sits officially in her album’s tracklist.

The remix is called ‘Les épines du cœur (Julien Jabre Remix)’, runs 4 minutes 3 seconds and takes the eighteenth of nineteen slots on the deluxe edition of ‘Le retour des beaux jours’. The release came out on 10 October 2025, and the Apple Music catalogue records the same date.

The album appeared that day in two shapes: a standard edition of 12 tracks and an Édition Deluxe of 19. The title song had already been issued as a single earlier, on 29 August 2025.

The deluxe’s seven bonus slots split neatly in half. First come three alternative versions: a demo of ‘I Am Alive’, a demo of ‘Make You Mine’ and an acoustic ‘Les initiales des anges’. Then four remixes: The Ninety2 on ‘Les épines du cœur’ (2:57), Clyde Bessi on ‘Trésor’ (3:34), Jabre on ‘Les épines du cœur’ (4:03) and Keefus Ciancia on the title track (6:41).

The original ‘Les épines du cœur’ is track eight of the standard album and runs 2 minutes 54 seconds. The song was written and composed by Étienne Daho, published by Satori Song. So Jabre was not handed filler — he was handed a piece written for the singer by one of the central authors of French popular music.

The video was directed by the photographer and director Karim Sadli, who also served as executive producer; the production company was New Light Films, the producer Virna Martini, the director of photography Elodie Tahtane. Willow Evann choreographed it, with twelve dancers on screen. It was shot with the support of Chanel.

Vanessa Paradis is a French singer and actress whose career began in 1987 with ‘Joe le taxi’. ‘Le retour des beaux jours’ is her new studio album.

Jabre belongs to the French house school. His ‘Swimming Places’ from the mid-2000s became one of those records that stop belonging to their author: in 2009 Defected devoted an edition of its House Masters series to him, shared with DJ Gregory. In our rotation Jabre holds his place with ‘Lost Again’ and ‘Swimming Places’ in the Sabaudia Gabin Mix.

On the deluxe it is the longer of the two versions of ‘Les épines du cœur’ — and the only one made by someone who came to the song from the dancefloor rather than from pop.