It is a very intimate album that you have just released. Are you relieved by the welcome he receives?
“When I wrote the texts, it is because I needed to write them. When I decided to make songs of them, it is because I needed to do these songs so that they accompany me. And when I decided that it was going to be my album, I decided in my soul and conscience. But it is true that there is always a little while you wonder if you have not pushed the cursor a little too far? The anxiety at the idea of ​​swinging a title like ‘mental discharge’ (the song that opens the disc, note.). It upset me to tell me that I put words on something that thousands of people feel.
Your whole album is intimate, right?
“It’s true. ‘Mental discharge’, which was the first song, opened the way. I made it listen to my husband, my mother, my sister, my banker and even by a person on the street waiting to be washing his car. I asked her if the song spoke to him. I put my helmet on her ears and she started to cry. like that.”
Other peculiarity of Midnightit is an album that listens from start to finish by following the order of the songs. It is daring because at antipodes of current music consumption habits …
“It was one of my anxieties and that’s why I made a beautiful object (the cover and the booklet are magnificent, note). For people to want to listen to this album by reading the lyrics, going from one photo to the other in the booklet. I did everything to make it want to listen to it in order as if we were going to spend the night. SAS ‘, ends with’ 8 am, it’s already tomorrow ‘.
What is your relation to the night?
“He evolved. At the age of 7-8, he was not crazy. It was as if there was a switch who went from ‘off’ to ‘we’ at the time it had to be the opposite. When I saw everyone going to bed, I had the impression that my brain was light. From a little one I often tried to find things to do in the evening: to make my own. Growing up, the more I did things like moving the furniture. Either way.
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So at night, are you not looking for silence?
“I had to transform what could be a source of anxiety in a privileged moment of silence, intimacy, a moment when we think then we start to think, to reason endlessly. This is what I experienced with Midnight I started from this sleep that did not come. I was also in mourning, there was sorrow, pain. I was asking myself questions. Suddenly, it turned into therapy. I made my own analysis and I started to rediscote who I am, what really bothers me, what scares me, what’s wrong, are there things that I can change, are there things for which it is better that I stop fighting because it is like that, it is life. This is how I raised all the themes of Midnight.”
Given the success of Alive Released four years ago, we expected to see you again more quickly with a new album. What happened?
“Me too, I thought that as soon as I was going to get out of stage, I was going to go back to the studio and four months later, get out of it with a radio on radio. Except not. When I finished my tour in September 2023, it was the start of my grandmother’s end of life. I ended up with my family to accompany him so that she was not alone, until the end, barely two months after my last concert. Everything to go back to the studio and go for music. “
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Was the spring broken?
“No, but I didn’t want to make music. I didn’t want to see anyone, I wanted to be with my family. I did a lot of things that were much more important than doing a record at that time: helping us cross this moment, rebuilding us, not feel guilty too. Because I find that the end of life is a real subject that we do not approach. You do not know how to do when the elderly are afraid of dying.
Did this mourning pass a course?
“For me, if there is a before and after in my life, it is this one. In addition, it happens when I enter the forties. I do not feel it in my body, but I am told a lot. I am told that 40 years, it is a milestone. The turning point, it is now: Are you going to live the rest of your life as you have started, or maybe you get rid of you? Meaning, there is a rocking and that’s now. “
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You are celebrating your 40th birthday this Saturday, June 21. Is this CAP also a source of anxiety?
“No anxiety. For nothing in the world, I would like to go back 10, 15 or 20 years back. But I don’t know if it will last. My husband always tells me that my anxieties even come back by the little door when everything is fine. But right now, it’s a good time. I’m fine, I don’t want to go back. And tomorrow, I’m celebrating this in small committee, with my half and my three children.”
Do you like that notion of family?
“That’s all that interests me, everything I love, everything that reassures me. This is my balance.”
We chat at night, anxieties and mourning while your album is anything but dark …
“We must not rely on appearances. A little girl looked at the record booklet and told me that it is all black, the album. I said no, it is not black, it is night, it’s not exactly the same thing. The night can be the monster under the bed, the anxieties, the nightmares, but it is also the dream and the imaginary. And above all, is a new day. Midnight one and not midnight.
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Impossible not to evoke “bad role”, a very significant song from this new album. She talks about family violence and your mom, is that right?
“This is the starting point of the song but it is not the most important. It deals with a subject that we do not talk about much: when the children, sometimes, become the parents of their parents when they are still only children. That is to say they have a bad role. Little girl, I found myself having the impression of being the one who was going to save my mom but I could not have a child. His life. is understood instinctively. “
How did your mom welcome this song when she heard it?
“She validated the song. I do not go out in my album which is not validated by those of whom it speaks. ‘Mima’ (title consecrated her disappeared grandmother, Editor’s note.) Was validated by all my family, because it is not that my grandmother. It is the mother of my mother, of my tatas, of my uncle. Standard ‘by my two daughters.
