early 2010 is that Bertrand Louis drew his fourth missile. The elegant guitar, the timbre, clear and precise, Paris emerged as one of the songwriters of the most talented league. He responds here to some naive questions arising while listening to an album as dark as the bottom of a skillet.
SHOPPING CENTER (OR THE STORY OF A MURDERER) is called a concept album name often meaningless, but which is required in the penultimate piece of the CD " And that, I do not know what came over me / In the mall / Or finally, if rather / I took out a gun / D years the center Business / It was like slow motion ( Center Comm comm ) ... How would you describe the heroes of very cinematic album?
Bertrand Louis - It's true I do not like the term concept album, but hey it must be stored somewhere. I realized while writing the songs they all followed the same goal, that of a type that goes awry. What motivated me most was to make something unitary, in the sounds used in the manner of writing and also deal with themes that change throughout the disc. I have not really thought about cinema. The hero, the anti-hero rather, is someone (too) sensitive that takes full through the mouths of our time and making them blow for blow. Victim becomes the executioner.
Several themes are supporting the story of your murderous sort. Starting with loneliness, boredom, lack of love that haunt the opening track, rather caustic Dry eyes . Would you find it insulting that listening to your disc, flipping through the book, showing his pictures-urban, one thinks very quickly to Cities loneliness a c ertain Michel Sardou (# 7 in April 1974)?
- Damn, Sardou it is! I do not know, I do not know ... this disc
Sardou there said: " In the cities of great solitude / [...] I want to rape women and De forcing them to admire me / Feel drinking all their tears / And go up in smoke . And it was a hit ...
- Not bad actually! It is true that with the normalization of porn and provocation of desire, it has less and less desire to enter the intermediaries (the restaurant, not the first night ... etc). Otherwise the theme of modern loneliness was already addressed but I do not think it is a dominant theme of my album. The starting point is rather the inability to love or more generally a sense, not lack. Dry eyes is someone who does not cry - or more, which is cold and it makes him mad, he wants to feel something at all costs, even if that is what suffering is a kind of masochism. Between Grief and Nothing, I Will take grievance. Finally, when we feel excluded, we can only go to the ... sadness or anger.
" My eyes are blue / Very Irresistible / Deeper a e Card / This is terrible: / I'm not pretty / I'm worse "(The Whore advertising ire ) Following the theme of the infinite loneliness, you castigates in the second song of the CD consumer society. Under the guise of electro-rock and melodic THE MALL Is there a disc engaged?
- For this song, I wanted to highlight the continuing challenge exerted by the beauty on billboards. Sometimes I remain petrified before the face of a woman it reminds me of the statues of ancient Greece in the midst of all this shit is terrible! Engaged, committed ... I have trouble with this term I do not know why I prefer to limit subversive. I think the character of the disc (ie, tell me in short) lives in a consumer society that suffers the consequences naively. I think the thing most symptomatic of our society is that everything is recovered and especially the song called bound. It's like the demos: you have to ask permission, disclose the itinerary, provide the thugs that stupid show ... ! Personally I prefer the riots.
Hence this recent message on the wall of your facebook page: "Louis Bertrand wants scrapping, fighting, the brothel, poetry, cars that burn! "The praise from the masses? Or savages? ... Louis Bertrand, the new Minister of Interior!
- Minister of Interior, it looks well paid so why not? What I mean is that the demonstrations, it serves no purpose except to see the head of the Socialists who are there waiting their turn. As for the goons, they burn the cars of their neighbors who are all in the shit they do. The day they go in the 16th or they will break the Paris stock exchange, it will start to get interesting.
" You are my soul / Male / Small drama / My Plastic / My tears / My Atlantic rowing / When you write this for me ... " do you sing in The zero degree of my writing a piece where, as in two other drive, you drag the complete rhyme in English. The French will apparently be even a language specific to attract more Young? Do you listen to yourself French song?
- I used some English effectively, but also a little Italian. I did it to expand my writing tends more towards an accumulation of slogans and phrases already exist. It is a representation of the world. I do not know if it's a sign of the times or whether it has always been the case but we really feel that everyone cares of French music, including youth. From my side I am aware of everything that is done but I do not listen anymore. I listened a lot and perhaps with too much passion. Brel, Gainsbourg, Ferré. And suddenly now I do not feel much, I too burned. I hope it comes back.
"Give me entertainment / I am so bored / And horror is like porn / So give me lots of Ground Zero / World is great, nothing is impossible / But I have brain time available. ( 8:00 p.m.) The way in which we see register subliminal image of the portrait smooth Claire Chazal offers an accumulation horrors that we are served every evening in prime time : terrorist attacks, earthquakes, abduction, pedophile rings, tsunamis, epidemics, serial killers ...
- I do not watch much TV, except when I'm too anxious and / or I have a severe hangover. It has a reassuring look at the 20 Hours, you feel the world. I tend to not tell me much either, I mean I'm not glued to the news. Sometimes it looks pretty funny situations like when I was not even aware that there had been an earthquake in Haiti, I really felt I missed something.
" Tell me why you cry / Poor little rich girl / Committed to the radiator? ( Crime Scene ) Way to the scene of the crime scene, with this final motto, "I do enjoy that if you die ", which is rather unusual crudity Proof in the song ... it can be fierce and treat all subjects!
- took me a long time to find the grip this song. I had an obsession about this, this one now hears in film and in books but not in the song that we let the soft side after all. It's really my favorite part, when the character (me?) Takes revenge and really conscious of what he suffered. I do not feel influenced by composing this album, but there are books that marked me as "The roots of evil" Dantec and perhaps the album THE WALL by Pink Floyd, that I loved as a kid for the next descent into hell. But it really is the observation the world led me most.
Michel Houellebecq gave you permission to set to music one of his poems, Hypermarket in November, which closes the album. In a recent interview, the Prix Goncourt 2010 you mentioned ( here video) talking about the song We are not immune to success , which has everything from single radio! ( here clip We are not immune to success ) You produced this album. How can you consider your job as a singer when radios remain deaf to what fell into the ear of the greatest contemporary French writer?
- About Houellebecq, I am especially in love Disc [ HUMAN PRESENCE , 2000] he did with Burgalat, the coup that brought me to read his poems. As for my job as a singer, this is the ambiguity of my situation! Maybe radios have difficulty play a song that mocks success.
And when the profession disdains an album like THE MALL in its selection of Prix Constantin 2010 for example? ... Like what record labels are the law! As has been argued that the future was myspace, would you say it is for small labels, it is in the self-production?
- Myspace can be a good promotional tool, even if everyone thinks it already has been. Finally I'm using it as a free website. But it also promotes a whole bunch of mediocre stuff that blur the landscape ... A small independent label is a myth, it does not exist a few exceptions; Tricatel example. Mostly these are people who want to be caliph instead of the caliph. Be independent is building his cabin in the woods, it's not camp next to the castle moat. The future, I do not know, I'm not a soothsayer. As for me I'm talking to my label to the next. The real problem is that even when the greatly reduced auto production capacity could cope with a computer and a lot of work but it will never replace a big studio and good musicians. Imagine COSTUME MILITARY in autoprod?
We are not immune to success sings the thirst for recognition, you and this song was inspired by the show Star Academy . In hindsight, do you think this type of program has done as much harm to the variety that has been said?
- No, I do not think so. By cons it reinforces the idea that people absolutely need to be a star first.
Regarding the "professors" of the Star Academy Patrick Besson wrote in 2006: "C ow believe the advice of artists who did not n'on career? Should be, so that during the Star Academy to be credible, that Gerard Depardieu teaches acting, singing Celine Dion, Janet Jackson Pascal Obispo and dance music. Worst of all is obviously to provide a star status in adolescents in 99% of cases, will be unable to keep. False glory does more harm than anonymity unfair. "
- It's stupid what he said, artists who made their careers are not necessarily good teachers. Anyway, it is pity it all anyway.
Is there an artist for whom and / or with whom you particularly want to work? Since you've worked with Jane Birkin in particular.
- There are no artists with whom I work but especially when I moved I always say yes. My publisher is trying to put my titles but of course the singers or their DA listen too much, it becomes a pure lottery as I say in the song and plus, they must necessarily miss pearls if any Jane Birkin I've never met her, she just used my music ... I find it's terribly wicked and funny text at a time, I really like and I would know who she is talking. ( Vomit a good shot / In the bathroom of your mother / You'll see my face / in the toilet, screaming / In the mirror / You wan see my face / Go back to the horror / Crush a roach / cockroach Overwrites a big " Oh! How are you? , 2008) Hear one of my songs sung by someone else, it's always a delight.
In 2000, you appeared on the airwaves with the song At thirty, one of the earliest written in their thirties (after 30 years I Katerine, 1999) lighthouse theme 2000s, film, novels, songs, opinion polls (in September 2003, the Nouvel Observateur A headline in "The rage of 30 years) having focused on this level of existence ( Happy Birthday , Bénabar, 2001; I am thirty years , Jérémie Kisling, 2003; The forgotten passage La Grande Sophie, 2003; Girls of 1973 thirty years, Vincent Delerm in 2004, etc.).. But you're the only one to have them sing clearly, detailing the verb acid, the anguish of having 30 years in Paris: " Let me describe to you, you who parisianises / At thirty years / As life of materializing / Apartment . "Ten years later, you pull out the scary C BETWEEN COMMERCIAL ... Have forty years in 2010 would make it a good angle of song?
- And yes, I am a pioneer! (If this was a taped interview would be added ... [laughs]). 30 years for me was the age where I realized that time passes, it's stupid but it was a terrible shock. It's getting worse and worse to quarantine elsewhere. A song by 40 years admit that I thought about it and they asked me. For now I gone against foot and I wrote a song called 17 years, about a young man who has no consciousness of time " For I am the center of the world / I smile Mona Lisa / I'm 17 years old / And fuck time. "
Finally, if you were told that apart Gainsbourg Bashung he became a cream pie to compare all the talented singers and future, you seem to move in the shadow of a Jean-Louis Murat, version Mustango , it will seem it, say, promising?
- A few years ago I said that I had to laugh Murat one of the cities ... to turn nasty and lonely. And if, as the proverb (Chinese I think): "Nothing grows in the shade of tall trees."
(maintenance Baptist Vignol)
Blondiephotographe Photos b & w, color photo Aurélie Lajoux
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