Invited on the set of “What an era!”, Saturday April 12, the singer who will represent France during the next edition of the Eurovision competition confided in the genesis of her song “Maman”.
It emeu almost 7.5 million spectators in 2014, at the exit of Film La Famille Aries, For which she was awarded a Caesar of female revelation. Throughout her albums, a sensitive young woman has been revealed to the story of tragic life. If she only mentioned the death of her parents a few months apart when she was only 16 years old, she reveals herself punctually and modestly in some of her songs. But on March 15, at the half-time of the France-Scotland rugby match which was held at the Stade de France, the 28-year-old singer interpreted for the first time the song she will perform during the Eurovision competition in May, where she will represent France. His title is as ambiguous as her text: “Mom”.
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Eurovision, a family story
The European competition was a moment of family reunion, the singer said several times, who says she did not miss a single edition. “I did not know how to speak that I was already looking at Eurovision,” she says on the set of “What era!” Saturday April 12. “It was my mother’s dream”, one day, see her daughter on the stage, under the tricolor flag. A dream that she almost touches her fingers when she is offered to represent France during the next edition. But Louane hesitates for a long time. “It was my boyfriend (the Pegasus musician, editor’s note) who pushed me to do it,” she said, smiling. I wanted to do it, but it is not something that can be taken lightly and at the same time, it is super important in my family story. At one point, he just said to me, “Why are you hesitating? Go ahead!” And I went there, ”she simply says.
Mourning under omerta
During the first years of her career, Louane never talked directly about her double mourning. A silence that journalists respected in the face of the tragedy experienced by this very young girl, suddenly become famous. “At 16, 18, 20, everything is a bit of assault. This is the release of adolescence, it is super complicated to manage personal questions, especially on such an intense subject, especially when it is super fresh, ”analyzes the singer. “Today is really less fresh. I think I had time to live and above all I think I got used to it, ”she explains.
“Talking about this kind of subject does not only concern me”
But if there is a trigger, it is certainly the downstream of his brothers and sisters, concerned directly by the confidences of their sister in the media and his songs. “It is not a decision that I made alone, it is a decision that I made with my brothers and sisters. And the thing that was most important to me when I started is that, on this subject, as on any aspect of my career, my brothers and sisters are not directly or indirectly affected by that, “said Louane. “One of my missions has always been and it will always be, it is that it doesn’t matter what I do or what I say in my job, it does not lead to the personal and psychological life of my family. Obviously, talking about this kind of subject does not concern me that me, ”she explains in front of Léa Salamé, who is not praising about her.
The green light of siblings
Finally, after a discussion with them explaining to them the project of his song “Maman” for Eurovision, his brothers and sisters validate this approach that is both very personal and very public. “They gave me their green light so it’s good. They told me ‘go ahead’ “. However, the first listening to his title is emotionally loaded. “It was special. They were happy because … it’s super personal what I’m going to say but (…) It is the first time that I write a song on my mother that is sweet, not hard, not difficult, not angry. ” A state of mind that his brothers and sisters have no trouble explaining. “The truth is that what they told me is that I healed. And I think I took more time than others in my family to heal. We don’t want people to leave us. ” There is no doubt for the singer that the arrival of her daughter Esmée, born in March 2020, helped this appeasement. “I wrote full, so much, songs on my mother, I think it is the last,” she concludes.
