After suddenly stopping his tour in May 2023, the Belgian singer will share with the French singer a title on the soundtrack of the second season of the animated series Arcane, airing on Netflix in the fall.
Stromae, back where we didn’t expect him. The Belgian star will share a track with French singer Pomme on the soundtrack of the second season of the animated series Arcane, announced Riot Games studio and Virgin Music group in a press release on Thursday.
Titled My best enemythis original composition is one of the 20 tracks unveiled by the American studio behind the video game “League of Legends” (LoL), whose universe Arcane adapts. This title marks the return to song of Stromae, one of the most listened to French-speaking artists in the world, who had suddenly stopped his tour in May 2023, explaining that he needed rest. He had thrown in the towel for the first time at the end of 2015, wrung out by his big world tour and affected by depression aggravated by the side effects of an antimalarial.
On Tuesday, the interpreter of Papaoutai et Formidable spoke out to announce a film about his interrupted tour and to thank his fans. “Your kindness and empathy, following the cancellation of the remainder of the tour, touched me enormously,”he wrote on his networks. Stromae will sing My best enemy alongside Pomme, a committed artist who, at 27, embodies one of the new faces of French song. The latter had been crowned with two Victoires de la musique in 2020 and 2021. She also made her film debut in 2023, in The Silver Venus by Helena Klotz.
Other names announced for the series’ soundtrack include Frenchman Woodkid, American rock band Twenty One Pilots and American singer Ashnikko.
Performed by American pop rock group Imagine Dragons, Enemythe opening theme song for the first season, has accumulated more than 1.5 billion streams on Spotify. Arcane was designed and produced by Riot Games studio, in collaboration with French studio Fortiche Production, which has already worked with it and other game publishers, and has also developed an animated series for Marvel Studios.
The critically acclaimed first season, which aired on Netflix in 2021, features champions from the LoL universe, set against the backdrop of the conflict between Zaun, a territory of the underworld, and Piltover, a wealthy city of the dominants, in an era where magic and technology intertwine. The second season will air on Netflix starting in November.
