She played her full album a few days before its release. “It really reassured me that I love this record and I'm really happy to defend it. » Adé's career took off with the group Thérapie Taxi then as a solo artist with a country-folk album.
Without denying these successes, she wanted to go in a completely different direction. She returns with a very rock album, released on November 15, which she considers “a new beginning”.
In “Inside Out Mvmt” (Tôt ou Tard) where she sings both in French and in English, she uses all the markers without ever falling into excess or caricature. An album intended to also leave an impression.
Did you want to let go of the horses? To push the sliders to the maximum?
“I don't think I could have dared at the time of the first record. I was learning to make my weapons on my own and I didn't have enough confidence. There, I felt ready. It was the right time to try to write a much clearer chapter. »
“Even though you have to be extroverted on stage, you can also be shy and reserved.”
Hence the choice of American producer Yves Rothman?
“I'm not very French rock so that was a bit of a pitfall that scared me. I really wanted to try to bring in another color and for me, that involved a lot of production. Yves, he produced albums that I listened to and appreciated. I called him and it worked straight away. »
We feel the multiple influences, is this a legacy of the way your generation listens to music, via playlists and very varied sequences of songs?
“Now I only listen to albums. It's very rare that I listen to just one or two songs like that. But it's true that, when I was growing up and as soon as there were platforms, I listened to a lot of playlists. I can clearly see that we are in a mode of consumption which means that every three minutes, we need something new.
“I thought of this record as a concert set list and at the same time as a playlist. I didn't give myself any limits. If I wanted to push something electro, do a guitar voice… I think that people today are ready to hear very varied things on the same record. »
It’s an album that is primarily made for the stage, right?
“I wrote it for that initially. I had the chance to build a live group that I love and we have real cohesion.
“I composed the first record alone, a bit towards the end of confinement. This one, even though I wrote everything and made my models, I still had this energy from the stage that I took with me every night on tour. I told myself that I would have liked to have a song like this, to have something like that… And I really used that to write. »
Right down to the cover of his new album, Adé has made his very assertive choices.
© (Sooner or later)
You push the sliders on the music, but are you revealing more of yourself?
“I said to myself, if you want to do everything thoroughly, you have to push yourself in writing too. I'm a rather reserved person in reality. There's a part of me that's quite shy. In the first record, I hid a bit.
“So I tried to favor the content rather than the form, not to hide behind, in quotation marks, slightly poetic things or images. »
You talk about your great sensitivity, about what can weaken you too…
“It's the paradox of doing this job where you try to show yourself to as many people as possible so that it works while at the same time, for me, it's a little complicated.
“I have to force myself a little. But it was important to me to address these subjects. I really talk about my body, that I can blush when I'm not comfortable, that I hate making small talk to people I don't know…
“I don’t see myself as a character. Even if we have to be extroverted when we are on stage or in performance but that doesn't mean that we can't be shy and reserved. »
You were talking about how you chose to express yourself in a raw and direct way with people. To reach them better?
“Actually, when I was writing, I was doing it a lot for myself. But I said to myself, at one point: “If it’s going to touch people, I think it will touch them more if it’s really honest.”
“And even for me, these are things that I would be more keen to tell and defend. Afterwards, you never know if it will resonate with the public. That’s the magic of life, we don’t know. »
Before the release of the album you said that you received many negative remarks and comments because you had cut your hair. Does this sadden you or do you say that it only concerns you?
“I really don't understand why it always excites people. It's just hairs on my head!
“I cut my hair because I had wanted to do it for a long time. I was going to finish the tour with the same hairstyle and it was a bit symbolic. Then I said to myself “There you go: an album, a hairstyle. I finish my thing and then I simply change my mind.”
“From there, I got a lot of messages privately or in comments. Of people completely appropriating my appearance, as if I had disobeyed something… It shows how much people project things onto artists. Particularly women obviously. In truth, it makes me laugh because I don't really care and I do what I want. »
The first single “Forts” opens the album. As if it were obvious?
“She has something that I find catches me straight away. And it's a song that is close to my heart. In our society, there is really something that is super-glorified about holding on, being strong.
“You must never let go of the bar and I am the first to put this pressure on myself. I push myself all the time and it's never enough. It's a job that can make you feel a little crazy because you can always do better somewhere.
“But it doesn’t say anything about you to have failures or to have a weakness at one point. This is normal and you shouldn't try to hide it. This song is also to remind me of myself. »
Adé “Inside Out Mvmt” (Soon or Late), released November 15
bio express
Adélaïde Chabannes de Balsac, known as Adé, was born on April 20, 1995 in Paris.
Within the group Therapie Taxi that she formed at 17 with Raphaël Faget-Zaoui, following an announcement on a social network for musicians, success was dazzling with a first title Salop(e) published in 2016 and which has now accumulated now more than 14 million views on YouTube.
After five years of performing on European stages and causing panic on streaming counts, Adé decided to go solo with a first album “And then?” » released in 2022.
She also collaborated with Benjamin Biolay, notably for the song Parc ferme (2021), Nolwenn Leroy for the album La Cavale (2021), and Louane for the song Pleure (2020).
In terms of inspiration for this new album, she explains that her first shocks as a teenager from the years 2000-2010 mixed genres, between country hit clubs, Sheryl Crow or Shania Twain, and raw rock, from the Sex Pistols.
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