Rare confidences. With It’s never too lateThomas Dutronc returns with a more intimate album, in which he notably discusses his new partner.It was a wonderful interlude. But I had been thinking about this new album for a long time, because my third album had not done as well. I was less into it, I was experiencing romantic complications.“, detailed the son of Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc, in the new issue of Paris Match, on newsstands this Thursday, September 12. A love life that he evokes in this new opus, whether by declaring his love for his discreet companion or by returning to his breakups.When I was younger, I had some pretty strong romantic experiences, and I sometimes lost some feathers over them.” admits the 51-year-old artist.
And the person concerned continued: “Let’s say that, like my motherwhen I fell in love, I was convinced that it could only work. And when it failed, I was shocked. It is so rare and precious to be in love…“, he observes to our colleagues. This is undoubtedly also the reason why this theme inspired him for his new album: “It felt good to write about all this.“Anticipating the question of exposing his private life, Thomas Dutronc explains that he “does everything not to be a ‘people’” : “I have always avoided telling my life story. My personal stories are not important, unless I can make beautiful songs out of them.“, he believes. To live happily, let’s live hidden…
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“I’m dying”: Francoise Hardy, this last SMS that she sent to her son Thomas Dutronc
Life goes on for Thomas Dutronc. Three months after the death of his mother Françoise Hardy, the singer returns to the forefront with a new album entitled It’s never too late. A record that his mother, unfortunately, did not have time to listen to: “It wasn’t finished yet. Otherwise, she would get too anxious and make me anxious. I almost came to sing to her with my guitar and I didn’t… She had hearing problems lately. I especially wanted to finish a beautiful record for her. I know she would have liked some songs, others less or that she would have liked later“, explained Jacques Dutronc’s son to the Parisian, before adding: “Her judgments could be a bit harsh. For example, she didn’t like at all Tomorrowthe single from my second album. She kept complaining. When we played it with my dad on stage, she liked the new arrangements.”
Although he always continued to communicate with his mother in the shadows, Thomas Dutronc also experienced complicated moments, as he told our colleagues: “There were other hard times when I was in concert. One evening in Châtellerault, after a concert, she sent me his last text around 1 a.m., three weeks before his death : ‘I love you more than anything.’ I answered him: ‘Me too, my dear mother’ and I sent her pictures of me as a baby with her. Then I got another message : ‘I’m dying’. I was panicked at the thought of not seeing him again, that she would die in the night“, he recalled.Afterwards, she got her mojo back and I had time to say goodbye to him properly. I told her several times that she didn’t have to worry about me, that I loved her..”
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