In 2007, The New Star on M6 shines with his new diamond: Julien Doré, a charismatic blonde with a barrette, surprises with his cover of Hi… Lolita, of Alizée. Seventeen years later, the artist comes full circle with Impostoralbum 100 % reprises.
For this sixth studio album, available on November 8, Julien Doré keeps the symbolism – a bar on the cover – but does the splits, from Dalida to Kendji Girac, then from Eddy Mitchell to a nursery rhyme. Some covers are done as a duo, such as with the American actress Sharon Stone.
At 42, the interpreter of We et Coco Cuddlewho became a father far from Paris, spoke about the rest of his career, which he imagines less “at the forefront”.
Is it difficult, with fame, not to fall into a form of imposture?
“On the contrary, I feel more and more free, peaceful. I just want to create things that make me happy, that make me think, that move me, make me smile, are sometimes tinged with a message, a double reading that contains a little wink at the time . »
What would you say to those who would say that you chose covers for lack of inspiration?
“I can understand why people might have asked the question, but there are two things. Doing a cover project is, for me, perhaps a little more legitimate. I stir up a nostalgia which is my media birth, a point of entry into people's eyes.
“Then, I discovered that making an album of covers is so infinite: almost two years of work, care to be taken with the arrangements, with the voice. It's a work not far from being superior in time to my albums of original songs. As for inspiration, it's my job, so obviously I know how to do it. »
You have a 3 year old boy. Has fatherhood changed your relationship to your life as an artist?
“Yes, because it started before I was a dad. When I moved six years ago, to the Cévennes, to a very isolated place. This relationship with normality, the nature that surrounds you, a life which is necessarily everything, except in acceleration, it has changed things. Even if it means taking the TGV to talk about what I do, it has to make sense.
“And it is certain that when the arrival of a child was added to this living environment, I said to myself that it was urgent that in this balance between the artist and the man, this part of man is anchored, conscious, present. »
Does this new situation influence your way of considering the future?
“The place where I live helps me understand what life is and how precious it is. It makes me think about the years to come, about, undoubtedly, another way of approaching music. I don't know when, but it's been on my mind more and more to be less and less present at the front of the stage.
“When you have the chance to accomplish certain dreams, you either say to yourself “I want more and more” or that it’s incredible to have ticked off those dreams, and now you don’t have don't want to repeat them for the wrong reasons. I'm more of those. In the next ten years, my goal is not to build a stadium at all. It's the opposite, it's deceleration. »
Is it also a way of protecting yourself from having too many years or projects?
“I'm still a little smart and lucid, but if I feel that in my son's eyes one day, I'll still blame myself. »
So what would this shift look like?
“I’m probably seeing some new original songs. Another way to experience the tour. I think I'm going to want more and more to work with young artists, to be more in the background. Support them, create albums with them, but also advise them. I rather want to disappear to help them produce their music. »
