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Clara Luciani, My blood (Universal)
What is an “unstoppable” song? A song that leaves no choice, that enters us and changes us like radioactivity; the popular machine at its pinnacle of craftsmanship and efficiency, the popular music artifact in its most realized form. A form of violence, we thought in another era, when alternative genres made it possible to escape and find communities of refractors, like yourself, elsewhere, to this power of song which achieves everything. Today that the industry is rocking, it is what all artists dream of and we alongside them, nostalgic for a time when song allowed harmony, the little moment of happiness in the living room as much as in the supermarket. Clara Luciani has fascinated us since Sainte-Victoire for this almost anachronistic way of searching, and finding what makes a song infallible, but above all of gathering its food absolutely wherever it pleases to do so, from the triumphant mainstream to the scribbled alternative. She said it to Libé at the time of Heart : “I had an adolescence shared between PJ Harvey, the Buzzcocks, and on the other side Véronique Sanson and
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