He released his 10th album, “The human experience”2 years ago. And Plastic Bertrand is still in great shape. This December 3, 2024, the Belgian singer answered questions from Télépro, in the podcast “Censorship“.
And he responded to a rumor that persists around his hit “It’s high for me”. Plastic Bertrand would not be the interpreter but Lou Deprijck, its producer and composer. A legend that the artist once again dismantled this Tuesday.
Plastic Bertrand responds to the rumor
He assured the journalist: “It's bullshit, I've often been caught on this from the start, it's of no interest. I was already making music, I had made an album, I was a drummer. happens in the studio, it's not at all what you might imagine. The reality is that I am an artist, the day before yesterday. It's me who sings on the title. It's me who sings and who also dances.
But then what really happened when the song was released in 1977, on the set of Sunday meeting by Michel Drucker, before becoming a global hit? On Melody TV, Plastic Bertrand explained in 2020: “There was a contract problem at the start of my career, which was resolved since I won two court cases“.
Indeed, in 2006, the Brussels Court of Appeal found that Plastic Bertrand was “the only one, legallyto possess the quality of performing artist of the song“.
A fabricated lie
Plastic Bertrand also assured, still in 2020: “The controversy does not come at all from knowing whether I sing or not, but from knowing whether I said or not just Lou Deprijck sang about It's great for me.”
And to confirm: “Actually, I didn't say it at all. One day, I explained to a journalist that I had sung It's great for me and that Lou Deprijck then produced the single, that he may have done some vocal stuff on it. That’s all I said.”
In fact, assures the star: “That's why the courts ruled in my favor because they did voice analysis and realized that the song wasn't very clear. But I don't know what happened, I wasn't there! He was the producer…“
To close the debate, in the columns of Le Soir, Plastic Bertrand also assured, in 2020: “But I'm the victim. I wanted to sing but he barred me from the studio. I was stuck, I was his shit. He puked on me. I already sued him for defamation in France but I lost because I called him a crook“.
He doesn't shy away from his pleasure
And to conclude: “Me, I want to say that it wasn't my voice, but it must also be said that everything this was put together from scratch by Lou Deprijck after my television appearance at Drucker. He asked me to shut up in exchange for 0.5% of the rights, promising me that he would make a new version with my voice. Which of course he never did.“.
We heard the song in the soundtrack of The Wolf of Wall Street, but also of Casa De Papel. And Plastic Bertrand is very happy with it. At the microphone of France Culture, he congratulated himself in 2020: “It was really the sound of the words that made it explode. All versions are completely different, people feel free about the song. And perhaps that’s where my pleasure comes from singing it differently every evening too. The fact that it is a simple melody allows us incredible freedom“.
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