Refused by Alizée, this song became a hit thanks to another French artist!

This is the story of a collaboration, rather improbable on paper, which almost took place: the one which would have brought together the rapper Booba and pop singer Alizée. Indeed, the Duke of Boulogne, who has just announced on the social network A proposal that the former finalist of “Dancing with the Stars” had refused… obviously wrongly, since the song subsequently had a new destiny, and aroused great enthusiasm on streaming platforms!

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“We changed the whole instrumental”

Back in 2019. Invited on France Inter on Augustin Trapenard's show “Boomerang” to talk about his newly released single “Arc-en-ciel”, the rapper dropped a bomb. “ Basically he's not for me. It’s a title that I wrote 10 years ago for Alizée, Mylène Farmer’s little protégé. » revealed the famous rapper, to the greatest surprise of the host. The song was composed when the singer of “Moi, Lolita” separated from her companion at the time. In this difficult personal context, she did not wish to interpret sentences like “ Baby, I bring you a memory of infinity » or « Time is running out / Let's not break our hearts “. The Duke of Boulogne therefore recovered the text, modernized the sound and released it, in his own style, in May 2019 between the publication of his albums “Trône” and “Ultra”. “ We were at a writing camp in Miami, with our artists. And I don't know why, we listened to the piece again, which was really rotten I think, after ten years, especially the instrumental… I updated it. (…) We changed the whole instrumental, the text was the same » explained B2O on France Inter.

While Booba has just been certified platinum with his latest album “Ad vitam aeternam” (2024), the title “Arc-en-ciel” is one of his most popular tracks on streaming platforms. Entering 9th position in the Top Singles upon its release, it was certified diamond single for more than 50 million equivalent sales recorded in France in 2022. A figure that makes you dizzy… but it is not the only one title of Booba to accumulate millions of listens. On Spotify, “Dolce Camara” has generated more than 68 million streams. Colossal! However, the artist owes his biggest scores to the singles “Valillée” and “92i veyron”, both taken from the album “Nero nemesis” (2015): the two titles have to date exceed 90 million streams on Spotify. Who says better?