« A“ll I want is you”… First heard on September 20, 2001, the theme song for Pop stars has since become a cult classic. Just like this show that offered to follow the creation of a musical group from the castings to the first concert, including the recording of an album. And which launched the careers, admittedly very ephemeral, of the pioneers L5, the forgettable Whatfor and the very quickly forgotten Linkup, while revealing solo artists who later made careers, such as M Pokora, Chimène Badi or, to a lesser extent, Sheryfa Luna.
Twenty-three years later, Prime Video is pulling the format out of the television closet where it had been gathering dust since 2007 (with a brief release in 2013 on D8 under the leadership of Alexia Laroche-Joubert) for eight new episodes, the first part of which is available this Thursday, September 12, and the second the following Thursday. With a brand new jury composed of Louane, Eddy de Pretto and rapper Alonzo (ex-member of the collective Psy 4 de la rime).
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