The title announces an album and a new tour by the 80-year-old singer which he announces as the last.
Michel Polnareff likes nothing more than surprises. The last one reached us in the 1 p.m. television news on TF1 on Monday. The singer, speaking on duplex from his residence in Palm Springs (California), spoke about the throes of creation before giving way to the 3 minutes of his new single. Titled Sexcetera, the song announces an album of the same title scheduled for release on February 28.
Sexcetera, for which he composed the music and wrote the lyrics, which is rare, is a song very much in tune with the times, which addresses the question of gender and sexual identity. A tailor-made subject from the interpreter of I am a man, singer of virtual love with Goodbye Marilou (1989) and patented provocateur, who called his autobiography Sperm. The song is pop and bouncy, even if this gifted composer had accustomed us to more powerful melodies. « She told me I'm an almost he and my boyfriend is an almost her », he sings on a very contemporary production.
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The octogenarian has indeed worked with very fashionable young collaborators: the British Tom Archer, known for his work with Sam Smith, The Editors and Goldfrapp, and his compatriot Ross Fortune, (Ed Sheeran, Julian Perretta, A$AP Rocky). It remains to be seen whether the rest of the album will be in this tone or will return to the breadth of the most beautiful pieces from a repertoire begun in 1966. Six years later Finally, which put an end to nearly thirty years of discographic silence, Sexcetera Will it promise Polnareff fans the moon or will it just be an excuse to get back on the road?
Because “The Admiral” took advantage of his appearance on TV to unveil the dates of what he presents as his final tour, just two years after his last tour. After a London date on April 3, the French journey will begin with the Printemps de Bourges on April 15 and end on June 28 in Lille. Between these two stages, around fifteen dates, including one in Paris, at the Accor Arena, on June 14.
