Former singer of Therapie Taxi, Adé takes a rock turn for her second album (excerpts)

But that was before. Before Adé made her rock revolution and she appeared, two years later, in a more rebellious version of herself, short haircut, leather pants and determined look.

“Inside out Mvmt”, a contraction of “movement” which here is about turning upside down, gives pride of place to saturated guitars, angry percussion and a voice which wanders or thunders in French as in English.

“Naked”

“It’s a second facet of me and I really thought of it like that because an album is a slice of life, stages of reflection, an advancing age,” explains to AFP the 29 year old singer.

Very scheduled in festivals this year, Adé began to make this record in parallel with her concerts, nestled in her tour bus with a guitar, a computer and a sound card as traveling companions.

His idea: “to really return to the energy of rock and electro music too, to what I listened to when I was between 12 and 17 years old”, the Anglo-Saxon groups The Cramps and The Kills that introduced him to his father, the Justice duo of which his sister was a fan and the joy of the first live musical emotions.

The sound palette of the opus therefore oscillates between noise rock in the style of Sonic Youth, hardcore inspirations and electro tones.

Freed from her initial “shell”, the artist also dares to “bare herself” in her lyrics. “But I protect myself by the power of sound, that’s a bit of the concept, to say super intimate things with a lot of power,” she says.

In the writing and composition phase, which she compares to “a real cerebral activity”, the author-musician “tinkers”, “conscientizes” a lot and doubts her work for months. “It makes my head overheat,” she sums up.

A period of maturation is necessary before childbirth occurs. It is then necessary to submit these newly born models.

“I sent them to the label (Tôt ou Tard, Editor's note), I played them to my parents and it was horrible, it made me really bad because I had the impression of lying naked on a table and be in 'here's what do you think?'” mode, confides the singer who defines herself as very shy.

Her artistic evolution is reflected in a cry, in close-up on the cover of her record, while two hands grab her hair: “suffering” like the one she says she experiences while creating or pure exultation? There is, in both cases, “intensity”, she deciphers. “A little before I turned 30, I needed it to come out.”

This “slightly fierce energy” allows her to assert herself more but also to imagine what the next concerts will be like, surrounded by her four musicians.

The scene resembles “a big party”, even if the artist, who will be at Printemps de Bourges in April, admits having to “do violence”. “I have to be able to surpass myself in order to enjoy it. If I listen to myself, I stay in my bed,” she smiles.

Dressed in a shirt bearing the image of American star Silvester Stallone, fists raised Rocky style, Adé nevertheless seems ready to throw himself into the arena again.