“We tell women who suffer in silence”: Suzane returns with “Millenium”, a third intimate and rebellious album

The meeting is given in Paris, in a dance center. Just after an essay, Suzane arrives, just changes, just eating time: triangle sandwich, half started in her hand. “Don’t worry, I’m used to it.” So we started the meeting in a wooden bank, very close to a cafeteria, where their comrades have lunch.

All dressed in black sweatshirt, hood, shorts and sneakers, the 34 -year -old artist has been his short square, his blonde wick, his smile on the edge of the eyes. Solar in the gray from the outside. “We are familiar among us, it is simpler.” There is a fun energy in itszane. A heat that contrasts with your clothes of the day. In his posada voice, a certain emergency. In your reflective comments, a fast flow. This desire not to remain in place. Suzane hastened, at full speed.

Your third album Millennium Released this Friday, September 26 is in your image. Incandescent, with a passion mixed with joy, an anger dyed of hope, anxious and irrepressible choreography. After exploring pop in Cameo (2022), she returns to her first love, between the French variety and the French touch, a social fresco on the electro sounds. And touches the heart.

“I wanted to find an immersive Suzane, to return to the little waitress who gives the right to give her opinion on the world. A portrait painter who draws her drawings, but who imposes her interpretation to anyone.”

For Toï toï (2020) – “Album with naive writing” – Suzane resumes her short square and her combi. ” His hairy electro, irresistible for the body, legs, that tremble on the album. His blows suddenly. More intimate, even.

The agitation of you accuse

Millennium Talk to the first quarter of a millennium, among others, millennials from the point of view of a millennium. “When we grow in the 1990s, we say that the 2000s will be incredible, that there will be flying cars, she laughs. But, when we grow up, we realize that society is also darkening. I try to say a moment, like a marker, with, I hope, a little hope.”

A story of real stories in the context of Electro, Suzane returns to her themes, portrayed the company “From its retina.” The defects of the ultra and the Humanoids. The route of a young man who is thirst for meaning in Walking or dreaming, you lost EITHER A meaning for everything. A little love too, far from heteronormed standards, in In broad daylight.

Suzane speaks of women, especially. “MillenniumIt is also a wink to the films (inspired by the Stieg Larsson saga), in which the protagonist becomes justice itself, “she says, in her deep voice.

Your simple I accuse you It is the perfect example. Released last April, it becomes an explosion. The 34 -year -old singer denounces the sexual violence that persists in society and opens with rape that suffered ten years before.

“My brain needed to digest, get out of shame, guilt. This violence has been maintained for a long time. We teach women a lot to suffer in silence, so we put aside what happens. And at that time, I had no writing, this tool, to talk about it.”

After healing, which always leaves marks, comes for anger. Faced with the explosion in the number of cases of sexual and sexual violence, before the word that is released with no one to listen to it, Suzane is stirred. In his text, the artist points out the silence of the institutions, the silence of the victims. The failures of justice. And remember, during the interview, that 94% of rape complaints are classified without follow -up.

Through his “I”, Suzane touches the universal, many experiences shared by women, children, men. For her, for her, use this word alone: ​​”We listen to the attackers defending themselves a lot, but not enough as the victims.” For her clip, led by actress and director Andréa Bescond (The tickle), committed against sexual violence, appeals to testimonies, a way of humanizing the stories of sexual violence. And open a dedicated mailbox. The testimonies are raining, and this “wave of tides” surpasses it.

“I never know if I should rejoice or be sad, that this song speaks with so many people. I receive testimonies every day of children, women, older people, who darkened what happened to them, she explains. The agitation I felt when I wrote it, when I took it out, when I made it made, it makes sense, I hope that the song no longer has this.”

The video reveals unknown faces, and other media: among others, actress Charlotte Arnould, who accuses Gérard Depardieu de Rape, Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, Muriel Robin, Catherine Ringer, Lyes Loufok.

“On the set, when everyone has entered, with their modesty, their loneliness, everyone knew what the other could feel. That day, we only formed one entity, we only had a message. He rarely had times when he felt a connection between the people who do not know each other. He had never felt that before.”

Small jobs

Suzane has a movement. And not only because he has chained 450 concert dates from Toï to. “From little, I listen to music, dance, even in a supermarket,” she says. Over the years, this energy becomes a stomach wrath, a desire for revenge. Avignon’s adolescence was not very easy.

Perfect girl, model student, Oceane Colom, her real name, Dance of Dance, is part of the conservatory. Before losing, little by little, desire, limited by the look placed on her, by the standards that attract her wife, Ballerina. “I had to go weigh every Wednesday,” he recalls. An obsession with the weight of the one who speaks in Not beautiful, A title of your first album.

But, more and more, the authority interferes, insidious, in the adolescent’s life. And becomes increasingly intolerable. “I lose a friend of an aneurysm break in the middle of a dance lesson. The teacher tells me that I do not deserve to go to the burial, because I do not work enough. In high school, the CPE told me, a few days later, that being an artist is not a job. And I stop everything to a Whim.”

The girl no longer works in class, she leaves in a nightclub, discovers lesbian love at the same time as the French touch in the Private. Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius, Miss Kittin are added to the soundtrack of their realistic childhood songs heard by their grandmother such as Brel, Barbara and Brazsens to the stars of Caressing machine Like Mylène Farmer, through Diam’s on Skyrock. Suzane is at the crossroads of her inspirations.

At the end of adolescence, she continues the small works (Club Med, supermarket, bakery, restaurants, from which they fire her by insolence. After a stop in Montpellier, she leaves in Paris, finds a job of waitress, observes passers -by, she already instructs life scenes in her head. He begins to deal with a small keyboard and tells these characters that he knows.

The instinct, in the guts, does not leave it, regardless of the way we try to take. Regardless of mockery. The reproaches were made, in their qualification, dated, in the voice of Piaf. She becomes her stage, her grandmother’s name with one n less.

Movement of an anxious generation, of those who do not speak, return to this route incorporated into Walk or dreams, And it is for youth: “It doesn’t matter who will talk to him, a CPE, a girl in the local mission or Pôle Emploi, the person who will tell him ‘is done for that and not for that’, when you know internally where you want to go, listen to yourself.”

Suzane follows her intuition, yet. He has just released his own seal related to Wagram music. Projects For “Secret Project or Project Suzane”. “It allowed me to dominate better, affirm me when I did not agree, put a little more about me on the album at the end,” he explains. Ultimately, he also sees it as “a way of accompanying young artists in a very masculine environment.” “But it is clear that it won’t happen immediately,” he smiles. I still have to defend my career. It is just an idea that I have in mind. “

Ideas, precisely, Suzane has a thousand. The one who reads virginie, Boris Vian or recently Nathacha Appanah, evokes his relationship with writing, increasingly changing. “I would like to write a book one day, but I’m not sure,” he thinks out loud. His thinking as his gestures, always in motion. Before reading your words, we have to listen to them.