From the first notes of the launch bonus of the star academy 2025, on October 17, the tone was set. At the opening, Sarah, 23, electrified the stage with a masterful version of someone like you by Adèle, leaving the audience speechless.
In an academy that supposedly trained rookies, this introduction caused a sensation and the rest of the best only confirmed the trend. Each performance revealed a level much higher than that of the first seasons, both in terms of technique and stage presence.
“It is one of the strongest castings we have had since the beginning,” director Michael Goldman assured Télé 7 Jours, a few days before the start of the program.
But these impressive performances did not fail to provoke a reaction. For a part of the public, the star academy It has lost that small grain of amateurism that made its charm in its beginnings. And the numbers speak for themselves: of the 17 students in the class of 2025, only two have never taken singing lessons.
Former participants in other telecrochets.
Some Class of 2025 candidates aren’t in completely uncharted territory either. Like Marine, winner of the 2024 season, Théo L., 23, participated in The children of the voice in 2017, on Patrick Fiori’s team, before being eliminated on the verge of the semi-final. We could also see it in 2020 on France 2, in Don’t forget the lyrics.
Another profile appreciated by the public, Anouk, 20, is not his first television encounter either. In 2020, he reached the final of the Belgian version of The children of the voicesupported by her coach Matthew Irons, who already praised her vocal power and artistic maturity.
The profile of Bastiaan, 23, is also intriguing. The French-Dutch, trained in musical theater in London, practices dance at a high level and has already proven his worth as an actor on television.
In particular, he toured in Joséfina, guardian angel and in the youth series Ask broadcast on France TV, where he will soon reprise his role for a spin-off Karma.
A media exposure that is not trivial in a program that aims to reveal new faces.
An online community and already popular singles.
if he star academy continues to receive thousands of spontaneous applications each year, the show’s production is no longer content to wait for applicants. Now he will look elsewhere, especially on social media.
Marguerite, a candidate for the class of 2024, said, for example, that the show’s casting team approached her directly on Instagram. Some students, already followed by several thousand subscribers on the networks, enter the castle of Dammarie-les-Lys with a small community ready to support them.
This is the case of Sarah, 23 years old. Who had the difficult task of opening the launch bonus of the star academy On October 17, he had more than 800,000 subscribers on TikTok – where he shared his covers – before even starting the adventure.
As a Marine last year with my faultsix of the 17 candidates of the class of 2025 also published self-produced singles online before entering the castle, a strategy that allows them to gain visibility from the beginning of the program. Among them, Breathe hard de Jeanne has also risen to the top spot on Top Viral France on Spotify since the release of the star academy.
“Real fans”
Between television experience, self-produced singles and small communities already formed, the young talents who join the star academy Now it starts with an advantage compared to the first seasons of the program.
“At that time we were going to look for ‘the neighbor’ who didn’t sing, but who we were going to teach,” Nikos confessed at the end of October at the microphone of the TF1 morning show. “We overlook this television consciousness, because in any case they know exactly how it works. And meanwhile there was ‘The Voice’. So, in any case, the criterion, the cursor is much higher.”
Asked during the filming of Quotidien about the impressive level of the class of 2025, director Michael Goldman qualified, however, these statements, specifying that all the candidates are “true amateurs.”
“I understand your question, but they are all true fans and that is very important for the program,” he said. It remains to be seen whether this experience will be an advantage or a trap for candidates in a program where everything is about progression and sincerity.
Source: BFM TV
