They made themselves known by singing Mercy, the story of a migrant child born in the Mediterranean five years ago. The French duo Madame Monsieur, candidate for Eurovision 2018, returns with a third album, entangling our lonelinessin which they mix introspective explorations and social questions with their pop melodies.
“We wanted to be a little more intimate, allow ourselves the possibility of describing feelings that we may have, moods, more personal things,” they confide to BFMTV.com.
almost three years later Tandem, an album of 25 songs in each of which they had invited an artist, Émilie Satt and Jean-Karl Lucas actually deliver a more intimate production: 11 titles produced together, in autarchy. “It’s an album that we both really did, for the first time. In our cocoon, at home, in our studio. There’s a very soft, very comforting side to this record.”
“Two Separate People”
As the title says, entangling our loneliness it also allows them to break away from the entity they form together:
“We have been together for 15 years and we are still two different people with different moods and characters. Sometimes we are connected and sometimes we are alone.”
The result are texts imbued with intimate and varied themes, from the painful end of a toxic love (Eiffel Tower), uproot (To know where I come from) to childhood nostalgia (where dreams go): “We are convinced that it is personally that we manage to touch people and that it becomes universal.”
“We are always creating”
as they did in Mercy, the song that they had defended on the Eurovision 2018 stage, the two artists also reconnect with the committed texts. Regarding the title Student, ballad addressed to an orphan, inspired by the film by Jeanne Herry. EITHER Tanya Newsa piece that evokes one of his Ukrainian fans, who has been witnessing the Russian invasion of his country for more than a year.
“Sometimes we feel an emotion because we have seen a movie, seen the news, talked to a friend, and it is as if this information turned into an overwhelming emotion”, explains Émilie Satt.
“Some are going to make a painting, others a movie… we are going to make a song. Because we’re more or less creating all the time.”
On this album, the duo puts their graceful electropop at the service of lyrics that evoke “human nature in all its rough edges”.
“We try to delve into what makes the dark and bright side of life that we carry within each of us, through the stories we tell.”
Source: BFM TV
