It is the city of Lille which inaugurates this Saturday, June 3, 2023 the tour of the stadiums of “Nevermore” and the long-awaited return by her fans of Mylène Farmer. Thirteen dates in all whose tickets sold out in just a few hours. Because during his life, the artist who sold 30 million records over four decades of career knew how to keep his incredible mystery, delivering himself very little in the media. A deliberate position that has always stirred the fascination of its public who considers her as an ethereal being, at a time when everyone is appearing on the networks, chasing after notoriety. A strategy that always pays off since his latest album The influence, released last November, had the best start of 2022 with 72,556 sales equivalents in the space of a single week. A record figure at the time of streaming king!
.#MYLÈNE FARMER “L’EMPRISE” The biggest sales start of the year for an artist pic.twitter.com/bajscjgsQq
— Hashtag NP (@HashtagNP) December 2, 2022
A silence, a reserve that the interpreter of mom is wrong observes from its beginnings until today. Out of step with everything TikTok or Instagram, Mylène Farmer has always known how to preserve her private life and move away from TV shows like social networks. Distilling his information drop by drop, even if, in recent years, the star has opened up a little more, in particular thanks to his documentary series Prime Video The Ultimate Creation (2020). While remaining in absolute control!
“I have a little trouble talking about myself”
In 1996, when his fourth album was released Anamorphosedthe singer nevertheless accepts the invitation of Michel Drucker on his show Studio Gabriel. Very talkative, the host wants to know more about this rare artist and overwhelms him with questions. “Do you know your fans?”, he asks him in particular. And the beautiful redhead, in her slender and shy voice, confesses: “I have troubleto answer this question, young people yes, a lot of girls, a lot of boys…”, and, facing the public, launches “I want to thank you” of its small timbre. And when the presenter asks her why we see her so little in the media, she nicely dodges: “It’s an exercise that, above all, is a bit difficult for me. I have a little trouble talking about myself.”, she lets go soberly, her gaze shifting. “The stage fright?” the Michel Drucker revival. But the singer does not want to say more… leaving the conversation suspended. A line of conduct that she will adopt all her life, like a protective distance. And which makes each of his comebacks resonate like a unique and extraordinary event that clashes throughout the French musical landscape.
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