After the success with the group Videoclub, singer Adèle Castillon launches on stage solo at We Love Green 2023

If modern times had their fairy tale, it might look like this. Going from his teenage bedroom and humorous Youtube videos to the We Love Green stage; singing in high school with her boyfriend to global success. This story is that of Adèle Castillon.

At 21, the native of Angers has already lived several lives. It all started when she was only 13 years old. In her teens, like many young people at that time, she published humorous videos on the Youtube platform. With her quirky humour, her overflowing creativity, the young woman seizes the era of time. Very quickly, she made a name for herself, notably for a sketch sung about… pasta. Music, already a way of telling the world.

A first planetary tube

A few years later, when she was still only a high school student, she began to sing, for real this time. With her boyfriend at the time, Matthieu Reynaud, they founded a group, Videoclub. What was supposed to be a teenage pastime suddenly turns into a romantic adventure. The two lovers adapt a friend’s poem, plastic love. The song, in the form of a two-voice declaration of love, with the false retro and melancholy airs of the 80s, became an international hit overnight.

Thanks to the social network Tiktok, the title is famous, streamed nearly 200 million times on Spotify. ” We were very luckyconfides Adèle Castillon, Plastic love crossed several borders. But I didn’t experience this sudden notoriety as a shock.

Thanks to my past as a youtuber, I knew what it was like to be recognized, to talk to strangers, it was less new for me.

Adele Castillon

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With Videoclub, the couple recounts love and the passage of time, outings with friends and the passage from adolescence to adulthood. All tinged with melancholy, as if they were just stowaways of their lives passing before them. “Nostalgia is an emotion that I experience a lot, sometimes too muchconcedes Adele Castillon. With Videoclub, we talked about that a lot. But now I continue to convert my emotions into text and music”.

The start of a solo career

If Adèle Castillon speaks of Videoclub in the past tense, it is because the group no longer exists. As is often the case, a breakup rhymes with separation from the group. It is now solo that the brunette with the piercing gaze continues her career.

A leap into the void that does not scare Adèle Castillon. “It’s more difficult, because I’m the only decision maker. But it’s a luxury to have this independence, to go after my ideas without having to compromise.“. A freedom that pays off, since last summer she released her first solo single, Impala. An immediate hit, the title takes up the codes of Videoclub, but with more pronounced electro-pop accents and a liberated style, as if the singer had suddenly matured.

On April 7, the singer released Dream, a dancing title with dark text. A cathartic song, since it “tells of a breakup, emotional dependence and how destructive a romantic relationship can be”. A single that heralds an album imbued with a duality: that of a young woman injured but moving forward, from moving songs to catchy music.

First album with Surkin on the horizon

From this disc planned for the fall, the singer wants to make a “outlet of recent years“. Created with the composer Surkin, it tells of an imaginary and fantasized nightclub. “It’s quite ironic because I composed it during covidexplains Adele Castillon, I lived my 18 years confined. So I imagined what this imaginary club would look like.“Before the release of the album will come another title, AlabamaJune 16, that Adèle Castillon promises “more solar“.

In the meantime, it is on the stage of the We Love Green festival, Saturday June 3, that the singer will defend her titles. “I’m a little stressed, because it’s the first time I go on stage with songs most of which have never been heard by my audience. But it’s mostly excitement, because I missed the stage a lot!