During the exciting final segment of Goal Ifone of the six tracks on the mini-album She does not care by Éléonore Lagacé, the melody gets carried away, the singer’s voice rises and closing her eyes, we imagine that confetti is raining down on a delirious crowd at the Bell Center or the Videotron Center in the apotheosis of a great pop concert.
“That’s exactly it, exclaims the 25-year-old artist, when the remark is made to him on the phone. There is not once that I compose a song without imagining myself singing it in a stadium.
She has ambition, Éléonore Lagacé, and she doesn’t hesitate to say it loud and clear. His big dream? Follow in the footsteps of his idol Lady Gaga.
“When I discovered it at 11, I said to myself: that’s it. That’s what inspires me, I identify with that, that’s what I want to do. I like his costumes, the intensity of these songs. I like that she is not embarrassed, that she does what she wants. I want to do this, too. I want an international career. By laying one stone at a time, I believe that nothing is impossible.”
Lifting her ass off the chair
To get there, you had to get started. After her participation in La Voix, in 2014, the daughter of Nathalie Choquette and sister of Florence K never stopped writing songs, but for some reason that she herself does not know, taking the path to the studio was not not an option.
“I didn’t realize it, but the fruit wasn’t ripe,” she says today.
One day, “I finally decided to get my ass off the chair” and she, with the help of several collaborators, spawned six songs in English and French.
Urgency to share
It gives diversified pop. We go from the radio She does not caretitle track and first extract, with the house atmosphere of the “Lady Gagaesque» Sashay Away passing through the subdued pop, way Billie Eilish, ofUnbearable Crush.
During the creative part, everything was authorized, explains the one that everyone nicknames Leo.
“I love all the different directions I’ve taken and there was no way I would change anything to make it all fit. It’s a first draft, an urgency to share.
A full diary
As luck would have it, Éléonore Lagacé, much in demand after her time at Big Brother Celebritiesin 2022, launches her mini-album while she takes part in rehearsals for the musical Hatefrom which she inherited one of the main roles, and one week before the final of Zenithon TV.
As if her days weren’t already busy enough, she is finishing a baccalaureate in pop singing at UQAM. The launch ofShe does not caretomorrow, Thursday, at the Ausgang Plaze, will be his final exam before a jury present in the room.
It’s a lot, but she is able to take it and ensures that she gets her eight hours of sleep a night. “You never know when opportunities are going to present themselves and you have to seize them.”
- She does not careby Éléonore Lagacé, available April 7.