It’s a more pop, more rascal Nolwenn Leroy who unveils her new album, The mare, November 12, 2021. In her eighth studio opus, the sublime Bretonne has chosen to entrust most of her texts to other trusted artists, including Benjamin Biolay, who makes her sing about love, in her sauce, for her darling Arnaud Clément. An artistic process that allowed him “to approach certain subjects, to indulge oneself, to convey certain emotions with texts in a different way, to talk about oneself, to let go. “. “It opens certain doors, it breaks certain locks in me. With the words of others, it is sometimes simpler and with Benjamin’s words even more!“, she confides to Purepeople.
I’m ready for this today, I feel good in my sneakers at the age I can be.
Besides the crazy joy of Far, which opens the album, or the refreshing energy of Brazil, Finistère, the first title unveiled last August, Nolwenn Leroy lets go by whispering his I like you. An ode to love, to seduction, in which she evokes “the chills in the night “, “lollipops“, among other carnal pleasures.”I haven’t sung a lot of love songs in such a direct way, admits the former champion of the star Academy. I love this song, this slightly sexy side. I’m ready for this today, I feel good in my sneakers at the age I can be. It was the moment. I don’t think I asked myself a question. “
I make my family listen to everything I do
It is a way, for her, to declare her love for Arnaud Clément. In a relationship with the tennis player since January 2008, mother of a little Sailor since July 12, 2017, Nolwenn Leroy has found the strength to tell them a “I like you“, in song, to both, especially in My beautiful privateer. It was therefore obvious that the two men in his life would discover all these new titles in preview. “Of course I played them, to all my loves, for that matter. Whether it’s my companion, my son … I make my family listen to everything I do, she specifies. It’s an important album, and it’s true that it’s my first audience.“His darling, his child … so here is the workhorse of the interpreter of The mare…
Interview by Yohann Turi. Any reproduction prohibited without the mention of Purepeople.com.