We must grant Marc Dupré that he has a sense of the musical catchphrase. Where will the world be (without question mark) is full of larger-than-life choruses, which are obvious. Whether he evokes shaky loves or uncertainty about the future of the world, he constructs his songs as hymns calibrated for radio waves and performances in amphitheatres. And in this regard, his eighth disc achieves its objective.
The other side of the coin is that by molding itself to a pop format, tinged with rock, sometimes with europop pulsations (Hold me tight) or even a very light funky touch (All the love we give), it still offers quite impersonal songs punctuated by easy rhymes. His song is often drowned in loaded and above all perfectly generic arrangements, everything is inflated to the point that the emotion often remains on the surface. Only its positive energy acts as a balm.
And when the machine is silent, for the last song, Only for you, we see another side of the singer. Alone on the guitar, he puts himself in the shoes of a separated parent who, with a heavy heart, remembers the beautiful moments passed. There, in this counting, with a simple and fair text signed Nelson Minville, Marc Dupré reveals all the vulnerability that is necessary. The fall is perfect. One wonders why he is encumbered with so many artifices, when he is able to offer true songs like this one.
Pop
Where will the world be
Marc Dupre
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