For his 12e album, which was released four years later Disobedience, the cult Mylène Farmer has teamed up with big names in electro music: her compatriots Woodkid and AaRON, as well as the English group Archive and none other than Moby. The 12 songs are on the theme of the grip of love, from the euphoria of the beginnings to the disillusion, until the powerful feeling of rebirth which springs when one manages to free oneself from it.
“Feeling of being alone in the world […] I’m no longer afraid / Only a retching remains […] Requiem to start all over again”, sings Mylène Farmer on the extract For ever.
“We must never forget ourselves”, she pleads in the spoken introduction of Do You Know Who I Am, a song that recounts the hard observation of having too much faded away in favor of the other. Musically, it’s one of the richest tracks on the album, and the sequence with the song Rekindle the stars flies. It is on new-wave basses that Mylène Farmer frees herself from her wounds on a music signed Moby and a galvanizing feminine vocal sampling. The room green raysung with Simon Buret of the duo AaRON, is also of very high synth-pop caliber, which compensates for the album’s few pop-symphonic ballads which lack melodic tone (Invisible, How beautiful is the dawn).
At 61, the interpreter of Disenchanted has an icon aura that further adds to its charm magnetic, his celestial voice and his speech in tune with his time. By wishing women “no more harm” and “deliverance”, Mylène Farmer subtly fits into the post #metoo era.
To use the title of another excellent song from his new album written with Moby, we wish such a bottle in the sea that Mylène Farmer finally comes to perform in Montreal (where she was born, it should be remembered), especially since a major stadium tour is planned for June in Europe.
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