There’s nothing more iconic than the title nonsenseof Sabine Paturel. This song, with false innocent airs, remained for 36 weeks in the Top 50, in 1986, the year of its release. And here she is back in 2022, trending on TikTok, a social network on which more than 36,000 videos have been shot with this nice background sound. Yet success was no picnic for the singer, so young at the time – she was only 21 when she became a national phenomenon.
I stayed locked up at home
Guest on the show It starts today, on Tuesday March 15, 2022 on France 2, Sabine Paturel agreed to come back to this complicated period, which probably happened too quickly and too soon. “JI discovered notoriety overnightshe recalls. At first it was rewarding and then afterwards I was not very well. I could no longer go out and buy a baguette. People were lovely but they still jumped on me. I stayed locked up at home. I didn’t blossom, for several reasons, because I didn’t get along with the production anymore and it ruined my life.”
Singer and actress, Sabine Paturel has gradually abandoned the song. Locked in this unique tube that is Nonsense, the artist stopped singing for 15 years to devote himself to his other passion. “I couldn’t listen to music anymore, I was so unhappy”, she regrets. Glory, moreover, had almost never knocked at his door… since no one was convinced by his “small childish voice” and his “peter pan collar“.”I didn’t pretend anything. I didn’t look for a lookshe recalls. I fell in love with the text. I didn’t even have the music that I thought was great! And when we got the melody, we got kicked out of all the record labels. I was not fashionable at all, it was Jeanne Mas and Jakie Quartz, who were very punk. I was not found in the shot. I was told: ‘it will never work’...“