Franceinfo Culture makes you relive six outstanding concerts by artists who set fire to the lawn of Vincennes for this new edition of the We Love Green festival.
In the sun, all the lights were green on Saturday at We Love Green. The eco-responsible festival, which takes place until Sunday evening in the Bois de Vincennes, has the ability to attract a varied audience, from young to old, including parents bringing their children to their first festival. We must also count on the myriad of influencers who came to parade – Coachella atmosphere and glitter – or even these celebrities hoping to camouflage themselves in the crowd of festival-goers (we saw Marion Cotillard). We Love Green is consensus. Gossips will even say that it is too consensual. The others he gathers.
Especially since there is something for everyone: rap, electro, rock, skate and BMX shows, big headliners, and above all exciting musical discoveries. After wandering from the meadow to the clearing, Franceinfo offers you a non-exhaustive list of the highlights of this day on Saturday.
Disiz seduces effortlessly into an eternal lover
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In the middle of the afternoon, Disiz always surprises as much. Immaculate oversized outfit, minimalist staging, but a fiery atmosphere under the large tent at La Clairière. Despite the heat, a compact crowd gathered to listen to the rapper of a thousand lives. Returned last year from a small crossing of the desert with a lover’s album, Love, he has since made a triumphant comeback, which appeals to young and old alike. On stage, there is no need for him to make tons of it, the exchanges with the public are limited to shy: “How are you ? Me yes, I’m fine“. His deep voice and hard-hitting lyrics do the rest, punctuated by drums, bass and synth. The 40-year-old goes through all styles: from catchy rap to more pop sounds, from a featuring with Damso ( who was not present) at the start of an a capella song, he knows how to take us on board in his universe. The former Disiz La Peste has gained in wisdom. Rapper, actor and even novelist, his quiet assurance is a consensus on the stage of We Love Green.
Adèle Castillon illuminates under a crushing sun
From the height of her 21 years, Adèle Castillon transforms her first music into summer hits. The sounds are pop, electro, plunge us irremediably into a form of bewitching nostalgia. Known as a teenager on YouTube then in a duet with Vidéoclub (group with global success), she participated in her very first solo festival, without being afraid. She also wears a black hood with a heart-shaped opening.
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And Adele Castillon is not lacking in generosity. She oscillates for an hour between the well-known hits of Videoclub and her new creations, in particular by testing her single Alabama which will be released on June 16. As if to reassure herself in the face of a crowd bubbling at her feet, she doesn’t hesitate to strike up a conversation. She introduces herself first, then through the songs, shares her feelings or episodes of her life. “For me, it was very important to exchange with the publicshe confides to franceinfo when she leaves the stage. It’s something I’ve been experimenting with since I was very young with my videos on YouTube, there was already this closeness when talking to people, answering them in the comments“. On stage, when she recounts the time her ex-companion cheated on her, a festival-goer shouts at her “Honey, we’re here if you need it!“, not without humor. “It’s true that most of the people who are there are people in my age group, explains Adele. I could have parties with them, tell them about my life, listen to theirs. And it’s cool if my music speaks to them, touches them and we can get along together“.
Maureen confirms her explosive style on stage
We didn’t know Maureen, but the festival made it possible to remedy that and that’s one of the strengths of We Love Green to offer exciting new faces. This 24-year-old Martinican is a real revelation. Black bodysuit and sequined scarf, the queen of shatta (derived from dancehall) offers a cheering audience a cocktail of explosive sounds. Pervasive basses, bewitching dancing (going as far as the splits) and lyrics that stick in your head: she transforms a confidential scene where you bump a head by chance into a gigantic open-air club. “For me shatta it means that we have rage, we need to evacuate, to turn it into something happy“, she confided to the media Brut. Her hits have millions of views on the Internet, and the public was waiting for her. However, this was her first major festival. album, she remains an artist to follow. In May, at the first Flames ceremony, she won the Flame of “Caribbean Song of the Year” for his title Laptop in duet with the rapper Kalash. You are not ready.
Little Simz breaks down the rap house with class
We were waiting for the queen of rap, we had better: imperial, Little Simz won the medal for the most formidable rapper of the festival on Saturday in a short hour, sinking in the process one of the heavyweights of the genre, the American Pusha T, less convincing an hour later on the same stage, although he gave his all with his DJ to stir up a sluggish crowd.
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Little Simz is an ultra-volatile English rapper who rhymes at lightning speed with insane precision in both her razor-sharp lyrics and diction. On stage, many discovered her in 2017 opening for Gorillaz on the Humanz Tour. Very young, very fine, the Londoner already impressed by the ferocity with which she spat her rhymes. Since then, Little Simz has grown even more and demonstrates an admirable presence and ease, occupying the stage and capturing everyone’s attention. You can feel her burning with rage, but this tremendously channeled, articulated, controlled fury becomes the engine of an irresistible energy that does not prevent her from showing humor and sensitivity in her lyrics, and on stage, from smiling. all the way. His show, which had the good idea to give pride of place to his penultimate album, the excellent I Might Be Introverted, and summoned guitar and bass on certain titles, managed to captivate even those who did not know her. In about ten pieces, including the finale Woman, her ode to women, she simply bent the game. “Little” Simz is not small, or even tall, she is huge.
Channel Tres renews house music in complete freedom
It would be lying to say that we knew Channel Tres before Saturday June 3, 2023. We had barely heard his name rustling around Disclosure and Moodymann. At We Love Green, under the glass roof of LalaLand, the space dedicated to electronic music which was full all weekend like never before, the crush was immediate. Because the house music mixed with soul and disco of this American, led by his lascivious rap-singing on the microphone, with Barry White accents, is an ideal mix to wiggle and let go with pleasure. On stage, in a red skirt and black tank top, flanked by two supple dancers with very voguing arm movements, her queer sensuality made everyone agree, arms in the air and heart with hands. Like few of his generation, the 30-year-old native of Compton, a harsh district of Los Angeles where many American rap stars hatched, including Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar, understood that rap and house were made for each other. And that house was not white music, but a genre invented by African Americans in Chicago 40 years ago. A genre which Beyoncé and Drake infused their respective albums last year, and which Channel Tres had seized before them in complete freedom. His two albums – I Can’t Go Outside (2020) and Refresh (2022) – are already heating up on the platinum, and for a long time.
Gazo unleashes the crowd for the acme of the evening
While the big headliner Phoenix is finishing an effective concert on the biggest stage with polished scenography, but which is hard to get into, the most impatient festival-goers are starting to gather at the other end of the site for Gazo. The audience is young and covered in dust from shoe to nostril, but it would take a lot more to stop it.
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As soon as he entered the stage under the clamor, Gazo immediately put the “fire”, calling the festival-goers “his family”. If he sometimes forgets his text (as during the Flames ceremony where he won two prizes), and the public seems to know the words much better than him, the atmosphere remains nonetheless fervent. Even more than the rapper Pusha T, he is obsessed with pogos: he regularly asks for them from his audience, who obeys his finger and eye, transforming the marquee of La Clairière into a giant popcorn stove. We can regret that the artist with many featuring did not bring guests on stage. But he knew how to satisfy the crowd by sharing his latest sound THE STREETfeaturing Damso or his old title DRILLFR4 with Freeze Corleone which made the public hysterical, acme of this concert which will remain in the annals.