Sanseverino… If his name sounds like in the south of Italy, it is also a titi, a real Parisian from the 10th arrondissement and in his song “The Queen of the Device”, we feel the experience, the motorized rides, studded jacket wears Saint Cloud, or flower with teeth wears Lilas.
It is in the album “Les faux talbins” in 2009 that Stéphane Sanseverino composes and writes this urban and circular ballad “La Reine du Périphérique”, a prostitute in the headlight calls waiting for the male clientele in bitter cold against a backdrop of cars, coaches, motorbikes, the daily life of the ring road around Paris.
The device girl is neither erotic nor fantasized, this is a stolen sepia photo at the wheel of a car that accelerates like the riffs of guitars dear to Sanseverino. Sanseverino is a guitarist who touches his ball, who by dint of wandering around Paris has shaped a very particular style between gypsy jazz, bastringue rock and always close to his audience.
As for the heroine of Sanseverino’s song, tired of having fussed too much, she flees in the early gray morning, returns home by metro, incognito, and in her dreams, the queen of the ring road becomes a princess.