November 2021, Juliette Armanet comes out Burn the firea second disc after four years of absence and the dazzling success of the debut album Girlfriend sold over 200,000 copies. The singer-songwriter confides, at this moment, her feeling of being expected at the turn, for this disc of the aftermath. “I have the impression of throwing myself naked into the void, without a netshe says. When you release a first album, you don’t expect anything. We hope.”
A few months later, while she is on a marathon tour to defend this second opus, the singer says she does not regret having “take your time”. She who always has beautiful images to evoke her relationship to music, from composition to interpretation, has become a mother in the meantime and has asserted her style.
She is proud to note, a few months after its release, concerts after concerts that the public has also appropriated this solar, melancholy and energetic disc, nominated three times for the Victoires de la musique 2022. “Everyone told me that we had to hurry up to make this second record (…) We are at a time when we can no longer take our time, people will forget youcontinues the artist. And in truth, I took the time I wanted to do it, I needed it. And in fact, I did well. Because when I go back on stage and when I find my audience, when I feel everything that is happening on stage, with this incredible fervor, this crazy generosity, rooms that are full, such a generous and moving audience. I tell myself that’s it, there is an intimacy, I have a story with my audience and there, I take full advantage of it at the moment.
While she goes to festivals, Juliette Armanet says she still has stage fright before going on stage. “It’s both my Achilles heel and maybe also up there where I get my energy, the stageshe continues. Going on stage, for me, is the most sacred moment, because it’s where you see who the people are. That’s why I love being at festivals because there are artists whose albums I don’t necessarily like. On the other hand, I can be completely picked up on stage by an artist saying to myself ‘Ah, I hadn’t felt like that at all, his music’.”
“The place of the scene is the place of the truth. It is also the place of blunders, it is the place of the living, it is the purest place I find, and it is also a place of abandonment.”
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“In festivals, we forget the promotion, the networks, all the studio work to offer your music fully, to receive the emotion of the public to the full.says Juliette Armanet. There are evenings when it’s completely magical, others a little less and it’s completely part of the gamelet it be waves.”
Juliette Armanet says she fills up evening after evening, in July she does almost one concert a day, her memory box. There are the moments on stage “a bit ashamed” but that’s what makes the beauty of a performance. “We slip, we sing out of tune, we make mistakes, we swallow our hair because it’s windyshe explains. I got stuck the other day in my jacket. It was beautiful, people were laughing. I am a show girl, but not American style. I don’t like when it doesn’t overflow, I just like it when there’s a step aside. You always have to keep some self-mockery and that doesn’t prevent you from being fully into what you sing.”
Juliette Armanet says she sometimes has trouble sleeping after an intense concert. “When I go to bed at night, I think back to all that and I say to myself, but it’s still completely crazy what I just experienced there.she smiles. We played at Fourvière, in Lyon, and it was a deluge, literally rain, buckets of water. People stayed for two and a half hours.”
“Nearly 4,000 people staying with multicolored ponchos to listen to the music I wrote, I think that’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”
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“Recently, we played before PNLremembers the artist. It was completely lunar because the public had really come to see PNL and suddenly, they didn’t know the project at all. It was completely two planets. There it is, as if it were the beginning. And in fact, these are the best times. We have nothing to lose, we have everything to prove and I love myself.”
Until the end of the year, Juliette Armanet continues the concerts, in particular in the Zenith of France. In these large theaters, she hopes to create intimacy and excess.