The French pop duo unveils a third album in which they venture into “more personal” territory.
They made themselves known by singing Mercy, the story of a migrant child born in the Mediterranean five years ago. The French duo Madame Monsieur, candidate for Eurovision in 2018, returns with a third album, Entangling our lonelinessin which they mix introspective explorations and societal questions with their pop melodies.
“We wanted to be a little more intimate, to allow ourselves the possibility of describing feelings that we can have, moods, more personal things”, they confide to BFMTV.com.
Almost three years later Tandem, an album of 25 songs on each of which they had invited an artist, Émilie Satt and Jean-Karl Lucas actually deliver a more intimate production: 11 titles produced together, in autarky. “It’s an album that we both really made, for the first time. In our cocoon, at home, in our studio. There is a very soft side, very comforting in this disc.”
“Two separate people”
As the title says, Entangling our loneliness also allows them to detach themselves from the entity they form together:
“We’ve been together for 15 years, and we’re still two distinct people with different moods and characters. At times we’re connected, and sometimes we’re alone.”
The result are texts imbued with intimate and varied themes, from the painful end of a toxic love (Tour Eiffel), uprooting (To know where I come from) to childhood nostalgia (Where do the dreams go): “We are convinced that it is in what is personal that we manage to touch people and that it becomes universal.”
“We are always creating”
As they did in Mercy, the song they had defended on the Eurovision 2018 stage, the two artists also reconnect with the committed texts. As for the title Pupil, ballad addressed to an orphan, inspired by the film by Jeanne Herry. Or News from Taniaa piece that evokes one of their Ukrainian fans, who has been witnessing the Russian invasion of her country for more than a year now.
“Sometimes we feel an emotion because we have seen a film, watched the news, spoken with a friend, and it is as if this information is transformed into an overwhelming emotion”, explains Émilie Satt.
“Some people are going to do a painting, others a film… we’re going to do a song. Because we’re more or less creating all the time.”
In this disc, the duo puts their airy electropop at the service of lyrics that evoke “human nature in all its asperities”.
“We tried to go deeper into what makes the dark and bright side of life that we carry in each of us, through the stories we tell.”
