Broadcast in preview Monday April 27 at around 11 p.m. in Patricia Loison's news on France Info, the video immediately attracted attention. We discover Jean-Paul Gaultier there but also strangers come back from their home where they are confined, the famous tube of the 1980s, It is the cotton wool of Caroline Loeb. The set is funny, amazing and particularly nice.
Thursday March 12, after a performance of his last show Chiche! At the Archipelago in Paris, the artistic life of Caroline Loeb, 64, stopped a bit short with the closure of the performance halls imposed by the epidemic of the coronavirus. Since then, confined to her home in Paris, she is someone who is so energetic and always teeming with projects, biting her brakes. And admits to waiting impatiently for a slight deconfinement to go by car to the countryside.
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" On April 8, I had a flash, " she says. I realized that C'est la ouate was really a containment song. It's cocooning, we're under the duvet. On her Facebook account, she asks her friends and all the strangers who wish to film themselves at home, singing C'est la Ouate . The result exceeds all expectations. “ I received over 120 videos from all over the world from China, from Morocco to Argentina, it was great, people really played the game. What is moving is to see people doing professions that have nothing to do with mine that have had so much fun and with so much creativity, like the cook Fabrice Bonnot, the journalist Laurent Petitguillaume, the iconic DJ of the Palace and Bains Douches Guy Cuevas .... "
From the clip which lasts almost five minutes, we notably remember this woman in a bathrobe, her hair rolled up in a towel singing on her balcony. “ It is my old friend Nausicaa who sings every evening on her balcony for the avenue Ledru Rollin in the east of Paris, explains Caroline Loeb. It balances sound around 8:03 pm just after the applause and its audience at the windows or on the sidewalk continues to grow. It's awesome. "
A phone call to his friend Jean-Paul Gaultier history of having a world famous personality in the loop and it was gone. The young Russian director Dmitry Zhitkov with whom she has already worked edited the clip from Miami where he confined himself. Monday, April 27 in the morning, she sent the video to a journalist friend who works with Laurent Delahousse at France Télévisions. At the end of the afternoon, Patricia Loison called her back saying: " It's great, I'm taking it for the news this evening. Since then, the song composed by Philippe Chany and co-written by Pierre Grillet and Caroline Loeb has come back in tune with the times. A little additional income from copyright at Sacem welcome to these times of confinement when artists find it difficult to work.