It is 5 p.m. this Tuesday, December 29.
Under the gray and rainy sky of Paris, colored lasers furtively dress the structure of the Louvre Pyramid while a mysterious electronic sound escapes intermittently from speakers placed on the forecourt.
Intriguing, of course.
In front of the monument, we twist our necks to try to see what is being prepared behind the glass building ... In vain.
These are the preparations for the charity concert that DJ David Guetta announced a few days ago on social networks, his United At Home, the third he gives this year after Miami, then New York, in the face of the epidemic of Covid-19.
Recorded just after the curfew, this concert intended to collect donations will be broadcast on December 31 at midnight on most social networks, and at 1:20 am on TF 1.
The idea of this evening is to make your festive contribution to confined New Years?
DAVID GUETTA.
I started United At Home in the United States, Miami and New York, and it was a great success.
The idea was to help people, those suffering from the Covid crisis, by calling for donations for associations.
I was a little frustrated as a Frenchman not being able to do it in my city, being able to play at the Louvre is extraordinary!
But, yes, the idea is also to have a good time.
How was that decided?
A bit at the last minute, a bit by chance too.
A former person from my record company now works at the Louvre, we wanted to play here, we just asked him to talk about it here.
And the Louvre team liked the project.
The idea is to sublimate each other, I find it exciting to bring my universe and a show in which we also show the works, and for me, I find it hypervaluing to be here, this site is completely magical .
The organization of the event was kept secret until the day before its broadcast, do you like to surprise?
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Yes I love that.
I think that's why I'm still here after 20 years, because I'm also already trying to have fun myself.
Preparing surprises is fun.
Yeah.
Especially when the project is so magnificent.
Because it's charitable ...
Yes, in the United States we were able to collect 1.5 million dollars
(1.2 million euros)
.
Hope I can collect as much as the first few times, that would be great.
People can donate by going to my site, davidguetta.com/donate.
Unicef, the Louvre and the Restos du cœur this time ...
Yes.
The last time we helped the Hospitals of Paris and Feeding America, the Restaurants, which do a great job, it's a bit of the equivalent.
How would you like to participate in the Enfoirés?
Why not, I would have to see specifically, but they do an admirable job.
“People have always been there for me, that's when I have to be there for them,” says David Guetta, who has already given two charity shows this year.LP / Arnaud Journois
Do you already know what you are going to play?
Even if there is a small part of improvisation, as always, it is very produced.
My principle, for all my DJ sets, is really to provide completely exclusive content, there, I made a new song yesterday to play it here.
Whatever you hear you can't listen to on the radio, there are new songs, but also classics in versions exclusive to my show.
I think that's one of the keys to my success, I try to be generous with people and not just play my songs that everyone knows.
In 2020, you have put on shows ...
Barely five against 120 to 150 per year… I took the opportunity to make a lot of music.
And every time I did a show, I played a lot of new songs.
And even though there weren't any festivals, I kept releasing music for the fans.
People have always been there for me, that's when I have to be there for them.
That's why, too, I did these United shows, because people need to get away more than ever.
It is also to make people happy.
After the first one in Miami, I received thousands of messages of thanks for this little moment when they had forgotten everything.
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When you leave her, what will you take away from 2020?
I always try to see the positive side… Obviously, it is difficult for a lot of people, but first of all I find remarkable the efforts of governments to support the economy while putting health first.
And I find people to be relatively responsible.
I was rather impressed by human beings this year, by their adaptability.
I don't see people completely depressed, but hey, it just has to end there.
That's just what worries me: I really hope that by this summer it will be okay, because otherwise it will start to become unbearable.
Thinking of playing in 2021?
There are lots of contracts in quotes.
From next summer, everything that is before summer, I can't even believe it, and the question is: will we be allowed to do shows this summer?
We still have a vaccine that is available, not yet to everyone, but it is coming.
Will you be vaccinated?
Ah yes.
I'm going to get vaccinated.
Even though governments cannot force people to get vaccinated, but I, who spend a lot of time in Ibiza where I am very involved, wouldn't shock me if someone said: OK, do you want to come to Ibiza?
But you have to be vaccinated.
What can we wish you for 2021?
I just want to be able to work again.
To be on stage again, but with people.
The energy goes both ways.
I give but also get a lot.
And I miss it.