“
I love you, as much as I can.
I love you, and I'm doing my best
”.
The chorus of the song “
Mais je t'aime
” by Grand corps Malade and Camille Lellouche has been listened to more than 30 million times on YouTube since its release on June 19, 2020. Music bursting with emotion and love that represents the first single from the slammer's album, "Mesdames", released on September 11th.
An album composed entirely of duets with women, like a declaration of love against a background of pop-electro.
In the sober clip of the surprise hit this summer 2020, Camille Lellouche, better known for her humor than for her music, sings, her voice scratched and her throat tight before crying.
At the
Parisian
, she ensures Saturday, September 12: “
When I cry, it's real.
»She says that this waltz that she composed three years ago on the piano has a story.
“
I wrote the lyrics after two months of dating one person.
But I never managed to finish the song.
“Until Grand corps sick (Fabien Marsaud), transported by the melody, finishes writing the text.
Throughout the clip, the emotion rises crescendo between the two singers and, shortly before the end, it overwhelms the comedian and musician.
“
The day before the clip, the person I wrote the song for picked up their things from my house.
My emotion is not feigned.
Fabien's neither, because he knew this person.
Every time we sing it, something really strong happens between us.
(...) Like two actors who love each other for the duration of a film scene.
"
"
We never imagined that a waltz would pass over and over on young radios (...) But we knew it had something
", indicates Grand corps ill.
Since her duet with the slammer, Camille Lellouche - who had participated in The Voice 2015 - now believes she has "
credibility as a singer ... And not as a comedian who sings
".
She is now preparing her first album.