It is a landmark record of 2020:
The Age of Aquarius
allows Yelle to reach a new audience, beyond the electro sphere, with an image of a strong and free woman that sticks to the time.
I want a dog
, a tapered piece for the clubs, when they reopen, thus plays on double meanings which only highlight the right to dispose of one's body, without straitjacket or judgment.
"
We have always muddied the waters a little, with humor, raw things, to convey messages in a song that may seem a little light
", brushes for AFP the singer who has built a solid career since fifteen years alongside his companion and sound architect GrandMarnier.
The clips that escort her singles also distill this figure of the heroine, hieratic, in a singular visual universe refined over time.
La Bretonne (who still lives in Saint-Brieuc) now evolves in "
combat outfits
", as she puts it, with an apparent face in a balaclava overcoming a futuristic pageantry.
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“
Since the beginning, there has always been a bit of that, like those moments when, at festivals, we had little time to conquer people, I was a bit in warrior mode
”, she begins by deciphering .
"
And I also remain a girl from a time when you have to go to the front, where it's not so easy to claim your freedom, to talk about sexuality,
" she adds.
She recounts having "
been lucky
", having escaped "
from unpleasant situations
", while the word begins to be released in the world of music in the face of sexual assault and other abuses.
To come back to the wardrobe, it is signed Pierre Alexis Hermet, former designer at Thierry Mugler, who finds here an "
inspiring
"
collaboration
.
"
Julie
(Yelle's real name)
is sensual, daring, never vulgar, with a sort of aristocracy in her face and she understands clothing,
" he told AFP.
It is to him that we also owe the duvet coat of the clip of
Vue d'en face
(with Nicolas Maury, actor of
Ten percent
and director of
Gargoyle Boy
), clothing-accessory which is currently the buzz on the networks. social.
Like the kimonos of
Je t'aime encore
(video signed by fashion documentary filmmaker Loïc Prigent) and
Karate
, a song about stalkers hidden behind their screens.
Digital violence, Yelle knows well with the misogynistic and degrading comments wiped for having caricatured a musician below the belt ("
with your small penis surrounded by red hairs
") in a famous clash song from the 2000s (
I want to see you
).
“
I stopped reading the comments below the videos on Youtube,
” she says.
But the thirty-something has felt well today through other returns that her album (released in the fall at Recreation center / Pias) has fulfilled the expectations of fans and especially "
touched people who were not before or that we had lost on the way
”.
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A relationship with France on alternating current encapsulated in
Je t'aime encore
, a tirade addressed to this country which has not always understood it, even locked in the box of distant faded successes.
Yelle was too long associated in the imagination with Michaël Youn with whom she sang on
Parle à ma main
, or with the ephemeral musical waves tecktonik / fluokids.
While she was overwhelmed by invitations from popular festivals abroad, like Coachella in California.
But the situation has changed.
“The Age of Aquarius
(astrological sequence supposed to be harmonious) is an album a little darker, more melancholy, more bitter than the previous ones
, she recalls.
Accepting your flaws, your doubts, exposing yourself a little, allows you to better accept yourself and reach out to others.
"