Glory can be violent.
One morning in 2016, French DJ Kungs, aka Valentin Brunel, became a music star.
Why?
His piece
This Girl
(“this girl” for refractory Gauls) has become what is called a “hit”.
Radio, clubs, advertising…
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In a few days, this young Toulonnais - he was then about 20 years old - conquered the international musical rankings with his three minutes of electronic music shaped in his student room.
In France, of course, but also in England and, statutory triumph, in the United States.
He will even receive a diamond disc, beating the usual flashing muses on the post.
You can't reproduce hits on the chain, it will always be less good.
There is no magic recipe.
You need a piece that touches people
Kungs
But who says great success also says great responsibilities.
How to survive in a world swept away by the yoke of novelty?
How to resist the sirens of ease being so young?
How do you spawn in that crab basket of summer hitmakers?
How to be an established musician, more than a collapsed musician, a star for a day, a “has been”?…
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