When Vianney and Ed Sheeran meet in 2021, the complicity is obvious: “
With Ed we talked a lot in the weeks that followed our meeting.
I was becoming a dad, he was recently.
And then our common idols;
Damien Rice
,
Bon Iver
, football.
And the guitar of course.
Within a week, we are exactly the same age.
All of this made us face a kind of evidence: we were going to write together.
He wanted to sing in French;
I was not against English
, ”recounts Vianney in a press release.
A song in French and in English
The song
Call On Me,
recorded in the basement of Ed Sheeran's London home
,
is the fruit of this common will
.
French, English, the two interpreters try their hand at both languages to evoke the loss of a loved one: “
Ed had just lost his best friend, and I had started a text in which I imagined myself bereaved of mine.
We talked about that;
the power of certain friendships, without which it would be painful for us to move forward,”
says Vianney.