They are five on stage, determined to explain the recipe to make a hit. And everything becomes crystal clear! There is the melody, the harmony, the text and the arrangements. So many ingredients that one day, barely heard, a song sticks to your head and ends up entering the collective unconscious.
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On stage, Yan, Isabelle, Marjolaine, Antoine and Benjamin decipher with a lot of humor these tunes which every summer, are played in a loop on all the radios and have become hits. In turn, they analyze each of the elements of these three-minute pieces, which have sometimes toured the planet.
Well wedged in his chair, we then delight in this peeling, and all the better since these actors are all excellent musicians or singers, and they put their explanations by example. Belle-Île-en-Mer , Come see the musicians , Take a child by the hand , All the boys and girls of my age ... From Françoise Hardy to Julien Clerc via Aznavour or Voulzy, French song is full of hits. A word that would have been invented by Boris Vian to qualify songs as hollow… as hits.
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We therefore listen to them gladly here, very well sung but above all commented like a tutorial on the Net. It's funny and exhilarating. And at the end of the shows, the great team decides to compose a new hit with the audience. Text, melody, rhythm everything is invented on the spot in a great conviviality. We are leaving the entertainment industry for a more Club Med genre. A show for everyone.
La Reine Blanche in Paris until August 9.
