During an interview, Coeur de pirate returned to a special song from her discography. The opportunity to clarify marital rape.
The show A Sunday in the countryside of this October 6, 2024 was rich in confidences. As usual, Frédéric Lopez collected the comments of these weekend guests with attentiveness and kindness. Actor Clovis Cornillac looked back on his relationship with his mother, a famous actress that we all know and who had him when he was only 18 years old. Michel Leeb spoke of his father, who disappeared overnight and whom he found 35 years later in unusual circumstances.
As for the singer Coeur de pirate, whose real name is Béatrice Mireille Martin, she spoke about several difficult subjects, starting with the school harassment she suffered during his childhood, from the age of 5. The other children made her sit by the trash can on the bus: “I was not allowed to sit on the benches. It’s horrible”. From primary school, she does not remember “no happy moments”. The mockery was such that she chose the college as far away from her neighborhood as possible to avoid meeting her “executioners” again.
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Coeur de pirate: his secrets about school bullying
Bullying at school had consequences on the personality of Coeur de pirate: “I was very withdrawn, I didn’t want to show who I really was”. At 14, she decided to stop attending the Conservatory, which did her a lot of good, despite the difficulty of announcing it to her parents. Then at 17, her boyfriend broke up with her and told her that she would never do anything with her life. His reaction is astonishing: “I am someone who really likes revenge, I am very resentful”. She writes a song immediately and publishes it on My Spaceon the advice of his sister, to thumb his nose at his ex, already on the site as Songs for sailers, “songs for sailors”. His nickname Coeur de pirate was born!
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Very quickly, she was contacted to sign a record and came to settle in France to launch her career. His song Like a child is a hit, the success is immediate and she is quickly recognized in the street: “I didn’t understand why”. After images of her Victoire de la Musique, she declared: “I think that success at a very young age, at this level […] We are not very accompanied”. She continues: “No one tells you how to do it”. She then experiences her first anxiety attackswhich she had never done before. She now suffers from generalized anxiety disorder. : “It started when I started my career”.
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The singer clarifies marital rape
Still subject to panic attacks today, Coeur de pirate returned to another painful subject, which is currently in the news and which she spoke about in song with I want to go home. The title refers to marital rape : “When I wrote it, it was because I realized that these were things that had happened to me in my life”. Many women and men then write to him to tell him that they experienced the same thing and that they didn’t even know it, that they didn’t know that there was a word to designate it.
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The Canadian singer clarifies: “People often think there is an obligation but no, there is consent there too.”. Talking about what happened to her in song was very cathartic for her,”and for other people obviously, I think”. She has never regretted having spoken and according to her, music is not as strong as therapy, but she “brings balm to what you are going through”. Recently, Coeur de pirate revealed photos of her wedding to Marc Flynn, the father of her child. Photos that show her particularly happy…
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