Pierre Garnier, 2024. © Elisa Baudoin
The winner of the final version of the Star Academy, Pierre Garnier, French-speaking phenomenon of the yr, continues his divine romance with most of the people. Using on the resounding success of his single These We Had been, the twenty-two-year-old has simply launched his first album Each Second and is filling up the dates of his tour at lightning velocity. Decryption.
November 2023. When the fort of Dammarie-les-Lys reopens its doorways for the second consecutive yr, after closure for greater than a decade, many query the deserves of this insistence. Placing it on once more when the return to air of the Star Academy program hasn’t set the lake on hearth? Flat encephalogram viewers curve. Candidates as shortly returned to oblivion as they appeared.
Collaborating in a media-commercial recreation is now not synonymous with launching a cracking profession. And we have now to return to Slimane, winner of the TV present cousin The Voice in 2016, to seek out an artist who has actually reworked the post-broadcast essay. At finest for some, the way in which out of the musical comedy (Abi Bernadoth, outstanding in Molière, the musical spectacle). At worst for others, a somewhat recurring sentence: an album which wallows in anonymity and returns to sq. one.
The Pierre Garnier case explodes all of the ceilings. Distinctive and surprising, pushing the cursor even additional than the affluent interval when Jenifer, Nolwenn Leroy, Grégory Lemarchal benefited from this cathodic publicity to rise above the pack. Examine the phenomenon intently. Ask your self if it’s bodily, vocal, generational. Perhaps all three directly. Behind their display screen, viewers put this good-spirited Star Academy promotion on a pedestal which went in opposition to the grain of our period of unhealthy buzz.
This native of Villedieu-les-Poêles, a Norman city positioned within the Manche division, didn’t play the a part of the quirky man. He was merely himself, with none antics or temper swings, devoid of a aggressive spirit. A kind of quiet energy like Vianney, comfy in his sneakers, relaxed, pure. Enticing for youngsters, reassuring for moms.
He’s self-taught – he had by no means taken singing classes earlier than his participation within the present – launched to the guitar by his dad and mom and who interrupted his diploma in Utilized Overseas Languages to dedicate himself to music. After all, his rise wouldn’t have been so meteoric if Dadju had not carried out this masterstroke on the night of the ultimate. Somewhat than performing a duet music from his repertoire, as is customary, Gims’ half-brother ignored the manufacturing’s directions, interrupting the dwell broadcast to offer Pierre Garnier the chance to sing certainly one of his compositions. Unparalleled within the historical past of this system.
Those we had been, mega-success
Most of the people instantly adopted the music Ces qu’on was put in a field the day after the top of the present. It achieved the perfect begin for a French pop single for the reason that creation of Spotify (practically sixty million performs immediately, all platforms mixed). The conspiracy theorists will say that every little thing was cleverly orchestrated, that the artist already had an expert entourage.
Nonetheless, he’s undeniably a record-breaker. Collective document for the reason that Star Academy tour is the one with the best French-speaking affect this yr. Solo document since his acquired off to a flying begin: tickets for the primary half entitled Préamble had been offered out in two hours (the Olympia was even stuffed in two minutes), the second half will likely be offered out in all of the Zenith. Specific document, lastly, recording an album, on this case in 4 months. So we come to this primary disc entitled Each second, removed from being sloppy, calibrated mainstream selection, homogeneous and with clear melodies.
Joseph Kamel and Daysy, co-composer and co-writer of These We Had been, stay in a crew which additionally contains Mosimann (one other winner of Star Academy and confederate of Grand Corps Malade) and Marso (director for Suzane , Mika, Foé…). Barely damaged hoarse voice, Pierre Garnier primarily units his sights on sentimentalism. Within the midst of an incapability to let one’s coronary heart communicate (Remark faire, Les mots), a declaration aimed on the maternal determine (At my aspect) and a variation across the breakup of affection (Each second, On pause ), he treats himself to a prestigious ballad within the firm of Sofiane Pamart (Pas une lame). Right here and there, gospel choirs, one other potential hit (We all know, a music evoking psychological music), pop-rock flights, others extra people. And People who we had been obtainable in three variations, together with one acoustic and one on piano. Simply to drive the purpose dwelling as soon as and for all.
Pierre Garnier Each second (Columbia) 2024
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