So, as I said, there are sentences which are complicated to translate, so I've translated the essential in order to make a summary, 'cause I don't enjoy using Google translation...
But here, even in French, I had to read several times to understand something... (Shame on me...
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So here is the first part of the article, and if someone can translate better than I did, it's wonderful !
She is in Paris for a few days, where she has the time to attend to the Chanel Fashion show and to settle details about her new album "Love Songs".
The "ex-lolita" from the eighties is now 40 years old since December.
This is the age to take stock of life (??)
Five studio album before this one, two children, with a daughter, a teenager who is as tall as her mother, and now, the end of the "Divinidylle" with Johnny Depp, after 14 years together. That's all we know about her.
Vanessa has her own way to converse. She speaks, laughs, smokes, but she doesn't say anything about her private life. But, between sentences, behind this silence, as soon as we decide that we don't mind about her private life, she becomes more interesting to observe ; in her way to protect her nest, her children. She's got her own universe. She doesn't want to be unmasked , confessed or relieved, she doesn't want us to see what it's hidden behind this image of singer/actress/people/woman/mother, and even on these pictures she really liked to do.
The sun is shining on the Winter Garden of this huge Parisian hotel, where she is in late (10 minutes). There are the publicist from her company record, and Philippe Fendt, her surly bodyguard for 16 years (he was a friend of Vanessa's parents). He says he has reserved a kind of Suite. In fact, it's a very narrow and dark conference room for business men, with a circular table and notepads, bottles of water and a white background.
So she laughs when she discovers the place. She wears a pretty make -up and she is dressed with discretion : light colour top with black jacket and jeans. She drinks tea, smokes her black "pirate" cigarette. We are just two persons at this table instead of ten, during one hour and 30 minutes, which is long in the "Paradis' space".
The title of her new album is Love Songs. 20 songs, ann Benjamin Biolay behind this project. A long disc with a face A and a face B. But nothing extraordinary, just the diary of a 40 years- old - woman who has kept her teenager face. She sings about love - when she gets carried away and, above all, about her sorrows.
Between the beginning of the creation of this album and its release, there is a little more than 1 year. Paradis often uses the words "seasons" to describe this year, as if it was a way to repeat herself.
Spring 2012 :
A day, in March, she receives an e-mail with 8 songs, sent from Paris to Los Angeles where she lives. The sender is B Biolay.
At the beginning, he had to write just one song. they didn't know each other. All has begun three years ago, when her company record, Barclay, asked to several composers to write a new single for her Best-of album, ( finally, "Il y a", by Gaëtan Roussel, was chosen).
Among all these songs, Vanessa has kept six songs, "a collection of marvelous songs". Without knowing to what. And Barclay solicited other artists. The stake was high. Finding a successor to the successful "Divinidylle", produced by M in 2007.
The ends of the world are practical, for the distance between feelings and other courtesies. Instead of timid discussions, misunderstandings, there are thousands of kilometers, the jet lag, and these songs she received from authors she doesn't know.
Her "usual procedure" was different, she didn't place a precise order, didn't give ideas about a text that she "would have tried to write but she did not succeeded", as it happens before.
She already has got some songs when Biolay sent her 8 songs. So it becomes possible to make a record. She decided to give him the arrangements and the production of what will become a double album.
Spring is the season when the split rumors were more persistent. They don't show each other together in public anymore, but they deny these rumors.
She begins to write her own songs. "A laborious exercise", because she doesn't write all the time. She just needs an "engine". And after, she works everyday.
This is the first part of the article, the rest is coming soon !
. She stiffened.
Thanks so much Shellysmom !