Guest of Pascale Clark on Europe 1 on Sunday, singer Woodkid spoke about his next album, "S16", which is due out on October 16.

After performing on the piano an excerpt from the title "Pale Yellow", he explains how the emotion that accompanied the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 fed his inspiration.

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"I didn't know if you were going to say yes!"

This Sunday, Pascale Clark is going for a

walk

, on Europe 1, alongside singer Woodkid.

The latter notably took him to his recording studio, where she asked him if it was possible to hear him sing an extract of

Pale Yellow

, released last June and taken from his second album,

S16

, due on October 16.

And the clipper, who notably worked with Drake, Katy Perry or Lana Del Rey, did not need to pray.

"We put a little hydroalcoholic gel on his hands, and we enter the studio," he says before settling down at the piano to perform a short extract of this haunting title with metallic sounds, on which he lets roll with delight his deep voice.

Pale Yellow

is a song "about the beauty of resilience, of hope", explains Woodkid, still at the microphone of Europe 1. A piece characteristic of the atmosphere he sought to give to his next opus,

S16

.

“In 2016, three months after the Paris attacks, I told myself that I had to look for a sound that corresponded to the feeling I was having at that time,” continues the songwriter.

"I brought Ryan Lott from Son Lux into the studio, and we spent two to three months looking for a color of his."

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"I absolutely had to paint this particular emotion"

And while Paris has just been struck again by an act of terrorism, after a stabbing attack on Friday in front of the former premises of

Charlie Hebdo

, Woodkid remembers the amazement and disarray in the aftermath of the shootings of November 13 2015. "There was a very strong emotion, I told myself that we had to catch it," he explains.

"My album doesn't specifically talk about that, it echoes even larger things, but I thought to myself that I absolutely had to paint this particular emotion, like a painter or a photographer who wants to capture something very beautiful or very ugly, ”he slips.