It was one of the French hits of 2002. The song En Apesanteur , taken from the album Calogero , by the famous artist of the same name, propelled the singer's career, before the success, in 2004, of Face to the sea . A title that would surely not have seen the light of day without the publication of a report on Puritanism in the United States.
After the embarrassment, the seduction in the elevator
One evening, in a television news, the lyricist Alana Filippi indeed looks at an investigation on the puritanism of certain American, embarrassed to take the elevator alone with a man. Inspired by this subject, she writes a text on a face to face between a man and a woman in an elevator. She then offered these words to artist Calogero, who accepted them. Less anxious than the original phenomenon, the song En Apesanteur tells the emotions of a man who succumbs to the charm of a pretty young woman (played in the clip by actress Mélanie Doutey) in the confined space of these little cabins.
Lyrics in pocket, Calogero recorded the music of Weightlessness in a single take. It was a test to learn how to use the new tape recorder he had just acquired. The song was first created in an English version under the title Under the pressure .