INTERVIEW
It took seven years for the release of his second album scheduled for the end of the year. And Yoann Lemoine, known as Woodkid, returns with great commotion with his new musical clip Pale yellow, the title that will compose this album with 11 songs. It is thus a vulnerable and intimate Woodkid that we discover. Addiction and resilience thematize this new dark title. In "Media Culture", Woodkid confides in the creation of this musical work. The opportunity to discover the artist's universe.
Addiction and resilience sung by Woodkid
Listening to this new track with metallic sounds, Woodkid's serious and vulnerable voice plunges us into a dark and intimate atmosphere. And the themes addressed by the artist are just as much. Addiction on the one hand, whether emotional or physical, and resilience on the other. So it's a real inner conflict that Woodkid sings to us: "There is a whole irony in this song. I sing 'Tonight is the last and tomorrow my love for you will be gone'. But there is something ironic since we know full well that all this will not go ", explains the artist at the microphone of Europe1. However, in this darkness, the resistance and the hope resides: "There is this idea of need for reconstruction. These are subjects which are very present in the album". "I will rise again slow / I will fix the pain on my own" (I will get up, slowly / Alone, I will heal from my suffering), can we hear in the song.
And these are all themes that are close to his heart. He confides, moreover, on the importance that resilience had in his work as an artist at a time when the music industry is more and more demanding: "When we make the music that I make, you need a lot of resilience. You are constantly reminded that you have to go faster, that you have to make music for younger people, that you have to adapt to a certain market. the state of the music industry, I think it takes courage not to always comply with what we hear. "
Woodkid and the machine
Pale yellow is a song but it is also and above all a clip. Indeed Woodkid is also known for his visual creations, both refined and aesthetic which he highlights in many of his clips. In the case of Pale yellow , the artist's face in close up turns on itself and deforms gradually and then reveals a whole interior machinery to us. Here, man is not flesh but machine. "I like the idea of having a certain irony. I wanted to refer to my first album. The way I built it, there really is something of the machine, of the small business", declares the artist. And this machinery is not only visual. It is also sonorous since the very symphony of the piece is punctuated by metallic and industrial sounds.
Besides, the artist takes the opportunity to testify to his fusion relationship which he maintains with his own "machines" which allow him to create in abundance: "I have always grown up with computers. It is an extension of my brain, I code, I program, there is a language that works very well between us. And at the same time I question them a lot about its machines and in particular their emotional limit. How can I live with these technologies there, while keeping emotion in music? "
Even if the "machine" is fundamental in its creation process, Woodkid is above all a singer, for whom the voice is all the more essential. "With the voice there is something direct. There is a connection which does not pass through the brain. As if something went directly from the heart to the mouth without going through the brain. So it is more spontaneous and emotion is more present there. It is very important for me ".