Thérèse, courage and beats in force with her first single "TOXIC"

The singer Thérèse -

• Thérèse is not a novice in music, she worked before for three years in a group called La Vague, in tandem with Jonathan Granjon.

• TOXIC

  is therefore the chronicle of a relationship that puffed it up, but not destroyed.

• Thérèse works on her album, which also addresses the issue of anti-Asian racism, a minority from which she comes.

Her name is Thérèse, and she sends out beat, punchy sound, equal to the energy she found after falling into a toxic relationship.

This is the subject of her first single, titled in a clear way

(see clip below), as many letters that she shatters like you type in a punching bag to let off steam.

Thérèse is not a novice in music, she worked before for three years in a group called La Vague, in tandem with Jonathan Granjon.

It was after having "gone crazy", stifled in a straight path, that she decided to embrace the musical career.

“I was in prep, then in business school, then at Kenzo Parfums in marketing for five years, I was a product manager and in 2015 I told myself that this was not my life.

At the time it was not yet fashionable to quit your job… It was complicated for a year, my father was on the verge of denying me.

I had two years of unemployment where I was able to work with migrants, there was a squat next to my home where I gave lessons, ”she says.

Rid of the "poison"

At

, she explains having a fairly strong "internal locus", that is to say, in psychology, a tendency to consider that the events which affect her are the result of her actions.

“I am very interested in psychology, [the founder of analytical psychology Carl Gustav] Jung is kind of my master thinker!

She laughs.

TOXIC

is therefore the chronicle of a relationship that puffed it up, but not destroyed.

"Sorry I'm not your mother," she said in the song, claiming that she no longer wanted to play the role of "seat belt" and claiming to have gotten rid of the "poison".

But no question of blaming the other: "I learned growing up that toxic relationships are ourselves who impose them on ourselves, the most toxic relationship is the one we have with ourselves. .

Because why, if not, do we accept this toxicity?

What in us accepts it?

Racist mockery

Thérèse while waiting to answer these serious questions bump on her album, which also addresses the question of anti-Asian racism, a minority from which she comes.

The meeting with the activist Grace Ly, who invited him on episode 6 of her web series

, was decisive, as well as her involvement in the Association of Young Chinese of France.

But it was the murder of Chaolin Zhang in Aubervilliers, in 2018, which constituted the detonator.

"A lot of things have come back to me," explains the one who says she is confronted at least once a week with racist mockery.

“They called me Katsuni, sushi, they told me ni hao [hello in Chinese]… I always knew how to answer.

But there are a lot of people who don't dare to answer, ”she comments.

We can't wait to hear this.

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