Julie Zenatti: "In music, women must always be seductive"

INTERVIEW

Singer Julie Zenatti is the guest of the show 

Thursday, on the eve of the release of her new album 

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Evoking her career, she points to a place of women in music still too subject to the gaze and desire of men.

Even if she observes the emergence of a new generation of female artists who are changing the lines.

"I do this job because I love to sing, and because this stuff kinda fell on me. I don't ask myself whether I want to be a singer or not, if it's a job or not, ”she explains.

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In this profession, which she does without asking any questions, one thing has always bothered her.

"It is very difficult for me to exist through the desire of the other. And this is exactly the principle of our profession", she observes.

But Julie Zenatti does not speak of the public's view of her music.

"As a woman, you always have to be seductive. You still have to be a little smart, but not too much either," she exasperates.

"They did not find me pleasant enough"

And this injunction does not suit him.

"I was not educated like that, I do not have this relationship with men," she says.

But the singer, who began her career in 1998 with the musical 

, admits that it played tricks on her in her career.

"I was not found attractive enough," she recalls.

Fortunately, things are gradually changing on this subject, as the singer observes.

"Today, the women artists who are on the front of the stage are breaking the codes. Some in a violent way, others in a more intellectual way. And I find that it is really very nice", she rejoices.

Julie Zenatti finally has only one regret: "I would have liked to be part of this new generation".