Guest of "It feels good" Friday for the release of his new album "Happy Indocile", the singer Bénabar returns to a remark made to him by Michel Drucker at the start of his career.
A compliment that he took badly at the time, but that he sees today as very good career advice.
INTERVIEW
The singer Bénabar returns with
Indocile
Happy
, his ninth studio album.
Guest of Anne Roumanoff's program
It
feels
good
on this occasion, Bénabar looks back on the beginnings of his career, and in particular a strange remark that Michel Drucker had made to him at the time.
First taken as an attack, the singer now believes that it was actually a sincere compliment, even a well-regarded advice for the rest of his career.
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The host on the red sofa told him "You're not fashionable, so you'll never be out of fashion".
A formula that initially greatly displeased the singer.
"I did not despair of being fashionable at the time," Bénabar smiles today.
"I understand what he meant. And he was right, it was very thin. It was advice."
"I am not at all attracted by the zeitgeist"
For Bénabar, not chasing after musical fashions has finally become a trademark.
"I do it naturally. I'm not at all drawn to the times," he observes.
"All of that never bothered me."
It is for this reason that the singer has, in the past, refused to participate as a juror in telecrochet shows.
"I totally respect that thing, but I don't feel comfortable with it," he says.
"I have a hard time telling someone how to sing. I personally have a problem with being a judge or a juror."