The author, composer and performer Barbara Pravi, candidate of France for Eurovision 2021. -
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Barbara Pravi plays the retro card.
In the clip for
Voilà
, the song with which she will represent France at Eurovision 2021, the singer appears in a station hall taking us back several decades, then in the compartment of a train dating from a bygone era.
Beret screwed on the head, she fully assumes this style appearing
so French
in the eyes of the foreign public.
But the three minutes of this video, produced by Zenzel and posted online this Monday, does not necessarily feel musty.
A contemporary choreography dispels the scent of mothballs.
The artist is surrounded by dancers with faces hidden under a sort of black tulle mask.
She seems to resist them at first before allowing herself to be drawn into their movement.
Two more songs to come
A way, perhaps, to symbolically represent the memories and painful moments in the life of Barbara Pravi who draws inspiration for her songs from her experience.
The images echo the words of
Voila
: "Here I am, even though it is over.
Here I am in the noise and in the fury too.
Look at me finally and my eyes and my hands, all I have is here, it's my mouth it's my cry.
"
The symbolism of the train can represent the beginning of an adventure (that of Eurovision?).
This clip is anyway "the first sequence of a short film around three titles", explained the singer to
20 Minutes
last month.
The other two songs should be released in the next few weeks, they will be called
The Day After
and
The Man and the Bird
.
To be continued, therefore ...
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