With him, she formed one of the most emblematic couples of the 1960s. Singer Françoise Hardy, guest of Icons, Saturday on Europe 1, spoke of how her work was the reflection of a tumultuous sentimental life, in particular with her husband Jacques Dutronc, who inspired her to many songs.
INTERVIEW
"My best songs are really autobiographical, they start from the bottom of my heart of pain and frustration."
Guest of the program Icons, Saturday on Europe 1, the singer François Hardy confided in Michel Denisot on "the defeatism" in love felt in his songs.
A leitmotif inspired by his own experience.
"Luckily for my songs, I had a pretty painful love life."
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"It is the greatest number of my songs"
"The defeatism was that the other would necessarily leave, that he was going to leave me and find better," confesses François Hardy, who admits to having always had this state of mind.
In particular with Jacques Dutronc, with whom she formed one of the most emblematic couples of the 1960s, and to whom she is still married.
How many songs inspired her feelings for him?
"It's impossible to count, there are too many," she replies.
From "Personal Message", song for which she collaborated with Michel Berger, to "Rendez-vous in another life", via "Nobody else", if Françoise Hardy cannot count the number of cries of love launched to Jacques Dutronc, one thing is certain: "It is the greatest number of my songs."
"I made a whole album hoping to make him jealous"
Yet, she says, "for a very long time he never listened to my songs."
But it didn't stop for all that.
"I made a whole album thinking of him and hoping to make him jealous", admits Françoise Hardy, referring to her album
Entracte.
"I was telling about a meeting with someone, with whom there was something going on, because we were tired of being a piece of furniture for the other."