Eddy de Pretto was Friday the guest of Anne Roumanoff and her team of columnists in the show "It feels good".

The singer, who released his second album "To all the Bastards" at the end of March, confides in his fear of having nothing more to tell in his songs and his recipe to find inspiration.

INTERVIEW

He says he will write a third album "if he has more to say".

But Eddy de Pretto already had this fear of not having more stories to tell in new songs when writing 

To all the bastards

, his second album released on March 26th.

This is what he confides on Friday at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, on the occasion of his appearance on the show 

It feels good

.

“We had to find new stories to tell, things that come from the guts. But how do I tell new, unseen things that I didn't have to tell?” He asks.

"There was a little pressure."

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Eddy de Pretto's fears emerge at the end of the tour of 

Cure

, his debut album.

"I was scared, because we were coming off tour and I didn't know what I was going to talk about. I didn't want to tell about my touring life which was a bit boring and nobody cares about. ", he believes.

And, while embarking on writing, the singer encounters some blockages.

Rimbaud, Ferré and Genet

"Sometimes, when you are in front of your sheet, you are a little obstructed, you are looping on subjects or words", he explains. "You need to read or see other new things to be able to move on a little bit." This inspiring elsewhere, Eddy de Pretto finds it by reading poetry: Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Léo Ferré, also renowned singer. "I have read Jean Genet a lot", adds the author-interpreter.

Eddy de Pretto even shares his recipe against blank page syndrome.

"As soon as I had a lack of inspiration, I was going to open their books, because these are guys with whom it was immediately pretty crazy," he recalls.

"A random page opening brought me to subjects, turns of phrase that triggered a big phase of inspiration."

Like Eddy de Pretto, Jean Genet has made the sublimation of his homosexuality and his love stories one of the central themes of his texts.

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All the same, there remains a blockage against which Eddy de Pretto has not yet found a recipe: to write texts for others. "I tried, I had lots of requests, but it didn't work too much," he regrets. And he thinks he knows where the problem is. "My writing is very autobiographical. I still have a hard time projecting myself into what someone else might sing," he analyzes. "But I would love to be able to do it."