Why "The Last Day of Disco" will be the song of the year

• The 37th Victoires de la Musique ceremony will be held on Friday February 11 on France 2 and France Inter, live from the musical Seine.

• Before this big evening, "20 Minutes" invites you to (re) discover one of the five named "original songs" every day.

• After Orelsan and Clara Luciani, it's time for "Last Day of Disco", one of the most moving songs of 2021.

There was the summer of 2021, the rediscovered lightness and the promise of sunny and cheerful days.

Then there was autumn, the languor of its long nights and the return of a narrower horizon.

Between the two arose the flamboyant Juliette Armanet.

After four years of absence, the singer has chosen this very specific shift between light and shadow to begin her comeback.

This post-holiday period at the end of September which cuts your legs and puts back in the attic all the (too) beautiful resolutions for the start of the school year.

Nothing less than

was needed to rekindle the fine flame that remained in us.

A piece nominated in the “original song” category of the Victoires de la Musique, capable of making you dance on a table and/or cry all the tears in your body.

A devastating anthem of the end of the world in the colors of 2021.

"The culminating moment of an emotion"

Barely the title launched, without time to lose, the voice of Juliette Armanet resounds like a farewell.

"It's the end, the very last morning, the very last jasmine, don't let go of my hand / It's the end, the sun in the distance, flows alone in its corner, don't let go of me, I take ".

Then comes the first imploring chorus.

"The last day of disco, I want to spend it on your skin, blushing, like a poppy / The last day of disco, I want to hear it in stereo, and tell you, there's nothing more beautiful".

And there it went.

The music gets carried away, the piano gives way to a disco rhythm and the voice of Juliette Armanet wants to be much more conquering.

In a quarter of a second, the singer transports us from a feeling of 6 o'clock in the morning (when alcohol becomes sad and you ask yourself too many questions about life and the why of the universe), to that of t a New Year's midnight: the party is in full swing, the sequins are going to your head and the god of dance is taking over your body.

Never have you felt more alive than those minutes.

Your gestures are of a rare intensity, you risk your life on the

(in real life you border on the ridiculous and perhaps even the burn-out), and in your skull, a fixed idea: to live!

And it is on this balanced rope that Juliette Armanet evolves throughout the song, oscillating between inflamation and vulnerability.

“It's a funny mix because at the same time it's a real opera drama quite melancholy and at the same time there is an energy, a light.

(…) It's a bit of a tightrope walker that walks between death and life, night and day, love and the end of love.

A bit of a relationship climax, the last ten seconds before we turn on the light when we're in a nightclub.

The culminating moment of an emotion,” the singer explained to us when her album

released last November.

“There are lots of different scales and meanings”

The groove is good.

But what is this song about?

To be honest with you, this is one of our big questions during the first listen.

What does Juliette Armanet mean with the expression "the last day of disco"?

Closing a nightclub?

Cerrone's retirement?

The day before a reconfinement?

And then there are the couplets, which multiply images and unexpected comparisons: "It's the end, the bronze statues, flow in their sorrow, don't let go of my hand / It's the end, the rivers fate, panic like satin, don't let go, I've got you".

On the one hand the singer evokes a love, on the other she deploys a landscape that is falling apart, even apocalyptic.

"This song can speak both of the end of a world,

.

And that's the whole point of this song: to give us some background elements while letting us build our own story.

Some will immerse themselves in a rupture, others on a planet threatened by an asteroid (the most dramas will combine the two and be dropped ON a planet threatened by an asteroid).

Timeless,

is also very current and particularly echoes what we have been experiencing since the arrival of the Covid.

A kind of roller coaster of emotions between fear, joy, frustration.

As well as this urgent feeling of living when the sanitary framework loosens up a tad.

A song that finds its place just as well the day after a deconfinement as a few hours before a new curfew.

The song of the year and of an entire era.

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