Why "Bruxelles je t'aime" by Angèle 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, Clara Luciani, Juliette Armanet and Feu!

  Chatterton, we finish our overview of the nominees with "Bruxelles je t'aime", an immediate hit from Angèle's second album.

She was expected at the turn, she went straight on the Thalys line, direction "the tube of the year".

When launching the promo for her second album,

, Angèle unsheathed

, a declaration of love for the city of her childhood.

Without offending the four other songs nominated in the Song of the Year category at the Victoires de la musique 2022, it is absolutely obvious that Angèle's ritornello is the only one that resembles what can be called a hit.

Immediately recognizable after a few notes,

bears the vocal signature of its interpreter, is easy to hum, to dance, and even to parody (it will be adapted a lot in 2022 weddings...).

She stays in the lead without getting drunk.

In short, it's the ideal crush.

“The melody came very quickly, Angèle told us a few months ago.

While I was writing the verses I tried several times to change the chorus but I couldn't find it.

Finally, it took me a while to understand that this very spontaneous first draft was what this song needed.

When it came time to place my voice, it was very easy too, I immediately felt at ease vocally on

.

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Everyone has a city in their heart

But beyond that, Angèle's song is an essential marker of our year 2021, year 2 of the Coronavirus.

Where Clara Luciani hoped that we would dance and

(missed, it still does not transpire "in the mess of bars at night"), where Juliette Armanet prophesies

(also missed, "the rivers destiny" still don't panic "like satin"), Angèle was right.

Isolation made us rediscover the love of the cities before, not the one where we run from one point to another, but those where we have ties, memories.

Angèle sings that beauty is where we choose to see it.

Angèle sings of peaceful loves born of introspection.

"After the tour, I had planned to take a long musical break," says the singer.

I didn't want to hear about new songs, composition, studio, and especially not a second album.

And then came the confinement… I found myself face to face with myself, with the anxieties that everyone was experiencing.

I had planned to go to the sun, to an island, and I found myself stuck in Brussels.

And of course I set up a kind of little studio, a somewhat DIY cabin in my apartment.

And there, the first tune, the first song that came up, was

.

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No seum

Without really deciding, Angèle then composed a whole album.

And when choosing the order of the songs, then the first single,

imposed itself.

Like a joyful introduction to the darker confessions that will follow.

This song, by its genesis, is also an ode to inspiration, where the muse is a city, a tribute to those songs that save us, that make us look up, that make us see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Rather than a stupidly first-degree song about confinement, Angèle delivers an intimate hymn, like the rest of the album.

However,

is also a unifying song.

Without being Belgian, one can feel a sincere love for Brussels and all that this city represents.

The memory of a romantic weekend, the passion for beer and fries, the detached secondary taste specific to the inhabitants of the city... And above all, loving Brussels and Belgium in music is a way of apologizing for the attitude of French football fans towards the Belgians (we are used to being ashamed because of them but with their refrain on the Belgian seum, they have outdone themselves).

Since, whether we like it or not,

is the French-speaking hit of the year, it would be really incongruous not to give it the Victory for song of the year.

These days, a little consistency can't hurt.

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