Alexis Patri 4:00 p.m., April 10, 2022
Music streaming platforms hold no secrets for Hervé Vilard.
The singer, guest on Sunday of the show "Tell me what you sing", explains to the microphone of Didier Barbelivien using them to listen to the songs of the younger generation, whose work he greatly values.
INTERVIEW
Nostalgic Hervé Vilard?
Surely not !
Guest Sunday of the show
Tell me what you sing
, the singer of
Capri it's over
explains to Didier Barbelivien's microphone his love for the new scene of French song, which he discovers and listens to on streaming platforms musical.
The artist lives in a student district of Paris, near the Lycée Henri 4. And he regularly discusses with this youth that he meets daily.
"From time to time, I see these young people on the terrace of cafes. Summer and winter, they come to talk to me", explains Hervé Vilard.
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“They talk to me about songs that I had forgotten I had sung!”, the artist is surprised.
"And they give you masterpieces, like Robert Nyel's
Magali
, you wonder where they got that!"
In reality, Hervé Vilard has the question: "Today, the Internet, YouTube and all that open their curiosity", he observes.
"Today's kids write beautiful songs"
According to the singer, this curiosity of youth for the French song of the 1960s is proof that people are in need of songs.
"You should know that there is a youth made up of artists who are the grandchildren of Ferré, the grandchildren of Béart and of so many others, of Bécaud, of Aznavour, even of Hervé Villard or of Christophe. And they listen and use what we have offered them to do even better", he rejoices.
"I know a lot of artists like that. I use Spotify to listen to everything that's happening today. It interests me. And when I'm told there are no more songs, only yesterday it's was better, that's not true", exclaims Hervé Vilard.
"Today's kids write great songs, but we just don't hear them."