Louane and Julien Doré with fears but without reproach in "The Voice Kids"

• Season 8 of

  The Voice Kids

  is launched this Saturday at 9:10 p.m. on TF1.

• Julien Doré and Louane are the two new coaches of this season.

  They join Patrick Fiori and Kendji Girac in the red telecrochet armchairs.

• Julien Doré and Louane both admit to having had a lot of apprehensions before the shooting.

  But, as

  20 Minutes

  found by attending the first day of recording in the fall of 2021, they each got their bearings quickly, in their own way.

When, on November 2, 2021, Julien Doré settles for the first time in the coach chair of

, he looks comfortable.

It is even he who has the honor of declaring this new season “open”.

But, internally, it does not lead far.

He has been trying to project himself into this new function for weeks.

He doubts.

He is worried.

“I was afraid of not being myself in the role of a guy in his late thirties who listens to children sing, something which, automatically, upsets my life, he recalls eight months later , at the beginning of July, during the press conference at TF1.

I had to be up to it.

I dreaded having a shell, that the fact of feeling filmed, made up, enlightened and stressed put a veil on my emotions.

I was afraid of not being able to transmit what I feel.

“I know Julien's seriousness.

He is someone who, in his head, has fifty mathematical equations: sound, light, writing…”, slips Nikos Aliagas.

The presenter did not suspect, however, that the artist was making so many knots in the brain during the first day of filming: “I said to him: “It will be good, it is a small family, settle down.

“Each time, the coaches are tricked by the spontaneity of the children”

Here is Julien Doré sitting in his chair, back turned to the stage.

With the lighting, he barely distinguishes the half-masked faces of the public facing him at the Lendit studio (Seine-Saint-Denis).

The first talent arrives, stands behind the microphone and, while the first notes rise, the questions of the new coach dissipate.

“It evaporated right away.

As soon as the voices are there, the songs resonate.

Being from behind allows us to dive serenely into something very simple which consists of feeling and listening,” he explains with hindsight.

This kind of epiphany is not original according to Pascal Guix, the artistic producer of

: "When I meet each new coach, they project themselves and say to me: "I will be like this, like that …" But in reality, each time, they are bullied by the spontaneity of the children and their performances.

»

From the bleachers where we observe his baptism of fire, Julien Doré seems to have immediately found these marks.

“What energy!

he enthuses, in reaction to a cover of

by Stromae.

In life, there are arguments that we utter with our mouths and, sometimes, obvious facts where we must be silent.

The evidence here is that you're joining my team.

“ Banco, the young talent answers him tit for tat: “The evidence will be to go with you, Julien.

»

“You have this fringe which is a reflection of my lack of courage”

singer

varies the tone of his arguments.

There is first degree benevolence, as in front of this rejected duo: “As soon as you started to sing, the public started to dance and that is more important than my little opinion.

There are the philosophical-absurd delusions: “You have this fringe which is the reflection of my lack of courage.

“There is also the emotional register:” I took a moment to turn around so as not to be immodest.

I was upset.

Such a beautiful sadness.

It would be an honor for me to accompany you.

"Julien has proven to be an inventive and particularly formidable coach," summarizes Fabrice Bailly, TF1's deputy program director.

We thought that Louane, the other new telecrochet coach who sits directly alongside Julien Doré, would be in his element right away because it was the adult version of this show that revealed him in 2013. We were wrong .

Taking her seat before the start of filming, she addresses the public: “Are you okay?

I am in panic!

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“We were terrified by Louane”

During this first day of recording, she seems overexcited.

No doubt she is trying to impose herself among her male colleagues – Patrick Fiori and Kendji Girac complete the panel.

Her acolytes do not spare her, not hesitating to use the "block" button at her expense, thus preventing talents from joining her team.

This puts the young woman beside herself.

“As Aya Nakamura would say, when I'm upset, I'm mean.

In my eyes, I'm bad, she says during the press conference at the start of the summer.

I took revenge by blocking myself.

Or by convincing.

There is a candidate that I literally prevented from going to Julien's team.

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“We were terrified by Louane, assures Julien Doré with a certain sense of exaggeration.

She had an ability to poke in the right place with certain talents.

"With her spontaneity, her authenticity and her experience very close to the talents of

, Louane brings a breath of fresh air", considers Frédéric Bailly for his part.

“They are more than the small skylight”

Do not believe that the regular telecrochet is jaded.

“I am still in awe.

Every time I'm on set, it's a discovery.

The children are incredible, ”says the main interested party, who confides that she has been regularly overwhelmed by emotion… An example, which we have witnessed: a teenager takes over

by Barbara Pravi and Louane recognizes herself in her.

“I experienced the same thing.

When I arrived on this scene, I was a year older than you.

At the end, I was in the same state, I was shaking, she told him, tremolos dancing on her vocal cords.

At the first notes of your voice, I felt that you were in the same state as me [at the time].

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“With

, Louane returns home as she arrived on the first day, with the same questions,” notes Nikos Aliagas.

The host, at the helm of the show since the first season, is perhaps the one who speaks best about these two new coaches: "They know the little skylight, they were born there as singers, but they are more than the small skylight and that's why they each made their way.

A way of saying that they are models to follow for the talents of tomorrow.

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