By akademiotoelektronik, 27/01/2023

Eddy de Pretto: "I fell the mask"

By telling himself in an intimate and raw manner on his first album he won the bet.Three years later, here the native of Créteil here is "A Tout les Bastards", ode to normality.Encounter.

The meeting is wedged at the Barbès brasserie.Right in front of the Tati store.This district was, for the young Eddy de Pretto, the symbol of another possible life."Alice, my mother's sister, lived next door," he says.It was by going to her house that I understood that I could become the person I wanted to be.It was my freak at the time, she allowed me to believe in my dreams, to have a freedom of tone.She was exuberant, loved art, fashion.One day, while Eddy was still succeeding in his thumb, cause of mocking from her mother, Alice had this scathing replica: "Leave him alone, he will end up sucking something else.»»»»»»»»« I found her brilliant, Tatie.Even if my whole family knew that I was not like everyone else, she was the only one to say it loud and clear.»»»»»»»»

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This difference, long Eddy hid it.He preferred to play Barbie than in football, but in the street, in Créteil where he grew up, he stuck."I did so much... »»»»»»»» soupire-t-il. De toute cette frustration sont nées les chansons d’un premier album, «Cure»»»»»»»», sorti en 2018 et vendu à plus de 300000 exemplaires. Ce disque a permis à Eddy le «pédé de banlieue»»»»»»»» de devenir un jeune homme écouté, courtisé par les créateurs de mode, en dénonçant l’injonction à la virilité masculine.When, in the summer of 2019, he put an end to his first tour, Pretto returned to the coal right away."I wrote nearly 60 titles.I didn't want to get into a success log or tell how my life had changed.People fight their balls.No, I wanted to kiss colossal themes.»»»»»»»»

Voilà donc «A tous les bâtards»»»»»»»», album coup de poing, véritable manifeste pour la différence.A cry from the heart of those who want to free themselves from the constraints and standards imposed for decades by the dominant white male."But it is all together that we will succeed, notes the singer.There is no question of excluding anyone.For a long time I did not have weapons to assume myself.Now I know it is not because you are black, big, ugly or faded that you are abnormal. C’est ce que je veux affirmer quand je chante “mes défauts sont devenus attrayants”… »»»»»»»» Eddy sait néanmoins qu’il évolue sur un fil. Lui qui a tant aimé le succès – «Quand tu as connu la folie des Zénith, tu as envie que ça fasse partie de toi toute ta vie»»»»»»»» – craint le retour de hype."So I worked with a new team, I went further musically. Je pense aussi que ce deuxième disque est mieux écrit que le premier»»»»»»»», admet-il.

Effectively.In two or three well-brought up and three formulas Eddy tells his life as an anonymous singer on Parisian boats, "when nobody looks at you, no one listens to you and nobody hears you.It is thanks to this experience that I did not arrive under Blister, that I am not the marketed suburbs "»»»»»». Il chante aussi dans «Ose»»»»»»»» les relations sexuelles entre hommes, bien souvent encombrées de peurs et de normes d’un autre temps selon lui."I find it crazy that the body of a man cannot be fully used and valued, that standards can say that it is violent and virulent to go to the parts.Around me, it's still complicated.So we must continue the male deconstruction: how to no longer link anal areas to a certain virility or a male power?If you go there, it is all my power and my domination that burst into smoke?Not actually.It's just a body, sensations, emotion ... And that's what's beautiful.»»»»»»»»

The album is a superb ode to all those who live on the fringes

Sous ses airs bateleurs, «A tous les bâtards»»»»»»»» est en réalité un grand disque d’amour, Eddy s’y mettant à nu, racontant son émoi face à des garçons hétéros. «J’ai bien essayé de les avoir…»»»»»»»» rigole-t-il, avant de concéder qu’en 2020 il a enfin rencontré le grand amour, celui qui vous permet de vous abandonner dans les bras de l’être aimé, sans craintes, sans reproches. «J’ai tombé le masque»»»»»»»», rougit-il.He also has no problems mentioning his addictions. Dans «Désolé Caroline»»»»»»»», texte plein de doubles sens, il évoque ses démêlés avec la cocaïne, tout en affirmant être sorti d’affaire."It is not easy to leave an addiction, whether it is a romantic relationship or drugs.But I am so control Freak that I will never go too far.»»»»»»»» Etonnamment les artistes qui squattent le top des ventes depuis quatre ou cinq ans font partie d’une génération «clean»»»»»»»», où l’on se défonce plus au matcha qu’à la vodka.Eddy laughs."I think I am the most rock’n’roll of us, when I see that Nekfeu or Angèle throw themselves on their green tea after a concert ... The time is so crazy that there is necessarily less carefree.But I still like to get lost in the party ... "»»»»»»»

Pending the return of after-shows, the artist wonders in style in his disc on the rest of his adventure, claiming loud and clear that it may be his last."This is drastically what I feel.But maybe I'm lying.I need material, thickness, life, rebound, intensity to continue writing.What will this second album create in me?Rabies?Frustration?Sadness?I do not know.I live day by day.»»»»»»»» Au final, «A tous les bâtards»»»»»»»» restera comme une ode superbe à ceux qui vivent à la marge."I only want society to impose its codes for me.I suffered too much younger.»»»»»»»What if these freaks became our new heroes?"We are in the overthrow of the codes: bastards, strange, chelous, bizarre, big, ugly, fags, these words that I heard all my life, how do you do something positive?Today it becomes power and strength.When I see that there are queer groups in colleges, which are super popular, I like phew!Because in my time these same groups were shown in finger.Never again we will make back machine.»»»»»»»»Bastard word.

« A tous les bâtards»»»»»»»» (Romance musique / Universal), sortie le 26 mars.On tour from October 18.

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