Post by davidhr on Apr 23, 2013 8:07:55 GMT -5
Lara continued to dominate the French media this past week, with numerous TV/radio/press appearances and a controversial photo session. Of top interest to many fans was the appearance on Evergig of her Showcase concert, put together from fan videos. It’s available at:
www.evergig.com/player/775DC1E2-E738-43E3-9C46-5C28260912A2
Tarcisio also made the audio of the show available at:
www.wetransfer.com/downloads/eefbf506c87316895344a7aeeb2044d620130420015419/f795603c894da9140f6c6b1426e8cfd520130420015419/98aa97
[Thank you!]
In addition and of equal prominence, were the pictures of Lara in Gala magazine. If it was her goal to gain attention, she succeeded, probably beyond even her own expectations. Consider this (translated) comment at www.programme-tv.net/news/buzz/39310-lara-fabian-pose-nue-couverture-gala-buzz/:
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Lara Fabian posing nude on the cover of Gala is the buzz (PHOTOS)
It was not long ago that it had not happened, but Lara Fabian is the buzz! How? Posing naked in the latest issue of Gala…Lara Fabian is back on the front of the media scene: a fresh out album, The Secret, a tearful appearance in The Voice alongside Florent Pagny, and photos completely bare in the new Gala!
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In reality, they were not really compeltely nude’ photos, but mostly bare with strategic coverings. On the off-chance that you haven’t seen them, the photo spread and article, along with a ‘making of’ video are available at:
www.larafabianbrasil.com.br/2013/04/lara-fabian-e-capa-da-nova-edicao-da.html
That Lara would agree to ‘bare it all’, even to that extent was completely unexpected. In fact it was such a shock to her fans that they thought the cover of the magazine was a joke someone was playing. Some years ago, it was suggested on a show that Lara should pose for Playboy, and she rejected the idea without a moment’s hesitation. However, as she said in the following interview, her perception of herself and her comfort with her body have changed. Here’s a translation of her interview with the magazine Gala. Fr
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Lara Fabian chose Gala magazine for a nude photo shoot and so evoked her rebirth. The singer has a new album, the ‘Le Secret’ in stores since yesterday and indulges in the pages of our magazine.
Her silhouette thinned his face is more chiseled, but her voice is still intact.
After some years of absence (her last original album was in 2005) Lara Fabian (43) writes ‘Le Secret’, available in stores from April 15.
17 tracks, which are stories that connect without being mixed, which assemble without resembling.
In the meantime, she became the mother of the little Lou, who turns six years in November, her career exploded in the east most notably in Russia, where she is a big star, she helped Florent Pagny in the battles of The Voice on the channel TF1, and separated from her partner Gerard Pullicino.
Today at peace with herself she is reconciled with her body and has gotten rid of her inhibitions. Here she proves it:
Gala: Why did you agree to pose nude in the magazine gala?
Lara: I evolved. Today I look at myself with a more lenience. In the past, I confess I would have felt bad accepting to do a photo shoot like this.
Not because I was totally uncomfortable with myself, mostly because I did not radiate the same energy.
You know, a woman rarely thinks herself beautiful ... and I'm no exception to the rule.
Here, the photographs Helene Renault, captured perfectly the state of mind in which I am now.
Gala: How do you feel?
Lara: I feel at peace with myself. This is beyond a reconciliation which occurred after a fight with my body.
It is my general state of mind. My relationship with my body is much simpler. I feel it is a formidable machine.
From now on, we accept both the defects and weaknesses. Okay, I'm not a model, I have fat legs of six feet, but with age, it seems to have chosen the best for what I could become. I accept myself as I am, knowing I'm not perfect.
Gala: Your job was tormented by this image?
Lara: The music is for me, as a sport discipline.
Long ago I was watching what I ate and drank, I exercised moderately and it was impossible to eat chocolate bars, for example, it does not work well with the flexibility that requires abdominal breathing. To sing well, there is no secret, only need to be good on your skin, be comfortable, feel free. We should always take care of ourselves, and that I always did, but it's true, I was 10 pounds heavier. I made up my faults and my body needed those pounds. I was on the defensive, I protected myself.
Gala: One of the songs from his new album is called Amourexique (related to anorexia). It is a story in which you were a part?
Lara: I've been there in fact abusing my body. Others are struggling with alcohol or drugs ... This can happen.
For many years, I did not love me, I had a lack of tenderness for myself. In this song I describe in filigree all this evil that has afflicted me. I sing for example, that I was fed with "Tulips and water pale." At that time my inner disorder translated into an eating disorder. But after the birth of my daughter, everything was clear and I knew I had found my balance.
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While garnering attention and name recognition, as might have been expected it also got Lara some ridicule. On Twitter, people posted parody photos of themselves or others sitting in the cross-legged way Lara does on the cover. Not surprisingly, ‘Le Petit Journal’ was in the lead in this activity.
One hopes that this publicity helped, rather than hurt, the public recognition of ‘Le Secret’. Currently, it is at or near the top on several of the prominent download sites, though it’s too early to get an official reading from the main charts. Actually, these were not the only photos of Lara where her outfit was the issue. Cinetelereview published photos of Lara associated with the designer Bernard Depoorter; one is available at: www.cinetelerevue.be/fr/Toutes-lactu/fullnews.html?id=22150&news_id=22150&cmp_id=7
This, however, got much less play!
In regard to the music, Lara was on multiple TV and radio shows, including "Touche Pas à Mon Poste" in which she performs a brief version of ‘"Tu es mon autre" with Enora Malagré. She also hit back at ‘Le Petit Journal’, saying: "In fact, I think what made me laugh the most is that I asked him to see me [have me on the show] and he refuses. He does not want to receive me. At the same time, I understand because he has me on and then if ultimately, he was nice to me, what will happen after he does? He will no longer be able to fuck my mouth!" The whole show is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oUz0mN5mYaw
She was also on the program ‘Televie’ on RTL TV1, and sang “Le soleil de ma vie” in duet with Francois Pirette; video available at:
www.rtl.be/rtltvi/video/440813.aspx
She also ‘performed’ ‘Deux ils, deux elles’, available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFspini2R0
A report on this event featuring an interview with Lara can be seen at: www.rtl.be/videos/video/440693.aspx
Also, ‘Cest au programme’, in which a short portion of the video for the next single from the album, "Je rêve d’une étoile” is shown, available at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xz31v8_lara-fabian-c-est-au-programme-17-04-13_music?start=12#.UXZmPYKhU-w
Other shows included “C À Vous”, available at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xz2f36_lara-fabian-c-a-vous-16-04-2013#.UXZnr4KhU-w
‘Access prive’ at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhsET5XvXU4
“Face a face”, available at:
www.rtl.be/rtltvi/categorie/face-a-face/1656.aspx
BFM TV, at: www.bfmtv.com/video/bfmtv/divertissement/retour-lara-fabian-20-04-122194/
JT on TF1 at: www.dailymotion.com/video/xz5l0f_lara-fabian-jt-tf1-20h-du-19-04-13_music#.UXZyH4KhU-w
Among others!
[Note, these are interview shows in French but they often include video clips…The links are given here since many of these are not on youtube and so may be harder to find. Thanks go to all the Lara fan sites that have tracked them down.]
In addition, she gave a lengthy interview with Charts in France, translated below:
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LARA FABIAN: ' TO SAY THAT ONE FEARS FAILURE, IT IS IN A WAY TO CAUSE IT '
Back in France after many years of absence and a Russian exile, Lara Fabian reveals this week her "Secret". This is the title of her new album, rich of 17 titles, 17 stories that remind us of the events in which we all could one day be confronted on melodies largely written by Janey Clewer, with whom the singer forms a true tandem . Returning to the front of the stage, Lara Fabian confides her doubts and some of her weaknesses, revealing between the lines between her strengths. Meet her.
You've been away for several years. One could almost speak of a Russian exile since the release of the album "Toutes les femmes en moi" in 2009. It was necessary? Did you need to go far to find new inspiration and work on other projects?
LF: Lara Fabian: Yes. It is a door that has literally opened. It was also an opportunity that fit right with the fact that I had just become a mother and I stopped making music for a while. It was an opportunity to set foot on stage, rewrite new songs. And then work with other people in a different atmosphere. So I picked this opportunity as an opening on my career to other countries, other countries ...
You plan to continue your career in Russia?
LF: Yes. Absolutely. I am also writing a new album.
Who will benefit this time, a French release?
LF: I do not think it will be destined for the Russian market only. My album "Mademoiselle Zhivago" was released in France as well. In a manner rather confidential, it's true. It was released in a collector's box with a DVD. It really was a postcard that I had made, at the request of fans.
And then there's the film "Mademoiselle Zhivago", signed by Alan Badoev. An amazing project with which one discovers you with qualities we did not know of you. The cinema is a dream of the young girl?
LF: You have discovered the actress. I would love making movies and play in other films, but as you know, in France, one is labeled. When you are a singer, in the head of directors, one can hardly be anything else. I hope this film will help people think about me for their projects, and who puts a damper because I'm a singer, to say that I am also an actress. I hope it will serve as a teaser, a presentation of what I can do.
The daily Le Parisien has recently devoted an article to your success in Russia. It announced big numbers: 800,000 albums sold. It seems almost incredible in view of the market there.
LF: These are the figures that my Russian producers who released the album gave me. Is it that an artist like me can confirm what the distributors say? I do not think so (smile). I confess that when I was told that I was also amazed. But I saw that we filled the halls of 4,000 people for three years. I sang in a Kremlin sold out for six or seven nights in a row. For me, there is a relevance between the numbers of discs sold and the number of tickets sold. At the same time, we know that the Russian market is plagued by piracy, with a lot of illegal downloading. So success is not easily quantifiable. I think they told me the truth. I hope this is true anyway (laughs).
And this year, you come back a French album, "The Secret." The first single "Deux ils, deux elles " is going on right now on radio. It has also got a very nice clip, which takes part in the debate that divides on the issue of marriage for all. Are you not afraid of being accused of surfing the political agenda for this comeback?
LF: You remember that I had sung a title called "La Difference" a few years ago? I think I answered your question ... It's been twenty years since I am fighting for the same thing. And I almost want to say that, unfortunately, I wrote a song that still speaks today.
The formal vote will take place at the National Assembly next week, this is a victory for all homosexuals, a victory for the right of inequality, a victory for the family or simply the victory of love?
LF: For me, it is the victory of love. I will defend it. It is love for all that I advocate, not only marriage for all. But love for all, it is also the idea behind the word love, we can put the same rights for everyone. It is at this time we can really say that love wins. A victory over a form of intolerance and bigotry.
Have you been shocked at times by some remarks made by the opponents of this reform?
LF: Yes, of course. I confess that I find it hard to understand the arguments of opponents. If I take a step back from everything that has been said and hold the arguments that have been advanced by the opponents, I understand one thing. It is that these people are afraid. It destabilizes them in absolutely fundamental beliefs. It is, in a certain manner, putting into question all their beliefs on everything in life, all of that on which were established our principles, precepts ... This is why I can look at things more leniently and say, "Well, that's simple, all you're told since you were little, suddenly flies apart and what become of your landmarks? ".This is the only argument that I can understand. I say "argument", but it is not even an argument! What I mean is that this is the only reason that can soothe me with regard to the violence that I see today.
As you rightly pointed out, this is not the first time you sing about gay and lesbian love. Have you, yourself, been touched one day by the heart of another woman?
LF: I am touched by the heart of beings. I always said that if the being who had conquered me was a woman, in the sense of the soul that she is, I would have been in love with a woman. But it is found, that all beings who have conquered me one after the other, are men. Maybe because I'm yin enough to need a counterweight that is yang. Go figure! If it happened for me to fall completely for a woman, in the sense of the being that she was, I wouldn’’t be stopped by conformity. I'm definitely not closed to the idea that one can love a “being” (smile).
Sexuality, you also mention in the first song which gives its title to your new album. You talk about incest. It's still brutal as the opening theme for a disc.
LF: This album is a journey that goes from tragedy to acceptance to resilience, which speaks of the impact of the hardest life, expresses our responses to these impacts and explains how we get out. Incest, eating disorders and betrayals are part of life’s impact. And to start this album with this song, it was to unveil one of the most painful secrets of mankind.
Can we expect you to take part in the debate on other social issues in the future?
LF: I would if things upset me and I feel the need to raise some awareness with the softness and lightness of the music.
"The Secret" was conceived as a musical but also visual project. The image is sometimes enigmatic, such as covering the pocket. You do not appear on this disc.
LF: No, it was not necessary. The symbol was stronger than my face.
And, conversely, we discover this week Gala magazine, which has had much talking about it. You appear completely naked. It's confusing ...
LF: Yes, but there is a real theme around it. I do not appear to naked to be naked. It tells a story about this nudity. In fact, it is not, conversely. This is the work of an artist who reveals something close to her heart, and who in fact speaks of this by being exposed in a serene and comfortable space. The symbol is on the cover of this album, which is a Japanese Ensō [circle] tells the story of the return to center. It conveys inner peace, serenity ... Happiness itself is found simply. Gala is the reflection in images of this interiority, of this happiness refound.
In other words, you say that you are now in full bloom? You touch a finger happiness?
LF: Yes, but I'm working every day (smile). This is not an accident. I'm not touched by grace. I understand a number of things that make every day I work to keep the peace and sense of perspective. But we can say that every day, until now, I have arrived rather well.
On this album, you wrote the lyrics, as almost always. The music is the work of Janey Clewer. "The Secret" is also the story of a tandem?
LF: Yes, it is true that "The Secret" is, as you say, the story of our tandem. There is also Flavien Companion and Giora Linenberg who worked on three songs. It is true that this is the story of Janey and I, a friendship that has lasted 23 years. She wrote a title on my first album, "Pure", "Je t'appartiens"and then another on the album "Nue", "Bambina". It's been very long time since we worked together and we really had the desire to create something together.
"The Secret" is 17 tracks spread over a double album. There is a title ("Kalpataru") that 6 minutes 32. You want to get rid of the usual frames of creation?
LF: You know, it's hard to tell a story while being limited to the timing. One creates a musical and sonic space in which the story actually exists and develops. And then, sometimes, you're right, it goes beyond what is "formatted" or "codable". But in this case, I could not do otherwise.
Which renders more difficult the passage of these titles on the radio?
LF: I think that in some cases, it is a compromise that we can not make. After that, there are songs that one can completely edit, and remain coherent regardless.
In musical terms, this new album is a real surprise. We leave sometimes the beaten path, but we'll see you in registers in which you had already pushed your voice. There are pop sounds, rock and lyrical interpretation. "The Secret" is it not sort of the sum of all your experiences?
LF: "The Secret" is the sum of all my musical loves. Past experiences? Absolutely! And the expression of everything that inspires me in music, what I have always loved. From everything I've ever had but had the feeling of not having enough depth. With "The Secret", I have this feeling of being able to touch everything, taste everything, in shades like that. And then, the harmony is made through musical interludes. Of course it is vast! Of course it is varied! Of course it's eclectic! But the bridges from one song to another, allow us to move from one world to another musically. And that's what creates the links of the album. With my voice of course (smile).
A very beautiful album, very rich indeed, but perhaps less accessible nevertheless ...
LF: It's possible. Accessibility, it depends on whether you create an emotion. For me, being accessible is to create an emotion. Accessible in the popular radio or sense, is something else. And from this point of view, maybe you're right. But "Le Secret", I thought of it as an album that gives emotions. I consider that it is accessible to human feelings.
Failure is it something that scares you?
LF: I am a person who doubts very much. I'm still quite feverish when I present something. We all fear failure because we want so much to do. Saying "I fear failure," I think it is someway provokes it. I do not like this formula. Yes I doubt! Yes I tremble! Yes I am feverish! Yes I'm afraid! But I do not formulate the possibility of living a failure in my mind. Because otherwise it creates the space, one creates for the material so that it develops into reality.
Are there times in your career you may now, with hindsight, call failure?
LF: No. For me, there are no successes or failures. There are simply experiences in life. Sometimes, they are less successful. Sometimes they have more or less failed. I think it is a term too hard which makes a being culpable. It's hard a failure! It is useless to see it like this. It does not allow us to take distance and let go of the pain of what already seemed difficult.
This album was released on your label 9Productions. It is distributed by Warner Music. This is the price of artistic freedom?
LF: Not at all. I've always been artistically free. I always did what I felt. It is not the price of freedom but the realities of the new situation in which one finds oneself that allowed me to assemble a team.
But you are not closed to the idea of signing on day again with a major?
LF: No. It will depend on the person who will be sitting on the leather seat and of which artistic proposal we will talk.
25-year career, millions of records sold and prizes gleaned from various ceremonies. What remains for you to accomplish?
LF: To last (smile)! I think this is the most complex. And then suggest some thing that is different every time. Which reveals a new facet of the personality of an artist. Evolve and stay well in her time too.
Also, be sure not to disappoint the expectations of the public. Which has been long in your case ...
LF: I am very careful with expectations. I try to be in the moment and give the best to every second, and especially not to be waiting in an uncertain state.
Before you leave, I want to ask you what is your secret? The one that today you really want to reveal ...
LF: To see life with a little more distance (smile). More height! More simplicity! This is the key to be at peace with one’s soul. It is to consider that, sometimes it's easier than one thinks ...
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BTW, this was perhaps the only mention of the Mlle. Zhivago film this past week, and only because she was specifically asked about it. If she really wanted people to appreciate her as an actress, she had plenty of opportunity to bring it up. This is a perfect example of how a film can be released, but if the lead actor does not want to publicize it, it can easily get lost. At least the fans who have most wanted to see it have gotten the chance (at least, most of it)…if it doesn’t help Lara’s acting career, she has only herself to blame.
Little Lou was with Lara on stage at the Cirque Royal in Brussels, at the "New Music Hall". It was a show produced by the Joëlle Morane Foundation for "Make a Wish". Several pictures are available at:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151565953802417&set=a.398533517416.164839.382393522416&type=1&theater
A relevant videos about this event (not including Lara) is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HboBnzb2ZcM
(but Lou is shown dancing at ~1:08 to 1:13…!)
Lara sang “Bambina” at the event, appropriately enough. No video of that is (yet) available.
Lara will be back in ‘the countries to the east’ shortly. She announced that she will be in Baku, Azerbaijan May 6-8, at the South Caucus International Forum on Inclusion, video available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdluOxc6fU&feature=youtu.be
As noted, they will be addressing democracy-related issues like inclusion, shared societies and women's economic, social and political empowerment.
Next week features additional media opportunities… We’ll also get a better reading on sales of the CD. A new thread with some additional reviews of the album, including mine, accompanies this update.
David
www.evergig.com/player/775DC1E2-E738-43E3-9C46-5C28260912A2
Tarcisio also made the audio of the show available at:
www.wetransfer.com/downloads/eefbf506c87316895344a7aeeb2044d620130420015419/f795603c894da9140f6c6b1426e8cfd520130420015419/98aa97
[Thank you!]
In addition and of equal prominence, were the pictures of Lara in Gala magazine. If it was her goal to gain attention, she succeeded, probably beyond even her own expectations. Consider this (translated) comment at www.programme-tv.net/news/buzz/39310-lara-fabian-pose-nue-couverture-gala-buzz/:
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Lara Fabian posing nude on the cover of Gala is the buzz (PHOTOS)
It was not long ago that it had not happened, but Lara Fabian is the buzz! How? Posing naked in the latest issue of Gala…Lara Fabian is back on the front of the media scene: a fresh out album, The Secret, a tearful appearance in The Voice alongside Florent Pagny, and photos completely bare in the new Gala!
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In reality, they were not really compeltely nude’ photos, but mostly bare with strategic coverings. On the off-chance that you haven’t seen them, the photo spread and article, along with a ‘making of’ video are available at:
www.larafabianbrasil.com.br/2013/04/lara-fabian-e-capa-da-nova-edicao-da.html
That Lara would agree to ‘bare it all’, even to that extent was completely unexpected. In fact it was such a shock to her fans that they thought the cover of the magazine was a joke someone was playing. Some years ago, it was suggested on a show that Lara should pose for Playboy, and she rejected the idea without a moment’s hesitation. However, as she said in the following interview, her perception of herself and her comfort with her body have changed. Here’s a translation of her interview with the magazine Gala. Fr
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Lara Fabian chose Gala magazine for a nude photo shoot and so evoked her rebirth. The singer has a new album, the ‘Le Secret’ in stores since yesterday and indulges in the pages of our magazine.
Her silhouette thinned his face is more chiseled, but her voice is still intact.
After some years of absence (her last original album was in 2005) Lara Fabian (43) writes ‘Le Secret’, available in stores from April 15.
17 tracks, which are stories that connect without being mixed, which assemble without resembling.
In the meantime, she became the mother of the little Lou, who turns six years in November, her career exploded in the east most notably in Russia, where she is a big star, she helped Florent Pagny in the battles of The Voice on the channel TF1, and separated from her partner Gerard Pullicino.
Today at peace with herself she is reconciled with her body and has gotten rid of her inhibitions. Here she proves it:
Gala: Why did you agree to pose nude in the magazine gala?
Lara: I evolved. Today I look at myself with a more lenience. In the past, I confess I would have felt bad accepting to do a photo shoot like this.
Not because I was totally uncomfortable with myself, mostly because I did not radiate the same energy.
You know, a woman rarely thinks herself beautiful ... and I'm no exception to the rule.
Here, the photographs Helene Renault, captured perfectly the state of mind in which I am now.
Gala: How do you feel?
Lara: I feel at peace with myself. This is beyond a reconciliation which occurred after a fight with my body.
It is my general state of mind. My relationship with my body is much simpler. I feel it is a formidable machine.
From now on, we accept both the defects and weaknesses. Okay, I'm not a model, I have fat legs of six feet, but with age, it seems to have chosen the best for what I could become. I accept myself as I am, knowing I'm not perfect.
Gala: Your job was tormented by this image?
Lara: The music is for me, as a sport discipline.
Long ago I was watching what I ate and drank, I exercised moderately and it was impossible to eat chocolate bars, for example, it does not work well with the flexibility that requires abdominal breathing. To sing well, there is no secret, only need to be good on your skin, be comfortable, feel free. We should always take care of ourselves, and that I always did, but it's true, I was 10 pounds heavier. I made up my faults and my body needed those pounds. I was on the defensive, I protected myself.
Gala: One of the songs from his new album is called Amourexique (related to anorexia). It is a story in which you were a part?
Lara: I've been there in fact abusing my body. Others are struggling with alcohol or drugs ... This can happen.
For many years, I did not love me, I had a lack of tenderness for myself. In this song I describe in filigree all this evil that has afflicted me. I sing for example, that I was fed with "Tulips and water pale." At that time my inner disorder translated into an eating disorder. But after the birth of my daughter, everything was clear and I knew I had found my balance.
-------------------------------------------------------------
While garnering attention and name recognition, as might have been expected it also got Lara some ridicule. On Twitter, people posted parody photos of themselves or others sitting in the cross-legged way Lara does on the cover. Not surprisingly, ‘Le Petit Journal’ was in the lead in this activity.
One hopes that this publicity helped, rather than hurt, the public recognition of ‘Le Secret’. Currently, it is at or near the top on several of the prominent download sites, though it’s too early to get an official reading from the main charts. Actually, these were not the only photos of Lara where her outfit was the issue. Cinetelereview published photos of Lara associated with the designer Bernard Depoorter; one is available at: www.cinetelerevue.be/fr/Toutes-lactu/fullnews.html?id=22150&news_id=22150&cmp_id=7
This, however, got much less play!
In regard to the music, Lara was on multiple TV and radio shows, including "Touche Pas à Mon Poste" in which she performs a brief version of ‘"Tu es mon autre" with Enora Malagré. She also hit back at ‘Le Petit Journal’, saying: "In fact, I think what made me laugh the most is that I asked him to see me [have me on the show] and he refuses. He does not want to receive me. At the same time, I understand because he has me on and then if ultimately, he was nice to me, what will happen after he does? He will no longer be able to fuck my mouth!" The whole show is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oUz0mN5mYaw
She was also on the program ‘Televie’ on RTL TV1, and sang “Le soleil de ma vie” in duet with Francois Pirette; video available at:
www.rtl.be/rtltvi/video/440813.aspx
She also ‘performed’ ‘Deux ils, deux elles’, available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqFspini2R0
A report on this event featuring an interview with Lara can be seen at: www.rtl.be/videos/video/440693.aspx
Also, ‘Cest au programme’, in which a short portion of the video for the next single from the album, "Je rêve d’une étoile” is shown, available at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xz31v8_lara-fabian-c-est-au-programme-17-04-13_music?start=12#.UXZmPYKhU-w
Other shows included “C À Vous”, available at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/xz2f36_lara-fabian-c-a-vous-16-04-2013#.UXZnr4KhU-w
‘Access prive’ at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhsET5XvXU4
“Face a face”, available at:
www.rtl.be/rtltvi/categorie/face-a-face/1656.aspx
BFM TV, at: www.bfmtv.com/video/bfmtv/divertissement/retour-lara-fabian-20-04-122194/
JT on TF1 at: www.dailymotion.com/video/xz5l0f_lara-fabian-jt-tf1-20h-du-19-04-13_music#.UXZyH4KhU-w
Among others!
[Note, these are interview shows in French but they often include video clips…The links are given here since many of these are not on youtube and so may be harder to find. Thanks go to all the Lara fan sites that have tracked them down.]
In addition, she gave a lengthy interview with Charts in France, translated below:
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LARA FABIAN: ' TO SAY THAT ONE FEARS FAILURE, IT IS IN A WAY TO CAUSE IT '
Back in France after many years of absence and a Russian exile, Lara Fabian reveals this week her "Secret". This is the title of her new album, rich of 17 titles, 17 stories that remind us of the events in which we all could one day be confronted on melodies largely written by Janey Clewer, with whom the singer forms a true tandem . Returning to the front of the stage, Lara Fabian confides her doubts and some of her weaknesses, revealing between the lines between her strengths. Meet her.
You've been away for several years. One could almost speak of a Russian exile since the release of the album "Toutes les femmes en moi" in 2009. It was necessary? Did you need to go far to find new inspiration and work on other projects?
LF: Lara Fabian: Yes. It is a door that has literally opened. It was also an opportunity that fit right with the fact that I had just become a mother and I stopped making music for a while. It was an opportunity to set foot on stage, rewrite new songs. And then work with other people in a different atmosphere. So I picked this opportunity as an opening on my career to other countries, other countries ...
You plan to continue your career in Russia?
LF: Yes. Absolutely. I am also writing a new album.
Who will benefit this time, a French release?
LF: I do not think it will be destined for the Russian market only. My album "Mademoiselle Zhivago" was released in France as well. In a manner rather confidential, it's true. It was released in a collector's box with a DVD. It really was a postcard that I had made, at the request of fans.
And then there's the film "Mademoiselle Zhivago", signed by Alan Badoev. An amazing project with which one discovers you with qualities we did not know of you. The cinema is a dream of the young girl?
LF: You have discovered the actress. I would love making movies and play in other films, but as you know, in France, one is labeled. When you are a singer, in the head of directors, one can hardly be anything else. I hope this film will help people think about me for their projects, and who puts a damper because I'm a singer, to say that I am also an actress. I hope it will serve as a teaser, a presentation of what I can do.
The daily Le Parisien has recently devoted an article to your success in Russia. It announced big numbers: 800,000 albums sold. It seems almost incredible in view of the market there.
LF: These are the figures that my Russian producers who released the album gave me. Is it that an artist like me can confirm what the distributors say? I do not think so (smile). I confess that when I was told that I was also amazed. But I saw that we filled the halls of 4,000 people for three years. I sang in a Kremlin sold out for six or seven nights in a row. For me, there is a relevance between the numbers of discs sold and the number of tickets sold. At the same time, we know that the Russian market is plagued by piracy, with a lot of illegal downloading. So success is not easily quantifiable. I think they told me the truth. I hope this is true anyway (laughs).
And this year, you come back a French album, "The Secret." The first single "Deux ils, deux elles " is going on right now on radio. It has also got a very nice clip, which takes part in the debate that divides on the issue of marriage for all. Are you not afraid of being accused of surfing the political agenda for this comeback?
LF: You remember that I had sung a title called "La Difference" a few years ago? I think I answered your question ... It's been twenty years since I am fighting for the same thing. And I almost want to say that, unfortunately, I wrote a song that still speaks today.
The formal vote will take place at the National Assembly next week, this is a victory for all homosexuals, a victory for the right of inequality, a victory for the family or simply the victory of love?
LF: For me, it is the victory of love. I will defend it. It is love for all that I advocate, not only marriage for all. But love for all, it is also the idea behind the word love, we can put the same rights for everyone. It is at this time we can really say that love wins. A victory over a form of intolerance and bigotry.
Have you been shocked at times by some remarks made by the opponents of this reform?
LF: Yes, of course. I confess that I find it hard to understand the arguments of opponents. If I take a step back from everything that has been said and hold the arguments that have been advanced by the opponents, I understand one thing. It is that these people are afraid. It destabilizes them in absolutely fundamental beliefs. It is, in a certain manner, putting into question all their beliefs on everything in life, all of that on which were established our principles, precepts ... This is why I can look at things more leniently and say, "Well, that's simple, all you're told since you were little, suddenly flies apart and what become of your landmarks? ".This is the only argument that I can understand. I say "argument", but it is not even an argument! What I mean is that this is the only reason that can soothe me with regard to the violence that I see today.
As you rightly pointed out, this is not the first time you sing about gay and lesbian love. Have you, yourself, been touched one day by the heart of another woman?
LF: I am touched by the heart of beings. I always said that if the being who had conquered me was a woman, in the sense of the soul that she is, I would have been in love with a woman. But it is found, that all beings who have conquered me one after the other, are men. Maybe because I'm yin enough to need a counterweight that is yang. Go figure! If it happened for me to fall completely for a woman, in the sense of the being that she was, I wouldn’’t be stopped by conformity. I'm definitely not closed to the idea that one can love a “being” (smile).
Sexuality, you also mention in the first song which gives its title to your new album. You talk about incest. It's still brutal as the opening theme for a disc.
LF: This album is a journey that goes from tragedy to acceptance to resilience, which speaks of the impact of the hardest life, expresses our responses to these impacts and explains how we get out. Incest, eating disorders and betrayals are part of life’s impact. And to start this album with this song, it was to unveil one of the most painful secrets of mankind.
Can we expect you to take part in the debate on other social issues in the future?
LF: I would if things upset me and I feel the need to raise some awareness with the softness and lightness of the music.
"The Secret" was conceived as a musical but also visual project. The image is sometimes enigmatic, such as covering the pocket. You do not appear on this disc.
LF: No, it was not necessary. The symbol was stronger than my face.
And, conversely, we discover this week Gala magazine, which has had much talking about it. You appear completely naked. It's confusing ...
LF: Yes, but there is a real theme around it. I do not appear to naked to be naked. It tells a story about this nudity. In fact, it is not, conversely. This is the work of an artist who reveals something close to her heart, and who in fact speaks of this by being exposed in a serene and comfortable space. The symbol is on the cover of this album, which is a Japanese Ensō [circle] tells the story of the return to center. It conveys inner peace, serenity ... Happiness itself is found simply. Gala is the reflection in images of this interiority, of this happiness refound.
In other words, you say that you are now in full bloom? You touch a finger happiness?
LF: Yes, but I'm working every day (smile). This is not an accident. I'm not touched by grace. I understand a number of things that make every day I work to keep the peace and sense of perspective. But we can say that every day, until now, I have arrived rather well.
On this album, you wrote the lyrics, as almost always. The music is the work of Janey Clewer. "The Secret" is also the story of a tandem?
LF: Yes, it is true that "The Secret" is, as you say, the story of our tandem. There is also Flavien Companion and Giora Linenberg who worked on three songs. It is true that this is the story of Janey and I, a friendship that has lasted 23 years. She wrote a title on my first album, "Pure", "Je t'appartiens"and then another on the album "Nue", "Bambina". It's been very long time since we worked together and we really had the desire to create something together.
"The Secret" is 17 tracks spread over a double album. There is a title ("Kalpataru") that 6 minutes 32. You want to get rid of the usual frames of creation?
LF: You know, it's hard to tell a story while being limited to the timing. One creates a musical and sonic space in which the story actually exists and develops. And then, sometimes, you're right, it goes beyond what is "formatted" or "codable". But in this case, I could not do otherwise.
Which renders more difficult the passage of these titles on the radio?
LF: I think that in some cases, it is a compromise that we can not make. After that, there are songs that one can completely edit, and remain coherent regardless.
In musical terms, this new album is a real surprise. We leave sometimes the beaten path, but we'll see you in registers in which you had already pushed your voice. There are pop sounds, rock and lyrical interpretation. "The Secret" is it not sort of the sum of all your experiences?
LF: "The Secret" is the sum of all my musical loves. Past experiences? Absolutely! And the expression of everything that inspires me in music, what I have always loved. From everything I've ever had but had the feeling of not having enough depth. With "The Secret", I have this feeling of being able to touch everything, taste everything, in shades like that. And then, the harmony is made through musical interludes. Of course it is vast! Of course it is varied! Of course it's eclectic! But the bridges from one song to another, allow us to move from one world to another musically. And that's what creates the links of the album. With my voice of course (smile).
A very beautiful album, very rich indeed, but perhaps less accessible nevertheless ...
LF: It's possible. Accessibility, it depends on whether you create an emotion. For me, being accessible is to create an emotion. Accessible in the popular radio or sense, is something else. And from this point of view, maybe you're right. But "Le Secret", I thought of it as an album that gives emotions. I consider that it is accessible to human feelings.
Failure is it something that scares you?
LF: I am a person who doubts very much. I'm still quite feverish when I present something. We all fear failure because we want so much to do. Saying "I fear failure," I think it is someway provokes it. I do not like this formula. Yes I doubt! Yes I tremble! Yes I am feverish! Yes I'm afraid! But I do not formulate the possibility of living a failure in my mind. Because otherwise it creates the space, one creates for the material so that it develops into reality.
Are there times in your career you may now, with hindsight, call failure?
LF: No. For me, there are no successes or failures. There are simply experiences in life. Sometimes, they are less successful. Sometimes they have more or less failed. I think it is a term too hard which makes a being culpable. It's hard a failure! It is useless to see it like this. It does not allow us to take distance and let go of the pain of what already seemed difficult.
This album was released on your label 9Productions. It is distributed by Warner Music. This is the price of artistic freedom?
LF: Not at all. I've always been artistically free. I always did what I felt. It is not the price of freedom but the realities of the new situation in which one finds oneself that allowed me to assemble a team.
But you are not closed to the idea of signing on day again with a major?
LF: No. It will depend on the person who will be sitting on the leather seat and of which artistic proposal we will talk.
25-year career, millions of records sold and prizes gleaned from various ceremonies. What remains for you to accomplish?
LF: To last (smile)! I think this is the most complex. And then suggest some thing that is different every time. Which reveals a new facet of the personality of an artist. Evolve and stay well in her time too.
Also, be sure not to disappoint the expectations of the public. Which has been long in your case ...
LF: I am very careful with expectations. I try to be in the moment and give the best to every second, and especially not to be waiting in an uncertain state.
Before you leave, I want to ask you what is your secret? The one that today you really want to reveal ...
LF: To see life with a little more distance (smile). More height! More simplicity! This is the key to be at peace with one’s soul. It is to consider that, sometimes it's easier than one thinks ...
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BTW, this was perhaps the only mention of the Mlle. Zhivago film this past week, and only because she was specifically asked about it. If she really wanted people to appreciate her as an actress, she had plenty of opportunity to bring it up. This is a perfect example of how a film can be released, but if the lead actor does not want to publicize it, it can easily get lost. At least the fans who have most wanted to see it have gotten the chance (at least, most of it)…if it doesn’t help Lara’s acting career, she has only herself to blame.
Little Lou was with Lara on stage at the Cirque Royal in Brussels, at the "New Music Hall". It was a show produced by the Joëlle Morane Foundation for "Make a Wish". Several pictures are available at:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151565953802417&set=a.398533517416.164839.382393522416&type=1&theater
A relevant videos about this event (not including Lara) is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HboBnzb2ZcM
(but Lou is shown dancing at ~1:08 to 1:13…!)
Lara sang “Bambina” at the event, appropriately enough. No video of that is (yet) available.
Lara will be back in ‘the countries to the east’ shortly. She announced that she will be in Baku, Azerbaijan May 6-8, at the South Caucus International Forum on Inclusion, video available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdluOxc6fU&feature=youtu.be
As noted, they will be addressing democracy-related issues like inclusion, shared societies and women's economic, social and political empowerment.
Next week features additional media opportunities… We’ll also get a better reading on sales of the CD. A new thread with some additional reviews of the album, including mine, accompanies this update.
David
