Post by davidhr on Jul 7, 2020 7:34:04 GMT -5
Lara was on the show “Hot Mix Radio” in France this past week (remotely, of course); this is a preliminary to their broadcasting the ‘playlist’ of favorite songs she provided them, which will take place today (7-7). The interview itself can be heard at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD4PaaqX2dA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR36-ooOkj2DccN4U_NJgoGLO7ZUUAC4iyYl2Xa9F3UgsMbNnwyhqfay9eo
An article discussing the interview can be found at:
www.hotmixradio.fr/2020/07/03/lara-fabian-nous-parle-de-la-reedition-de-son-album?fbclid=IwAR049Dm1mVIhRPQxthCn3_mkEvB1YzPyhBYIEBT8wMCLcdWwbcVE_4QHgiQ
Here’s the translation:
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Lara Fabian Tells us About the Reissue of her Album
On the occasion of the reissue of her album “Papillon” which became “Papillon (s)”, Lara Fabian came back with us on the history of several pieces of this opus, on love and resilience and gave us also her proposed ideal playlist, telling us about different songs that marked her life.
In confinement in Canada, it was via Zoom that we had the pleasure of interviewing Lara Fabian on the reissue of her opus “Papillon”, released in 2019. We first took her news to find out how she has lived through this particular period. “I would say that it was a roller-coaster ride. The start was a bit abrupt. It is certain that canceling a whole tour, seeing it shift, not really knowing what the resolution of all this will be, that had plunged me into a certain questioning. Today I managed to see it more as a badly wrapped gift, as an opportunity to rest, I who had never had the opportunity to do so for many years. I would say that after all, since I was with my family, I was at home, it went well.”
Entitled “Papillon” ("Papillon (s)” for the reissue) the singer explained to us her story with this animal. “I am far from the obscure context of the butterfly or the monarch I am more adorned with this totem because my grandmother has often reminded me of the urgency of living here and now and that the butterfly is an animal that lives little. Definitely it puts us in contact with the ephemeral of things so for me it was truly a totem that comes from this desire that my grandmother had to pass this truth on to me.” With this disc, the singer marks a turning point with more electro-pop productions. “It was a desire to work with someone who nourished this love for electro-pop and who did it while respecting the genesis of things, since I am someone who loves melodies, who loves texts, so it’s important to be able to dress up what my DNA is with sounds more suited to our times.”
There are also more nuances in her texts. “It is true that today I am perhaps more aware of the duality of things and I am less convinced perhaps than I could be before in my writing. “Papillon” allowed me to fly both in full gratitude and afterwards, in full resilience. There is no possible resilience if you have not resisted first So before I was just resisting. Today I understood that in the rupture or in the end of something, there is not necessarily a drama there is just the transformation of something”.
The singer also told us the story of the song “Superman”, quite touching: “I write either in the form of an observation or even a discussion with someone who translates with me on its perimeter and that belonged to a discussion that I heard while I was sitting secretly with my cap in a station and where I heard this extraordinary gentleman who dreamed of something else. He wanted other things but he had the feeling of not really being understood, but that deep down he had great aspiration, great desires and I said to myself, in fact, there is always a hero who goes underground and who flies too low and I wanted to write a song about this being who, in this case had a very clear narrative. But afterwards, I believe that many of them feel it, to have the impression of being a little locked in a box. And when we live this kind of life.
We also mentioned the title “Nos coeurs a la fenetre”, release to help the nursing staff. “I had the urgency to contribute, to do something that could make sense in concrete terms to mean money that could flow to them (note: all the benefits are donated to the caregivers in France, Italy, Belgium and Canada). Other than that, I wrote a whole bunch of weird, astonishing things, which I called the lockdown sessions, which we may get to see soon. It’s a little bit of special music sessions, I don’t know how it will be perceived because it’s not songs but it’s my voice anyway, so let’s see! For me, this period was rather favorable for writing, for writing differently, for formulating an expression, a different emotion.
Lara Fabian also gave us the pleasure of offering us her ideal playlist with notably Celine Dion, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Maroon 5, Laurent Voulzy or Christina Aguilera. The entire playlist will be available on Tuesday at 6 pm on HOTMIXRADIO PLATINUM!
---------------------------------------
Additional comments available in the interview itself:
**Lara has given up reminding program hosts that her previous album in English, Camouflage, was also an electropop album. Perhaps they never listened to it so they wouldn’t know. Perhaps she herself has forgotten about it.
**Lara emphasized that with respect to ending relationships, yes, you have to be resilient in transforming the drama, but forgiveness is a fundamental part of the healing.
**For “Je suis a toi”, the host said it seemed to be a very possessive song. Lara said she could understand that judgement, but she thought it was really just his perception derived from his experience, that no longer belonging can scare someone, that it is robbing him of something that is fundamental to him. In contrast, she feels it’s about taking the risk of freeing yourself completely and by ‘giving yourself’ to someone you can give rise to a spectacular flight, that the “ride is worth the fall”. This is true especially if one is going to develop a good capacity of resilience so that we are no longer afraid to suffer.
**For the song “Je ne t’aime plus”, the host said it’s hard not to see it as a counterpoint to her best known song (Je t’aime), and Lara agreed, saying, yes, it doesn’t always end well, and this is about the ‘end of that song’. The host noted this ‘end’ is a much calmer song than the declaration of love in Je t’aime which has been criticized for being excessive.
**In discussing the ‘Lockdown sessions”, Lara indicated that she wrote a whole series of things that she called ‘locals’, a dozen new songs which are strange in that she uses her voice a little more like an instrument, which contain a lot of repetition. This is what the confinement inspired her to do, these somewhat peculiar music sessions, which are thus somewhat brave. Writing contrary to her usual formula allowed for the expression of a different emotion. The host agreed it sounded daring. And, yes, as several people commented, from her description they sound like mantras.
**The host then wanted to explore what Lara will be doing for the rest of the year, assuming everything isn’t overwhelmed by the ‘second wave’ of the corona virus. In particular he was referring to the new concert dates, making up for the previous postponements. Lara said it was quite difficult today, that she had already had to alter the places and dates more than once, and so to “avoid the history of the Titanic”, they weren’t going to do too much. They will listen and observe and see how things are going, from not only a health point of view but also social and political, while remaining very calm. There is really no ‘big thing’ she can do apart from writing music and continuing to communicate through all the wonderful technologies. Also perhaps to see if there is something else that can be done beyond re-doing the concerts, something that will benefit creativity. [Note – as of right now, Lara’s concerts in France are due to begin September 4th; probably she’d now be able to get there, but would they really want people congregating in a concert hall at that time?]
**Concerning the playlist, with respect to the piece by Celine Dion, “S'il suffisait d'aimer”, Lara repeated what she’s said previously – that Celine was one of the great voices that inspired her, like Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston. She sees that she has two things in common with them: a sense of soul and how they engage things. With respect to Celine, they’ve met very little. The media always put them in opposition but she feels they’re part of the same family, not just at the level of their musical choices or locally [i.e., Quebec] but that vocally they have the same colors in their voices. Lara feels that if she could spend more time with Celine they would find they have a lot of similar things to trade.
**Other songs on the playlist include “Pas toi” from Jean Jacques Goldman, “Un homme heureux” from William Sheller, ‘Fernando’ from Abba, “Tout Les Mamas” from Maurane.
**In response to a questionnaire that the program always ends with, when asked what was the last song that Lara listened to yesterday, she said “The Muffin Song” – to which the host responded, “What”? And Lara repeated it with great emphasis. [It is described as “an adorably weird music video that doubles as a recipe (and a suicide note) for delicious, fresh-baked muffins…]. In other words – a kid’s song. Lara said, you asked for the last song, and they heard it in the car. The host eventually got it, noting that he has children too, and they and his wife often control what one hears in the car. Both he and Lara got a good laugh out of it.
**He then raised the question of what the last movie she saw was, and Lara said “The Platform” on Netflix. [It’s described as “a 2019 Spanish science fiction-horror film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The film is set in a large, tower-style "Vertical Self-Management Center"]. Lara explained it’s like a social elevator, with a prison on the first floor and a table that goes vertically through all the floors. If you’re lucky enough to be on the 20th floor you’ll eat well; in other words, a metaphor of society. She said you have to see it to believe it.
**In response to the last concert she’s seen (which obviously was a while ago) Lara had a hard time remembering. She said it was in Quebec before her tour started, it featured several Quebecois artists, but the last show she went to was a Canadian ballet with music and dance (which qualified as having “live music”).
**As for the last series she saw, Lara came up with “The Man in the High Castle” on Amazon.
**The last dish she ate: Lara said she has a nasty gluten intolerance, “not that my fans know it”, she makes a cannelloni dish by hand, meatless, a vegan dish with a bechamel sauce.
**The last object she bought that they could talk about: the question itself brought laughter (what did they imagine that she couldn’t talk about), but she answered a green clay box. It is made from organic ultrafine volcanic rock and bentonite. Apparently you put food in it and it calms inflammation and boosts immunity.
**And concerning the last drink, Lara noted, as she has before, that she gets drunk very easily, so by the second gin and tonic, she’s already singing as if she’s live (with no confinement).
**For the last video games she played, she said it was a video game in which she liked the oculus, and traveled beyond our planet; you were in a space capsule that takes off and you leave very fast.
**The last giggle: Lara broke into a giggle thinking about it [which then made that the last giggle
]. There were two days she had to wake up early to do interviews in France about the tour in Europe (at 4 AM Quebec time), and she tried to set her alarm clock very quiet so as not to wake up Gabriel – but she did just the reverse and he woke up with a start and his expression was priceless. For her, at least, she said it was not a bad way to start the day.
**The last lie: Lara said she doesn’t like lying. Her last lie was, in effect, a white lie, arranging the truth so that she told someone what he wanted to hear, about what he had given her, she found a way to 'arrange the truth' so that it which wouldn’t punish him. The host said it was a good example to follow.
Meanwhile, in other news, Lara has not posted anything on her Instagram (or Facebook) site in the past week, (including not notifying fans that she will be on that show). This is a rarity for her, at least during this period of general confinement. In addition, more of her fan sites have either gone quiet, disappeared or become hidden. This includes, “Lara Fabian est ton autre” (has become inactive); “Lara Fabian et Emmanuel Moire LE duo” (has become private); “Lara Fabian Bien Plus Qu’une Passion. ‘Corse-Reunion’” (has disappeared); “Lara Fabian – PHQ” (has disappeared); “Lara Fabian - Un soir autour du monde” (has disappeared). Fan sites are always coming and going, but a number of these are ‘core sites’ whose inaccessibility is greatly missed. If anyone is aware of the reason for these changes, please let us know in the comments.
Lara will be on the show “Bonsoir bonsoir” this coming Thursday, July 9, and fans are being given a chance to present their opinion to her of what their favorite song is [in effect, a counterpoint to Lara's 'playlist']. The choices are presented at
www.facebook.com/BonsoirBonsoirRC/photos/a.1254975647993962/1651085481716308/?type=3&theater
As one can see they are Tout, Je t’aime, La difference and Leila. As to whether these are the only choices, the accompanying text reads “Vote with the Facebook emojis for your favorite song from Lara Fabian. She'll will wink at the chosen piece during her passage on the program next week. 🎶" Since only those four songs have emojis associated with them, it would appear it has to be one of them. Perhaps the program expects Lara will sing one of them, and if they have accompanying musicians, this will limit the number of songs they have to learn. Also, “Bonsoir bonsoir” is a TV show on ICI Radio-Canada, and so the choices available are all songs Lara wrote and performed in Quebec, during her earlier incarnation there.
Nevertheless, as one can see on the comments on that page, the fans have ignored that detail, as the first choice was “Je me souviens”, the next person suggested anything in Italian, then came Par amour, Le chemin, etc. Of the songs on the list, La difference seems to be in the lead (though none of the responses actually used emojis). It would be interesting if ‘Tout’ were to win, given that Lara is resistant to singing it anymore – though the text doesn’t actually say she will sing the winning song. [Like most Canadian TV programs, it is foolishly not available outside the country; inside, it can be seen at ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/bonsoir-bonsoir/site].
The Lara Fabian Connecting People site (https://vk.com/lf_cp) had an interesting and fun game – they show “several photos of different parts of the body, completely different people. Your task is to find Lara”. There are a number of rounds (and the correct answer is now shown). One can still play it (be careful to ignore the right answer, shown right below the images).
Concerning the commercial fate of the re-release of Papillon(s), in Quebec it is still at #10, in Belgium it has dropped from #62 to #78, while in France it has fallen from #85 to #136. As usual, there’s a “what have you done for me lately” attitude towards Lara. Her appearance on the Quebec Day celebration has kept her name alive in Quebec, whereas she’s been recently absent from the European theater.
For the interesting photo of the week, we go back a bit to Lara’s wedding anniversary of the previous week, with a nice picture from the Lara Fabian Greece site,
www.facebook.com/larafabiangreece/photos/a.451370928321339/2149080308550384/?type=3&theater
In the coming week, we’ll see if Lara has any greater contact with her fans, or if she actually goes away on vacation. Montreal is still in a state of emergency – it’s the most affected area in Canada – but Canada is one of the countries whose inhabitants are allowed to enter the European Union, and Sicily is her usual destination during the summer. Stay safe everybody – and that obviously includes Lara.
David
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD4PaaqX2dA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR36-ooOkj2DccN4U_NJgoGLO7ZUUAC4iyYl2Xa9F3UgsMbNnwyhqfay9eo
An article discussing the interview can be found at:
www.hotmixradio.fr/2020/07/03/lara-fabian-nous-parle-de-la-reedition-de-son-album?fbclid=IwAR049Dm1mVIhRPQxthCn3_mkEvB1YzPyhBYIEBT8wMCLcdWwbcVE_4QHgiQ
Here’s the translation:
---------------------------------------
Lara Fabian Tells us About the Reissue of her Album
On the occasion of the reissue of her album “Papillon” which became “Papillon (s)”, Lara Fabian came back with us on the history of several pieces of this opus, on love and resilience and gave us also her proposed ideal playlist, telling us about different songs that marked her life.
In confinement in Canada, it was via Zoom that we had the pleasure of interviewing Lara Fabian on the reissue of her opus “Papillon”, released in 2019. We first took her news to find out how she has lived through this particular period. “I would say that it was a roller-coaster ride. The start was a bit abrupt. It is certain that canceling a whole tour, seeing it shift, not really knowing what the resolution of all this will be, that had plunged me into a certain questioning. Today I managed to see it more as a badly wrapped gift, as an opportunity to rest, I who had never had the opportunity to do so for many years. I would say that after all, since I was with my family, I was at home, it went well.”
Entitled “Papillon” ("Papillon (s)” for the reissue) the singer explained to us her story with this animal. “I am far from the obscure context of the butterfly or the monarch I am more adorned with this totem because my grandmother has often reminded me of the urgency of living here and now and that the butterfly is an animal that lives little. Definitely it puts us in contact with the ephemeral of things so for me it was truly a totem that comes from this desire that my grandmother had to pass this truth on to me.” With this disc, the singer marks a turning point with more electro-pop productions. “It was a desire to work with someone who nourished this love for electro-pop and who did it while respecting the genesis of things, since I am someone who loves melodies, who loves texts, so it’s important to be able to dress up what my DNA is with sounds more suited to our times.”
There are also more nuances in her texts. “It is true that today I am perhaps more aware of the duality of things and I am less convinced perhaps than I could be before in my writing. “Papillon” allowed me to fly both in full gratitude and afterwards, in full resilience. There is no possible resilience if you have not resisted first So before I was just resisting. Today I understood that in the rupture or in the end of something, there is not necessarily a drama there is just the transformation of something”.
The singer also told us the story of the song “Superman”, quite touching: “I write either in the form of an observation or even a discussion with someone who translates with me on its perimeter and that belonged to a discussion that I heard while I was sitting secretly with my cap in a station and where I heard this extraordinary gentleman who dreamed of something else. He wanted other things but he had the feeling of not really being understood, but that deep down he had great aspiration, great desires and I said to myself, in fact, there is always a hero who goes underground and who flies too low and I wanted to write a song about this being who, in this case had a very clear narrative. But afterwards, I believe that many of them feel it, to have the impression of being a little locked in a box. And when we live this kind of life.
We also mentioned the title “Nos coeurs a la fenetre”, release to help the nursing staff. “I had the urgency to contribute, to do something that could make sense in concrete terms to mean money that could flow to them (note: all the benefits are donated to the caregivers in France, Italy, Belgium and Canada). Other than that, I wrote a whole bunch of weird, astonishing things, which I called the lockdown sessions, which we may get to see soon. It’s a little bit of special music sessions, I don’t know how it will be perceived because it’s not songs but it’s my voice anyway, so let’s see! For me, this period was rather favorable for writing, for writing differently, for formulating an expression, a different emotion.
Lara Fabian also gave us the pleasure of offering us her ideal playlist with notably Celine Dion, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Maroon 5, Laurent Voulzy or Christina Aguilera. The entire playlist will be available on Tuesday at 6 pm on HOTMIXRADIO PLATINUM!
---------------------------------------
Additional comments available in the interview itself:
**Lara has given up reminding program hosts that her previous album in English, Camouflage, was also an electropop album. Perhaps they never listened to it so they wouldn’t know. Perhaps she herself has forgotten about it.
**Lara emphasized that with respect to ending relationships, yes, you have to be resilient in transforming the drama, but forgiveness is a fundamental part of the healing.
**For “Je suis a toi”, the host said it seemed to be a very possessive song. Lara said she could understand that judgement, but she thought it was really just his perception derived from his experience, that no longer belonging can scare someone, that it is robbing him of something that is fundamental to him. In contrast, she feels it’s about taking the risk of freeing yourself completely and by ‘giving yourself’ to someone you can give rise to a spectacular flight, that the “ride is worth the fall”. This is true especially if one is going to develop a good capacity of resilience so that we are no longer afraid to suffer.
**For the song “Je ne t’aime plus”, the host said it’s hard not to see it as a counterpoint to her best known song (Je t’aime), and Lara agreed, saying, yes, it doesn’t always end well, and this is about the ‘end of that song’. The host noted this ‘end’ is a much calmer song than the declaration of love in Je t’aime which has been criticized for being excessive.
**In discussing the ‘Lockdown sessions”, Lara indicated that she wrote a whole series of things that she called ‘locals’, a dozen new songs which are strange in that she uses her voice a little more like an instrument, which contain a lot of repetition. This is what the confinement inspired her to do, these somewhat peculiar music sessions, which are thus somewhat brave. Writing contrary to her usual formula allowed for the expression of a different emotion. The host agreed it sounded daring. And, yes, as several people commented, from her description they sound like mantras.
**The host then wanted to explore what Lara will be doing for the rest of the year, assuming everything isn’t overwhelmed by the ‘second wave’ of the corona virus. In particular he was referring to the new concert dates, making up for the previous postponements. Lara said it was quite difficult today, that she had already had to alter the places and dates more than once, and so to “avoid the history of the Titanic”, they weren’t going to do too much. They will listen and observe and see how things are going, from not only a health point of view but also social and political, while remaining very calm. There is really no ‘big thing’ she can do apart from writing music and continuing to communicate through all the wonderful technologies. Also perhaps to see if there is something else that can be done beyond re-doing the concerts, something that will benefit creativity. [Note – as of right now, Lara’s concerts in France are due to begin September 4th; probably she’d now be able to get there, but would they really want people congregating in a concert hall at that time?]
**Concerning the playlist, with respect to the piece by Celine Dion, “S'il suffisait d'aimer”, Lara repeated what she’s said previously – that Celine was one of the great voices that inspired her, like Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston. She sees that she has two things in common with them: a sense of soul and how they engage things. With respect to Celine, they’ve met very little. The media always put them in opposition but she feels they’re part of the same family, not just at the level of their musical choices or locally [i.e., Quebec] but that vocally they have the same colors in their voices. Lara feels that if she could spend more time with Celine they would find they have a lot of similar things to trade.
**Other songs on the playlist include “Pas toi” from Jean Jacques Goldman, “Un homme heureux” from William Sheller, ‘Fernando’ from Abba, “Tout Les Mamas” from Maurane.
**In response to a questionnaire that the program always ends with, when asked what was the last song that Lara listened to yesterday, she said “The Muffin Song” – to which the host responded, “What”? And Lara repeated it with great emphasis. [It is described as “an adorably weird music video that doubles as a recipe (and a suicide note) for delicious, fresh-baked muffins…]. In other words – a kid’s song. Lara said, you asked for the last song, and they heard it in the car. The host eventually got it, noting that he has children too, and they and his wife often control what one hears in the car. Both he and Lara got a good laugh out of it.
**He then raised the question of what the last movie she saw was, and Lara said “The Platform” on Netflix. [It’s described as “a 2019 Spanish science fiction-horror film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The film is set in a large, tower-style "Vertical Self-Management Center"]. Lara explained it’s like a social elevator, with a prison on the first floor and a table that goes vertically through all the floors. If you’re lucky enough to be on the 20th floor you’ll eat well; in other words, a metaphor of society. She said you have to see it to believe it.
**In response to the last concert she’s seen (which obviously was a while ago) Lara had a hard time remembering. She said it was in Quebec before her tour started, it featured several Quebecois artists, but the last show she went to was a Canadian ballet with music and dance (which qualified as having “live music”).
**As for the last series she saw, Lara came up with “The Man in the High Castle” on Amazon.
**The last dish she ate: Lara said she has a nasty gluten intolerance, “not that my fans know it”, she makes a cannelloni dish by hand, meatless, a vegan dish with a bechamel sauce.
**The last object she bought that they could talk about: the question itself brought laughter (what did they imagine that she couldn’t talk about), but she answered a green clay box. It is made from organic ultrafine volcanic rock and bentonite. Apparently you put food in it and it calms inflammation and boosts immunity.
**And concerning the last drink, Lara noted, as she has before, that she gets drunk very easily, so by the second gin and tonic, she’s already singing as if she’s live (with no confinement).
**For the last video games she played, she said it was a video game in which she liked the oculus, and traveled beyond our planet; you were in a space capsule that takes off and you leave very fast.
**The last giggle: Lara broke into a giggle thinking about it [which then made that the last giggle
]. There were two days she had to wake up early to do interviews in France about the tour in Europe (at 4 AM Quebec time), and she tried to set her alarm clock very quiet so as not to wake up Gabriel – but she did just the reverse and he woke up with a start and his expression was priceless. For her, at least, she said it was not a bad way to start the day. **The last lie: Lara said she doesn’t like lying. Her last lie was, in effect, a white lie, arranging the truth so that she told someone what he wanted to hear, about what he had given her, she found a way to 'arrange the truth' so that it which wouldn’t punish him. The host said it was a good example to follow.
Meanwhile, in other news, Lara has not posted anything on her Instagram (or Facebook) site in the past week, (including not notifying fans that she will be on that show). This is a rarity for her, at least during this period of general confinement. In addition, more of her fan sites have either gone quiet, disappeared or become hidden. This includes, “Lara Fabian est ton autre” (has become inactive); “Lara Fabian et Emmanuel Moire LE duo” (has become private); “Lara Fabian Bien Plus Qu’une Passion. ‘Corse-Reunion’” (has disappeared); “Lara Fabian – PHQ” (has disappeared); “Lara Fabian - Un soir autour du monde” (has disappeared). Fan sites are always coming and going, but a number of these are ‘core sites’ whose inaccessibility is greatly missed. If anyone is aware of the reason for these changes, please let us know in the comments.
Lara will be on the show “Bonsoir bonsoir” this coming Thursday, July 9, and fans are being given a chance to present their opinion to her of what their favorite song is [in effect, a counterpoint to Lara's 'playlist']. The choices are presented at
www.facebook.com/BonsoirBonsoirRC/photos/a.1254975647993962/1651085481716308/?type=3&theater
As one can see they are Tout, Je t’aime, La difference and Leila. As to whether these are the only choices, the accompanying text reads “Vote with the Facebook emojis for your favorite song from Lara Fabian. She'll will wink at the chosen piece during her passage on the program next week. 🎶" Since only those four songs have emojis associated with them, it would appear it has to be one of them. Perhaps the program expects Lara will sing one of them, and if they have accompanying musicians, this will limit the number of songs they have to learn. Also, “Bonsoir bonsoir” is a TV show on ICI Radio-Canada, and so the choices available are all songs Lara wrote and performed in Quebec, during her earlier incarnation there.
Nevertheless, as one can see on the comments on that page, the fans have ignored that detail, as the first choice was “Je me souviens”, the next person suggested anything in Italian, then came Par amour, Le chemin, etc. Of the songs on the list, La difference seems to be in the lead (though none of the responses actually used emojis). It would be interesting if ‘Tout’ were to win, given that Lara is resistant to singing it anymore – though the text doesn’t actually say she will sing the winning song. [Like most Canadian TV programs, it is foolishly not available outside the country; inside, it can be seen at ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/bonsoir-bonsoir/site].
The Lara Fabian Connecting People site (https://vk.com/lf_cp) had an interesting and fun game – they show “several photos of different parts of the body, completely different people. Your task is to find Lara”. There are a number of rounds (and the correct answer is now shown). One can still play it (be careful to ignore the right answer, shown right below the images).
Concerning the commercial fate of the re-release of Papillon(s), in Quebec it is still at #10, in Belgium it has dropped from #62 to #78, while in France it has fallen from #85 to #136. As usual, there’s a “what have you done for me lately” attitude towards Lara. Her appearance on the Quebec Day celebration has kept her name alive in Quebec, whereas she’s been recently absent from the European theater.
For the interesting photo of the week, we go back a bit to Lara’s wedding anniversary of the previous week, with a nice picture from the Lara Fabian Greece site,
www.facebook.com/larafabiangreece/photos/a.451370928321339/2149080308550384/?type=3&theater
In the coming week, we’ll see if Lara has any greater contact with her fans, or if she actually goes away on vacation. Montreal is still in a state of emergency – it’s the most affected area in Canada – but Canada is one of the countries whose inhabitants are allowed to enter the European Union, and Sicily is her usual destination during the summer. Stay safe everybody – and that obviously includes Lara.
David
