News Update 1/19

[davidhr]

Several stories vied for top billing this past week. For one, the Star Academie held its first “Selection Camp” this past Sunday. Prior to the show, Lara posted a link on her FB site to some promo photos for it, at

www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=260156818801952&set=pcb.260157082135259

with the caption, “The Selection Camp @staracademietva starts tomorrow, Sunday January 17th, 7pm on TVA! You will influence the course of things for some candidates ... We are counting on you! ⭐️"

An associated promo video is available at

www.facebook.com/staracademietva/videos/1047644899077858

An article about this ‘selection camp’ appeared in “7jours.ca” (https://www.7jours.ca/2021/01/14/lara-fabian-sur-le-camp-de-selection-de-star-academie?fbclid=IwAR14PN1R5Rf5f27LPi--DCphWMowthjy19f46imsIAFSoDDLCHuiiNxzGa4)
Here’s the translation:
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Lara Fabian on Star Académie selection camp

The great adventure of Star Academy 2021 will begin soon. Before revealing the names of the 15 academicians of the new cohort, we present the selection camp. This intensive three-day internship took place in Montreal in November and allowed the faculty to assess the 60 young artists who stood out the most at the auditions. Lara Fabian tells us what she witnessed during this express training.

Lara, what will the Star Académie selection camp allow viewers to see?
LF: They will see an exceptional diversity of courageous young artists from 16 to 30 years old. It takes guts to participate in such a selection camp! These young people not only have great talent, but they also have a real desire to learn. I've seen artists genuinely ready to develop the most important quality in my opinion, which is commitment to work. Those who are determined to work on their skills will more easily show who they really are.

What was on the program for these participants?
LF: They took several different courses: a music lab with Ariane Moffatt, a singing and musical adaptation class with Gregory Charles and an interpretation class with me. So we immersed them in the three fundamental areas of their learning: singing, composition and the ability to tell a story. It worked that way so that we could assess their strengths and points to work on. This portrait allows us to know how we can motivate them to develop the various facets of their talent.

Did they undergo assessments during the camp?
LF: There were individual selections after we grouped the participants into work teams. It allowed us to confirm how we felt about them during the courses they took.

What are you looking for in a good candidate?
LF: We are looking for someone who has the necessary commitment to develop their strengths and transcend their weaknesses. Candidates should also understand that they are not singing just to themselves, but doing it to communicate emotions to their fellow human beings.

Was it heartbreaking to let participants leave after the camp?
LF: Of course, it can be heartbreaking for them to go from qualifying to disqualifying. On the other hand, I want the participants to learn that, in life, you can only learn or win. There are people who are very afraid of failure and who believe only in victory or defeat, but I am not one of them. Nelson Mandela said, with good reason: “I never lose. Either I win or I learn."

What was the atmosphere between the participants? Did you feel a strong competition between them?
LF: On the contrary, there was a great bond between them! I was already seeing groups forming and solidarities consolidating. They were starting families in front of us.

As director of the Academy, have you had the time to pass on your values to the cohort?
LF: As the camp only lasted three days, I had little time to do it. Despite everything, what was important to me in my work was to make sure that the artistic identity of the participants was not a disguise, because some artists disguise themselves. Rather, I want their artistic identity to be the interface that will help them become who they really are.

Are you excited that Star Académie 2021's great adventure is about to begin soon?
LF: I find that wonderful! I feel very privileged to be able to be a part of it.

The second program devoted to the selection camp will be presented on Sunday, January 24, at 7 p.m.
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Hopefully Lara will get more time to “pass on her values” once the selection process gets down to the final 15, after the second program.

As for the show itself, at the time of this writing, this program is available to watch (without vpn) at

www.qub.ca/tvaplus/tva/star-academie-le-camp-de-selection/saison-1/episode-1-1014900236

It took place in the Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal (so an easier commute for Lara than traipsing out to Waterloo). As noted, they originally started with 5500 candidates, and now were down to 60. We get to learn about and see the various teachers in action, with Lara chipping in. All very intelligently done. After some deliberation, at the end, Lara is the one who tells some of the students that they ‘made it’, reducing the number of contestants to 30. We get snatches of song from the various contestants, enough to see some different and quite capable vocal abilities, and personalities.

A review of the show is available at (https://showbizz.net/tele/les-professeurs-de-star-academie-nous-en-mettent-plein-la-vue):
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The teachers of Star Académie amaze us

The Star Académie 2021 adventure began on Sunday on TVA.

This first, which was didactic to say the least, allowed us to get to know briefly the 60 aspiring academics, all very talented and diverse, who hoped to enter the Academy later in the season, but also to discover some professors in this context.

Thus, we were able to see Gregory Charles, Lara Fabian, Ariane Moffatt, as well as the host Patrice Michaud at work. The least we can say is that they dazzled us. First of all, Patrice Michaud is the perfect facilitator, with his charisma, his empathy and his emotivity. He will be fascinating to watch this season.

In his role as voice and music teacher, Gregory Charles was as always passionate, straightforward, positive and determined. We knew him to be multi-talented, but it will be interesting to see him work in this context.

In her role as Director of the Academy, Lara Fabian, magnificent and luminous, made herself unifier, benevolent and encouraging. As for Ariane Moffatt, she makes a firm and energetic teacher. With these, candidates will learn a lot.

Note that at the end of this first episode, the team had to cut off 30 aspirants, a heartbreaking task to say the least. It was Lara Fabian who had the heavy task of announcing the outcome of the discussions. She did it with heart, explaining that a refusal does not mean an end.

Note that among the aspirants, we find William Cloutier, a participant of Mixmania 3 . This one seduced all the professors of the Academy. Lara Fabian even said she fell in love with him. It is to be continued!

The selection camp continues next Sunday at the same time.
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The audience response, based on the comments left on various websites, was also quite positive.

Lara was accompanied by Marie-Eve Riverin in the interpretation workshop; she was
one of 3 sisters who sang backup for Lara on her 50 World Tour, and, presumably will do so again. Some pictures of Lara from the show are available at

www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=243273353834140&set=pcb.243273457167463

All in all, Lara gets some screen time, and her comments are quite cogent, but obviously she will not be as prominent as she was on The Voice shows. Our coverage will therefore be somewhat more perfunctory. As noted in the article, the final cut-down to 15 candidates will take place next Sunday.

The second lead story is associated with Lara’s “Locked Down” sessions. As we know, the CD (and vinyl) were sold out shortly after being announced more than a month ago, and Lara’s team, impressed by that, has decided to make some more, which are now being advertised, e.g.,

www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=259330842217883&set=a.259330815551219

and are immediately available at

www.larafabian.com/boutique/

A number of people (especially in Europe) have complained that they had not received their order from the initial pressing at the end of November. In compensation, Lara did offer people a link for a digital version of the CD as immediate compensation – although some people complained they did not get that link.

The 'Lara Fabian Par Amour' FB site wrote to Lara’s people enquiring about this; they then provided a scan of the response they got:
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Hello,

Due to delays caused by COVID-19, at this time, we are unable to provide you with an exact shipping date for your order. Having said that, we are getting closer and are hopeful that deliveries will start rolling in next week. We will send you an email to notify you as soon as possible. To ensure that this message arrives safely in your emails, please add [e-mail] to your list of approved senders.

Thank you very much for your continued patience - we look forward to sending you your new music as soon as possible!
Sincerely,
Larafabian.com
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Regardless of the delay, it’s good news that the album is proving popular, and so getting another pressing (like a second edition of a book). It’s too good to just slip away. Hopefully Lara may even promote it, though that is less likely.

In other news, in a personal comment for fans, Lara indicated she’s going back to exercising, with a video to prove it,

www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/videos/124153642880831

She added the comment, both written and spoken, “It's over (for) the chips and Netflix 😂... we're restarting the new year in shape... because I want to be in perfect condition to see you soon on the stages we miss so much... Thank you @joseelavigueur for these formidable coachings.

For now, the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is under control in Québec, but the present weeks are critical. Community transmission of the virus now extends to all regions of Québec. The latest data of the evolution of COVID‑19 over the past 24 hours in Québec reveals 1,744 new cases, 50 new deaths, with 8 in the last 24 hours, while the number of hospitalizations decreased by 14 compared to the previous day. So while the virus is still rampant, for the time being its effects are not increasing. Of course, if the more contagious version shows up, the results might become much different. All the restrictions noted in the previous News Update are still in place, but they don’t seem to be limiting Lara’s participation, however that’s being worked out.

Interesting photo(s) of the week: The one photo Lara included on her Instagram picture from the Star Academie first show,

http://instagram.com/p/CKHljLVhqIx

From the TVA Publication/“Echos Vedettes” magazine via the ‘Lara Fabian Par Amour’ FB site.

www.facebook.com/LaraFabianParAmour/photos/a.127756709089104/197605225437585/

And from the “Lara Fabian - L’etoile des anges” FB site,

www.facebook.com/Nathalie.caille.ange/photos/a.712979215450076/4048920191855945/

No doubt Lara will be involved in Star Academie business this next week, in preparation for the cutdown from 30 to 15 contestants in next Sunday’s show. She appears to like working with the team on the program, and with the young talent. The response of the press and the audience seems quite positive. This venture has started out well. Have a good week everybody, and stay safe.
David

[bernhard]

Hello Community;
I would like to make a contribution to this forum as an introduction.
I have translated the current article in the French-Canadian fashion magazine "Clin d'oeil" from French into English. It is the current February issue of the magazine, which I was able to purchase online.
The author of the article is Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, a 29 year old French-Canadian writer and actress.
I hope that the translation was successful, especially since neither French nor English are my mother tongue. I did it with the help of DeepL Translate. Feel free to correct me.

Women's Tales - Meeting Culture

On a cold Monday afternoon, at the dawn of a holiday break that was anything but sweet for our icy hearts, by the pandemic, Lara Fabian and I let ourselves be lulled by our common passion: we talked about love. Together, we told each other our fairy tales, which we have on our backs, as she prepares to take on the role of director of the newest cohort of star academy.

It is her mythical voice that sets the tone for this discussion, a voice that invites confidence, gentleness, and truth that does good.
We calmly tame each other, I don't know her very well, only by reputation and by the documentary recently broadcast on Club illico, "Lara".
I learned about the ups and downs of her heart, sometimes reddened by fame, shows, sometimes by encounters, family. I learned about her innate talent, her star aura, sometimes shattered by the way she looks at herself. A hard, demanding look, sometimes too much. Shattered also by professional and personal disappointments. But what interests me even more, now, when I'm lucky enough to have her in the flesh in front of me, two meters and a few dusts away, is just to learn more about the Lara of now.

Three kiwis in a Tupperware box

There is a fascination with the intimacy of the great women in the public sphere, those who have been shining in the spotlight for a long time. Romantic scandals have always been fashionable, especially those of women. So quickly, when we imagine the love life of a Lara Fabian, we get caught up in the game, we imagine great romantic gestures, glittering or oversized gifts, stories about chirpy women. It's a reflex.
But when she talks to me about what love, the real thing, is for her, it's so much simpler, more raw.....Great, in fact.
For Lara, love is three kiwis in a Tupperware box. Simple as that.
She tells me, her eyes full of stars, that she's a woman in a hurry often, in the morning, she forgets to eat breakfast before jumping in her car. She doesn't even think about it, concentrating instead on what's waiting for her at the end of the road, on the last load that's finished drying, on her list of things to do. Thoughts of a hard worker, a businesswoman, a loving mother. So when she gets into her car, she comes across pure love. Gabriel, her husband of almost 10 years now, thinks of everything.
A coffee, a kombucha (her favorite flavor) and three kiwis in a Tupperware box. With a towel and utensils.
Sweets for the road, to continue to shine at its best.
For Lara and Gabriel < Love must be a state of peace and romanticism, a concrete gesture of love. > This peace is like a garden in bloom: fragile and resilient, capricious but saving. She smiles as she tells me that with him she can fall in love again at every second.
< You know, that millisecond lapse of time where your brain is not necessarily aligned with your thoughts, that phenomenon that creates the sensation of déja-vu...It happens to me sometimes with Gabriel; he enters a room and in the space of a second, I don't realize it's him. I see the one who, for me, is the most beautiful man on earth, without realizing that in fact it is my husband. >
Shivers. She blushes. In fact, each time she pronounces the first name, of Gabriel, her eyes react and get confused by a different light. That's also what crazy love is all about, everything happens in the eyes. She finishes her reflection too.
<Love is the fifth element, the one that truly has the power to make us reach things we didn't even imagine!>

Je t'aime

Since she has been living this great story with her Gabriel, she admits to singing differently.
She now creates in a state that is completely different from that of survival.
She has learned to modify the expression of who she is by infusing her singing with more serenity and certainty, finally freeing herself from the impression that her art is a safety carabiner.
Inevitably it was necessary to talk about her famous song "Je t'aime" which resounds in the chest cages of the greatest lovers. A powerful song that screams pain and tears from the first words.

„D’accord, il existait
D’autre façons de se quitter
Quelques éclats de verre
Auraient peut-être pu nous aider
Dans ce silence amer
J‘ai décidé de pardonner
Les erreurs qu’on peut faire
A trop s‘aimer“

She wonders about the echoes of a torment song: < We always think that a great love song from the worst pain will be infinitely more powerful than a song about a state of peace than in the long run, what will remain is what has made us happier people rather than the opposite. >

Lara. Second part.

The love she speaks to herself, the tenderness of her to herself. There, it's less fluid. She weighs her words, searches, hesitates, almost holds back. It's difficult to talk about self-esteem, but it's so liberating. I ask her how she applies all this peace and giving on a daily basis to the woman she is. There is a silence for a few long seconds between the two of us. She takes the time to think about it seriously. We no longer feel that she is in the midst of a coming, she thinks about it for herself, it's beautiful to see.
She begins by answering me:
< Oh wow, big question! >
She still smiles, looking away, far away in her head.
She adds: < That's a really nice debate. >
She laughs softly. Not badly at ease, just aware that she still has to think about it a little, a lot, passionately. Then she finally confesses.
< Self-esteem is the second part of my life. I scar myself and heal through the love that Gabriel has for me; I manage to reassure myself... I sometimes dare to look at myself through his loving gaze and there I see someone...>
She stops, as if she were dizzy.

She struggles to keep up, she even confesses to having difficulty pronouncing these words.
Another silence settles in, she perhaps stores up strength to assume her conclusion, to allow herself to marvel at it.
She says: < I see someone beautiful....But it's still difficult to see me as he sees me.>
This confidence is immensely beautiful, true, bittersweet. This confidence is immensely beautiful, true, bittersweet. Because I realize that even if you're madly in love, it's hard to believe that you deserve so much peace. And there, now, alone in a room a little too cold for such a hot subject, we see together, without judging ourselves, between women with multiple love stories, that self-esteem is the work of a lifetime, whether we are 30 or 50 years old ...
We are just 13 years old, like her daughter Lou, whom she nicknames, precisely, <amour>. This mother-daughter bond that she cherishes on a daily basis suddenly makes her very moved. She confides, admiring:
< She is 100 times more beautiful than her mother, 100 times finer than her mother.... But she is a teenager who needs to save the people she lives with. And that's the power of genetics. >
Since she was a teenager, Lara was the same. And that can make you dizzy. To recognize oneself in the most beautiful and the most fragile, through one's child. But she is reassured by the fact that her <amour> has even more guts than she had at her age. She sees, in her daughter, that in her desire not to disappoint herself, and that is so much and so beautiful for a mother.

We must conclude, because time is running out. We thank each other five times for the enveloping warmth that comes from our confidences. First of all, I believe that we have said everything about love, but no. I don't think we have. She wants to ask me a question. It's her turn:
< What's your biggest dream of love? >
Right away, I think of the garden I mentioned earlier. I like this image, but it is not quite familiar to me yet.
The loves I've experienced have never lasted long enough to take root and blossom.
So I tell her that my dream would be not to give up if, one day, I feel that I have to take care of my crops in order to taste the love that lasts, that grows, that is cultivated.
She then entrusts me with hers, like a gift from a friend.
< I would like to become more and more serene, more and more reassured that I really have what it takes to make it last; never let my fear and dislove take over my feelings or control my love train. >
Lara Fabian is indeed on a love train, from her to her, from her to Gabriel, from her to her daughter, from her to her art. With a masterly hand, a bright red heart, her voice like an eternal ally, she loves at a brisk pace.


Here is my copy in French.

Contes de femmes - Culture rencontre

Par un lundi apres-midi froid, à l'aube d'un congé des fetes tout sauf doux pour nos coeurs glacés, par la pandemie, Lara Fabian et moi on s'est laissé bercer par notre passion commune: on a parlé d'amour. Ensemble, on s'est raconté nos contes de fées, qu'on a sur le dos, alors qu'elle s'apperté a remplir le role de directrice de la toute nouvelle cohorte de star academie.

C‘est sa voix mythique, qui donne d‘abord le ton à cette discussion, une voix qui invite à la confidence, a la douceur, a la verite qui fait du bien.
On s‘apprivoise calment, je ne la connais pas beaucoup, seulement di reputation et par le documentaire diffuse recemment sur Club illico, „Lara“.
J‘en so appris sur les aléas de son cœurs, tantôt rougi par la gloire, les spectacles, tantôt par les rencontres, la famille. J‘en ai appris sur sont Talent inné, son Aura de star, parfois fracasés par le regard qu‘elle pose sur elle-meme. Un regard dur, exigeant, quelquefois trop. Fracassés aussi par des deceptions professionelles et personelles. Mais ce qui m‘intetesse encore plus, maintenant, alors que j‘ai la chance de l‘avoir en chair et en os en face de moi, a deux metre et quelques poussieres, c‘est just apprendre plus sur la Lara de la maintenant.

Trois kiwis dans un Tupperware

Il existe une fascination pour l‘intimité des grandes femmes de la sphere publique, celles qui brillent sous le projecteurs depuis longtemps. Les scandales romantiques ont toujours été à la mode, ceux des femmes, tout particulierement. Alors rapidement, quand on s‘imagine la vie amoureuse d‘une Lara Fabian, on se prend au jeu, on imagine de grand gestes romantiques, des cadeaux étincelants ou démesurés, des histoires de chirantes. C‘est une reflexe.
Mais quand elle me parle de ce qu‘est l‘amour, le vrai, pour elle, c‘est tellement plus simple, plus brut.....Plus grandiose, en fait.
Pour Lara, l‘amour, c‘est trois kiwis dans un Tupperware. Simple comme ca.
Elle me raconte, les yeux pleins d‘etoiles, qu‘elle est une femme pressée souvent, le matin, elle oublie de dejeuner avant de sauter dans sa voiture. Elle n‘y pense meme pas, plutot concentrée sur ce qui l‘attend au bout de la route, sur la derniere brassée qui finit de sécher, sur sa liste de choses a faire. Des pensées de bosseuse, de femme d‘affaires, de mère aimante. Alors quand Elle s‘installe dans sa voiture, elle tombe sur de l‘amour pur. Gabriel, son mari depuis presque 10 ans maintenant, à pense à tout.
Un café, un kombucha (à sa saveur preferee) er trois kiwis dans un Tupperware. Avec une serviette er des ustensiles.
Des douceurs pour la route, pour continuer de briller à son maximum.
Pou Lara er Gabriel < L‘amour doit etre un etat de paix et le romantisme, un geste d’amour concret. > Cette paix s‘entritient comme un jardin en fleurs: fragile et resiliant, capricieux mais salvateur. Elle sourit en me racontant qu‘avec lui, elle peut retomber amoureuse a chaque second.
< Tu sais, ce laps de temps d‘une milliseconde ou ton cerveau n‘est pas forcément aligné avec at pensée, ce phenomen qui crée la sensation de déja-vu...Ça m‘arrive parfois avec Gabriel; il entre dans une pièce et l‘espace d‘une seconde, je ne realise pas que c’est lui. Je vois celui qui, pour moi, est le plus belle homme sur terre, sans me rendre compte qu‘en fait, c’est mon mari. >
Frissons. Elle rougit. En fait, chaque fois qu‘elle prononce le prenom, de Gabriel, ses yeux reagissent et s‘embrouillent d‘une lumière différente. C‘est aussi ça, l‘amour fou, tout se passe dans le regard. Elle termine sa réflexion aussi.
< L’amour est le cinquième élément, celui qui a véritablement le pouvoir de nous faire atteindre des choses qu‘on n’imaginait même pas! >

Je t‘aime

Depuis qu’elle vit cette grande histoire avec son Gabriel, elle admet chanter différemment.
Elle crée maintenant dans un état qui s’éloigne complètement de celui de la survie.
Elle a appris à modifier l’expression de ce qu’elle est en insufflant à son chant plus de sérénité et de certitude, en se délivrant enfin de cette impression que son art est un mousqueton de sécurité.
Il fallait inévitablement parler de sa fameuse chanson „Je t‘aime“ qui résonne dans les cages thoraciques des plus grands amants. Une cri puissant qui scande douleur et déchirement des les premièr mots.

„D’accord, il existait
D’autre façons de se quitter
Quelques éclats de verre
Auraient peut-être pu nous aider
Dans ce silence amer
J‘ai décidé de pardonner
Les erreurs qu’on peut faire
A trop s‘aimer“

Elle se questionne sur les echos d‘une chanson-tourmente: < On pense toujours qu’une grande chanson d’amour issue des pires douleurs sera infiniment plus puissante qu’une chanson qui parle d‘un état de paix qu’à long terme, ce qui restera, c’est ce qui a fait de nous des gens plus heureux plutôt que le contraire.

Lara. Deuxieme partie.

l’amour qu’elle se parle, la tendresse d’elle à elle. Là, c’est moins fluide. Elle pèse ses mots, cherche, hésite, se retient presque. C’est difficile de parler d’amour-propre, mais c’est tellement libérateur. Je lui demande comment elle fait, au quotidien, pour appliquer toute cette paix et cette donneur a la femme qu’elle est. Un silence quelques longues secondes s’installe entre nous deux. Elle prend le temps d‘y réfléchir sérieusement. On ne sent plus qu’elle est dans une entre venue, elle y pense pour elle, c’est beau à voir.
Elle commence par me répondre:
< Oh wow, grande question! >
Elle sourit encore, les regards ailleurs, loins dans sa tête.
Elle ajoute: < Ça, c’est vraiment un joli débat. >
Elle rit doucement. Pas mal à l’aisé, juste consciente qu’elle doit encore y réfléchir un peu, beaucoup, passionnément. Puis elle avoue enfin.
< L’amour propre, c’est la deuxième partie de ma vie. Je me cicatrice et je guéris à travers l’amour que Gabriel me porte; j’arrive à me rassurer... J‘ose parfois me regarder à travers son regard amoureux et là, je vois quelqu’un...>
Elle s’arrête, comme prise d‘un vertige.
Elle peine à pour suivre, elle confie même avoir de la difficulté à prononcer ces mots.
Un autre silence s’installe, elle emmagasine peut-être de la force pour assumer sa conclusion, se permettre de s‘en émerveiller même.
Elle lance: < Je vois quelqu’un de beau....Mais c’est encore difficile de me voir comme il me voit.>
Cette confidence est immensément belle, vraie, douce-armère. Parce que je me rend compte que même follement amoureux, on peine a croire qu’on mérite autant de paix. Et là, maintenant, seule dans une pièce un peu trop froide pour un sujet aussi bouillant, on constate ensemble, sans se juger, entre femmes aux contes d‘amour multiples, que l‘amour-propre est le travail d‘une vie , qu’on ait 30 ou 50 ans...
On qu’on ait tout juste 13 ans, comme sa fille Lou, qu’elle surnomme, justement, <amour>. Ce lien mère-fille qu’elle chérit au quotidien la rend soudainement très émue. Elle confie, admirative:
< Elle est 100 fois plus belle que sa mère, 100 fois plus fine que sa mère....Mais c’est une adolescente qui a besoin de sauver les gens qu’elle côtoie. Et ça, est la puissance de la génétique. >
Puisque ado, Lara était pareille. Et ça, ça peut donner le vertige. Se reconnaître dans le plus beau et le plus fragile, à travers son enfant. Mais elle se rassure en constatant que son < amour > .a encore plus de guts qu’elle en avait a son age. Elle voit, en sa fille, que dans sa volonté de ne pas décevoir elle-même, et ça, c’est ré tant et magnifique à la fois pour une maman.

On doit conclure, parce que le temps file. On se remercie cinq fois chacune pour cette chaleur enveloppante qui découle de nos confidences. Je crois d’abord qu’on a tout dit sur l’amour, mais non. Elle veut me poser une question. C’est à son tour:
< C’est quoi, toi, ton plus grand rêve d’amour? >
Tout de suite, je pense à ce jardin évoque plus tôt. J’aime cette image, mais elle ne m’est pas encore tout à fait familière.
Les amours que j’ai vécues n‘ont jamais duré assez longtemps pour s‘enraciner, puis fleurir.
Alors je lui réponds que mon rêve serait de ne pas abondonner si, un jour, je sens que je dois prendre soin de mes récoltes pour goûter à l’amour qui dure, qui grandit, qui se cultive.
Elle me confie ensuite le sien, comme un cadeaux d‘un revoir.
< Je voudrais devenir de plus en plus sereine, de plus en plus rassurée sur le fait que j‘ai vraiment tont ce qu’il faut pour que ça dure; ne jamais laisser ma peur et le désamour prendre le dessus sur mes sentiments on contrôler mon train d‘amour.>
Lara Fabian est bel et bien dans un train d‘amour. Elle se conduit, d‘elle à elle, d‘elle à Gabriel, d‘elle à sa fille, d‘elle à son art. De main de maître, le cœur rouge vif, sa voix comme une alliée éternelle, elle aime à vive allures.

[davidhr]

Bernhard, thanks so much for all that hard work! The essence of the article comes through clearly in your translation. It's an old problem for Lara - love is the drug she cherishes, and whole-heartedly dispenses to those lucky enough to be around her - but she is much more miserly when it comes to giving it to herself. Seeing herself through the eyes of her family, and yes, perhaps even of her fans, can help. Brings to mind the lines from the Robert Burns poem "To a Louse": “O wad some Power the giftie gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!"

Thanks again,
David

[bernhard]

Yes love is the drug she cherishes.
There is an interview with her from 2000 in norvegian TV, where she talks about love.
youtu.be/guuWHskXvys

"Pain, sorrow and tears were part of my life because today, what's beautiful and what's happiness, its so much more enjoyable, so much more deep.
Love is so beautiful, its very attractive. You wanne be in that place, you wanna be in love. You wanna have those moments, that romance, that truth, that passion.
Next thing you know: Reality check!
It is like an Exorcism, it will bring it out of you. You won't keep it inside so it will not sit there and make you feel worse the after day.
I would not be a complete woman and a happy person if that didn`t happen.
If I had to failed there, I would consider having failed my life.
I have unconditional faith in the fire that animates my passion."

When I first saw that interview and heard these words: "If I had to failed there, I would consider having failed my life." I thought: Oh,Oh - she is really hard to herself, has so high expectations on herself - that can turn out badly! And in fact, she had a tough time afterwards in terms of love and expectations of herself. Such experiences often lead to depression and encourage distrust of oneself and others.
Perhaps it is this distrust of herself and others that she means by the "animal in us" that she mentions sometimes in her song lyrics.

Basically, however, I don't think Lara Fabian is a pessimistic person. Because even if her songs often critically describe the melancholy depths of life, they are basically life, love and future affirmative.
And if you look at her life today after so many years, we can see that, despite a few detours, she finally achieved her goal and did not fail.
It is these detours, this humble and hard work on her happiness that show us that she is a human being, like everyone else, what makes her approachable for us.
I'm happy for her that she made it.