Post by davidhr on Oct 19, 2021 7:02:14 GMT -5
Lara’s sole contribution to public discourse this past week was her appreciation of the fall colors that Quebec is so known for (remember her song “Je me souviens”?), available at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=452782732872692&set=a.259330805551220
(the first Facebook post in more than a month),
and
Accompanying these posts are the words “Enjoy this wonderful Canadian landscape… at the end of this Indian summer… remember those already passed… hoping to see again, perhaps, as beautiful as these… here or elsewhere ”
Given that Lara is perhaps busy in non-public activities (perhaps working on her new French album, or Star Academie business), the remaining highlights of this week refer to past events. One such remembrance comes (as it has been for the last number of weeks) from another English translation of Lara’s interviews by Lara the Ring Fabian. In this case it was 'Thé Ou Café' interview (France, April 2013). It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbicHi9r3I
It finds Lara in a pensive but happy mood, and is another one of her great interviews. It was just prior to the release of her album “Le Secret” [definitely one of my favorite albums], and Lara discusses it briefly. She had that morning gotten news that “Deux ils, deux elles” was doing well on the charts, and after her long absence from France (and even longer time between releases of original material), that was very good news. She was soon to get even better news, as when the album was released, several days later, it debuted at #1 on the French charts. It seemed confirmation that she was on the right path, which included her producing the album herself. The reviews at the time were sparkling about its originality and content, but they contained a hint of warming – the reviewers said that as a concept album, in which the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, they didn’t know how “commercial” it really was. That proved to be prescient, because after that great start, the album proved not to have ‘legs’, and descended in the charts faster than any of her albums had previously. It is indeed a complicated album, but some reviewers, who indicated that in the past they had written Lara off as a ‘lightweight pop star’, now said that after listening to this album they had completely changed their minds about her. Today, Lara may occasionally perform a song from this album, but given that its greatest impact is as an entirety, it’s not really made for a ‘best of’ concert setlist. And so we’re unlikely to hear much of it in her upcoming “The Best Of” World Tour 2022.
Still in the mode of past events, the Lara Fabian America FB site provided a link to the orchestral medley that Lara performed on the Star Academie during the past season. It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMe07NhPys
It serves to remind us that Lara was so enthused with the experience that she said she wanted to do a whole show with an orchestra, and there were hints that TVA might help make that happen. One can speculate whether that would be a realistic possibility; maybe the best chance would be with Lara’s concerts next June in Montreal and Quebec. We’ve occasionally seen her with a full orchestra backing, and needless to say, the results were spectacular, e.g., these two versions of Broken Vow,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVR0yK8Ec8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGUMQJpbRk
On a very different emotional note, the ‘Lara Fabian. Connecting people’ site, still in the process of going through the songs and movie ‘Mademoiselle Zhivago’, chose the video “Lullaby” to discuss this past week. Filmed for the song ‘Lou’, here’s what they had to say about it (https://vk.com/lf_cp):
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Lara, entering the set of this video, burst into tears, as she is convinced that she had once been in a concentration camp. In "Making of Mademoiselle Zhivago" it is said that the singer had some distant relatives going through this horror.
The crying of children at the very beginning of the novel is Lou's screams.
The director, using a black and white picture, wanted to create the effect of a documentary film and convey the atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War.
The shooting of the short story took place in the summer, and the video was set in the winter.
The video was attended by Ukrainian TV presenter Zhanna Badoeva.
Shooting the video turned out to be very difficult for the team. For the first few days, the group was emotionally depressed.
Most of the concentration camp was "built" with the help of computer technology.
----------------------------------------------------
They ended their discussion with a question for the audience; what did they think of the ‘dissonance’ between “a gentle slow love song dedicated to Lara's daughter Lou, and on the screen - war, blood, cruelty, wounded people?” Did it in fact serve to make more palpable the extremes mankind is subject to? The people responding on the site had mixed feelings; for example:
**Elena Kontseropyatova
The video is very difficult to understand. And it is precisely because of the dissonance between the tenderness of the Lullaby and the brutality of the war that an depressive and oppressive feeling arises. When you watch the unfortunate women who have lost their children who start to fall into madness, who remember them, hearing these children's cries and a gentle voice humming a lullaby, there are goosebumps ... Lara acted very well. But it's hard to watch.
**Anna Granovskaya
I do not feel dissonance, on the contrary, that love, that new life and the brightest feelings can live even in such terrible conditions, that life is very black, but in the deepest abyss there is light.
[This is a bit reminiscent of the lyric in the Leonard Cohen song "Anthem": "
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in]
The video itself can be seen at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8a9JLAonM
And ‘The making of’ video (in Russian) is at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g38xTJihs2w
Interesting photo(s) of the week:
From the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ FB site
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=410831123745028&set=a.216252733202869
A nice montage from the larafabian_fanpage_
We’ve now crept closer to the release date of Lara’s book, “Je passe à table”, about two weeks away (November 3). So far there has been no further recent publicity. We’ll see if Lara makes a full-scale pitch for it. Stay safe everybody,
David
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=452782732872692&set=a.259330805551220
(the first Facebook post in more than a month),
and
http://instagram.com/p/CVDoZZUN0H8
Accompanying these posts are the words “Enjoy this wonderful Canadian landscape… at the end of this Indian summer… remember those already passed… hoping to see again, perhaps, as beautiful as these… here or elsewhere ”
Given that Lara is perhaps busy in non-public activities (perhaps working on her new French album, or Star Academie business), the remaining highlights of this week refer to past events. One such remembrance comes (as it has been for the last number of weeks) from another English translation of Lara’s interviews by Lara the Ring Fabian. In this case it was 'Thé Ou Café' interview (France, April 2013). It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbicHi9r3I
It finds Lara in a pensive but happy mood, and is another one of her great interviews. It was just prior to the release of her album “Le Secret” [definitely one of my favorite albums], and Lara discusses it briefly. She had that morning gotten news that “Deux ils, deux elles” was doing well on the charts, and after her long absence from France (and even longer time between releases of original material), that was very good news. She was soon to get even better news, as when the album was released, several days later, it debuted at #1 on the French charts. It seemed confirmation that she was on the right path, which included her producing the album herself. The reviews at the time were sparkling about its originality and content, but they contained a hint of warming – the reviewers said that as a concept album, in which the whole was greater than the sum of its parts, they didn’t know how “commercial” it really was. That proved to be prescient, because after that great start, the album proved not to have ‘legs’, and descended in the charts faster than any of her albums had previously. It is indeed a complicated album, but some reviewers, who indicated that in the past they had written Lara off as a ‘lightweight pop star’, now said that after listening to this album they had completely changed their minds about her. Today, Lara may occasionally perform a song from this album, but given that its greatest impact is as an entirety, it’s not really made for a ‘best of’ concert setlist. And so we’re unlikely to hear much of it in her upcoming “The Best Of” World Tour 2022.
Still in the mode of past events, the Lara Fabian America FB site provided a link to the orchestral medley that Lara performed on the Star Academie during the past season. It can be found at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwMe07NhPys
It serves to remind us that Lara was so enthused with the experience that she said she wanted to do a whole show with an orchestra, and there were hints that TVA might help make that happen. One can speculate whether that would be a realistic possibility; maybe the best chance would be with Lara’s concerts next June in Montreal and Quebec. We’ve occasionally seen her with a full orchestra backing, and needless to say, the results were spectacular, e.g., these two versions of Broken Vow,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNVR0yK8Ec8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGUMQJpbRk
On a very different emotional note, the ‘Lara Fabian. Connecting people’ site, still in the process of going through the songs and movie ‘Mademoiselle Zhivago’, chose the video “Lullaby” to discuss this past week. Filmed for the song ‘Lou’, here’s what they had to say about it (https://vk.com/lf_cp):
------------------------------------------------
Lara, entering the set of this video, burst into tears, as she is convinced that she had once been in a concentration camp. In "Making of Mademoiselle Zhivago" it is said that the singer had some distant relatives going through this horror.
The crying of children at the very beginning of the novel is Lou's screams.
The director, using a black and white picture, wanted to create the effect of a documentary film and convey the atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War.
The shooting of the short story took place in the summer, and the video was set in the winter.
The video was attended by Ukrainian TV presenter Zhanna Badoeva.
Shooting the video turned out to be very difficult for the team. For the first few days, the group was emotionally depressed.
Most of the concentration camp was "built" with the help of computer technology.
----------------------------------------------------
They ended their discussion with a question for the audience; what did they think of the ‘dissonance’ between “a gentle slow love song dedicated to Lara's daughter Lou, and on the screen - war, blood, cruelty, wounded people?” Did it in fact serve to make more palpable the extremes mankind is subject to? The people responding on the site had mixed feelings; for example:
**Elena Kontseropyatova
The video is very difficult to understand. And it is precisely because of the dissonance between the tenderness of the Lullaby and the brutality of the war that an depressive and oppressive feeling arises. When you watch the unfortunate women who have lost their children who start to fall into madness, who remember them, hearing these children's cries and a gentle voice humming a lullaby, there are goosebumps ... Lara acted very well. But it's hard to watch.
**Anna Granovskaya
I do not feel dissonance, on the contrary, that love, that new life and the brightest feelings can live even in such terrible conditions, that life is very black, but in the deepest abyss there is light.
[This is a bit reminiscent of the lyric in the Leonard Cohen song "Anthem": "
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in]
The video itself can be seen at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8a9JLAonM
And ‘The making of’ video (in Russian) is at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g38xTJihs2w
Interesting photo(s) of the week:
From the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ FB site
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=410831123745028&set=a.216252733202869
A nice montage from the larafabian_fanpage_
http://instagram.com/p/CU8R5LDoYSV
We’ve now crept closer to the release date of Lara’s book, “Je passe à table”, about two weeks away (November 3). So far there has been no further recent publicity. We’ll see if Lara makes a full-scale pitch for it. Stay safe everybody,
David
