1993. These few guitar notes sound pretty good to Alain Souchon’s ears. However, music, Souchon, is not his forte. So these chords, he wants Laurent Voulzy to hear them. And that’s good, Souchon is invited on the set of a clip of his accomplice. Between two shots…
“There was a guitar, I said ‘hey, I did something yesterday, what do you think?’ He tells me ‘Oh, hell, it’s a success’, Alain Souchon laughs today. “He’s the one who told me!”
There is a good musical base. So you need a text. sentimental crowd. This anti-consumer anthem was born in Alain Souchon’s car, in Nogent. As he waits for Laurent Voulzy outside his house, images come to mind.
“I compare my work a lot with the work of a photographer”, evokes the singer. and when i sing sentimental crowdIt is a photograph of the world. He adds “the world isn’t totally obnoxious, but there’s a whole side…advertising and all that, ‘go buy things, happiness is there’, ‘you must have that, you must have that, you must have that’. It’s awful That there’s a ditty that says ‘careful, in the end happiness is more poppy than Porsche'”.
The title hits the spot. Song of the year at the Victoires 94, best song of the last twenty years in 2005. As hello silly momthis title has a special place in Alain Souchon’s discography.
“He does that to all the singers who have a big success… We say ‘yes, but I finally did others!'”, jokes Souchon, weighed down by this song that hides the rest of his repertoire.
Without a doubt, sentimental crowd remains one of the highlights of the singer’s tours!
Source: BFM TV
