As part of the promotion of her new album, and her stadium tour scheduled for 2023, Mylène Farmer gave an interview to the JDD on Sunday November 20, 2022. In this interview, the singer confided in her relationship to the men.
True living legend of the French music scene, Mylène Farmer will soon celebrate her 40-year career. On this occasion, the singer will release a new album on Friday November 25, 2022, before embarking on a stadium tour in 2023. As part of the promotion of her new record and her upcoming concerts, Mylène Farmer gave a long interview to the JDD on Sunday November 20, 2022. She notably explained why she had chosen The influence as the title for his new album. “This theme imposed itself on me outside of any actuality. Who hasn’t crossed paths with a so-called narcissistic perverse person? Who has not once been under the influence of such a person? Feminine or masculine, it doesn’t matter. Beings that are ultra-sensitive or inhabited by doubts that gnaw at them are an ideal prey… The important thing is to identify this grip and try to fight it“, explained Mylène Farmer.
“It’s a theme that upsets me and often puts me in a black rage. I am of course very moved by the loneliness of the victims who, in the best of cases, only manage to be heard after many years. I am angry because the victims isolate themselves and lock themselves up despite themselves by accepting what no human being should tolerate. More broadly, I find the theme of influence universal. There is a form of control in all areas where free will, free thought are undermined“, also added the singer. During this same interview, Mylène Farmer also confided in her relationship with men.
Mylène Farmer on men: “They are both attractive and destructive”
“Eros and thanatos sum up my relationship with men very well. Between life drive and death drive, men are a great source of inspiration in my texts. They are both attractive for their sexuality, their ambition, their greatness of soul and destructive by their will to power, their regressive egocentrism, their cruelty. The tension they create between these two drives is a path that leads from love to hate and vice versa. It is the chaotic path of life and probably the origin of most works since the dawn of time.“, indicated the musician. Mylène Farmer also took advantage of this interview to speak out about the times we live in now.
“It’s hard not to be flabbergasted by this period when we are witnessing the end of a world… This creates a great void and mental chaos. A new world is looming, the outlines of which are not well known. The only certainty is that the passage from one world to the other is likely to take place in violence. It’s very distressing. For some the‘what’s the point’ is predominant, for others it is the desire for freedom, to free oneself from everything, and for many the cold and terrible fear of tomorrow. As for me, there is also introspection… With this essential question: ‘What is important in my life?’ For a long time I was unable to write a single word… I was thinking of stopping everything. Then it happened all of a sudden. I was like the rising tide…“, said the singer.