“I have long been a caricature of myself”

When it comes to an end, we realize that summer has often rhymed with a series of “é” terms: bottled motorway, glass of rosé, wet sand, burnt merguez. In recent years, we can add Julien Doré, 39 years old, to this long list, whose ritornello generally lulls our summer decompressions. This summer, from the album Loved (title inspired by the first name of his grandmother), so it was heady Waf and its aperitif-sentimental refrain which poured out like an obviousness in our eardrums.

“Serve me love in a glass of pastaga”, whispered the former candidate of “Nouvelle Star”, while his two Swiss shepherds, Simone and Jean-Marc, howl in the background of this surrealist fresco weighted down with worried verses about the climate crisis. “When I wrote the album, in my ‘home studio’, my two dogs were with me all the time. One day, hearing them make wolf howls, I recorded them and put it back in the song I was working on. It makes you think of Thriller, by Michael Jackson. The problem is, they can’t listen to the track without starting to bark again. “

“Torturing” pop culture and re-serving a skilful digestive flavor is part of the Julien Doré brand. It is by resuming in a hoarse voice Me … Lolita of the very wise Alizée that the native of Alès, in 2007, emerged from the limbo of anonymity. Having also modified the initial text, the bar artist then gave his “Tongue to the pussies”. Back in 2021, on a hot summer day. Logically, we have just ordered two pastagas and moved to the second floor of the O2 Scènes, a restaurant adjacent to the Seine Musicale, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine).

Re-rooting

“Pastis is a symbolic nod to my South, the one I rediscovered three years ago. For a long time, I wanted and needed to reconnect with my roots. When I lived in Paris, the energy was unsettling. This is not how I was born, how I grew up. “ He who was once seen in the press people on the arm of a weather miss who became an actress (Louise Bourgoin) has therefore focused all the promotion of his last record on its re-rooting in the Cévennes. Or exactly ? Julien Doré prefers to remain evasive. In a “Tiny village”, close to his “Hundred-year-old grandmother” and his parents, former second-hand dealers who gave him a taste for beautiful objects.

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