Living legend of the French music scene, Eddy Mitchell has no intention of hanging up just yet. As proof, he is currently working on a new album, as he revealed during an interview granted to Point Thursday December 14, 2023. “Good people compose for me: Alain SouchonMichel Jonasz, Alain ChamfortAnd Pascal Obispo“, underlined the former sidekick of the deceased Johnny Hallyday. Asked about his collaboration with Pascal Obispo, Eddy Mitchell explained that it was, in part, a choice linked to the geographical proximity between the two artists. “He’s my neighbor, he crosses the street, he comes to my house… Above all, he is malleable, he adapts”said the 81-year-old musician, who has never hidden his dislike for the new generation of French song stars. Eddy Mitchell also took advantage of this interview to shoot down certain artists whose work he doesn’t really appreciate.
Eddy Mitchell on Vianney: “He’s the new Adamo, he has the look of an ideal son-in-law”
For example, the performer of the hit Mint water color did not hesitate to say all the bad things he thought of Benjamin Biolay, and more particularly his first album Rose Kennedy. “With the violins? It’s ridiculous. I don’t like his string arrangements. And his songs don’t interest me, his Winter Garden for Salvador is Lucile by Michel Jonasz”, he affirmed to the Point. The one who participated in the “Vielles canailles” tour with Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Dutronc also has very mixed memories of the duo he shared with Juliette Armanet. In fact, the singer was not convinced by his colleague due to “tone issues”. Finally, Eddy Mitchell also attacked Vianney by comparing him to another artist. “He’s the new Adamo, he has the look of an ideal son-in-law”, he said about the coach of the show The Voice. For the record, the former singer of the group Les Socks Noires had already destroyed the new stars of French song in 2016. “They’re charming but vocally, it’s mediocre. Where are the great voices? In general, they do their thing very well but for me, a singer must sing, radiate. There, it murmurs, it whispers of existential and navel-gazing concerns.” he declared in an interview granted to JDD.