Stromae is one of the greatest artists of his generation. At 36, the Belgian returns with a new album, Multitude, of which he unveiled a second extract on Anne-Claire Coudray’s 8 p.m. set in January. It is on stage that he will showcase this new baby and in Brussels, where it all began for him.
These reunions with his audience, Stromae apprehends them: “I haven’t been on stage for a long timehe confided to Telerama. We work with robotics, 3D animation like Pixar or DreamWorks. It’s an ambitious show” The show, still in his image, will however be less voluble and in motion than the previous ones: “There will be staging, gestures, but less pure and hard dance. I want to enjoy it more and be less on the balls at the end of the show. The previous one was very trying and I no longer have the same body: I will soon be 37 years old“. Stromae trusts each other but fears a detail: “My concern remains the memory lapse for the lyrics. Everyone has their phobias…“
Seven years ago, Stromae cut the cord with music. Officially at least. Struck by the depression and the dark thoughts that he evokes in the title hellthe artist-turned-dad reviewed his priorities: “I took it easy, that’s for sure. I want to focus on fun now. I no longer insist on the slightest detail that no one will see; sometimes it got ridiculous. In the same way, having ambition is commendable, except that wanting to always do more, we no longer surprise“. He won the bet and had his victory over the disease.
“We are never safe from moments of hollowness, of course. I went through a complicated period, overwork, clearly. Freed? Rather relieved to have finished it” confesses Stromae. The interpreter of Papaoutai is better but is not spared the stage fright that everyone feels when revealing their work: “A little stress is looming right now, but we’re not quite on the eve of the album release yet. In general, I start to think that he is a little rubbish, before pulling myself together. Even if it doesn’t work, I like this disc, because it is as I wanted it. I can look at myself in a mirror and be happy, that’s the main thing“. And it’s great !