By sudouest.fr with AFP
Stromae created the event in the 20 hours of TF1 this Sunday by unveiling “Hell”, a new title from his future album which evokes “suicidal thoughts”, while the artist has recovered from a burn- out
Stromae created the event in the newspaper of 8 pm of TF1 this Sunday, January 9 by unveiling “Hell”, new title of his future album which evokes “suicidal thoughts”, while the artist recovered from ‘a burnout in recent years.
“Suddenly, I sometimes had suicidal thoughts / I am not very proud of it / We sometimes believe that it is the only way to silence them / These thoughts which make me live a hell”, we hear in this piece. The Belgian presented this piece at the end of the television news, in a skilful staging, as if it was the last response, in song, to the short interview he had just given on the set.
The track was uploaded to music platforms at the same time. Stromae’s new album, “Multitude”, will be released on March 4th.
Stromae, withdrawn from the musical circuit since 2015, had already unveiled in mid-October a first single, “Health”, dedicated to small hands. This time “Hell” is a bit darker and more personal. Like an echo of his past torments. His last album, “Racine carrée” (2013, after “Cheese” in 2010), had shifted this 36-year-old musician into another dimension, for better or for worse.
“Even if we sell dreams, it remains a job and, like in any job, when we work too much, we end up with burnout,” he conceded in 2018.
In the 20 hours newspaper of TF1, Stromae confided that the work on clips for others in recent years – Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa or OrelSan, among others – had “really done him good” because “the attention ”was then“ no longer focused ”on him.
Internationally, he had already provided a remarkable performance in early December around “Health” in the show of Jimmy Fallon, on the American channel NBC.
The first three concerts of his tour are scheduled in Brussels on February 22, Paris on February 24 and Amsterdam on February 27, 2022. Tickets sold out in a quarter of an hour on the day they go on sale on December 3.