Questions, social networks playing a role that is too significant, legitimacy Taking a step back, the 26-year-old Belgian singer says, “With Ninety-Five, I had no room for error, even if it’s only my second album and second tour.
Most “doubt pulls us onward,” there is “greater doubt than before”: The Belgian pop princess Angèle acknowledges the “pressure” of a follow-up record, which the “euphoriaFestivals” are presently promoting on stage.
One might assume that the singer thought of herself as established at age 26 given the popularity of his first opus roll (1.5 million copies sold). However, the artwork for his second album, Ninety-Five (95, her birth year), which features her on a roller coaster, already gives away a hint to a more nuanced experience. She admitted to AFP that “there’s greater doubt than before.” She always rushed a bit head down in her early years. It’s really nice but also very frightening that my return with Ninety-Five was viewed as that of a well established artist. Even though this is only my second album and second tour, it’s as if I have no room for error.
We advance through doubt.
«The first record set a very high bar, and the sales were pitiful. But I didn’t necessarily have the recipe; things eluded me, says this ballerina’s offspring (rapper brother Roméo Elvis; singer father Marka; actress mother Laurence Bibot). Therefore, the doubt is still very much present. However, she has learned to navigate issues of legitimacy and trust in an effort to comprehend why there are times when questioning is appropriate. Doubt grows, she inhales.
She also challenges the prominence of social media in his life. The artist was born there and started publishing covers right away. Exposure that has grown exponentially has fueled its infamy. But the author-composer ultimately pays the price, riding the crests of a “increasingly intense maelstrom” of love or hate. Prior to becoming conscious of what I was displaying, especially in my private life, I learnt how to defend myself. I have boundaries now, but I don’t yet have the mental fortitude to violate them. She admits to being an addict, saying, “There are moments when my body answers the phone rather than me. In light of this, I must exercise self-control. She continues, “With social networks, positive or negative fervor takes precedence over truth.” On the occasion of their duet Fever, Angèle had the opportunity to discuss it with British megastar Dua Lipa. “It reassures me that an artist like her faces the same anxieties as I,” said the woman. “Being the same age, being two ladies spotted pretty young thanks to the networks, extremely adored and very ridiculed, on different sizes.
Even though Ninety-Five is more introspective and melancholy than roll, more festive, the link with the public is always there in concert. Spectators stayed late into the night from Thursday to Friday to take their hits to the top of their lungs at the Aluna Festival, in Ruoms (central-eastern France).
The interpreter of the tube Swing your what is delighted to be back in the summer festivals and this “euphoria you feel in the audience and on stage“. She had tasted it as a simple festival-goer at 17, with her best friend at the Belgian festival Pukkelpop, in “nights under the tent, on site as much for the music as for the party».
His first major festival was We Love Green in 2018 in Paris. She expected at best a thousand people. “I turn my head, it was filled! (more than 30,000 people, editor’s note). It was catastrophic, nothing was right, my pants were falling off, my microphone box didn’t fit (laughs)“. Seen from the public, she convinces at the time, without an album yet released. Accompanied by a group and dancers, her show is now well established, between “quiet songs» and those for «embark» the audience. Like the concert premiere, more meaningwhich sticks “when the public returns“After two seasons cropped by the health crisis.