Enfnts Terribles

First things first… how are you?

Well, I was stressed today because some things weren’t organized well. It’s the first show for the album, so I’ve put pressure on myself to do it perfectly. But now, I’m doing fine!

Pour de Vrai is your debut album. What was it like working on an album for the first time?

I gave myself the time I needed to make this album, and I didn’t put limits on what I wanted to make. It was very important for me not to rush the process, and I’ve truly given my all for the project.

Over ten years ago, you started as part of the collective Bon Gamin. What are the advantages of working with a group and working solo?

Working with the collective Bon Gamin allowed me to broaden my horizon, as it took me to places I wouldn’t necessarily go myself. But this album was a solo project and I really focussed on making everything the way I wanted it to be. Therefore, I wanted to better myself and find out what was right for me.

So, I wanted to find out what I was comfortable with and luckily, I had some amazing people helping me along the way. That’s why working on this album still felt a bit like a group project because others helped me discover so many new facets.

What was the impact of your hometown Montreuil on you as an artist and on the outcome of the album?

To create Pour de Vrai, I moved in with my parents again because I wanted to relive all my memories and feelings from when I was younger. To be honest, being in my old room taught me a lot about myself and made me understand who I wanted to be as an artist. For example, I realized that I didn’t want to live next to Paris anymore because I need some space to breathe. Furthermore, I see myself as someone whose home is everywhere.

For “911”, you’ve created an incredible music video. How does it accentuate the story of the song?

The song is about leaving Paris with all the women, drugs, money, and things that made me stay in the French capital, which kept me from looking for the big unknown. All the red things in de video symbolize the dangerous things that kept me in the situation I was in, and the blue stands for the brighter side. I’m fleeing Paris in that Porshe 911 as I hope to find paradise and happiness. In the clip, I’m forcing myself to untangle all the bad things and make the big jump towards freedom. I’ve had this story in my mind for a long time, and I’m super happy that we brought it to life in the music video.

Your album is very diverse, but what makes you a unique artist?

I’m unique because we’re all unique. I don’t want to do what others do as I instead focus on what I personally feel and bring that to my music. All the other artists are unique too, but some stay entwined in how society sees them, and they just want to please the majority. There’s a sentence where I sing: “We’re all not lonely, we’re lonely”, and you can put it in a different way as well. We’re all not unique, we’re unique.