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Marie-Flore - Braquage

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Marie-Flore - Braquage Image 1
  • 2019
  • Marie-Flore - Braquage Image 1
  • 12

I've let myself be seduced. Impressed. Unintendedly, I admit, because a priori it isn't really my kind of music. But preconceptions are meant to be overcome aren't they?
Actually, this hold-up’s as borderline and as addictive as French series Braquo.

At first sight, you may see a resemblance with Angèle, with Clara Luciani (deep voice) or with Hoshi. Well, stuff of the moment, you know. Influenced by both American dance or RnB big productions, and the new masters of French rap. Yet there is something else in Marie-Flore, when you go further. Maybe a touch of Christophe and of "I'm Not in Love" ("Cambre").
And everywhere this singing which beats about the bush and these couldn’t-care-less intonations which stick a knife into your heart.

Her pop pieces full of hit-like tchakapoom ("Tout ou Rien", "M'en Veux Pas", "Partie Remise") are good and well controlled. It moves and it’s cool. However, they don’t form the major part of the album, in which some melancholy dominates, against a backdrop of toxic and absolute love affairs.

The first words of the album are “You’ve got to stop” and the last ones are “Or you’re just an idiot”. This is rather indicative. In between, the lyrics are acid and often sexual. Youth parlance is accepted, crude, but without reaching the filth of some trendy rappers. On the contrary, you can find finer points, artistic references (Klein, Caravage), sports metaphors, derision, puns and dogged search for the rhyme, should it be in [-aʒ] (braquage), in [-aj] (pagaille), in [-iz] (surprises) or in [-aʁ] (départ).

A poisonous and subversive (but not disruptive) charm emerges from the work, which leads us on the slope of the rollercoasters of her emotions. Be careful, it shakes. In short, why should I beat about the bush? I've let myself be seduced. How about you?



Marie-Flore - Braquage Image 1
  • The musical development at the end of "Sur la Pente" is intense, but too short. I imagine it longer as played live, when she’d let her musicians play while she’d go backstage to get her breath – and her grip – back, before coming back for an encore.
    For obviously I expect more from a concert, like a kind of extension of this record in which all songs last systematically between 3 and 4 minutes, perfectly calibrated. (Too calibrated?)

  • M'en Veux Pas
    Tout ou Rien
    Sur la Pente
  • Bleu Velours
  • The sentence

    “I’m wishing you all the best, but can I ever let you cry” ("Partie Remise")

  • her
    www.marie-flore.com (340 Hits)
  • ...And now, listen!
    • www.deezer.com/en/album/105429102 (139 Hits)
    • open.spotify.com/album/4KZvHHoIBZblc3yk2zi8kv (115 Hits)
    • www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l-mcEBmNeI2u0xhGwVarxh613l0wspigs (82 Hits)
  • Tags
    Christophe | Hoshi | Clara Luciani | Angèle | addictive | toxic | love affair | lyrics | pop

  • To be appreciated too...
    Marie-Flore
    Je Sais Pas si Ça Va
        2022

    How am I? Fine when listening
      Clara Luciani
    Sainte-Victoire
        2018

    Oh when the saints go to victory
      Dralms
    Shook
        2015

    The shook shock


  • Created
    29 December 2019

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