STROMAE. After the release of his third album, “Multitude”, the Belgian singer Stromae unveils the clip for the single “Fils de joie”.
[Mis à jour le 08 mars 2022 à 10h57] “But oh, leave my mum. Yes, I know. It’s true that she is not perfect. He is a hero and it will always be proud. That I will talk about it.” Three days after the release of his new album, MultitudeStromae offers a clip to a third single, sons of joy. The Belgian singer plunges us into the funeral, with great pomp, of a prostitute. In the text, Stromae alternates the points of view of a client and the son of this sex worker, all punctuated by baroque sounds made of harpsichords.
In the impressive clip of Sons of Joy, the artist, whose latest album is already a gold record, turns into a president surrounded by wreaths of flowers and addressing a crowd of soldiers and civilians, to pay homage to prostitutes. “It took months of work and hundreds of people (the list of credits is impressive) to get there,” Stromae points out on Instagram.
It was undoubtedly the most anticipated record of the start of 2022: Multitude, Stromae’s third album, was released on Friday March 4th. A new opus carried by two first singles, Health and hellreleased in October and January respectively. Multitudewhich lasts 35 minutes, has twelve pieces: Unbeaten, Health, loneliness, sons of joy, hell, It’s only happiness, not really, Laugh, My love, Declaration, Bad day and Good daytwo mirror songs co-written with Orelsan.
A multitude of origins for the melodies and instruments, from the harpsichord to the kora via the bagpipes, the violin or the Persian flute, of sounds, voices, but also a multitude of themes addressed, from feminism sir Declarationto paternity with This is happiness going through the crisis of the couple on lonelinessprostitution with sons of joy or the dark thoughts in hell. Rarely has an album carried its name so well.
In addition to the disk, MultitudeStromae unveiled, on his YouTube channel, two videos entitled Stromae vu par… On the program, the career of the Belgian artist seen by various artists such as Orelsan, DJ Snake, Pierre et Gilles, Jamel DebbouzeJean-Paul Gaultier, Angèle, Madonna, Black Eyed Peas or Yael Naim.
Stromae on stage, on French television. After long years of absence, the Belgian singer made his return to French television on Friday February 11, as honorary president of the 37th Victoires de la Musique ceremony. On this occasion, he performed on the Seine Musicale stage in Boulogne-Billancourt and performed the single Health.
The singer opened the evening with a superb performance, first animated as a tutorial to learn the choreography of Health, a single from his next album, which he then performed on the Victoires stage surrounded by his musicians. This avatar will also be part of his next concerts. The Belgian then appeared to present the Artist of the Year trophy to Orelsan.
Stromae offers a new memorable sequence on French television. Guest of the TF1 news on Sunday January 09, 2022, the Belgian singer, after a report on his career and his long break, performed on the set of Anne-Claire Coudray an unpublished piece, baptized hell. It was by answering a question from the journalist about the loneliness, the discomfort he may have felt during these seven years of silence, that Stromae began to sing in front of the camera.
The single hell, which evokes suicide, was also put online on all streaming listening platforms, after the passage of Stromae on TF1. This surprising interview quickly, like the song, made the rounds of social networks, where thousands of anonymous people or personalities salute the performance and genius of a long-awaited Stromae.
No offense to his detractors and various polemicists, the singer caught the attention of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). “Thank you Stromae for highlighting the difficult subject of suicide in your latest album”, he wrote in a message on Twitter in which he relayed the video of the artist on the set of Anne-Claire Coudray, Sunday evening. “So important to ask for help if you are having difficulty and to support those who need help,” adds the boss of the WHO.
Stromae’s performance on the set of 20 Heures de France 2 is obviously reminiscent of another cult moment in his career on television: in 2013, the singer split on the set of Canal+’s Grand Journal to perform his song All The same. Another sequence that took viewers by surprise and made a date in the history of French television.
Two days after his masterstroke on the TF1 JT set, Stromae unveils the clip of hellhis second single from the album Multitude, expected in the spring. A minimalist video, in which we discover the Belgian singer, alone, sporting a long ponytail, a new look associated with his third album.
Struggling alone in the face of his demons, Stromae brings to life the lyrics of this song, which evokes suicidal thoughts and the fight against “guilt”. “I sometimes had suicidal thoughts. And I’m not proud of it. Sometimes we think it’s the only way to silence them. These thoughts that make us live in hell”, sings the interpreter of All The same. A rare highlight of a social subject too rarely mentioned publicly.
It is therefore the second single unveiled by Stromae: the song hell, which succeeds Santé, the first single from his forthcoming album. As we can see in the video above, it was on the set of TF1’s 20 Hours, Sunday January 09, 2022, that the singer performed this title for the first time, immediately posted on the platforms of streaming listening.
After celebrating the people on the front line in Health, Stromae evokes with hell suicide, in a serious text. “I’ve had suicidal thoughts at times. And I’m not proud of them. Sometimes people think that’s the only way to shut them up. These thoughts that make us live through hell. These thoughts that make me live through hell “, he sings in hell.
“I’m very happy to make this announcement, it’s been a long time, see you very soon.” Last week, Stromae confirmed their return by lifting the veil on the name and release date of their long-awaited new album: Multitude expected in stores on March 4, 2022.
In a funny video, it is a “multitude” of Stromae who announced the release date, the name of the album and returns to the few tour dates announced in recent weeks. New concert dates have also just been announced, including a show at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 24, 2022, or two concerts at Paris La Défense Arena on June 16 and 17, 2023. Find all the dates of its tour this way.
On the occasion of all these announcements, the singer Stromae had performed live for the first time since his last album, on the set of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon’s American late show, surrounded by his musicians and dancers. The Belgian was able to interpret Healthfirst single from the album Multitude. A first live performance that already gave an idea of Stromae’s new visual identity…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAT2jERSbFE
“How about we celebrate those who don’t celebrate.” For Stromae, good news never comes alone. After having created the surprise on Friday October 15, 2021 by picking up his audience when he woke up, at six in the morning with Healthhis new song, the interpreter of Papaoutai unveiled in stride, at the end of the day, the clip that accompanies this single. Proof of the expectation around the Belgian’s new project: the video has been viewed nearly five million times in one weekend.
In the video, Stromae features the people mentioned in the lyrics of his song, Rosa, Albert, Céline or Arlette, “Airplane pilot or nurse, truck driver or air hostess, Baker or fisherman” , “those who do not celebrate”, to whom he wants to “raise [s]we drink”. Everyone starts dancing, following the instructions of the Maestro. Discover the Health clip below:
“Twitter Health!” : on social networks, to announce the surprise release of his first single, this is the formula used by Stromae. “How about we celebrate those who don’t celebrate? For once, I’d like to raise my glass to those who don’t! To those who don’t…”, sings the author, composer and Belgian performer in this piece, in which he evokes different trades, these “everyday heroes” tested by the Covid-19 pandemic: “Airplane pilot or nurse, truck driver or air hostess, Baker or fisherman.”
But does the title of this new song have another meaning? On the Internet, the term Health is very often used in association with that of Stromae, who retired from the scene in 2015 after health problems. Victim of serious side effects from a preventive anti-malaria treatment, he had to withdraw from public life. “I could not stand the treatment, it gave me hallucinations. I thought I had gone mad, I was diagnosed with psychic decompensation”, he confided in this regard to Liberation in 2017.
On the occasion of the release of Multitude, Stromae will set off again on the roads of France during a new tour. It is possible to buy tickets for his concerts on the website of Fnac or of Seetickets by following the links provided. Here are all the dates :
- Brussels – Belgium – Palais 12 – February 22, 2022
- Paris – Accor Arena – February 24, 2022
- Amsterdam – Netherlands – Afas Live – February 27, 2022
- Ruoms -Aluna Festival – June 16, 2022
- Lyons – Reversal – June 17, 2022
- Werchter – Belgium – June 19, 2022
- Belfort – The Eurockéennes – June 30, 2022
- Marmande – Garorock – July 3, 2022
- Lisbon – Portugal – NOS Alive Festival – July 6, 2022
- Bilbao – Spain – BBK Live Festival – July 8, 2022
- Liège – Belgium – Les Ardentes – July 10, 2022
- Carhaix – The Old Plows – July 14, 2022
- Saint-Malo-du-Bois – Poupet Festival – July 15, 2022
- Milan – Italy – Milano Summer Festival – July 20, 2022
- Nyon – Switzerland – Paléo Festival – July 24, 2022
- Charleville Mézières – Cabaret-Vert – August 17, 2022
- Paris – Rock en Seine – August 28, 2022
- Munich – Germany – Superbloom Festival – September 04, 2022
- Bordeaux – Arkéa Arena – March 4 and 5, 2023
- Marseilles – The Dome – March 9 and 10, 2023
- Brussels – Belgium – Palais 12 – 15, 16 and 17 March 2023
- Strasbourg – Zenith – March 22, 2023
- Amneville – Galaxy – March 23 and 24, 2023
- Nantes – Zenith – March 29, 30 and 31, 2023
- Toulouse – Zenith – April 20 and 21, 2023
- Basel – Switzerland – April 26, 2023
- Geneva – Switzerland – April 27 and 28, 2023
- Lyons – Halle Tony Garnier – May 24 and 25, 2023
- Lille – Arena Stade Pierre Mauroy – June 10 and 11, 2023
- Paris – La Défense Arena – June 16 and 17, 2023