How can you be yourself on a first date, first day of school, first day of work? Sometimes it's tempting to have two personalities. That's the question I asked myself when I made this music : An aethereal pop music ballad with progressive house synthesizers and drum & bass rhythm.
The story of this song starts in 2009, at that time I was listening to a lot of Japanese rock, French electro and movies soundtracks. Then years later I remembered that little music box melody of the intro and that duet which is now in the middle of the title. But I couldn't find it in my archives! Luckily, a friend of mine had kept the first version on his computer. If this title exists today it's thanks to the first leak of my career!
So I started to reuse the chord progression from the original track, the music box melody and the duet with my new electronic sound palette. But I wanted it to be a song, so I had to think about the lyrics. After several attempts in English, I couldn't find the lyrics that corresponded to what I was unconsciously looking for. Then I came back to the very first demo of 2009 this track simply entitled "raison d'être".
Then I decided to write a simple text, inspired by Hamlet's "to be or not to be", transposed to our "social media" current era. The original title made me think, "Why not a french song?". That's how the gimmick of : « To be or to appear, that is the question. To be or to appear, what is my reason for being ? » was born. The text is more introspective without being explicit so that everyone can write their own story with it.
Here is the result of these years of these years of exploration. I hope you'll enjoy the journey.
Lyrics:
Être ou paraître, telle est la question?
Être ou paraître, quelle est ma raison d'être?
Être ou paraître, telle est la question?
Être ou paraître, quelle est ma raison d'être?
Être ou paraître, telle est la question?
Être ou paraître, quelle est ma raison d'être?
Être ou paraître, telle est la question?
Être ou paraître, quelle est ma raison d'être?
Quelle est ma raison d'être?
Quelle est ma raison d'être?
Quelle est ma raison d'être?
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