F(r)âme(s) - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

One of the greatest social engines of our time is the auto-domestication of individuals; Subjects are pushing themselves constantly to be a better version of themselves, to adapt and be articulated into a society of success; assuming blindly a social order and its aesthetics. Look at Instagram.
We are absorbing a discourse of self development that brings no other than anxiety and frustration. And it is such a great engine because it is at the heart of innovation and entrepreneurship, it is the pillar for a society in which everyone is his or her own company that you have to sell and recreate in a market society. You frame yourself in relation to how likable you are which would "mean" how successful you "appear".

This album is evidently a counter culture message; embedded musically and acting as a tribute to the Rock of the 90; Grunge, New Punk, Etc. but is also a detachment from the suffering that this culture conveyed. It was again a heavy burden to feel only empowered by anger and rage which have ended in the auto destruction of some of the Counter Culture Prophets of the time. But still we could only profit from this social movement thanks to the big record deals and world tours, the counter culture could only exist as part of the big machine. So fame and grandeur were also desirable and sought after many kids and young adults, living a paradox, living this ill hybridity of wanting to be famous while conveying criticisms to a reigning social order, to the glamour and the superficiality.

So auto-imposed frames, the hunger (fame in Italian) for fame and the selling of the soul (âme in French) are at the conceptual heart of this song and the entire album. Cause we are here, anyhow, anyway and that's alright! Thanks for sharing this journey with us!

Lyrics:
And I’m here
Anyhow
Anyway
But it’s alright

All sold out
In my hopes
You will see
I restrain from fame

But you know it is okay
Is only frames

And I’m here
Anyhow
Anyway
But it’s alright

Songs in my soul
All these songs
Are my hopes
And they are mine

But you know it is okay
Restrained from fame

Songs in my soul
All these songs
Are my hopes
And they are mine

Vrais - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

The encounter of individuals, the intention of sharing a physical substantial moment, the game of seduction VS The depiction of sexuality and intimacy as taboo. The skin, the tongue, the naked body are still filled with symbolisms of forbidden or the contrary: The social imaginary of assuming an esthetic, the constant mis en scène is considered essential of contemporary existence; the body is an ideological tools and it is an object of control or to control.

Lyrics:
Bonsoir mademoiselle, j'ai failli ne pas remarquer que vous êtes toute seule avec l'air un peu ennuyé et ca fait deux déjà deux âmes dans ce froid univers qui nous entoure qui nous envahi par la peau mais mon univers c'est la lumière que je verrai dans vos yeux.

Et moi je vais arrêter de philosopher et vous parler d'une façon cartésienne faisant allusion à aucune illusion vous êtes belle et vous êtes la et ca nous amène à des conditions idéales pour faire votre connaissance.

Et c'est vrai que je suis français
Un instant de puberté
Et c'est vrai que je suis français
De pulsions et naïveté

Au revoir mademoiselle je voulais vous dire un truc l'univers sait aussi jouer avec les circonstances qui entoure un moment presque parfait mais la raison s'oppose à moins que vous vous imposez

Et c'est vrai que je suis français
Mille instants de puberté
Et c'est vrai que je suis français
De pulsions et lâcheté

Translation:
True (Vrai)

Good evening miss, I almost did not notice that you are all alone with this air of being a little bored and we are already two, two souls in this cold universe that is around us and that invades us through the skin but my real universe is the light that I will see later in your eyes.

And I'm going to stop philosophizing and start talking to you in a Cartesian way, hinting at no illusion, you're beautiful and you're there and it brings us to the ideal conditions to getting to know you.

And it's true that I'm French
A moment of puberty
And it's true that I'm French
Impulses and naivety

See you miss, I wanted to tell you something: the universe also knows how to play with the circumstances surrounding a near perfect moment but the reason is yet against unless you impose yourself

And it's true that I'm French
Thousand moments of puberty
And it's true that I'm French
Impulses and cowardice

 

Claire Prieur - “F(r)âme(s)” Album

What should be this song about? Nothing but the description of a moment and not intellectual elucubrations.

Lyrics:
Claire Prieur comment tu vas?
C’est qui la petite Léana qui joue avec toi?
Et le petit Joshua qui est dans tes bras?
Claire Prieur comment tu vas?