Eddy de Pretto returns with “Crash Coeur”, a record of love songs influenced by Arthur Rimbaud.

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Eddy de Pretto wants to talk about love

Encouraged by the works and confidence of “Rimbaud, Verlaine, Elton, Genet, RuPaul, Frank, Freddie, or Warhol,” Eddy de Pretto unveils Crash Cœur, a concentration of heady, immodest and catchy urban songs. Far from his two previous albums ( Cure and À tous les bastards) which he spent building his identity, that of a young gay, red-haired man, from the suburbs, seeking to get rid of the codes of masculinity and overthrow the stigmas that have long victimized him, the singer now speaks of love. Eddy de Pretto explains that he wanted to talk about love, like all singers, like all artists: “but what makes the nuance is that it’s me”.

Succeeding in loving someone was a monstrous job for me

In his album, he sings about “the love that sticks, that drips, sometimes a little disgusting, a little toxic.” It is therefore a question of feeling in the broad sense, and of how to succeed in this infinite quest for happiness. In Paris Match magazine, Eddy de Pretto declared: “Where I grew up, love and tenderness were not assumed. There was a certain coldness, we didn’t touch each other. Succeeding in loving someone was a monstrous job for me.” And the 30-year-old singer also feels a certain pleasure in suffering in love: “I like the walls we put up against ourselves, the fact of having to start over again after each fall. That’s where it comes from the crash metaphor in the title of the record.”