The apprentice star (2020)

Les coulisses

Première chanson de ce nouvel album de revisite , "The apprentice star" a subi une transformation complète. Du pop; du funk; du rock limite dubstep et même une espèce de rap monmixien La version originale de 1989 de par son texte naif et son arrangement traitait avec dérision l'histoire d'un ptit gars musicien devenu célèbre malgré lui et qui se demande comment retrouver la paix ..... tout l'inverse de Monmix ;-) .
Dans cette nouvelle version , l'idée était d'oublier la dérision et de traiter l'histoire au premier degré .
Une partie du texte a donc été changée et adaptée (mais en gardant une grande partie du texte original)
Côté musique, la structure (couplet-pont-refrain) et les boucles d'accords ont été conservées mais en raccourcissant drastiquement la durée de la chanson.
Et l'arrangement a été concu comme une montée en tension basculant d'un style musical à l'autre .
Ca commence avec un petit riff de guitare entêtant pour un premier couplet en retenue, puis bascule vers un pont beaucoup plutôt funky et un Refrain très rock limite dubsteps.
Ensuite , retour au pseudo calme tout en tension retenue pour le deuxieme couplet, suivie d'un nouveau pont funky et d'un refrain en forme de rap monmixien pour finir sur le petit riff de guitare qui s'éteint doucement

Paroles

Most of the people I see, really want to be like me
Cause all the girls that I see want to be with me
But they don't know that it is exhausting
Not to have only five minutes for me
They never look at me without winking
I would like to be unknown, I would like to be alone
I would like to be a simple mortal who can walk along the road
But they all see God in me
And it sounds so odd to me
And me, I'm tired out
.
Oh can’t you hear my soul crying
It says much more more than the words of my songs , I’m so under
I just wanna be alone, I want to drop it all and surrender …
When I’m sent in the crowd and they’re screaming
Well, I am feeling I’m drowning alone when the beat of the drum
Drives the beat of my heart, when it stops will it
take my last breath with it
.

What was the matter with me, when I had this idea
Oh, I should have better kept this song for me
What a nonsense, however
To have shown my song to that fancy producer
He put my song on an L.P , asked me to go on TV
And soon my song was known and sung everywhere in the world ,
First was the game, then came the fame, and I became their idol
and I lost control, I was not fit for the role
I feared their screams around me that they want to take a piece of me
And me I'm tired out
.

I have been dropped in such a mad world . They are fooled by the stairs that brings them
To a place where their head gets so big that they lose track who they are and who they’ve been
I don’t want to be them, I just want to be me , I don’t want to forget that I was nobody
I was just one of us remember when we all took stand in the wind
With just our guitars playing our song I am so afraid this time is gone, long gone
Because of this song that together around a fire we used to sing along
And the irony is that the song we created to seal our friendship
Is the one that took you away from me or took me away from you..may be
.

17 Decembre 2020 From “monREmix – Back to Soufflot street” Version originale 28 octobre 1989 from "Last trip to Colpin street"