Words and images that bring to hell Eric Lapointe, there are all over her new disc. How, indeed, not to see in the sky of my fights and the burning red and black portrait of the sleeve signed Corno the fight against the singer’s daughter Vodka? How, by reading the lyrics of his songs, they are called to love two, After or men who fall, how, yes, do not think the emotion felt in February 2008, when Lapointe s’ is found within a whisker of death for attending too long, too intensely, the daughter poisonous bottle?
Lapointe and dependence
“I am aware that I will not miss any questions about my addiction,” says Lapointe in a telephone interview. “But I say what I say in my songs, so I do not need to come back in an interview. The album title is revealing: we all have our struggles in life and they are not just alcohol-related. But to the end, I will be me. ”
It is no secret: it has been sober for over a year, but it had its moments of weakness. “It’s a battle every day and it’s not a fight that led in public.”
That is, the alcohol issue is closed. And when we asked the rocker to comment on his songs, he gives to those who appear the most eloquent sense unexpected, that of the singer’s emotional dependence toward the audience. When he pointed out that this is not the first thing that comes to mind while listening, he drops the ambiguity is deliberate.
In an interview, Eric Lapointe, formerly open book – at least at times – has learned to protect themselves. It’s good singing it all her fears and unfolds without shame.
“Never be afraid to expose themselves. Making an album is to strip. It is a striptease of the soul. You can not go on the brakes. It is a therapy, a means, a need to express themselves in song. And each album is a milestone in my life. ”
A baby in February
The step that has led him through the gates of death, and there, against all odds, life has reminded, so strong that there will soon be his child. His lover, Melanie Chouinard, give birth to their baby in February. Without wishing to use a child as a buoy, Lapointe already knows it will be an inspiration and motivation to live.
“I look forward and fear at a time. Afraid not to live up … It’s a little abstract for me, fatherhood, I am not carrying the child. Roger [Tabra], a father, tried to sell me super beautiful texts on fatherhood, but I was not able. It is still too abstract. I will keep it for the next album. ”
Meanwhile, it seals the reunion of Eric Lapointe happy with lyricist and guitarist Roger Tabra Stéphane Dufour, the old friends of many successes.
“We had lost sight for some years. We lived tensions and conflicts, like an old couple. We took the air and it’s for the better. ”
Daniel Lavoie and Roger Tabra
The singer had written himself guilty his record, and my skin, he employs several staff, including Daniel Lavoie, to whom he is now a friendly wink taking up the very beautiful They love each other, in hard rock. Roger was a bit Tabra there for my skin, but this time there is completely beside Lapointe to a four-handed writing.
“I love his writing, is the one I wish I had. Or he knows me very well, and we are the same, but he wrote my life … He wrote my life, but he writes better. ”
Even wiser, Lapointe has remained in love with the night for a month and a half, the time to record his songs, he slept in his studio in the basement of his house.
“I am not able to sleep when I work, j’angoisse. When you launch an album, you can not return it … So j’angoisse and I can not sleep when I get tired, head in the console! ”
No time to think
After that agonizing gestation, Tuesday, Éric Lapointe “delivery” of her sixth studio album, a painful, because it is sure of anything and has no perspective on his creation still warm. But it will not have time to think about it, there is the holiday party to prepare with his brother Hugo and friends Pagliaro and Jonas. And later, in February, heading for Cuba to “the Super Bowl Beach Lapointe,” a tour with other artists. On the way back, but perhaps just before the baby. And the same month, the beginning of the tour the sky of my fights.
“Somebody has to pay the coats,” he says with a laugh. “There’s a chance that the newborn is going on tour very soon …”
Commented songs
Men who fall
“Falling and getting up, it is the nature of this business. My career – and my life – have had their hard knocks. It is a profession where there is nothing gained. Every song, every show, all over again. We’re fighters. It has long been seen as the album title, but we would have had to write to the back cover, “and each time recovering.”
Love for two
“I have often said, the stage is my therapy, and the public is my therapist. I wanted to thank the public without being too “licheux”! In some periods of my life, the public loved me more than myself. ”
The fist year
“Roger Tabra and I, we know so well: we hardly need to talk to understand. Our reunion was full of emotions and memories. By the time we met, we did shows each of our board, we were buddies before the work together. I was 20 and he 40. We spent evenings to remember that time and it gave the song. Ended up where they had left. Roger can speak of his life and it sticks to my own. I am a vehicle for expressing business he could not write to others. ”
I’m at it
“My girlfriend is pregnant and it comes with a realization: I am attached to the same woman, inevitably, the rest of my life. It’s also aware that I am too old to report to the galley and crazy … ”