Home & Garden Music: with "Chansons Hivernales", Pierre Lapointe delivers his very personal version of Christmas

Uncertainty surrounds the end-of-year celebrations and yet the artists are no exception to the tradition of Christmas albums. That of Quebecois Pierre Lapointe, under the title of "Chansons Hivernales", is perhaps the most original and exciting.

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"I love making people cry." Pierre Lapointe, half serious, half amused, will never change. The ultra-productive Quebec singer, star in his land, more and more in our region, experienced confinement in Montreal as a "reconnection to music", believing that our "listening capacity was much greater than in our life before, since now we have to put it that way. "

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So, what could be better than to satisfy a 15 year old fantasy: writing a Christmas album. But beware, only original songs, beautiful and melodious certainly, with the cynical, precise and committed background that makes its mark. With break-up songs, a duet with Mika, a Creole Christmas sung with Mélissa Laveaux, the feigned joy of being around the tree, Pierre Lapointe delivers his version of the holidays. "Christmas albums have long had a slightly negative connotation, he judges, so I wanted to play with these codes."

I am unable to write just stuff that bounces off marshmallow, so every time my marshmallow gets a little burnt.

And while waiting to be able to create a special show, on stage, "this album must age well, and if one day one or two of these songs are massacred by others in my industry, it will be a sign that I succeeded in my job ". The humor and finesse of a writing serving strong themes; last song on the album, Mum, Papa, confession of a young man rejected by his family after coming out last year. If Christmas does not take place this year, at least there will have been this Pierre Lapointe record.

Pierre Lapointe, Chansons Hivernales (Audiogram / Columbia). Album available.