So here are like that, you got fired from your record company?
K miss Yes, it's been three years that I was working on titles in English with my savings. So I asked my record company EMI to help me. Marketing Director reminded me, told me that the boss did not even listen to my songs and that if I was not doing my album mostly in French, they would not follow me. It was very clear!
The guys did not even want to listen? It's crazy, right?
I do not know if it's crazy, but it is clearly misconduct. When one claims to work with artists, we listen to what they have to offer. After three albums for which they have presented to me as a female artist who makes rock in French, they said they were going to really work, they were afraid of quotas and other radios and they are deflated.
Suddenly you will not come home in boxes, right?
Yes, it's a bit like the crisis of the disc. But this thing was a test. This album was a fight.
Hence the name you chose for your label, Kravache?
I had to find something that fits me. And I liked the double meaning good, sexy little SM side.
You have not been afraid to find yourself alone in control?
Yes. But I did not want to duplicate what is done in record company. In label, you come with the passion of your album and you are told: ". Great, then such dates, such press photos, it's good, it's done" There, you communicate you like, not rules, schedule or routine.
You who was afraid of you crusting ...
Bluntly! In addition, I was in full Breaking up that time, those who are sick to bide which you put for months to meet you. There I am on all fronts. No manager on a showcase for example, it is much less organized, but we move, a crate and finally we borrow, the same concert.
And what's that matter nipple on the cover of the album?
(Laughs) Yes, say that there was a small infinity ... Except we were warned that it would not go on iTunes and we had to clear it.
Sexuality level, you have always maintained the blur ...
Questions of identity fascinate me. This in-between, that thing where you hesitate, when you're looking for. I continue to experience this infinity of possible ...
You have in common with a singer as Sinead O'Connor, who had shaved his head because his record reproached her short hair and lack of femininity?
I've been tempted by this radical thing to zero ball, I'm a fan of this kind of acts, such as Britney Spears, but I knew I was going to look like a louse so I gave up!
Zazie in The Voice, you who have worked with her, it surprised you?
Yes and no. But it is necessary that people are aware that times are hard for the musicians. My album just came out and I see already full download links. It hurts me. I am for all to know him, but I bursting slab, I'm bleeding me for this album. One fan wrote me that he was disappointed not to have found on Spotify and it was the shit to give money to those bastards record companies. I replied that the record was me and I had put all my savings into it!
So you are against listening platforms like Spotify or Deezer?
It is operated! People think that these platforms are returning us money. But be aware that with this money, I can go buy me some candy! That's peanuts! And on iTunes, they are taking a huge margin!
Actually, most people think to criticize artists' fees, as recently as Zaz ...
So that, I do not mind talking about it! I live in a 27 m 2 and I rent my apartment. Just because you spend on TV you earn fortunes. OK, Zaz is very popular, it is not too bad a living, but € 40,000 for a concert, at his level, it's not much. She has not played for a dictator! I do not see what is wrong. If tomorrow I have a private concert at € 40,000, I take!
Interview by Fabienne Hauchart