Once again, The Red Heads did it for you… below is the video of the meeting between Céline Dion and Maxime Le Forestier in Las Vegas. Maxime Le Forestier has written one of the songs that will appear on Céline’s upcoming french album, named « Moi Quand Je Pleure ». And for the english-speaking fans… the english translation of the whole interview!
TRANSLATION
Maxime Le Forestier uses the opportunity of being in San Francisco to make a detour via Las Vegas… He’s just written a song for Céline Dion’s next album… A good excuse to work a bit on the lyrics with her and make some final adjustments on the words…
« I love to write for girls because it’s very different from me, so it enables me to say things in a way I would not use for my songs…
Céline Dion, it was at an editor’s instigation, called Jean-Phillipe Allard, who knew Céline Dion was looking for some songs and who offered me to join with Stanislas, Stanislas who produces a very joinful, very lively sound, very funny, like that… And as I write rather dark lyrics, he said to himself a combination of the two of us would be interesting…
– Good Evening !!!
– Good Evening Céline!!
– Allo, how are you?
– Thanks for receiving me!
– Well that’s a pleasure !!! In my Las Vegas dressing room… It’s not blue… (Maxime LF is know for his song ‘the blue house’)
– But I’ve got some paint remaining from the house, if you want we can do something tomorrow…
– After the show we’ll talk about it
– After the show
– Shall we sit down?
– That’s a lovely, magnificent clap, I’m going to hire you as the clapperboard man… How is it working, am I the one having to question you?
– Well it’s everything is fine, the house has been repainted, your song is finished
– I can’t wait for recording the title… You know, we’re so dependant from composers, us, who do not write our own songs, I don’t write my own songs… So in a way I’m always at the mercy, in a way, of jewels and of songs who are going to bring me again, make me live a nice path…
– Today in Vegas, you sing mainly in English right?
– Mainly in English
– Sure
– Yes, but I do interpret a Jacques Brel song…
It’s not a “little” song “don’t go away, don’t go away, crying, it’s such an extraordinary song that I was afraid of taking the responsibility to sing it…
The song Céline Dion has chosen is called “Moi quand je pleure” (Me when I cry), in fact it’s a portrait, of her, but a bit as a caricature, I’ve always seen Céline crying, in all the interviews, since she’s been 14, she cries easily, and TV hosts have not restrained themselves from “pushing the button” so I depicted a girl crying, Niagara falls.
– I’ve always seen you as being very emotional, but emotional nearly in excess…
– I think people know it anyway
– Yea they’re aware of it now
– Open book, she’s always crying, she’s happy, she’s happy to cry, she cries because she’s happy, etc. But the important thing is honesty, is to be honest, it’s to be the true person who you are… And… This song for me, it made me smile a bit, but it touched me above all…
– You know it already!!
– Well not all of it but…
Don’t make any mistake with the wires because the dress […] [= may fall]…
– When I do a song for someone, I like to make it custom-tailored, really I don’t want ANY word to disturb you, I’m ready to change everything, if just one word is not okay for you, because I do it for me, if one word annoys me I change the whole song.
– You see, and me, I like the surprise…
– oh ok, and me I can’t work with…
– I like the surprise, so I like to have a present offered to me, and be very surprised, and if something is not fitting, when recording the song, well, after that we work on it together…
– Don’t hesitate ok?
– I promise!!!
Anyway, thank you for this so beautiful present, are you staying for tonight’s show?
– Obviously!
– It’s not the first time in Vegas?
– No it’s not my first time in Vegas
– You lived in L.A. were you coming here often?
– The last time I saw a female singer in Vegas, it was Liza Minelli
– Well you’re not going out so much?
– I don’t go out so much…
