The tube match (29/40) – At the end of the 1990s, the Boys bands dominated the French variety and Larusso overthrows the table. After being despised, they come back up to date in the early 2020s. Finally a guilty pleasure that we can assume.
We have often castigated the tubes of the 1990s worn by the Boys bands or Girls Bands or the artists of a single tube. Music too similar, light words and interchangeable voice … Musical specialists had no words hard enough to criticize them. It is clear that time has done its work and that nostalgia is in full swing. To the point that so -called “serious” artists take up these titles long castigated. For this 29th duel, two “hits” oppose: “you will forget me” by Larusso and “leave one day” of the 2be3.
In 1996 tumbled three very muscular young boys and well in all respect. They know how to dance, a little less sing. Completely built from a marketing point of view, the 2BE3 group, composed of Filip, Adel and Frank, Copy East 17 and Take That. Laurent Marimbert composes music, very urban and dance. A certain Penelope Marcelin writes the words that will remain the symbol of this group of childhood friends. “Leave one day without return. Erase our love without turning around, do not regret. Keep the moments that we stole. The sense of song is to be found in Horace (“Carpe Diem”) or Ronsard (“Picking the roses of life today”): let’s take advantage of the present moment and above all do not regret. The words remain limited but are of formidable efficiency. Like the unstoppable melody that remains at the top of long moments. 450,000 copies sold later, the career of the 2BE3 was launched as quickly as it stops in 2001. Last May, the new popular star Juliette Armanet resumes, soberly, “leaving one day” with a sensitive piano. This is the honored title dressed in grace and voluptuousness.
The Larusso storm
“You will forget me” is the hurricane of 1999. Larusso, a dapper 20-year-old artist, tumbles into the French variety with a cover of “You Will Forget” by Irma Jackson, herself taken up by Régine. The break in love is sublimated by the voice, the gauge of Larusso and the R’n’B arrangement. “You will forget the smiles, the looks that spoke of eternity. All these words that we swear to never forget. You will forget, you will forget me, ”sends the Parisian. We wiggle and repeat the chorus in English: “You will Forget (I will). No More You and I (No More) Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. The three minutes forty go to lightning speed. The title is formidable that packages more than 1.2 million people. After bringing up the songs of the interwar period up to date, Patrick Bruel made the big gap in 2023. He records “you will forget me” most seriously in the world, on the piano, and with his sensual voice, which gives the title his natural sadness. “I tell you anyway …”
Difficult to decide between these two guilty pleasures of the 1990s. While a biopic on the 2be3 is preparing, we must vote for “you will forget me”. Both for the original version of Larusso which gives, despite the sad text – but impeccably written – fishing, and for the more sincere recovery of Bruel. We are not about to forget it.
