Giedre – My First Album Sold In Real Stores

Giedre – My First Album Sold In Real Stores

"I like telling stories," says GiedRé. This gives her an innocent air, which you quickly understand is deceptive. Because, to find traces of such a fiercely irreverent singer, you have to go back a long way in history. And, besides, you can't find any. ;

We should imagine a cross between Pierre Perret and the Sex Pistols, the Fabulettes ravaged by Tourette's syndrome, Professor Choron taking power at L'Île aux enfants. When GiedRé sings, we can't resist. We laugh very hard, we are left speechless, we dare not believe it: this blonde beauty with the smile of a cuddly Dorothée makes us hear horrors. Deviant sex, horrible news items, more than embarrassing confessions.

After 3 albums in total self-production, "My first album sold in real stores", a new opus with a dozen new songs, is coming out this time with a normal distribution. Well, normal. To accompany it, GiedRé has created a comic strip that summarizes her story up to now. It is the story of Giedré Barauskaité, Lithuanian born in 1985, when her country belonged to the Soviet Union. At the age of seven, she arrived in Paris, when the end of communism and the independence of her country created a huge call for air. She ignored Brassens and folk, she discovered the country of Hélène et les garçons and the homeless - an express cultural catch-up. Since she was in a free country, she quickly decided to be totally free there. An artist, therefore.

She will be the singer who, armed with only her guitar and squeezed into a silly dress, opens the Printemps de Bourges 2012 in front of seven thousand spectators. Seven thousand converts, astounded by her audacity disguised as candor, horrified and hilarious at the same time in front of her songs without censorship or restraint. Because we have never heard that, and we missed it. It is not for nothing that she cites George Carlin among her references: the American comedian had pushed the cork so far that even the Supreme Court of the United States had been concerned about his case.

Call GiedRé's songs whatever you want - a salutary slap in the face, a great saving laugh, a happy madness. And where does she get all that from? "I just watch. I only have eyes and a pen. Stop saying it's funny or completely wacky. It's reality. I can only see that." A useful artist, you are told.