Back with a new album, singer Benjamin Biolay multiplies his secrets. Not a fan of wooden language, he spoke of his privileged status.
At 52, Benjamin Biolay seems calm. In any case, this is what emerges from his eleventh album, The Blue Discpublished on October 17. In the columns of Gala also, the singer with six Victoires de la Musique, seems more at ease. Even with more intimate, even delicate subjects.
Benjamin Biolay disconnected? “When you earn a good living…“
First asked about his title Bad Boya song in which he chants swim in “a sea of counterfeits”the fifty-year-old describes Paris and its social environment as “a world a little disconnected from reality, especially when you earn a good living”, which is his case. “I am not saying that the reality is for example in Villefranche-sur-Saône where my parents live, I only note that in Paris, the facade can be misleading, counterfeit, like the one presented during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games”continued Benjamin Biolay.
And Chiara Mastroianni’s former companion added: “We offered the image of a cool and gay-friendly France while our Minister of the Interior was opposed to marriage for all. Not to mention our method of maintaining order… I loved the Olympics but I hated this double standard.”
Is Benjamin Biolay left-wing?
The singer and actor has never hidden the fact that he leans to the left politically and, asked about his vision of what that means in concrete terms, Benjamin Biolay responded straight away: “Paying your taxes, not having an account in Switzerland, trying to share your wheat when you have it, raising your children well, thinking about the future, not denying climate change… Recognize and accept that there are dominants and dominated. I sometimes have moments of anger, but I prefer to distill them in small steps, so that it doesn’t go to waste.”
And the artist, who lives between a Parisian apartment and a house in Sète but also spends time during the year in Buenos Aires, where his second daughter – Louisa, now 6 years old – lives, concludes: “And I’m not losing hope: even if France is a little down at the moment, it will find its good mood again.”
