2023-07-08 06:00:30
Mylène Farmer is a religion. His concerts, high masses that the fans would not miss for anything in the world. At the start of summer, the followers of the pop priestess are overjoyed. To promote his latest album, The influencethe singer began, on June 3, in Lille, an XXL tour entitled Nevermore (“Never again”).
Thirteen pharaonic shows in nine stadiums were scheduled. Johnny Hallyday is the only French artist to have done better, with a tour of nineteen stadiums in 2003. In all, more than 550,000 tickets (sold between 55 and 235 euros) were snapped up, according The Parisian. Almost all the dates are sold out (places are still available for Bordeaux, July 14, and Nice, July 29).
The only downside is the cancellation by the prefecture of the two concerts planned at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), after the urban riots which followed the death of young Nahel M., Tuesday, June 27 . But the 61-year-old superstar – more than thirty million records sold worldwide – can still count on an audience of fans, some of whom do not hesitate to call themselves “tender enlightened” or of “sweet fanatics”.
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“We are a bit like members of a cult”, summarizes Camille (who did not wish to give her name), 32-year-old funeral counselor, half-serious, half-amused. This resident of Villejuif (Val-de-Marne), ” disgusted “ to have missed his idol at the Stade de France with her husband, had paid 370 euros in October 2021, when the ticket office opened. “It is only for her that I am ready to put this price”, underlines the one who has already seen Mylène Farmer live three times. Each time, the young woman was captivated by “a magnificent spectacle”. Nevermore is part of this tradition of excess with, among other things, a cathedral decor and of gigantic crows. Ninety semi-trailers are used to move the equipment and scenographic elements from one city to another.
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The fans are all the more impatient and feverish because of the rarity of the event: in forty years of career, Mylène Farmer has given only eight series of concerts. The last dates back to 2019 when, in residence at Paris La Défense Arena, she brought together around 235,000 spectators for nine evenings.
Long mocked – for her hypersensitivity (real or supposed), her Gothic-kitsch and sulphurous aesthetic, her art of cultivating mystery… –, the singer “succeeded in taking the place she deserves in the pantheon of authorized artists”judge Adrien Naselli, former editor of the magazine Stubborn who had devoted to him in 2011, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), his master’s thesis, “Mylène Farmer: song and contemporary poetry”. In fact, many of the younger generation cite her as a reference or use her titles: Juliette Armanet, Christine and the Queens, Mathilde Fernandez, Fishbach, AppleRebeka Warrior, etc. “The respect it arouses within the profession helps to restore its letters of nobility”analyzes Adrien Naselli.
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