A two-page interview has just been published in the biggest TV weekly magazine in France, on Sébastien Tellier, this year's French representative. The man answers a few question on his latest album as well as on the way he has been chosen for Eurovision.
"The proposal was made to me by Marie-Claire Mezerette, head of France 3's entertainment service", he said, "right after the concert I gave at the auditorium of Beaubourg, last February 29". Something we already know. "This participation will help me get out of the underground system in which I used to live". "Why Divine?" the journalist asks. "It's a choice made by France 3, because this song is very pop and has an ice-cream style. It's an easy-listening piece, you don't have to be a musician to understand it". No French version? "The melody doesn't suit French lyrics. Only the 15" sentimental break will have words in French".
As for the way it will be performed on stage, Tellier doesn't seem to have arranged something yet. "If there is no big technical problems, I can see myself singing on a big banana split, with loads of ice-cream!". A reminiscence of Dana International's video Cinque milla? The article mentions two comparisons with Sébastien Tellier. On a physical point of view, the man looks like French rugby player Sébastien Chabal. "I find him good-looking, almost like a Greek God". On a musical and a Eurovision basis, the reporter writes on Serge Gainsbourg and said Tellier is another "pop dandy", with explicit references to Sexuality (like Gainsbourg did)… Sexuality being the title of Sébastien Telliers' latest CD (including Divine), presently number 74 in the official Top 200 (best placing 33rd).
