When Elodie she dropped out of school Friends 15 his image, built by his team at the time, was diametrically opposed to the current one. The artist fresh from the talent of Maria De Filippi she sported very short pink hair and had appeared on the music scene with a debut album, All my faultwhich embodied a certain type of Italian melodic pop from which she later moved away. The Roman artist spoke about this path and its need for change at a recent Christmas press conference (which was also attended All Music Italy) during which he also gave some small previews of the new Sanremo piece and spoke of the initial project to make it become “a new Mia Martini”.
Elodie: “They wanted to make me a new Mia Martini at 25”
During this recent meeting with the press, Elodie she returned to talk about her early career, explaining that after seeing herself on the Ariston stage for the first time she understood that she would need a decisive artistic change. In this regard, the artist said:
If I hadn't met these crazy people, first of all Jacopo who is the first one I met. In 2017 I do All my fault. I look at myself and say to myself: 'I'm 26 years old, all this desperation…'. I no longer knew what to give beyond this, I saw myself as having aged, in the sense that I was too burdened. Ok, life has gone badly for me, but let's give it a shot. I go to him and tell him: I feel like an aunt, I don't like having this weight on me at 25, I don't want it. How do we do it? I want to go on a trip, I want to play, I want to laugh. I want to feel young, I want to feel happy. I mean, if not, sorry, I would have been better off being a cubist, that is, if I then have to take on this character… and of course, they had saddled me with it, they decided that I was the new one Mia Martini. Based on what I don't know… how do you compare a little girl… I don't know. I went to him and said: Please, I want to do something else, I want to play, I want to be light, I want to be happy. I can't bear to weigh myself down like this. I don't want to tell myself that way, at least right now.
Precisely in light of these insecurities of his Elodie She thus found herself in difficulty with a team that didn't seem to want to give her the space she needed. The singer added in this regard:
Everyone told me no, it can't be done. I argued with everyone because no one wanted me to do it, my manager at the time. People said to me: 'Okay, what path is that? What solidity does it give? Who follows you to do this thing? Either you're a busy singer who sings, or you're not a singer.' For me it was bullshit and the first one who believed it was Jacopo Pesce. After that I went to talk to Max Brigante, because I was left without a manager, and he told me: 'Yes, you're right'.
A new beginning
This debut, so to speak, was locked in a drawer forever, as we later learned Elodie she managed to emerge with a new image, decidedly more sensual and in line with her musical tastes, closer to urban. It was precisely from this new approach that a record like was born This is Elodiebut also the following ones Okay, Breathe And Red Light. The next step will be represented by Forgetting at 7which the singer will present at the Ariston in February 2025, a song which, as she herself anticipated “It has something funky, R&B, soul, pop, but sounds that I haven't experienced yet”.
Cover image credits: Morelli Brothers
