Nice-Premium: I read in an article that Lucie Bernardoni liked to tell and invent stories when she was little, like a “story maker”… And if there was a story called Lucie Bernardoni
Lucie Bernardoni: It would be up to the people who have listened to my songs and my writings to write it, because it’s super difficult to talk about oneself. I find it much easier to express myself through my songs. What I like the most is seeing how people perceive my songs, whether in a good or bad way. In fact, I have so much to say that I wouldn’t even know where to begin (laughs). Stories of dreams or life experiences…
N-P: Have you thought about writing a book?
L.B.: Actually, I have just finished a novel. I spend my time writing texts, books, and incredible stories (laughs). I am seriously finishing up a book that I started about 3-4 years ago. It’s a novel. I hope to finish it in the coming months. I would really like people to read what I write, in addition to the lyrics of the songs.
N-P: What are your writings like?
L.B.: It depends. Sometimes I write very raw, very real things and sometimes more romanticized things. The book I am in the process of writing is set between London and Paris. It’s the story of a grandmother who recounts her life. I also have a book of short stories, love poems about betrayal… all the negative side without falling into melodrama and sugarcoating.
N-P: How did the desire to put words on paper, to tell stories, come about?
L.B.: Before I started singing, I was already writing when I was a child. I did theater, I love being on stage delivering words or speaking through a character. I adore writing.
N-P: Turning the page and moving to the musical chapter. Soon, your first album will be released. It has an unusual name: Mélancosmniaque.
L.B.: It’s a word invented by my sister. It describes the mood. It’s a mix between insomniac and melancholy. It’s my first album. I want people to understand, to discover the world I live in.
The songs are a bit melancholic. During my concerts, I’d like the audience to travel to my little planet: It’s chimerical. There are some quite raw songs in this album. I am quite impulsive. When I feel like saying “shit”, I say it, when I am dreaming, I say it too. I want people to forget the rest and my stories to make them think about their own lives at the same time but especially that it doesn’t make them sad. I would like to offer them a different perspective.
N-P: This album actually sits between the unreal and reality: is it a mix of feather and lead?
L.B.: Exactly. It comes from the paradoxical side that I am. Sometimes, I can be very calm, other times I can be hyperactive, anxious, social, laugh, cry. Crying, it’s useless, moreover. I have a paradoxical side that makes me never satisfied with anything, especially not with myself (laughs). In any experience we live, there’s always an extreme in every happiness. Feather and Lead, that’s really the concept of the album. We are all like that. We can’t be completely happy or completely unhappy. There’s always something that catches up with us, that brings us down a bit, that lifts us after. In an album, you can’t be all smooth and talk about just one thing, it’s not interesting. I think I wouldn’t have enough of one lifetime to tell everything I have to say. I have so much to say.
N-P: And Lucie Bernardoni is only 21 years old!
L.B.: (smile) I want to tell so many things that press me. I actually think that I’m only 21 years old and I’m already behind. I’m not in a hurry to say it but I feel that I won’t be given the time to fully say them. I don’t trust life. It intrigues me, that one (laughter).
You never have the time. Each day that passes is one day less. It’s also one day more, you have to look on the bright side. The day I no longer want to say anything, I’ll quit this job. I would no longer have an interest in doing it since I would bring nothing. I’m not saying that I have everything to offer. Anyway… I don’t have the time!!!
N-P: At 21, you already own your own record label!
L.B.: To be free to do things! I also wanted to learn that side of the business. I’m learning it with a friend since a year and a half. I will produce my own titles.
N-P: Your titles, but do you also plan to produce other artists?
L.B.: Yes, I would also like to produce titles for other artists. I would really like to have a label in the future to discover artists, to give artists a chance, to give what was not given to me in the past, to offer chances. There are unknown artists with huge talents. Clément from Nice, for example, he’s exceptional. I would like to give chances to others. But it’s easy to say what we would like. We’ll see…
N-P: When there’s a will, there’s a way, isn’t that your motto?
L.B.: “Qui va piano va sano,” as they say in my family. Anyway, what’s the point of living if you don’t have the hope of doing something? If you start by saying you’re jaded, it’s going to collapse right away. So what’s the point?
N-P: You have to put colors in life!
L.B.: And smiles! Smile, it costs nothing!
Official Website: https://www.luciemusique.com
Official MySpace: https://www.myspace.com/luciebernardoni
