13. Charlotte Gainsbourg5:55
In Covid I bought this CD, and we started to listen to it with my daughter, she was maybe nine or 10, and we listened to this album for two solid months in the car, hundreds and hundreds of times. It became our soundtrack. I was thinking about what albums that changed me a lot. It was this, 5:55. I like this songwriting, this atmosphere.
In Covid I had the idea that I wanted to be like a topliner [songwriter/producer] for a bigger artist. I bought synthesizers, and I hadn’t heard artists like The Weeknd, hadn’t listened to Daft Punk or Justice or Kavinsky. Then I realised: I can’t do this. But it was so funny, I even made contact with a couple of artists in Finland. I realised that maybe it’s not my job. I still want to do that kind of music – I have made some solo albums. I made an album called Elin Päivästä Päivään, the Finnish title for the film Montparnasse 19 about Modigliani. I tried to do typical pop music, but of course, I couldn’t. I started to even rap and sing, and I used a lot of autotune. Maybe Covid sent me crazy, because I started to think that I was quite good at pop songs. Two years later, I realised that I am not. But it was funny. It was like a dream.
