– While Carey Price stays SOBER after DE-SINTOXICATION…
– Éric Lapointe… took the opposite path…
“Choosing this profession means choosing criticism, choosing the judgment of others and choosing uncertainty,” says Éric Lapointe.
– What’s crazy…
– That’s because Lapointe continues his career.
– While Carey Price is retired.
– Two ALCOHOLIC….
– Two D-É PENDANTS…
– But only one who healed himself…
– You know which one…
“I’m not afraid to address my alcoholism and my problems with binge drinking in general,” says Lapointe.
“It can be alcohol, it can be women, it can be coke, it can be fame, luxury, food, my beast is excess.”
“I currently have my excesses under control, but I am not 100% sober”
– He wants to address his de-pendan-ce…but doesn’t want to clarify it…
– Carey hid it for 10 years…
– But I decided to REALLY go for it… and get REALLY SOBER…
– Carey also loved drinking, women and everything else…
– Because he was too anxious to be a star, he fell into vices…
– But I had the courage to face them.
“I’m a musician and a singer, I don’t know how to do anything else. If it’s in a small tavern, that’s it,” says Lapointe.
– The day Lapointe can no longer sing…
– His relatives will be even more worried …
– Carey Price, he stopped being an NHL goalie… without relapsing…
– Lapointe should learn a lesson from the former CH goalkeeper…
Despite the regret he feels over the assault trial against his ex-spouse and doubts about the quality of the album that marks his return to the spotlight, Éric Lapointe still believes he has his place in Quebec showbiz. on the day of the album release Je marche dans ma vie. (Aleaxandre Caputo, Journal de Montréal)
“I think I still have my place.”
Since pleading guilty to domestic violence against his ex-partner in October 2020, the singer has made a number of appearances in the regions in front of loyal fans who seem ready to forgive his mistakes and give him a second chance.
When Éric Lapointe is asked to return to his problems with the law, he remains cautious. “All is already said and written; “The only thing I can say again is that I deeply regret it,” Lapointe told the Journal de Montréal, merely admitting his guilt.
It is now time for him to “take over” his new album, which cements his return to song. Je marche dans ma vie is the Quebec artist’s 16th work and the work that made him most nervous.
“You’re always afraid of people’s reactions, afraid of not being as good as on the last album, afraid of being overwhelmed,” Lapointe, who will be 54 at the end of the month, explains his nervousness.
The rock star behind La Bartendresse and Anything Anything says it himself: “I knew for a long time that I wouldn’t be called to do milk commercials, why would I try to paint a different portrait in my songs?” he drops to explain , that he has no “stage personality”.
He also exposes himself in “Beast to Feed” and “Broken Heart,” two tracks that appear in his final essay. The hard rock flavor and lyrics – particularly the title – of Bête à manger suggest that Lapointe is addressing his alcoholism, when in reality he is talking about his problems with excess in general.
Je marche dans ma vie includes 11 tracks ranging from rock ballads with electric guitar tones to sounds that go much further in intensity.
Lovers of 2000s Éric Lapointe will go crazy when they hear that La Bartendresse finally has its happy ending on Dernier Whiskey, the album’s final track.
As long as the demand exists. As long as we want to see him on stage, “Ti-Cuir” has no plans to retire.
The man behind the new single “J’ai envie que tu me glues” is also grateful to his unfailing admirers, but doesn’t pay too much attention to the negative that overshadows his return to the album.
“There is no need to come to my performance, there is no need to buy the album,” he says in a calm and polite tone.
“I stumble when I see someone singing my lyrics as if it were their life: people express themselves through my music,” he notes.
– Watching it wither away is a lot less stumbling.
– D-é-pendan-ce is a daily battle.
– Carey Price fights every day…
– Eric Lapointe raised the white flag…