Poppy Fusée
She found it in her own inbox ... A song she had written about four years earlier and sent to herself, the way we send ourselves things we mean to come back to, and then don't ... Pauline Lopez de Ayora came across it by chance, and it became the first song of her life alone ...
For ten years she had been half of Part-Time Friends, a French duo, and a duo is a kind of marriage ... you learn to leave room ... In 2021 she stepped out under a new name, Poppy Fusée — Poppy Rocket — and this was the first thing she put her name to ... A song that had waited four years in a mailbox to be the beginning of something ...
The title means gravity, the heaviness of things — the pull that keeps a body on the ground ... A strange word for a rocket to choose for its first flight, unless the point is that you cannot leave the ground without knowing exactly what it weighs ...
The measure of it ... she finished the song with Clément Doumic, the guitarist and keyboard player of Feu! Chatterton, one of the bands that made French rock literary again, and his hands are on the arrangement ... So the record is two things at once — an old song from a drawer, and a new sound built around it by someone from a bigger room ...