{"id":2009114,"date":"2013-03-28T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2013\/03\/28\/the-popopopops-the-rising-stars-of-french-pop\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:15:40","slug":"the-popopopops-the-rising-stars-of-french-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2013\/03\/28\/the-popopopops-the-rising-stars-of-french-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Popopopops: the rising stars of French pop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Popopopops: the rising stars of French pop!<\/p>\n<p><i>In a little while, this rather strange name will be on everyone&#8217;s lips. This young band, revealed at the Transmusicales de Rennes festival in 2008, is enjoying a remarkable rise in France&#8217;s burgeoning musical landscape. The Rennes-based band are preparing to release their debut album, Swell, on March 25, and agreed to answer Luxsure&#8217;s questions!  <\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Where does the band name come from? I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all wondering?  No ?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It comes from an NTM song and yes, everyone asks that question \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<b>Who does what? How are roles distributed within the group? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Victor and Simon compose most of the song bases together, then the four of them rearrange. Sometimes the title changes radically, sometimes not. There aren&#8217;t really any rules, and anyone can come up with something &#8211; the group is very democratic.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.48.44.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61716\" alt=\"Screenshot 2013-03-13 at 09.48.44\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.48.44-285x300.png\" width=\"285\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What are your musical influences?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of it, from hip-hop to big rock, techno to r&#8217;n&#8217;b. We draw on a bit of everything and we don&#8217;t close ourselves off to anything. Bands that we can all agree on are rare, but current ones include Foals, The Whitest Boy Alive and Alt-J.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>How would you define your music?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We prefer people to put their own words to our music. We keep a pop format for sure, but the rhythms are sometimes inspired by hip-hop, the synths by eighties pop, the guitars are quite rock&#8230; all this makes our music rather difficult to pigeonhole. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.48.53.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-61717\" alt=\"Screenshot 2013-03-13 at 09.48.53\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.48.53-281x300.png\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>You&#8217;re part of the excellent &#8220;Education fran\u00e7aise&#8221; compilation. What&#8217;s your relationship with the other bands in this &#8220;new scene&#8221;? <\/b><b>&#8220;new scene&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We know quite a few of them, we respect each other and it&#8217;s always a pleasure to share stages together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Are you feeling nervous a few weeks before the release of your 1<\/b><b><sup>st<\/sup><\/b><b> album?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Yes and no, more like excitement. We can&#8217;t wait for people to hear the songs. It&#8217;s frustrating to keep it to yourself.<br \/>\n<b>What themes does this 1st album address? Are there any tracks from your 2012 EP? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re saving the surprise for the tracklist! We talk about a lot of things, but girls, love and the complexity of social relationships are recurring themes on the album. Our relationships are a pretty inexhaustible subject!  <\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s your agenda for the weeks and months ahead? Will you be touring? <\/b><br \/>\nWe have dates coming up as we go along, many of which will be announced after the album&#8217;s release. We&#8217;re shooting clips, live sessions and preparing for the show. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interview by Julien Tissot<\/p>\n<p>julien@luxsure.fr<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.49.00.png\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61718 alignleft\" alt=\"Screenshot 2013-03-13 at 09.49.00\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Capture-d%E2%80%99%C3%A9cran-2013-03-13-%C3%A0-09.49.00.png\" width=\"160\" height=\"161\" title=\"\"><\/a>&#8220;Swell&#8221; out March 25<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepopopopops.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">w<b>ww.thep<\/b>opopopops.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>www.myspace.fr\/thepopopopopsband<\/p>\n<p>@thepopopopops<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tour dates :<\/p>\n<p>March 16 in Angers<\/p>\n<p>March 28 in Paris<\/p>\n<p>April 6 in Marseille<\/p>\n<p>April 10 in Lille<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Popopopops: the rising stars of French pop! In a little while, this rather strange name will be on everyone&#8217;s lips. This young band, revealed at the Transmusicales de Rennes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30094],"tags":[62658],"class_list":["post-2009114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-en","tag-the-popopopops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}