Éléonore Lagacé and Brûlez-moi vive: pop on fire

Interview by Marilyn Bouchard
Genres and styles : Pop

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In Brûlez-moi vive, Éléonore Lagacé explores themes of self-affirmation, love, freedom and the passage of time, all peppered with a few existential reflections. At times energetic, at other times quiet and introspective, this album takes us to unsuspected shores with its surprising progressions and bursting production.

Produced by Frantz-Lee Leonard on the Ad Litteram label, this 10-song opus blends pop, R&B, ’80s and other melancholy ballad influences, against a backdrop of soaring bass and lyrical flights.

Éléonore Lagacé has been a fixture on Quebec screens since she was a teenager. After appearing on Big Brother and Zénith, she released her debut album on March 21, 2025. Brûlez-moi vive follows the EP Elle s’en fout, released in April 2023.

Marilyn Bouchard took a closer look at Éléonore Lagacé’s work before submitting her questions. For PAN M 360, our interviewer wanted “to find out about her feelings and experience following this first production, and also to find out what she has in store for us next.”

So 10 questions for 10 songs!

PAN M 360: How does it feel to release your first full-length album?

Éléonore Lagacé: Relieved! I can finally move on and start creating again. I’m very proud of this achievement!

PAN M 360: How long did it take you to compose and write the album?

Éléonore Lagacé: Approximately 2 years

PAN M 360: You said in an interview that you felt a great need to make this project your own. How did you appropriate this album?

Éléonore Lagacé: When I talk about taking ownership, I mean taking ownership of myself! Learning a little more every day about who I am, where my limits are, what I want and what I don’t want anymore. The subjects of the songs on the album deal with my big existential questions of the past and present.

PAN M 360: What emotions did you want to share with the public on this album?

Éléonore Lagacé : Freedom, torment, love, the desire to dance, to honor your emotions, even the most intense ones.

PAN M 360- What was it like working with Frantz-Lee Leonard on the album’s production and sound identity? As you’ve worked together before, I imagine your creative relationship is growing?

Éléonore Lagacé: Frantz-Lee est un musicien que j’admire énormément. J’ai adoré travailler avec lui car il n’a pas peur d’aller au bout de ses idées les plus folles et pense sincèrement qu’il n’y a pas de rêve trop grand.

PAN M 360: De quelle manière tes inspirations Lady Gaga et Charli XCX t’ont aidées dans la direction de l’album?

Éléonore Lagacé: Charli XCX was for me the model of jemenfoutism (I don’t care attitude) and freedom that I wanted to portray in my music. Lady Gaga, my idol since I was 11, gave me the strength to write this album.

PAN M 360: One thing you’ll keep from this album and one thing you’ll leave behind?

Éléonore Lagacé: I keep my melodies, I’m really proud of them. And I leave the idea that I would have liked it to be an album of 20 songs.

PAN M 360: What did you find most difficult in creating this first album? What are you most proud of?

Éléonore Lagacé: The hardest part was not giving up. The thing I’m most proud of: the people who worked on it.

PAN M 360- What are your plans for 2025?

Éléonore Lagacé: Touring with my own show Brûlez-moi vive and my band FANTASTIQUE, Zenith show, musical comedy Peter Pan.

10- Finally, the hidden gem of the album?

Éléonore Lagacé: Journée mélancolique.

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