Rester vrai explained

Rester vrai
Type:Album
Artist:Florent Pagny
Cover:Rester_vrai.jpg
Released:March 1994
Genre:Pop, Rock
Label:Mercury, Universal Music
Producer:Erick Benzi
Prev Title:Réaliste
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:Bienvenue chez moi
Next Year:1995

Rester vrai (pronounced as /fr/) is a 1994 album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his third studio album and was released in March 1994. It achieved moderate success in France where it remained charted for 39 weeks in the top 50, including a peak at #19 for two weeks. For the first time in Pagny's career, lyrics were written by other artists such as Jean-Jacques Goldman who participated under the pseudonym of Sam Brewski. This album provided two singles : the unsuccessful "Est-ce que tu me suis ?" (#45 in France) and the hit single "Si tu veux m'essayer" (#7 in France), which was recorded as "If You Want to Know Me" in 2009 by the Belgian singer Dana Winner for the album "Between Now and Tomorrow" with English lyrics by Michael Leahy. The music video for the track "Rester vrai" was directed by Dani Jacobs and shot in London and features Pagny trapped in a glass box in a large empty space as if he is a museum exhibit or part of an experiment. The music video for "Si tu veux m'essayer" was directed by Doug Nichol and filmed at the Park Lane Hotel in New York City.

Track listing

  1. "J'irai quand même"
  2. "Si tu veux m'essayer"
  3. "Rêve aussi le jour"
  4. "Est-ce que tu me suis ?"
  5. "Comme de l'eau"
  6. "Rester vrai"
  7. "Rappelle-toi de tes rêves"
  8. "Les Hommes qui doutent"
  9. "Loin"
  10. "Vent d'Orient"
  11. "Jamais"

Source : Allmusic.[1]

Releases

Date Label Country Format Catalog
1994MercuryBelgium, France, SwitzerlandCD5222842
2000

Notes and References

  1. Rester vrai, track listing [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r718382|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.com] (December 2, 2008)
  2. Merci, French Albums Chart See: "Selection des autres artistes" => "Florent PAGNY" Infodisc.fr (Retrieved December 2, 2008)