Lætitia Sadier on Stereolab, Politics and Her Solo Work | Red Bull Music Academy
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- French singer and musicians Laetitia Sadier discusses the influence of the Smiths, forming Stereolab, their “disastrous” relationship with the French music press, and her solo work in her 2015 RBMA Lecture. #RBMA #stereolab
TOPICS:
15:07 - The Smiths
29:42 - The start of Stereolab
34:03 - Politics
46:04 - The music press
53:01 - Capitalism
1:10:03 - Solo work
MUSIC:
2:39 - Stereolab - “The Flower Called Nowhere” • Stereolab - The Flower...
20:45 - McCarthy - “Red Sleeping Beauty” • McCarthy - Red Sleepin...
32:50 - Stereolab - “The Light That Will Cease to Fail” • Stereolab - The Light ...
42:59 - Darlin’ - “Cindy, So Loud” • Darlin' - Cindy, So Loud
44:40 - Stereolab - “French Disko” live TV performance • Stereolab - French Disko
55:00 - Stereolab - “Ping Pong”
1:03:56 - Stereolab - “Cybele’s Reverie” • Stereolab - Cybele's R...
1:11:27 - Monade - “Cache Cache” • Video
1:23:12 - Laetitia Sadier - “Dry Fruit” • Laetitia Sadier "Dry F...
For many young indie music fans making their way through the “alternative” section of their local record store in the mid-’90s, it was the music of Stereolab, and in particular the voice of chanteuse Lætitia Sadier, that provided a pre-Internet window into the worlds of French New Wave, German krautrock and a sprinkling of Marxist politics. With their combination of Farfisa, Vox and Moog-heavy arrangements and Lætitia’s enchanting vocals, the band mesmerized a generation. Although the Stereolab story is currently marked with “indefinite hiatus,” since 2010 Sadier has delivered two stellar solo albums and doesn’t shy away from collaborations with younger artists like Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Tyler The Creator.
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Not only she's a great musician, but also a very nice person.
She is incredibly nice. It was hard talking to her and not getting star struck.
Stereolab was a gateway to a whole new musical universe
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Totally. They were an education unto themselves. Led me to so much stuff over the years.
check out Basil Kirchin. mind on the run. Pre-Stereolab.
@@lxuaes6915 :D this rules
Oh they're radio mixes on their website blew my mind!
I had never been so excited discovering new music and new sounds.
And then I discovered Broadcast and things just went on to a new level
A Flower Called Nowhere....absolutely masterful
Her and Mary together take you to another dimension
Song that introduced me to Stereolab. Perfect introduction.
@@Hot18Shot me too! such a beautiful song... it's perfect
'The' Flower Called Nowhere
Incredible song
I could listen to her for hours, whether speaking or singing. Laetitia's politics are ON POINT.
A Broadcast shoutout! Nice.
Though I loved Stereolab during my teenage years I never took the time to listen to a single interview from them. I'm so glad I just stepped on this one from Laetitia Sadier. I always loved her voice and her strange lyrics but now I realize how brilliant and beautiful she is (and how many similar ideas we share)
I have always loosely admired Stereolab, but I adore Lætitia. Her thoughtfulness is unbelievably attractive. Her intellect and her Art are so compelling...
I'm so grateful to have seen Stereolab, both in Austin 2008 and here in San Antonio 2019. The only band I've gone to see twice.
Back together. Playing on tour in the USA right now. Yay!
Omg, she's still Beautiful all these years later! Wow! Everything about her! Great artist!
'French Disko' is one of my fave songs ever.
I think this interview is one of the most incredible I've ever seen.
I concur. Laetitia is such an interesting person. I have seen so many good interviews with her. I think I could listen to her talk for hours on end. She is just such a fascinating person.
So inspiring and insightful.
I really appreciate that the interviewer seemed to "stay out of the way" rather than cloud the conversational field with his own hot takes and opinions.
always wierded out when I remember that all these interesting interviews from these esoteric musicians are brought to us by carbonated piss water
oo0O0 Hey! I like that carbonated piss water! But yeah, it is a bit disturbing how ubiquitous the marketing of RedBull is. Especially extreme sports...is a carbonated energy drink the best thing to throw on top of intense cardiovascular activity? Carbonated drinks are supposed to decrease bone mass...
Millennials won’t pay for music or movies but they’ll throw money into energy drinks
@@MLB9000 ok boomer
@@banjomango145 actually I'm a gen-x'er
@@MLB9000 boomer is a mindset. a mindset which you have adopted.
What a lovely human being. I'm just learning now that she was frustrated artistically in The Lab...kinda makes me sad....but then I think...It ain't the Lab without her...Mary as well...And Tim is hella underated.
13:09 - 13:21 It's amazing when a musician you love and admire says something you can totally identify with :)
Incredible band, in my top 5 of all time for sure. Seeing them live in Montreal in a few days!
Montréal was incredible. I've been riding the transcendental high ever since.
@@naomy8270 Really enjoyed it, especially Refractions of the Plastic Pulse!
'DOTS AND LOOPS' GOT ME STARTED BACK IN THE DAY(1997).
Great interview - her shoegaze summary cracked me up.
Stereolab... one of the greatest of all time.
Fascinating interview. Been into Stereolab for nearly 30 years. In fact I saw them live a few weeks ago in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.
That's awesome. I wish I could see them live
I am very happy to hear Laetitia, it was a very pleasant time and I also laughed a lot! I really wish that in the Stereolab interviews that I have seen on the internet they had, (at those moments) given her the space she deserved, instead of only interviewing Tim. The difference in times that we are going through is very noticeable.
What a wonderful and inspiring person, a much-needed interview to watch to understand a little better what Stereolab was.
Great interview. What she says about how they kept moving forward and their records were spontaneous is what made them so great. She brings up a good point about how they had a fickle relationship with the press. The press never could figure out if they were a French or English band and she expains, indeed they were English. The press really turned on them after Emperor TK and Stereolab really didn't care. They had their hardcore fans and enjoyed making music and art. I was lucky to meet Laetitia after a show for the Chemical Chords tour. What really struck me was here sincerity and genuine interest in other people. She asked me quite a few questions about music I had written when I told her I was a guitarist.
Well Mary was from Australia ... they were international really.
Love the anti-capitalist talk being brought to us via Red Bull
lol
Harness their machinery!
its sickening is what it is. their 'patronage' of the arts is coming to an end too, probably eating into trashwater profit margins
Hahahah
they actually touch on the subject at 1:30:00
Me and dotsandloops are like binary stars . Together forever . Thank you !
My Dream Lecture!!
Thanks for posting this! what an inspiring beautiful woman, honest and talented to an extent that is obviously impossible to handle by most of "critics" around. With Stereolab, Monade, collaborating projects or solo (with those as well quite nice musicians she is touring around since a while), she creates a unique world which I am always glad to intertwined with as a listener and admirer of hers
beautifull mind , person , Woman
I Love her
i honestly think her 2019 line up, mary would be proud!
this interview should go down in history
One of my favourite bands. Hansen's death left too much of void to fill for the band to continue.
ElysiumNZ but they did continue for several good albums...
Man she's so fucking cool!
she's a godess, so attractive
Didn't want to be a fan-girl, but my thoughts exactly. If you hadn't said it first I would have needed to.
The Beatles, Raidohead & Sterolab are my top 3 favorite bands of all time!!!
good thing you can spell one of those bands correctly !
@@BendAmboise 😂😂😂
Thank you for getting it and talking about it like you get it. So hard to do that for many of us! (54:00, "we are at war")
Voice, Heart & Soul of an Angel.
If she wrote an autobiography I’d definitely read it
Thoughts:
1. She looks awesome for 49
2. "them days"
3. The shoegaze impression!!!
4. Lol as he takes a swig from the red bull. What even is this?! They have such surprisingly awesome people on this weird corporate product placement thing? Very odd.
Spuzzwick #4 RMBA -> Red Bull Music Academy. It may explain the product placement
She looks like a grannie
@@flosutter3563 Do you date children or something how the hell does she look like a grannie?
@@psychedeliccarrie5921 Probably yeah, mind corrupted by beauty standards and infatilization of women. Seeing a human being makes them feel icky.
they sounded allot like my bloody valentine on that early indie release ....so fresh, so good!
I was obsessed with MBV and I asked my record store friend what else there was like them and she suggested Stereolab. I’m so glad she turned me in to them. I saw them on the Mars tour and it’s one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen 🌊🏄♂️
I was lucky to have seen them live and boy it was amazing. They refined my music taste
+ardianworld I did as well.. Mary worked her ass off on stage!
I saw them last night! Still amazing!
@@moozartney o
she's so cool! Can't believe I just found out about stereolab a few months ago; I feel I've missed out. Well I still have a lot of their stuff to listen to so at least theres that
Great revealing interview.
Big fan ever since friends Emma & Emma played a 12” of French Disco in the bar of the now demolished art school at Psalter Lane, Sheffield in the early 90’s. Immediately fell in love with this band and connected on a personal level as a bolshie Anglo-French lunatic. Still often play Parsec very loud and my son loves Crest. x
godamn her voice is amazing
I remember seeing Stereolab in California. They were setting up. Tim was checking the instruments, and I yelled Tim! He looked at the audience like he didn't know people would know him. I even got to meet Leatitia and Tim and tell them they were my first concert I went to.
They were confused by the statement. Lol
FANTASTIC INTERVIEW ! ! !
Great lecture. Looking forward to that stereo lab vinyl repress
Legend!
Amazing, what a wonderful mind. and voice
i think it's insane how the french hated stereolab, when in america they are seen as the one of the best things france ever produced.
I didn’t know that. I’m born in the US from French parents. I wonder why
I love Stereolab but at the same time find them absolutely hilarious. I love the music, and I actually agree with the politics but if you asked me to make up a parody of an arty left wing band it'd be an exact replica of Stereolab. I mean have a shot every time Laeticia says "society" for a laugh
whatever helps you feel nauseatingly smug
Yellow vests are with you Laetitia
11:06 - 11:25 Viva nurture. I feel & understand this statement. Thank u. Aye. Min.erals
Hip Hop and R&B got stale in the mid 90's. I knew I wanted to hear something different but just didn't know where to look. I was in a record store one day when something magical came over the PA. I went up to the cashier and asked her what was playing. She said, "Stereolab." I told her I would return when I got paid to pick up the CD they had just put out. I fell in love with 'Cobra And Phases Group Play In The Milky Night.' I wore that CD out and have been a huge fan ever since.
Stereolab is one of my favorite "morning music" bands, specially if it's looking like a beautiful day outside, there's something about how that music reflects the beauty of the world. And then I have bands that reflect the ugliness of it, but Stereolab is all about the beauty
Great Sadier!!!
oh she's beautiful
I appreciate the sh.t out of quality content and interviews Red Bull brings but damn, I wish someone else conducted the interview. I had so many questions but he did almost no follow-up on what she said. Engage with what the person says, don't just follow a list of questions. It came off as wanting to show off Stereolab trivia more than actual interest in interviewing.
Not to mention that horrible microphone technique.
I know this is an old comment but I absolutely agree. I haven't watched many interviews so I assumed maybe that was just the format of this interview. But I did not enjoy that aspect at all.
Cool interview. Stereolab never jammed? How could that be possible when much of the music sounds so improvisational? Nevertheless it is a bummer to hear that the fun and life that the music was meant to give the world wasn't that fun to make. Keep rockin' into the retro future, ya'll.
the only way that the music could sound improvisational is if you were a non-musician, really. The arrangements are very tight and orderly, it is obviously not improvised, with the exception of perhaps the occasional keys solo. I don't mean to sound harsh. It is just really about as far from improvised music as you can get...
She's so clever and beautiful, and I don't usually drool over celebrities.
I love Stereolab
I'm surprised the audiance didnt seem awared of riot girl movement
What a lovely woman, I don't agree with her politics 100% but as a singer, a musician and as a person she's brilliant, as are Stereolab.
this interview is entertaining and informative but it does not make me want to drink red bull. stereolab played a lot of bars. it sucks that music and culture are largely underwritten by beverage companies.
its bizarre seeing her smile, ive never seen her smile before and she always appeared very very stoic live
e: wtf is with that dudes mic technique? hes almost eating it
I think she got more relaxed later on in their career. I think maybe her stoic appearance was a bit of nervousness. The shows I saw in 99, 04, 2019 she spent a lot of time joking with the audience.
she has a very genuine, vivid and infectious smile
Omg I adore Savages, seeing them live is like church. God this whole interview was so great and informative, thanks for this - I guess despite being a corporation lol?
She mentions a song of hers at the end “Becoming” influenced by Gilles Deleuze, does anyone know what artist/album it’s under? Stereolab or Monade or her name? Can’t seem to find it unfortunately
Handled well Lætitia Sadier
Beautiful.
Huge fan. I wish more musicians were this intelligent. Side note: Has that guy ever used a mic before? PULL IT AWAY FROM YOUR MOUTH.
"that guy" is Nick Dwyer and he's been doing radio/television for years
😹😹😹
Perfect
i waana hear the full songs fam
+Robert Digital you can by clicking on the link after the song plays
why is he eating the mic?
Cause it's Red Bull flavoured?
out of this world, she is
12:00 songs to check out
She is clearly much more intelligent than the interviewer.
laetitia was born in may '68 in france i'm gonna die
"I just found people with big ankles but no real creative nerve" - pardon? Big ankles? Is this a French saying?
For posterity:
fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoir_les_chevilles_qui_enflent
Some Levi-Strauss shit right there.
@@djobnoxious6407 Aha! So it is like 'having a big head' - so, "You have swollen ankles " -- or ankles! Cheers!
16:19 - the girl to the right is a true listener :-)
45:05 who is the man in the audience to whom she talks?
who is the chap conducting the interview?
i wish latetia would have gone into th’ faith healers more and how it evolved.
love healers and tom cullinans work.
does anyone know what the mississippi records documentary she referred to is called, please?
Alan Lomax was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century:
www.thewire.co.uk/news/23443/mississippi-records-and-alan-lomax-films-on-tour
thank you! i know of lomax (cool!), but couldn't track down further reference to or get a response from the record co. for the life of me! 😅
33:29 What author does she say it may be from?
Guy Debord “La Société du Spectacle”
I wanna be like her when I grow up.
if anyone know what songs madlib and doom sampled from stereolab let me kno...cuz i dont remember
I'm also curious to know
"The Flower Called Nowhere" is sampled in Ra Ash by Madlib.
"Widow Weirdo" is sampled in The Hands of Doom by MF Doom
"Come and Play in the Milky Night" is sampled in The Message by Jaylib
Use the WhoSampled app.
Hes eating the fucking microphone
very very easy to root for her.
Why publish such amazing interviews, an hour and half long, and cut out every musical reference? So frustrating, so careless.#RedBull sooo don't get it!
Copyright, probably.
It's a funny thing called copyrighted music
So why fkn bother?
@@Banksy100 it's okay, it just happens to be the way companies work nowadays with intellectual property. No reason to say, fuck interviews
@@Banksy100 It's a little irksome but you can simply pause the interview and cue up the song in another tab... or maybe you already own the records, tapes, cds, etc. Point is, it doesn't need to be licensed into the interview to make the interview enjoyable when all the music is readily available elsewhere.
I didn’t like the interviewer. His mouth close to to mike overheard her answers. For over an hour interview I gave up and felt disappointed. I hope she’s doing well
9:16 what song was he talking about
Strange I've been listening to stereolab for years never picked up on their political ideology
I'm glad the girl on the front couch left. She seemed completely disinterested and it annoyed me because I would have loved to be there. Interesting talk.
music and cats also got me through puberty. almost
And beautiful
three albums.
"Estéril Lab" jajajaja emezamos bien
What did she say around 1:29:52?
"I'm more of a Castoriadis girl myself" (i.e. Cornelius Castoriadis)
Interviewer does fine most of the time... but uhhhh I don't think Stereolab gets brought up in really any conversations about Post-Rock at all. He kinda screwed up that call.
They were actually one of the first to be called "post-rock". Nowadays people mostly refer to crescendo-core bands tho.
Situationist stuff kind of gratifying.
How do we detourn this detournement? ;*
Aww bae
I remember seeing "Shimmies in Super 8" at a record shop here in LA when it was released and wanting to buy it because I was obsessed with Stereolab, but, seeing how ugly the cover was, and having limited funds, I passed. Massive "d'oh" moment there...
A nice lady. :-)