30Arielle Dombasle will release her next album in a few weeks and she presents us with the first rather original extract “Barbiconic“. The singer even admits (in the show Télématin) have always identified with the doll Star:
I always identified, like all little girls, with the Barbie doll when I was a child. She was the modern woman par excellence, the first of the feminists. It is the first modern doll for little girls who was a firefighter, secretary, astronaut, lawyer, top model. She plays every sport, she can play every role. She had Kens. (…) It is innovative, it evolves. I had a Barbie collection. The idea of being able to do her hair, cut her hair, I was absolutely delighted. As a child, I loved being called “Barbie doll”. Then I suffered from the eternal reduction “Arielle is the Barbie doll”
In his new album, Arielle Dombasle wants to pay homage to the great divas of the golden age of music through covers (Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe, Joséphine Baker…
I took on figures that have stayed with me all my life. Women's role models, great inspirations who shaped me, who shaped me. These are icons to whom I owe a lot
