Laura Smet will release a song on Friday in tribute to her mother Nathalie Baye, who died on April 17, a title in English recorded with the group The Penelopes, they announced Wednesday on their social networks.
“+Nothing Lasts+ speaks of what passes, of what we try to remember, of invisible links, of missed moments, and of this strange fragility of things and beings”, explain The Penelopes and the daughter of Nathalie Baye in a joint text.
The song was recorded before the actress’ death. Laura Smet was born from the affair of several years between Nathalie Baye and Johnny Hallyday.
“It wasn’t the song we needed to release right now. For several weeks, we had been preparing another outing, with another energy, another movement. And then, with time and recent events, this song began to resonate differently for the three of us,” the artists point out.
“So we chose to share this song today, simply. (…) We had written and recorded it well before, without imagining that it would one day take on this meaning. But sometimes some songs change with life. They become something else. A space of memory. A way of accompanying a moment that words alone cannot always capture,” they add.
Pop duo formed by Axel Basquiat and Vincent Trémel, The Penelopes recorded a track in 2022 with Nathalie Baye and has also collaborated with Isabelle Adjani and Asia Argento.
