SOCAN Song of the Week

Stéphanie Boulay - “Je veux pas t’attendre mais je t’attends”

• Written by Stéphanie Boulay
  
• Published by Simone Records
  
• Photo by Stéphanie Boulay
  
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• Almost seven years after her first solo album, released as a side project to her celebrated duo Les sœurs Boulay, Stéphanie Boulay is back. “Est-ce que quelqu'un me voit?” explores the pressure of being a woman, and being an artist, as it alternates between alt-pop gems and captivating ballads. Boulay's new single, “Je veux pas t'attendre mais je t'attends,” she says, "is a song I wrote about a man who haunted me for more than five years, even though I hardly knew him. Every time I met someone new, I compared them to that man. After every break-up, I would go back to him (but only in my head, because he wanted nothing to do with it). Talking to friends about it, I realized that almost everyone has someone like that in their life, an unfinished or unresolved story that haunts them. So I turned it into a unifying anthem.”