Orelsan: Never Show This to Anyone

2021 • 2 Seasons • 8.1 Ended

In the early 2000s, Aurelien Cotentin is a young middle-class man from Caen with an uncertain future. When he gets into rap music with his friends, he's really starting from the bottom. Yet, through hardships, controversies and constantly being filmed by his admiring little brother, Aurelien becomes Orelsan, one of the most popular French artists of his generation, changing the rap genre forever.

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Episodes

E1. The future belongs to those who get up when I go to bed

36 min

Orelsan is a figure of the French music. But 20 years ago, in Caen, he did not consider making rap his profession. Singing about the boredom of the mi...

E2. If you want to make a movie you just need something that make movie

40 min

2006. Orelsan is a rapper from the provinces. To release his first album, he has to manage alone. The arrival of MySpace is a godsend. But he still ha...

E3. What I tell in my songs are clichés, it's not the truth

41 min

2008. Orelsan is now writing an album. But none of his tracks are radio-compatible. There is only one solution: to go and find his public by performin...

E4. We are the future

44 min

2010. One year after the controversy, Orelsan stopped music altogether. When Skread and Ablaye persuaded him to make a second album, the hardest thing...

E5. I'll keep bullshitting until they take me seriously

45 min

2011. With Le Chant des Sirènes, Orelsan has changed dimension. As a king of counterpoint, he decided not to continue his solo adventure. He revived t...

E6. I thought I'd wake up one morning and, be a man

46 min

2016. After the enchanted parenthesis of Casseurs Flowters, Orelsan wants to return with a new solo album. But five years have passed, rap has changed...