Myd: “For a DJ, the meaning of the party is to make people dance.”
Interview: The French DJ, with his second album "Mydnight," released Friday, orchestrates an ode to partying and dancing, honest and electronic. Meet this turntable and sample prodigy.
Interview by Julien Bouisset
Myd, August 19, 2025, in the control room of the Le Monde group auditorium, in Paris. JULIEN BOUISSET
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This year, everyone agrees, there was no summer hit. No light, sometimes catchy, but unstoppably unifying anthem, capable of uniting the flip-flopped vacationer and the sweaty clubber under the same refrain. Nothing emerged. Nothing survived the saturation of the networks, the tyranny of automatic playlists, and the instant consumption of disposable hits. The summer of 2025 passed in a kind of pop desert where the hits followed one another without leaving the slightest imprint on the soil of the music industry. Should we conclude that the hit machine is broken? That the majors, obsessed with algorithms and stream optimization, have lost their ability to invent a collective imagination? Or that the meaning of celebration itself has dissolved into a globalized, sanitized amusement, incapable of provoking the spark of a shared melody?
The evidence is, arguably, much more brutal. There hasn't been a hit because there's no more time. Too much traffic, too much content, too much competition in a cannibalistic market where each song chases the last. Yet, in the midst of this summer drought, the musicians who are still standing...
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