“ Papaoutai” was released as the lead single in May 2013. In France, the album has been certified triple diamond by the SNEP and become one of the highest-selling albums in recent years after amassing over one million copies sold four months after its release. In his native Belgium, it remained at the top the charts for multiple weeks and been certified twelve times platinum by the BEA. The album topped the charts in France, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy, as well as reaching the top ten in Canada, and the top forty in Germany. You can have fun talking about your problems. Everybody thinks that the only way to forget your problems is having fun, and I don’t think that’s the only way to have fun.
Actually they’re our problems, our human problems, and I prefer to show instead of hide it. I prefer to talk about my problems because my problems are a little bit exaggerated. In an interview with TimeOut he told: “If you listen to my album, you can think that I’m depressed or suicidal, but I’m not. Prior to its official release and afterwards, Racine Carrée received critical acclaim for its thoughtful lyrics and gained comparisons to fellow Belgian recording artist Jacques Brel. The album explores themes as diverse as alienation from social networks, relationship issues, discrimination, cigarettes and lung cancer, AIDS and absent father figures. Stromae expressed his desire to incorporate Caribbean and African musical influences along with his signature 1990s-inspired dance beats. Racine Carrée (English translation: square root) is the second studio album by Belgian musician Stromae.
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