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Afrobeat-pop\u2019s Little Bo Peep: enter the French New Wave-inspired world of Petite Meller.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sporting cheeks of pink blush warpaint and candy floss hair, French-Isreali pop doyenne Petite Meller leaped around the stage of London\u2019s Heaven in October like she was the lead in an LSD- infused nursery rhyme. Little Bo Peep on acid, if you like.<\/p>\n

Arriving in the capital for her first ever UK headline show, Meller whipped up something of a media scrum. In the venue\u2019s dark and dusty back room – with yellowed newspaper clippings of forgotten pop icons on the walls (Rachel Stevens, you\u2019re forever in our hearts) – photographers, film crews and journalists bundled together to meet her. First in the seemingly endless queue, I sat down to speak with the strange chanteuse in the company of 20 others.<\/p>\n

Donned in a gargantuan hat and skyscraper heels, Meller exaggerated the doll-clown caricature she\u2019s been crafting since her 2012 breakout single, \u201cNYC Time\u201d. \u201cI used to get looks when I went to buy a coffee or go to the bank,\u201d Meller, who was spotted on the front row at Chanel\u2019s SS16 Paris Fashion Week show in October, grinned. \u201cThrough the years though, I\u2019ve felt like this is me and as an artist I feel comfortable with it, so I want everyone to wear their trauma proudly!\u201d The trauma she speaks of, in her baby-pitched, elongated French drawl, is a sun-burn she got as a kid, igniting her now signature fiery-cheeks look.<\/p>\n

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Childhood psychoanalysis aside, who else inspired the look? \u201cI\u2019m very inspired by classic cinema,\u201d she piped up, plucking a dictaphone out of my hands and holding it closer to her lips, which are that glassy-pink colour you get from drinking too much Cherry Lambrini.\u201cFrench New Wave, Godard,Truffaut, Bergman, Tarkovsky: in my videos, I make a homage to scenes from movies. In [the promo for last June\u2019s poppy afrobeat anthem] \u2018Babylove\u2019 we did And God Created Woman, in \u2018Barbaric\u2019, we have some scenes from Zelig by Woody Allen. So I think my passion comes from cinema mostly!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI never write before [going into a recording studio],\u201d Meller who is currently prepping the release of her 2016 debut LP Milk Bath<\/em>, admits. \u201cI just like to get inspired by books and cinema and philosophy and just sing it out! Then I discover, in my videos, what the song is really about. I just discovered what the giraffe means in \u201cBabylove\u201d – which is like a lover, my lover, and his other girl! It\u2019s funny for me, this whole process of creation.\u201d I got a sense Freud would have had a field day with all this.<\/p>\n

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All clothing CHANEL RESORT 16<\/i><\/p>\n

Photographer<\/strong>:\u00a0Paulina Otylie Surys<\/p>\n

Fashion<\/strong>: Toni-Blaze<\/p>\n

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Make up<\/strong>: Pablo Rodriguez at CLM Hair & Make up using M.A.C COSMETICS<\/p>\n

Hair<\/strong>: Hiroshi Matsushita using KIEHL\u2019S<\/p>\n

Fashion<\/strong> assistant<\/strong>: Carla Reinhard<\/p>\n

Photographer\u2019s assistants<\/strong>: Candice O\u2019donnell and Aleksandra Klicka<\/p>\n

Words<\/strong>: Lily Walker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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