La Playlist Invisible by Paul Lucas – Rebecca Manzoni

For this premiere of La Playlist Invisible, Paul Lucas proposes to explore the mental and musical side of Rebecca Manzoni: journalist and producer, she hosts Le Masque et la Plume and Totemic on France Inter.

For Cravan Paris, Rebecca Manzoni agreed to create a playlist of 24 tracks—songs that “tell what we are.”
A music journalist, she has analyzed more than a thousand songs over ten years in her music columns for the morning show and the program Pop N’Co on France Inter. From her childhood in Lorraine to the “Maison ronde” (Radio France headquarters), Rebecca Manzoni will share her fascination with rock women in high heels, glittery Italians, and moustached Frenchmen, and the dowsing rod she uses to draw inspiration.

There are those we have scribbled on pieces of paper full of corrections, those that follow us throughout our lives, crossing eras and their countless formats, those that real humans craft, and all those that machines take great pleasure in concocting, forming an ocean of proposals impossible to calm.

Today, playlists are everywhere: on our phones, on platforms, on the radio, in bars and cafes, in the metro, in taxis, and even in our beds. Amid this overabundance, a few questions remain: where can we find uniqueness away from algorithms? How can we create genuine collisions?