INTERVIEW – With her first album, “Hélé”, Helena is indulging in her fight against anxiety and sleep disorders. She confides in the WECB microphone on the poignant titles “melatonin” and “ball in the belly”.
Helena does not hide anything of her torments in the very first album of her career. With “Hélé”, the Belgian artist explores mental health problems, a subject that touches her closely. Through poignant titles like “melatonin” and “ball in the belly”, she puts words on her agitated nights and anxieties.
These two songs were written about at the same time at the end of the big “Star Academy” tour last summer. A period synonymous with silence and break during which Helena had trouble feeling good.
Helena confides in “melatonine” and “ball in the belly”
“Melatonin”, which is one of the singer's favorite titles, plunges the listeners into the white nights of Helena, where existential questions prevent her from finding sleep. A vicious circle sets in then, as she explains to us in her interview for WECB: anxiety nourishes insomnia, which in turn intensifies anxiety.
“Ball in the belly”, on the other hand, relates the discovery of anxiety attacks. Helena, who was originally an unusual person, was caught up in the backlash of this intense period that is “the Star Academy” and the discovery of media madness. “For nine months, I did not have time to think, I traced, and then there was a time when the tour was over, it was the holidays, it was less things, I feel like I was caught in your mouth”she says in an interview.
A testimony to release the floor
By engaging in this way, Helena wishes to release speech on mental health, a subject still too often taboo. “”It was super important for me to talk about anxieties and anxiety because it is not something that I knew Avant, “she explains. She adds:” çAa was a super dark period when I did not feel well. And at the same time I want to say: it's a bit normal, I can't all the time be happy “.
Helena can count on her family and friends
In this difficult moment, Helena found comfort with her relatives. “”The main factor that could help me get better, it would be my entourage “she reveals. As she already expresses so well in her song “Boule au belly”, Helena returns to WECB on her need for hugs and kindness, simple but essential gestures to appease her anxieties.
Words of “Boule au Belly”
Tonight, I'm going to say everything
It is tieds, balls in the stomach
My heart has all gray as in November
My sight is troubled and my voice is shaking
I'm not going to take you
I have my smile that makes a face
We are thousands, I feel alone
Only and sad, the Seum that clips
I agree that I think
I agree that I climb anxiety
I do not understand what
Lay your hand on me
Let me cry in your arms
And put your hand right there
Let me cry in your arms
Is it still beating?
Is it still beating?
He too he's
He said to me, “fortunately it is there”
We are compared we are grown, at a distance
The more the emptiness we mank, is immense
And then I'm afraid of notifying me
In the eyes of people who love me
And when the lights go out
I'm afraid that the voice also died
I agree that I think
I agree that I climb anxiety
I do not understand what
Lay your hand on me
Let me cry in your arms
And put your hand right there
Let me cry in your arms
Tell me it is still beating
Tell me it is still beating
It makes waves of anxiety that go up
Breath cut, a ball that hugs
I have everything I wanted and yet I am ashamed
I have everything to be happy
Lay your hand on me
Let me cry in your arms
And put your hand right there
Let me cry in your arms
Of course it beats again
Of course it beats again
