Sur Un Coup De Tête paints the moment a young dreamer snaps a piece of chalk in half and scribbles her own future. Maëlle starts in a stuffy lecture hall, borrowing a verse from the poet Apollinaire and feeling the classroom walls close in. Chalk screeches across her slate, teachers’ rules blur like spilled white-out, and childhood pages are pasted shut. In that instant she chooses impulse over routine: j’ose – “I dare.”
The song grows into a guitar-soaked escape where writing and singing become oxygen. Each chorus swings between gueule de joie (a face full of joy) and gueule d’effroi (a face full of dread), showing that freedom is thrilling yet terrifying. Maëlle rejects “the concordance of tenses” and the “drunkenness of the undecided,” celebrating creative courage that ignores every timetable. The message is clear: on a single whim you can leave fear behind, let your desires ink the page, and shout your own calligram to the world.