“Vivant” feels like the rush of fresh air you gulp on your very first dive into the sea. Malik Djoudi sings from the perspective of someone who has just turned 20 and suddenly senses every nerve buzzing with possibility. Questions and doubts still swirl, yet they are no longer paralysing; they simply prove he is finally alive. The song captures that sparkling instant when you leave the shore, meet another person’s skin, and realise the tide is carrying you toward a bigger, brighter world.
Across shimmering synths and gentle vocals, Djoudi uses water imagery—“se jeter à l’eau,” “maintenant, je nage”—to show personal rebirth. Each splash represents breaking free from past breathlessness and swimming toward shared intimacy on “our peninsula,” a private, almost-island space where two people can connect without words. “Vivant” is therefore both a celebration of adulthood’s first real taste of freedom and a tender invitation to merge doubts, dreams, and desires with someone new, all while repeating the joyous mantra: I am alive the way I love to be.