Discover the story of the song > Formidable – Stromae

- "Formidable" is a song by Belgian singer Stromae, from his second studio album, Racine carrée.
- The song was released as the second single from the album on May 27, 2013.
- In May 2013, Stromae shot the video for "Formidable" on hidden camera in the street near the Louise streetcar stop in Brussels.
- Several amateur videos then appear on the Internet showing the singer apparently drunk near the Louise streetcar stop.
- This video made the buzz, but on May 24, he performs the song "Formidable" in the show Ce soir (ou jamais!) on France 2.
- A few days later, he released the video clip of the song, in which he plays a drunk man who broke up with his girlfriend.
- Three days after the release of the clip, it is viewed three million times, a record for a Belgian artist.
- By the end of December 2013, the YouTube counter had over 50 million views.
- Stromae said, "I got the idea for this video during the recording, I remembered a scene, I was walking one day in the streets of Brussels and I was stopped by a homeless man who told me pretty much what you hear in the song, "You think you're beautiful?" I never forgot it and I wanted to put it on stage. It was risky, I asked a lot of questions around me, some people were really against it, but in the end people found it more noble than nothing. "