Inouïes is a beautiful and somewhat rare adjective meaning 'unheard of' or 'incredible'. It describes something so extraordinary that it's beyond anything you've ever known.
In this song, Pomme sings about seeing "des visions inouïes" from up above. This choice of word perfectly captures the song's ethereal perspective from the afterlife, suggesting sights so stunning and unprecedented they are beyond earthly experience.
Floating above it all, Pomme’s gentle voice imagines the moment after life has slipped away. In De Là-haut (“From Up There”) she watches her own funeral from the sky: people in summer clothes gather around a cross, lay flowers, whisper words they never dared to say. From this serene height, everything that once felt heavy now looks crystal-clear and almost insignificant. The knot of daily worries is untied, her earthly pain dissolves, and she’s dazzled by “visions inouïes” like a sun that devours the rain.
The song turns grief into comfort. Pomme speaks directly to those below, asking them to dry their tears and sleep in peace, hinting that letting go is easier said than done. Instead of darkness, she paints the afterlife with light, warmth, and wonder, offering a hopeful reminder that perspective can transform sorrow into gentle acceptance. Listen closely and you’ll feel both the ache of goodbye and the quiet freedom of soaring de là-haut—from up above.
Pomme is the stage name of Claire Pommet, a singer and songwriter born in 1996 near Lyon, France. She began solfège lessons at six and sang in a children's choir before turning to guitar, drawing early on chanson artists like Michel Polnareff that her father played around the house. She played her first Paris show at La Boule Noire in 2017, the same year she released her debut album, À peu près, which reached the French charts.
Her second album, Les failles, came out in 2019 and gave her a French top ten album. She has won two Victoires de la Musique, in 2020 and 2021, and followed with the albums Consolation, En cavale, and Saisons. In 2024 she recorded music with Stromae for Netflix's animated series Arcane. She married Quebecois singer Safia Nolin in 2022, after the two first met and dated back in 2016.