After her first concert tour in 1989, Mylène Farmer released the new song "À quoi je sers..." which was a synthesis of her musical work and marked the end of an age.

While the album En concert was charted, she took advantage of the following months to travel in various countries including India, and to discover new literary works, such as those of Emil Cioran in which she drew inspiration.

This one showed an evolution of the singer : indeed, the texts marked a change of mindset and testified to a transformation in her life including a greater openness to the other (hence the album's title).

[2][3][4] Writing for five months, this album was the result of all what has happened to Farmer "at personal and artistic levels".

He also wanted to release as singles all the songs from the album, but that didn't happen because of a lack of money.

Farmer explained the album's content in an interview: "What changed is that I don't want no more to feel pity for myself and to settle old scores.

"[9] However, this album re-uses the old themes dear to the singer: indeed, death, religion, social revolt, despair, sexuality and madness are tackled in the various songs.

Except for "Désenchantée": Carole Fredericks, Beckie Bell, Debbie Davis, with the participation of Sophie, Dominique, Edwige, Mandy and Cécile