Faouzia Talks Debut Album "FILM NOIR," Desert Rose, Unethical and Competing on 'Singer' in China

Zach Sang Show

Sangasong, LLC

Tv & Film, Music

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Faouzia’s been on the brink for a minute, having first started dropping songs ten years ago and with a catalog that boasts collabs with everyone from David Guetta to Kelly Clarkson to John Legend.

And yet it’s only now that she’s releasing her debut album, Film Noir, independently. It’s an album steeped in the 25-year-old’s classically trained background, her Moroccan-Canadian roots, and her romantic trials and tribulations. She joins us on the couch for the first time to talk about all this, plus her move from Atlantic to her own label, the carefully constructed union of sound and vision in her music videos, how an actual fever led to her song ‘Sweet Fever’ (and an insane sidequest to get to the mountains of Burbank), exactly how and why she’s wound up as the second biggest international streaming artist in China (behind Taylor Swift), and so much more!

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0:10.7	Hello there, beautiful human. Happy Monday to you and to those you love. Another weekend, a fresh week ahead. Let's go. All right. Hello here now. It is the Zach Sang Show. And we got a great hang for you today. Thank you so much for choosing us. It means a lot. We got a good interview on the way, right? That's right. Always. Great guest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:38.4	We're in.
0:40.0	We'll bring her in soon. I got other stuff I would like to talk to you about because it is a busy day. Have you noticed everything that's been going on today, Daniel? Of course, I've been reading all about it. That's a lot. Where should we start? It doesn't scare you, Dan. I mean, there's a little,
0:53.1	there's positive and negatives,
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0:56.6	then read it.
0:57.5	No,
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0:58.0	I,
0:58.0	I don't know, Where should we start? Does it scare you, Dan? I mean, there's a little, there's positives and negatives, you know?
0:54.6	Glass half full, glass half empty.
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