"The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success"
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Bouchard’s praise reads like a lawyerly closing argument disguised as backstage encouragement: it’s not about the notes, it’s about the coalition. “Really on board” is management language, the kind you use when you want to reassure funders, organizers, or a skeptical public that the team has stopped freelancing and started rowing in the same direction. He doesn’t spotlight virtuosity; he spotlights alignment. That’s telling.
The phrase “affectionate chemistry” does double duty. On the surface, it’s warm, almost intimate, a reminder that collaboration isn’t purely technical. Underneath, it’s a political gesture: affection suggests trust, and trust suggests durability under stress. If this is a project with reputational risk or high expectations, he’s preempting the familiar storyline of talented people collapsing into ego and friction. Chemistry becomes a proxy for governance.
His hedges are doing work, too. “Some kind of,” “I would say” soften the claim and make it sound candid, as if he’s discovering the harmony in real time rather than selling it. That controlled modesty increases credibility. Then he jumps to “a huge promise of success,” a classic forward-looking statement that commits to optimism without guaranteeing outcomes. Promise, not proof.
In context, this sounds like public-facing reassurance at an early or fragile moment: rehearsals underway, stakeholders listening for signs of stability. Bouchard isn’t reviewing a performance; he’s underwriting confidence, using emotional cohesion as the safest predictor of institutional triumph.
The phrase “affectionate chemistry” does double duty. On the surface, it’s warm, almost intimate, a reminder that collaboration isn’t purely technical. Underneath, it’s a political gesture: affection suggests trust, and trust suggests durability under stress. If this is a project with reputational risk or high expectations, he’s preempting the familiar storyline of talented people collapsing into ego and friction. Chemistry becomes a proxy for governance.
His hedges are doing work, too. “Some kind of,” “I would say” soften the claim and make it sound candid, as if he’s discovering the harmony in real time rather than selling it. That controlled modesty increases credibility. Then he jumps to “a huge promise of success,” a classic forward-looking statement that commits to optimism without guaranteeing outcomes. Promise, not proof.
In context, this sounds like public-facing reassurance at an early or fragile moment: rehearsals underway, stakeholders listening for signs of stability. Bouchard isn’t reviewing a performance; he’s underwriting confidence, using emotional cohesion as the safest predictor of institutional triumph.
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