Inside On y va: How Hub30 Built a Feel-Good Song From Reggae, House and a Bordeaux Lake
A Solo French Songwriter Wrote a Song About Moving Forward Together, and Made It Alone
Hub30 writes beside a coastal lake near Bordeaux, and the light on that water is where On y va begins. Released on 31 October 2025, the French single sets a reggae groove and a quiet house pulse under a pop melody. Its title, French for let’s go, is an invitation the whole song keeps repeating.
Hub30 is in the playlist below with On y va, a feel-good French single built on reggae and house, and his artist profile lists the rest of his coverage. The song reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, the programme that verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play first, then read on for the lake behind it.
Hub30 Writes Beside a Sea Lake Near Bordeaux, and Its Changing Light Runs Through On y va
The scene is worth holding on to. Qobuz picked Hub30 as one of ten French chanson artists to follow in 2026. In that piece, it placed him by a sea lake near Bordeaux, drawing on the changing light and the softness of the water. Beside it, the magazine wrote, he makes utopian songs in which he dreams of people uniting and of air that is easier to breathe.
The magazine even compared the project to Henri Matisse’s Open Window, Collioure, a painting that carries strong feeling through pure colour. The comparison suits the record, since On y va also works with a few clear colours: a pop melody, a reggae groove and a house pulse.
A Solitary Songwriter From Bordeaux Builds French Pop Around the Idea of a Crowd Moving Together
Hub30 is the project of Hubert Trentesaux, and he works alone. Extravafrench, the French music site, reviewed the single in December 2025. It called him a solitary figure from Bordeaux with a universal dream. It also heard his synths as if they had been rinsed by the Atlantic wind. In its words, he makes pop the way you open a window: to let the salt air in.
That is the contradiction at the heart of the record, and it is a good one. One person, writing by the water, makes a song whose whole subject is a crowd moving in the same direction. His own description of the track says it plainly: a mellow groove and a chorus that brings people together.
The French roots matter too. According to Qobuz, Hub30’s music starts in French songwriting and then takes regular detours into house and reggae. Even so, it never loses its feel for a simple, catchy melody. In fact, the magazine pointed to the offbeat On y va as proof of that balance.
Meanwhile, the lake was in the songs long before the press noticed it. Près du lac came out in December 2023, and Living by the Lake followed in February 2024.
On y va Answers a Tired, Anxious World With a Mellow Groove and a Chorus Built to Gather People
The release itself is short and bright. On y va runs two minutes and fifty-two seconds, moving between pop softness, a reggae groove and a house pulse. Extravafrench heard the reggae touches as a nod to Bob Marley, a figure of peace and bright defiance. Then, it wrote, a discreet house beat turns the song into a place to gather, somewhere people dance to survive, or to love better.
The lyric stays direct on purpose. Extravafrench praised the catchy melodies and plain words. It also argued that this kind of clarity takes real precision rather than less effort. Beyond that, it heard the shadow of the Beatles, and of John Lennon above all, in the way the song reaches for utopia without sounding naive. That is the line Lennon walked on Imagine in 1971.
What the song answers is the mood around it. Extravafrench described On y va as a soft but determined call to catch your breath in a world saturated with anxiety. Seen that way, the title is less a slogan than an instruction: stop waiting, start walking, and do it together.
From the NewMusic.News Curator Team: “What we admire is how little the song asks of you. Two minutes and fifty-two seconds, one simple phrase, and a rhythm that does the persuading. Hub30 trusts the groove to make the case, and it does.”
Hub30 Followed On y va With Tu Déchires, and Where to Hear the French Single Now
The single also sits inside an unusually steady run of work. Hub30 has released 29 singles on Spotify since April 2023, starting with Les oiseaux migrateurs. After On y va came Tu déchires in January 2026, then Dunes in Motion, Au clair de la dune and To Do List.
The songs around it share its outlook. For example, Call Me Daddy, released in September 2025, captures the impatience and tenderness of a father-to-be. Similarly, his own site pitches Tu déchires as a song to wake up your inner strength and drive. So for listeners who like their French pop warm, unhurried and touched by reggae, On y va is the right place to start.
Stream On y va in the Spotify player above, or on Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music and YouTube. His 2024 song Living by the Lake is on YouTube Music, and his own Spotify playlist, Saison 1 : Hub30, gathers more of his songs.
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