The show continues, in big luminous red letters, to illustrate this thirty-sixth ceremony of the Victoires de la Musique.
A reminder concerning a musical sector in distress.
And a great absence.
Where can the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot be?
A handsome player, the honorary president of the ceremony, Jean-Louis Aubert, prefers to have fun with the situation:
"I take advantage of the presence, or the absence, of Madam Minister to ask for nothing"
, a- he launched in his introduction.
Late or simply discreet, the minister appeared behind the scenes on a fleeting image broadcast around 10:20 p.m.
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Intimate, the ex-singer of
Téléphone
tells, in front of an audience made up of extras, his beginnings and his relationship to the big state boss: “
When I started music, I didn't think that the state was involved.
He gave me nothing and I gave him back a lot, without asking for anything, without regretting anything. "
A (slight) scratch in the direction of institutions, mixed with a call for help.
“I am simply asking that the state continue to take care of us.
Just enough time to get back on the road. ”
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Finally, in an almost saving wording, the honorary president
“declares with all his heart”
the Victories ceremony open,
“to celebrate the joy of our rediscovered freedoms.” “Come on, hope, hope!
Coming soon.
This summer is good ”
.
As for Stéphane Bern and Laury Thilleman, the presenters of the event on France 2, they admitted
“a complicated session to set up”
.
"But we are here!"
, they said.
Introducing the award-winning categories, a little word is slipped each time to the artists concerned.
“We hope to be able to find them on stage again this year, we really need them,”
said Bern, accompanying his lyrics with images of the concerts planned for 2021.
“Nothing replaces the stage, the screams, the applause,”
he said. he concluded.
Later, the Victory of the Male Artist is awarded to Benjamin Biolay, whose speech is a bit sharper.
Coming on stage to recover his prize, the artist castigated the
"deafening silence
[...]
of the public authorities and the supervisory authorities"
after this year of pandemic.
“It hasn't been a very successful year for music,”
he said bitterly.
"We, the artists, we are serious people, we do not do anything"
, he concluded, in a relentless comparison intended for the public authorities.