Between Bénabar and the Victoires de la Musique, there is no great love.
Shortly before the ceremony last February, the singer explained that he did not want to go there or be named.
This Saturday at the microphone of RTL, he was even more severe.
“All these people who claim to be raining and shining, who only cheat on the weather, who are just between them.
There it was so visible.
The Victoires de la Musique is a corrupt ceremony, everyone knows it, ”
lamented the interpreter of the
Dinner
.
And to continue: “
It is a democracy where there would only be people on the left who would vote.
We all knew - and those who tell you the opposite are liars - what the winners of the Victoires de la musique would be a year before, with two names.
This year was again the proof of a small group which took control and confiscated by saying 'this is the music' ”.
"We are not essential"
Very political like the Caesars, these 36th Victoire de la Musique saw the triumph of Pomme, Yseult or Benjamin Biolay.
Bénabar is not to be found in debates on culture as an “essential” good.
“
Obviously we are not essential!
If you don't eat, you die.
If you don't see a Bénabar concert, you don't die.
Even, according to
Télérama,
you live longer
, ”objects the singer.
Artists who claim otherwise are misled by "
their narcissistic wounds in the image of their ego."
The musician, who between 2004 and 2007 received three music victories, confirmed having asked his record company to no longer submit his works to preselection.
He no longer wants to be named and regrets the elitism and the lack of consideration of the charts for rappers, metal players or turners.
Due to the pandemic which closed the concert halls, the categories Revelation Stage and concert have been removed.
“I did not find that although there is no Victory on the stage.
There are people who toured this year.
They were the ones who had to be rewarded: a turner who is in difficulty rather than talking between two petits-fours on the set, ”he
confides.
Failing to see him on the stage of the Victoires de la Musique, could we see him on the sets of TF1's “The Voice” telecrochet?
Here too the answer is negative, but not for the same reasons.
Bénabar does not see himself as suitable for the role of mentor.
“
It's too much responsibility to guide someone who is starting out.
I'm not sure I'm up to it and I don't want to kill a youngster's career.
You also have to be a bit of a showman to bring added value to the public, but then I won't feel comfortable,
”he concluded.
