Emmanuel Macron cultivates his culture.
At the Élysée, the circle of intellectuals and artists received around the president widens to sometimes surprising horizons.
As proof:
Civilization
, the last album of rapper Orelsan, caught his attention, as
Liberation
reports
, in his
Chez Pol
newsletter
.
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Civilization
In the record's flagship title,
The Smell of Gasoline
, the artist sings that
'everything is reactive', everything is systemic / As soon as an asshole does something wrong / Somewhere the whole world comes susceptible / The culprits are former victims / The circle of evil never ended ”
. When Orelsan mentions the
"generation Z"
(
"It is clear that we did not know the war"
) and evokes
"Grandma
[who]
votes Marine"
while
"she has three years to live"
, Emmanuel Macron nods. He considers
"well seen"
the very political picture sketched by the rapper.
"It's still someoneone who portrays society as a sociologist ”
, he declared according to
Liberation
.
Dark, Orelsan also prophesies the collapse of our civilization - thus responding to the title of the disc -,
"like the Egyptians, like the Romans, like the Mayas, like the Greeks"
, and
"the crash"
to come, curls those whose
" nostalgia make them sparkle with the grandeur of a past France that they have fantasized about ”
and shouts:
“ If the president wins half the votes / It’s that two thirds of France didn’t want it. ”
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Never show that to anyone
: the life of Orelsan told by his brother in a documentary
A week after its release, on November 19,
Civilization
has sold 138,929 copies, according to the official record by the Snep, crushing in the process its British competitor Adele, who had to settle for second place on the podium.
Previously, Orelsan had already made a name for himself in the news when the first episode of the documentary series
Never Show That To Anyone
, available on Prime Video
, aired on October 15
.
Directed by his brother (who has preserved and compiled decades of images), the documentary traces the rise of the Caen rapper in the artistic world.
Orelsan also plans to tour the Zéniths de France from January.