This 2023 edition of Eurovision is not easy for France.
After the absence of La Zarra, the one who represents us, at Eurovision in Concert due to "a personal problem" then in London where she was expected at the Eurovision pre-party, it's the turn of Yves Bigot, former boss of France 2 and RTBF to give a layer.
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“I had orders to lose,”
he said on Sunday May 7 in the “C Médiatique” program on France 5.
“When I was on France 2, I had orders to lose and when I was at RTBF, I had orders to lose,”
he explains.
The reason given is that the winning country must organize the edition of the following year.
An expense that amounts to
“20 to 25 million euros”
for television channels.
"The channels do not have this money, except in small countries where it is the Ministry of Tourism which finances"
continues Yves Bigot on France 5. When Belgium wins Eurovision in 1986 with the song
J'aime la vie
, played by Sandra Kim ,
to keep this commitment remembers the producer.
La Zarra has its chances
France hasn't won the Eurovision Song Contest since 1977. That was thanks to Marie Myriam and her rendition of
L'Oiseau et l'Enfant
.
For Yves Bigot, if France has struggled to rise to the top step of the podium since then, it is because our country
“is not in the pop universe which is the universe of Eurovision”
.
But he remains optimistic this year.
For him, La Zarra who will perform the title Obviously
“has the disco tempo”
.
"It happens in all countries, including the countries of the great variety which are 25 years behind what is really happening in music today, but it is what it takes for the Eurovision»
he explains.
Answer on Saturday May 13, when the final of the 67th edition of the Eurovision contest will take place in Liverpool, and will be broadcast on France 2.
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