This article comes from Figaro Magazine
Emmanuel Macron, he loves music.
On the evening of his election, for his first term, the Ivorian group Magic System set the mood in the courtyard of the Louvre.
It got hot.
Not long ago, for the launch evening of the Olympic Games, he thought of Aya Nakamura.
This Franco-Malian singer would be the most listened to French artist abroad.
She sells a lot of records - if we can still talk about records in the era of streaming - and expresses herself in a young language.
Excerpt from
Djadja
“Oh Djadja / I'm not your whore / Djadja nan / There's no way Djadja yeah / In catchana baby you die that.”
Méchante
isn't bad either
: "I don't understand the madness there (the madness there) / I don't really like the nonsense, me (the nonsense, me) / Your mood, it's weird (your mood , she’s weird) / And that’s where it’s bre-som (that it’s bre-som).”
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Sometimes his texts are downright incomprehensible, but that doesn't matter.
Aya Nakamura would have said yes to the President of the Republic, while specifying that she really liked Édith Piaf.
We don't know any more.
The choice must have been difficult.
There is no question of inviting Mireille Mathieu - we are not in Russia -, Daniel Guichard, Line Renaud or Hugues Aufray.
Johnny Hallyday is no longer there, he will not be able to light the fire by thundering
L'Hymne à l'amour.
Booba could have resumed
No, I regret nothing,
Jul cannot sing
Under the sky of Paris,
he is from Marseille.
The two Daft Punk, very well known abroad, refused to participate in the ceremony.
Orelsan could have given a beautiful version of
My Legionnaire.
Jean-Pax Méfret was not contacted.