“I didn’t understand”, this famous artist regrets not having been contacted

More popular than Beyoncéjust that! This famous french DJ claims that he is listened to much more than the interpreter of Single Ladies or Texas Hold’Emhis new hit from his latest album with country roots… “Worldwide, I am still between the 4th and 15th most listened to artist in the world, not a DJ artist”he informed theAFPregretting that we did not take the care to contact him with a view to opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for July 26. On paper, he’s not entirely wrong. He’s even right! Just look at the music streaming platform Spotify which lists numerous statistics, stating that it is the Canadian The Weeknd who is currently the most popular.

Indeed, on the Swedish online service, Beyoncé is ranked 28th among the most listened to artists in the world, far behind… David Guetta. The Frenchy The 56-year-old, who became a father earlier this year, would have liked President Emmanuel Macron to receive him in the run-up to the organization of the Paris Olympic Games, as he did with Aya Nakamura last winter, whose participation in the opening ceremony has still not been confirmed.

What scenario for the opening ceremony?

In a dispatch dated June 29, the producer of the hits Titanium et Love Don’t Let Me Go said bluntly: “If you have the answer, you will give it to me. Because I didn’t understand at all.”He recalled that he was French and that he loved France. “But nobody called me. That’s just how it is!”, he insisted, he who was expected for an event show – and certainly grandiose – on Saturday at the Château de Chambord. He therefore follows in the wake of Matt Pokora who had previously expressed his disappointment at not having been contacted either for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, despite his notoriety. The latter was nevertheless able to console himself by recovering the Olympic flame in Strasbourg this week.

Still according to theAFPthere are only a handful of people who know the exact script of the opening ceremony show, which is expected to last 3h45 from 7:30 p.m. On entend “breaking the codes” according to Thomas Jolly, at the design, and according to which “France is Jul, Édith Piaf and Natalie Dessay at the same time”.

Arielle Dombasle and Sylvie Tellier confirmed

Some information has nevertheless already leaked, we know for example that the DJ Cerrone to whom we owe the tube Supernature will be there, and that the choice of costumes for all the participants has been entrusted to a famous French journalist and television presenter: Daphne Bürki. The information was also revealed this week by the Committee, to the delight of the star of Drag Race France, while at the same time we learned that the Seine was still very polluted at the dawn of the launch of this 2024 edition of the Summer Olympic Games. The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, however, promised that she would swim there in the days to come.

If rumors indicate a possible participation of Dua Lipa and Céline Dion, who has just operated a comeback highly publicized, we also learned that the former Miss France Sylvie Tellier would hold the Olympic flame in his hands on July 14, on the occasion of his first visit to Paris. The same day, Arielle Dombasle will be there and will make his new single Olympics resonate.

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