The “Star Academy” bonus on Friday, December 13 left its mark. If viewers were surprised by the kiss exchanged between Maïa and Marine or moved by Maïa's elimination, another event quickly made the rounds on social networks. At the heart of the controversy: the cover of the emblematic song “Partir un jour” by 2Be3 by the four nominees of the week – Ulysse, Marine, Marguerite and Maïa.
“It still looks a lot like our arrangement.”
On Sunday, December 15, an Internet user known under the pseudonym ESTL (for Estelle) published a video on her TikTok and Instagram accounts accusing the famous TV talent of having largely reproduced her version of the title without mentioning her name. In this publication, the singer directly compared the arrangement of the academicians and the one she had created with her collaborator Nicolas Foé.
“You look at Star Ac and there’s a little problem“, she begins in her video. The images, where the two versions follow one another, actually show many similarities. “It still looks a lot like our arrangement. It's so cool, they were inspired by it, it'll give us a bit of promotion… Oh well no in the end, we're not even mentioned“, she lamented with a touch of irony.
The singer does not hide her surprise at the almost perfect resemblance of the cover: “Well, if it's just the verse… Oh no, in the end it's really the whole song.“In the caption of her publication, she explains having been alerted by messages from subscribers notifying her of this astonishing similarity on the evening of the prime. “CIt's funny, we received lots of messages Friday evening following the star ac bonus where the students covered our version of 'Partir une jour' down to the last note. So we searched and searched… but our name didn't appear anywhere“, she wrote.
“We are delighted to have been able to inspire”
Available on streaming platforms, his cover of the boy band's iconic title was put online on September 26. However, the artist does not intend to go further, even if she hopes that this copy and paste will bring her a little visibility. “No hard feelings, we are delighted to have been able to inspire”, she concludes before asking her subscribers to share the publication “so that they (the production) can fall on its” and thus credit the artists or at least the “put forward“, as she explained to one of her subscribers.
