A choice which caused a huge reaction from the French… A few months before the 2024 Olympic Games, it was indicated that Aya Nakamura would sing during the opening ceremony. If this news delighted the singer’s fans, others are totally against the idea. Tuesday May 7, 2024, on the set of the show Chez Jordan, on C8, François Valéry was invited to react to the news.
In complete transparency, the singer released: “I have no opinion. I believe that everyone is free… You have to be pumped up to sing Piaf but it’s your choice. It’s not nothing! It’s not for everyone! But I’m not against“. So, Jordan de Luxe asked him: “You have to be pumped up to say: ‘Yes I can sing it’, is that what you’re telling me?”. To which François Valéry assured that it was necessary to be “inflated anyway”.
François Valéry: “It’s respectable”
Assuring that what he said was not mean, the artist added: “I think she’s an artist who is highly publicized, who has a lot of subscribers, that’s respectable. So I’m for it. I’m against nothing at all. I know so much about the ins and outs of this profession that there you go…”. Indeed, Aya Nakamura has many fans and is followed by 3.9 million people on Instagram.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron defended the singer by ensuring that she spoke “to many of our compatriots”. “I think she has her place in an opening or closing ceremony of the Games. I won’t reveal the details here, but if she is part of a ceremony with other artists, it’s a good thing because these ceremonies must resemble us. It also participates in French culture, in French song.”he clarified.
Eric Naulleau’s rant
Monday April 8, 2024, on the TV Mag Buzz TV set, Eric Naulleau indicated that he was against the presence of Aya Nakamura at the Olympic Games. “This is a very, very bad idea. Very bad idea because Aya Nakamura is the shittiest of muzak, that is to say globalized music. It’s the mistreatment of French, it’s autotune… I’m for a ban on autotune or, in other cases, a moratorium on autotune.”he had estimated.
A few days later, it was in Touche pas à mon poste, on C8, that the columnist said: “Another important aspect of French culture is the French language, and she sings in a French porridge… Like a bird, I want to fly… She can fly wherever she wants but not above the opening ceremony of the Olympic games”.
