Aya Nakamura unveils the clip for “Chimyé”, a new song that will make us all crazy

“He wants the house, he wants children, he speaks to me in chemiy chemiy.” The style, the vocabulary, the banter … Aya Nakamura is back. And its new single, unveiled this Thursday at 6 p.m., is expected to give it to the top of views and streams. “Chimyé” has an unstoppable refrain, a dancing rhythm between Afrobeat and RNB and a clip with a “girl power” spirit completely in tune with the times.

The singer who will be 30 years old in May co -wrote this song for the first time with rappers Alpha Wann and Doums. The first co -founded the 1995 group with Nekfeu, the second joined them in the Collective L’I entourage. She had revealed few new songs since the release of her fourth album, “DNK”, in January 2023. In two years, he sold more than 150,000 copies.

For the image, however, she does not change a winning team. The singer called for her new clip for director Bastien Sablé, already at work on “Djadja” and “Girlfriends”, two of her biggest successes. The video of the first is also on the way to pass the milestone of the billion views on YouTube.

The boy comes to pick her up as a convertible, but she prefers to go into the convertible chevrolet of her friends. They stop in a service station, oil-style, “Call me tonight, I am off/maybe we will capture at Plaza (Athénée, the Parisian palace)she continues, while the girls join the boys in the studio. Have you seen my true face/I don’t mix with all these dirty girls. »»

A clip where Aya Nakamura has rarely been so sober

What does the “chemiye” onomatopoeia mean? “Talking in chimyé” can be the equivalent of the expression “speaking in Chinese” or “it’s gibberish”. Is this title also a nod to the “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” by the American rapper Ol’dirty Bastard three decades? He himself was inspired by a dance from the end of the 19th century and the 1920s which consisted, for a woman, of moving her chest to bounce her chest. If this is the case, this does not jump out in this clip where Aya Nakamura has rarely been so sober.

We had hardly seen the artist for seven months. Since her golden performance during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where she had associated in a pouring rain “Pookie”, “Djadja” and “For Me, formidable” by Charles Aznavour with the choir and the musicians of The Republican Guard. A more acclaimed than criticized association, but which has still earned him attack on social networks …

She returned in the shadows, released a new title at the end of October, “cuckoo”, for the charity association “La Main on the Heart” at the heart “, then made an express appearance at the Gala of Yellow Pieces, there is Four weeks in Paris La Défense Arena, with the chain of two titles, “40 %” and “Baby”.

Between her appearances to the Dior and Gaultier parades and her shootings for Lancôme, of which she has been a global ambassador for two years, she recently announced that she would not stack for the fourth season of “New School” on Netflix. We understand better why. Nothing official, but this unprecedented song probably augurs a new album in the year.