At the heart of a controversy concerning her supposed participation in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the singer responds in song
“I don’t have any enemies, it’s them who don’t like me.” Aya Nakamura makes fun of her detractors in Doggy, new song released Friday, without changing anything in her style, decried by an extreme right put off by the idea that she could sing at the Olympics. This piece begins as an ego-trip, the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world ensuring that she is always ready for the «fiesta»always have the «cardio» for that. Then she responds, without going into details or citing them, to those who have criticized her since the magazine L’Express floated the idea a few weeks ago that she might sing at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26.
A hypothesis that neither the artist nor Emmanuel Macron, who would have discussed with her the possibility of a cover of an Edith Piaf song for the occasion, have confirmed. This scenario makes the far right and the ultra-right bristle. “It’s not a nice symbol, honestly, it’s an additional provocation from Emmanuel Macron who has to get up every morning saying “Hey, how am I going to succeed in humiliating the French people?”, declared Marine Le Pen, president of the deputies of the National Rally, last week on France Inter. Previously, Marion Maréchal, head of the list for the European elections of the Reconquête party! by Éric Zemmour, blurted out on BFM: “we like it or we don’t like it, she doesn’t sing in French”. Aya Nakamura nevertheless mixes French and slang from the four corners of the planet.
“I have the impression that I introduced you to Edith Piaf and that she was reincarnated in me. The rest, whether they like us or not, is their back (file).”, the artist had fun in mid-March on her social networks. The Franco-Malian star born in Bamako 28 years ago, who grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois in the Paris region, experienced her first global success with her hit «Djadja» in 2018.
Aya Nakamura, who released her fourth album last year, “DNA”, has since played in the big leagues. At the end of 2022, the singer delivered an interactive show in Fortnite, a video game blockbuster fond of this kind of collaborations, a type of gateway reserved for global megastars like the American rapper Travis Scott or the Brazilian soccer star Neymar.