The Franco-Malian star Aya Nakamura whose possible participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Games has caused controversy in Franceat tacks his far-right detractors in his latest song.
“I don’t have enemies, they are the ones who don’t love me. A lot of enemies I don’t even know. I don’t need their approval, I appear on the covers of magazines,” says the lyrics of ‘Doggy‘.
The song, of which some excerpts were published years ago but which was never commercialized, was published on Friday night on the streaming platforms of the most listened to francophone singer in the world.
The publication of this song coincides with the controversy over the rap star’s alleged participation in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26.
Launched a few weeks ago by the weekly L’Expressthis hypothesis has not been confirmed by either the artist or the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who would have proposed to the artist the possibility of singing during the event a song from another of the myths of French music, Edith Piaf.
A scenario that outrages the extreme right: “Honestly, it is not a good symbol, it is one more provocation from Emmanuel Macron who must wake up every morning saying ‘how am I going to humiliate the French people?'”, declared a week ago the leader of the main far-right party Marine Le Penwho considered the singer’s dressing style “vulgar.”
“You may like it or not, but she doesn’t sing in French,” added another far-right figure, Marion Maréchal.
The singer born 28 years ago in Bamako but raised on the Parisian outskirts, she sings in a mix of French and slang words from several languages.
“I have the impression that I have made you discover Edith Piaf and that she is reincarnated in me. The rest, whether you like it or not is my problem,” Nakamura wrote on social networks.
Aya Nakamura He met a global success in 2018 with his song ‘Djadja‘, with almost 1,000 million views on YouTube, and last year he released his fourth album, ‘DNK’.