“It is not a century that I appreciate.” Guest this Wednesday from BFMTV, Michel Sardou persists and signs: the current era does not suit him. However, the singer rejects the somewhat reactionary image that has stuck with him since an interview with RTL in 2019:
“I hate that time,” he said. “We no longer have any freedom. Remember the 70s and 80s: we smoked, we made love, we went fast, we could drink, the theater was good, the business was good… Now everything is ridiculous social networks (… ).”
Words you rate today. “Everybody says that before it was better… but before it wasn’t better: there were strikes, wars, many political problems, many parties getting into their faces…”, he explains.
“What we regret, in reality, is our youth,” he analyzes. “What we regret is that we were 20 years old. All that passed like a bad cloud, disappeared. Whereas today, the 20-year-old boy has barriers. And to conclude by saying that it is “not at all” nostalgic: “I don’t think it was better in the 60s.”
Neither misogynist nor feminist
Michel Sardou has often been singled out for one rhyme, in particular, that he sings in his title cities of solitude released in 1973: “I feel like raping women / making them love me.” “All the crazy feminists said that I proposed to rape women; I never said that! ”, She defends herself. “He’s a poor idiot saying that to himself in his suburban tower! There’s always been this misunderstanding.”
“I have never been a misogynist, nor am I a feminist. Feminists piss me off. MeToo, for example, is dangerous.”
“The brutality is intolerable, (but) the media court, I don’t like it at all. Now, that women defend themselves, have the same rights as men, can walk freely without putting their hands to their behinds, yes!
The pension reform was “poorly explained”
The singer also expressed his point of view on other burning issues, including ecology: “I think the whole world is green. We don’t want to rot the world, see these horrors (…) but on the other hand, I don’t. I don’t. become a weapon of attack. I like ecology, but I don’t like political ecology.”
Finally, he referred to the highly controversial pension reform, and the discontent it generates: “I believe that this demonstration exists because things were explained wrong from the beginning (…) we did not understand anything (…) there are so many exceptions , special cases that we no longer understand anything.
“I am a little against this demonstration,” he concludes. “Not really, because I think there has been a misunderstanding between the French people and the French government. But I am against paralyzing France (…) Paralyzing France right now after having suffered from Covid, the yellow vests….”
Source: BFM TV
