Gala is not only the star of the football locker room. the italian song, free of desireresounds regularly in demonstration processions, along with classics like stainless steel beautiful bye Where motivated of Zebda.
This Tuesday, January 31, while France lives its second day of mobilization against the pension reform, other pieces mark the protesters’ march. Rap now has a good place for itself in the demonstrations. The sound systems broadcast here and there in the Parisian procession the voice of Aya Nakamura (pookie), from the collective 13’Organisé (organized gang), Soolking (sweetly), Magic System (magic in the air) or Diam (Peter Pan).
And yes We are hereborn in football stadiums and popularized by the yellow vests, it is still sung by protesters, the sound systems have largely taken over.
From now on, “in trade union marches we add sound systems, with obviously ‘Bella Ciao’, ‘Motivés’, ‘Manu Chao’…”, stresses Bertrand Dicale, who writes the chronicle “These songs that make the news ” on Franceinfo. “But if we say ‘song’ it’s because we sing, not because we broadcast over the public address system” with a van “for oatmeal”.
“We no longer sing in the demonstrations”
“It is a reflection of what the union movement is today. Groups gathered to sing are needed ”, he analyzes again. But “the politicians no longer sing either, there are no longer risqué songs, the songs of the fans are always the same, because that’s what the sound system takes care of.”
“For years we sang in the demonstrations. We sang for real,” says the specialist in French singing. Mais le dernier grand chant de manif “qui marque une génération, c’est ‘Devaquet, si tu savais…’ en 1986. Après, il n’y en a plus eu beaucoup”, à part très localement, estimate-t -He.
Today, “we no longer sing in the demonstrations” and “the strike is no longer a worker.”
This year, the ‘Rosies’, who had stood out in the demonstrations against the pension reform at the end of 2019 with their choreographed songs, have already prepared an act II, broadcast online even before the mobilization on Thursday, with instructions for the gesture. .
Still dressed in their overalls as Rosie the Riveter (famous American pop culture image – 1942 – showing a woman flexing her muscles), they sing we want to live in the air ofI will Survive By Gloria Gaynor.
Source: BFM TV
