“I want to rape women”, from Sardou to today

A new controversy these days recalls a song from 1973, Michel Sardou’s adversaries perhaps neglecting to take an interest in the violence of uninhibited contemporary sexism and the culture of rape in popular music. .

So here is the subject of the controversy: these few verses in a song recorded in 1973 by Michel Sardou, which socialist senator Laurence Rossignol cited, reacting to the announcement of the award to the singer, by the President of the Republic , the insignia of a grand officer of the National Order of Merit. And, indeed, these verses are a bit problematic. Let’s listen to the beginning of this verse…

In the second episode of These songs that make the news, broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Michel Sardou, The Cities of Solitude, 1973

Michel Sardou, You are Pierre, 1973

Michel Sardou, The Old Marrieds, 1973

Michel Sardou, The priest, 1973

Alonzo at Gradur, La Moula, 2015

The artist, #Sixthirtyfive, 2015

PLK, Stolat, 2018

Jul, Take out the stolen cross, 2013

Jul, Marseille Toulouse, 2017

Michel Sardou, The Cities of Solitude, 1973

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