Bad buzz for TF1 and C’est Canteloup. A few days after the arrival of Stromae in the JT of Anne-Claire Coudray on the front page, the 36-year-old singer was represented in costume, the rope around his neck on the verge of suicide, in the humorous program of the channel presented by Alessandra Sublet . When some viewers laughed at the parody, others didn’t like it and weren’t shy about letting it be known. Invited on the Belgian waves of South Radio this Friday, January 28, the host spoke on the subject. She first explained that the sequence was not filmed “against Stromae“nor”against his artistic work“. On the other hand, the mother of Charlie and Alphonse expressed her understanding regarding the anger of some on the subject: “I tell myself that it’s normal that there are people who cry foul and that it’s normal that others, conversely, laugh. No one should be judged. You just have to accept that in this society, we don’t all have the cursor of humor in the same place“.
On January 9, Stromae was the guest of Anne-Claire Coudray in the 8 p.m. of TF1. The artist, absent for many years, had announced the release of a new album in March. He had even interpreted by surprise one of the titles, hellin response to a question from the journalist: “I sometimes had suicidal thoughts and I’m not proud of them, sometimes we think that’s the only way to silence them, these thoughts that make us live through hell, these thoughts that make me live through hell“he had sung, expressing the discomfort that has gripped him in recent months.
If his speech and his interpretation had moved many of his fans, Stromae had angered rapper Booba: “The other, he comes back inflated with Xanax on TF1. He tells us about his depression but brother, the whole world is sinking, we don’t give a fuck about your life! What use are you to us, we didn’t wait for you to get depressed. We no longer have any freedom. Go get your pills and stay in bed!“The main interested party had not reacted but Stromae received the support of many people including Lucie Bernardoni, ex-Star Academician:”We, anxious and depressed people, wish Booba a good big anxiety attack. A real one, the one that makes you think you’re dying, with the sweats, the racing heart, the total. Do we still have to have the sensitivity and the neurons necessary for it to happen?“Words that earned him a death threat…