It’s not easy to make your way when you’re following in someone else’s footsteps. This February 26, 2024, singer Najoua Belyzel told Jordan de Luxe, on C8 that she was as proud as she was embarrassed to be compared to a great French singer. She thus assured her host: “The label that was given to me is quite beautiful, because it’s Mylène Farmer. As a result, I had a lot of Mylène Farmer fans, I still have a few, I I have less, I don’t really know, I can’t quantify it”.
“It’s a little scary, because it’s not coming from her“
But why this comparison? The singer admitted: “It took me a while to understand. You know, I’ve never really been a fan of anyone. And at the same time she’s an artist, who doesn’t know Mylène Farmer? So when people compare you to Mylène Farmer, it’s still… it’s classy!”
If she claims to be happy with it, Najoua Belyzel also admits that this name “still really sticks a lot”. And to add: “it somehow prevents you from really being yourself. It kills your egg a little, you’re injected with something that you didn’t ask for. And it’s very Mylène Farmer, but no it’s is Najoua in fact!”
If Najoua Belyzel wishes to have the same career as the idol, and why not a duo one day, she also looks back on her beginnings, a little more difficult. Because of the comparison to Mylène Farmer, she said, she may have had bad experiences. This is how she says that some fans attacked her: “It was a private preserve, we shouldn’t encroach on Mylène’s territory. And it’s a little scary, because it doesn’t come from her. There’s something quite mystical too, dark.”
She received death threats
Furthermore, Najoua Belyzel also declares having received death threats, which were not “not linked to the Mylène Farmer side”. Targeted by malicious people, she explained that it was “something religious, because I was talking about Gabriel, and I shouldn’t talk about the angel Gabriel”. “That’s what we have to assume.” she quipped, before guaranteeing that she now had a little more perspective on what was happening to her…
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