The French singer’s Olympic performance left no one indifferent… even in China, where his half-naked Dionysus went viral.
Since he performed his hit Nakedhis body painted blue, at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, Philippe Katerine has become the darling of the Middle Kingdom, where he is now nicknamed “the Smurf artist”!
Challenges and publications on the web, online parody videos, the interpreter of The banana inspires Chinese netizens. His blue and half-naked Dionysus is causing a lot of reaction in China, according to the newspaper The Parisian : “Although the sequence was censored in several countries, such as the United States and Morocco, China did broadcast it. And many articles analyzed the scene with Philippe Katerine.”
PHOTO LUDOVIC MARIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philippe Katerine’s performance is broadcast on a giant screen at the Trocadéro
The singer has become “trendy and has exploded” Chinese social networks for four days. Publications of his “Bacchus or Dionysus”, depending on your favorite mythology, invade platforms like TikTok, Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Douyin, adds the daily. “We can see drawings, paintings, sculptures in marzipan … and even cooking recipes representing Philippe Katerine as a Smurf”!
Which shows that each country has its own grid for analyzing an artistic performance…