“The game is over, all our leaders have failed, they will be destroyed by the beast they created / Confidence is dead along with respect, what governs us? Fear and anxiety / We destroy ourselves, we look for an enemy, some say it’s fucked up, others are in denial“.
While the pre-election campaign for the 2022 presidential election is in full swing, rapper OrelSan is back this Wednesday, November 17 with an explosive political title, The smell of gasoline, a vitriolic criticism of all the “pyromaniac” leaders, those who shake these incendiary levers which, according to him, are nostalgia, fear, hatred, mistrust or despair.
This new single announces the return to full form of the rapper from Caen for his fourth album called Civilization, expected Friday, November 19.
The fierce words of The smell of gasoline are eloquent: “(Looked) : Nostalgia: making them sparkle with the grandeur of a past France that they have fantasized about (…) (Look) Fear: persuading them that strangers will come into their living room to replace them (…) (Listen) Hate: tip ’em to extremes, start the fire, set it all on fire“.
From the maddening of the media to politicians, from education to individual cowardice, everyone takes for his rank in this uncontrollable fire which, according to him, is leading society and entire civilization “straight to the crash “. “We will fall like the Mongols, like the Egyptians, like the Romans, like the Mayas, like the Greeks“, prophesies the rapper.
The clip is signed by David Tomaszewski, the director who had shaped the superhero image of the rapper on his second album. Mermaids’ song (2011) and in particular with the clip of RaelSan.