They are not reconciled ! For three years, Aya Nakamura and Matt Pokora no longer speak to each other. The two singers, from a different musical generation, do not agree on the definition of success, and did not hesitate to attack each other through the media a few years ago. While Matt Pokora received an award at the MTV European Music Awards, his rival moderately appreciated this award, which she considered unfair in an Instagram story: “What sound did he release? It’s not even in the top 10!” The singer responded to him from the set of Do not touch My TVbelieving that he filled concert halls and sold albums, while she accumulated simple listens on Spotify: “Where she made a mistake is when she talks about the Top 10. What is the Top 10 streaming? No, the Top 10 streaming, I’m not there. On the other hand, the physical Top 10, I have been there for seventeen years. The Top 10 tour filler, I’ve been there, and for seventeen years.”
Guest of Six Seater Sofa, the show hosted by Léna Situations on YouTube, Matt Pokora revealed that he never discussed this clash with Aya Nakamura. The companion of Christina Milian believes he has nothing to share with his colleague, and evokes a “generational shock”: if the interpreter of Pookie has favored digital listening since the start of his career, listening on YouTube as well as on Spotify, the singer revealed by Popstars twenty years ago already favors the sold-out tours that he carries out, and the albums that have always been a hit physically: “We are in a generation that talks a little too much about numbers. We didn’t talk about that” he immediately regrets before targeting the comments made by Aya Nakamura, which are totally contradictory to his philosophy.
“Tell me about full rooms, that’s true success. If you fill Bercy but not the zenith of Dijon, your success is still limited. This means that you are very Parisian, big cities, but in the rest of France, you have difficulty… Today, ok we are talking about music listened to, but there is also the real success of an artist“ subtly tackled Matt Pokora. So, does Aya Nakamura manage to fill Bercys and zeniths with each of her performances? Will she respond to the tackle from her sworn enemy? To be continued!