It’s a date he will no doubt remember for a long time. At the dawn of his 60-year career, Michel Sardou is preparing to be decorated. The interpreter of Connemara Lakes will, in fact, rreceive the National Order of Merit. A badge which will be given to him at the Élysée next June while a close friend of the president declared to a journalist from NewObs the reasons for this choice:Michel Sardou was able to diagnose, years before Michel Houellebecq, male discomfort in his texts“. An announcement to which the 77-year-old singer has not yet reacted but which angered some of his detractors; starting with the feminists.
This Thursday, April 11, in the morning Good morning ! by Bruce Toussaint, Christophe Beaugrand returned to this emerging controversy. The opportunity for the former BFM TV journalist to be surprised by all this noise around this decoration. At the end of the column, he did not mince his words: “Everyone has the right to have an opinion on an artist but hey… There is still a sort of collective hysteria around Michel Sardou, right? He’s still a singer, right? We have the right to hate even if we don’t like Michel Sardou’s songs but anyway… Whether it provokes such a reaction, I don’t know…” concluded Bruce Toussaint astonished.
What do feminists criticize Michel Sardou for?
While environmentalist Sandrine Rousseau immediately expressed her dissatisfaction: “He objectively has a career that deserves to be saluted, especially when it ends.” before adding to his X account: “The patriarchy will fall, it is already faltering. But they will all decorate themselves before each other” quipped the elected official. For their part, the feminists of the MeToo movement also see red in the image of Emmanuel Dancourt, president of the #MeToo movement. For her, the singer “participates in ordinary sexism by validating, through its notoriety, sentences and concepts which are completely inaudible today“. Finally, Laurence Rossignol also expressed her annoyance following this announcement. On X, the senator quotes the song The Cities of Lights : “‘I want to rape women, to force them to admire me.” We are reassured, it’s just the expression of male discomfort” she wrote.
This National Order of Merit which was supposed to be a celebration takes another turn and seems to be a poisoned gift for Michel Sardou who has just ended his career after completing a final 63-date tour in March, which brought together nearly 400,000 spectators.