Catchy rhythm, autotune, colorful illustration… Apparently classic pieces of electro. And yet…
“We’ve given you enough, now you can leave.” “The suitcases are full to bursting, the djellabas are folded, the hookah is dismantled, Fatima ready to take off.” “You will return home, you will put on your djellaba.” Here are the lyrics of these far-right “electro house” pieces which are causing a certain buzz on X and TikTok.
Who sings ?
The best known, I won’t leave, was shared on June 23 by the far-right media Frontières (formerly Livre Noir), and viewed hundreds of thousands of times. The grammatical error in the chorus refers to a video from November 2023 showing an evicted person shouting, “I won’t leave!” God is great ! I won’t leave! “.
If some Internet users thought they recognized the voice of the influencer Mila, it was indeed an Artificial Intelligence which generated the melody. Published by an anonymous user under the pseudonym @CrazyGirl, she expresses her support for Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, by signing “Bardella music” at the bottom of the video.
A piece not isolated
This piece is not the only example of musical creation in the world of the extreme right. Another piece entitled “Remigration Airlines” was posted online on June 1 by an Internet user named “Cr@paud” and shared on X. A third piece proclaims “Remigration! France belongs to us, from the mountains to the shores.” The latter was published on June 18 on TikTok by the account @veritesinterdites, defining itself as a “Russian beaver” fighting against globalism.
This xenophobic and racist musical effervescence finds its origins in a video broadcast at the end of May on German social networks. We see young people singing “Ausländer raus”, “Out the foreigners” and “Germany for the Germans” to the tune of “L’amour toujours” by Gigi d’Agostino, during a party in a posh club from the German island of Sylt. We also see a young person in a costume making a Nazi salute. Reactions were swift: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser spoke of a “shame for Germany”, Chancellor Olaf Scholz described the slogans as “sickening” and “unacceptable”, and a police investigation was opened.
Planned as Austria’s official song for Euro 2024, it was also banned by the Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, because of its xenophobic remix. In France, in Rouen, a party called “Ausländer raus” is planned for June 28 in an identity bar. In reaction, the socialist mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol announced that he would contact the prosecutor, declaring that “an evening called Foreigners Outside” had “nothing to do in Rouen, nor anywhere in Europe”. For its part, SOS Racisme filed a complaint for incitement to hatred.