At 77 years old, Michel Sardou is in the middle of a farewell tour. But in Paris, where he performed on March 16 in front of 20,000 spectators, on the occasion of what will certainly be one of his last concertsthe reunion between the singer and his audience did not go as planned.
While he was preparing to sing one of his most famous songs, Michel Sardou dared a joke which was not to the taste of part of its audience to the point that some people preferred to leave the room as a sign of protest.
A moment of embarrassment that divided the room
Present that evening in the audience, the journalist Olivier Truchot who officiates on RMC in the program Les Grandes Gueules, returns to this awkward moment. “It made the room laugh, but not everyone. Behind us, there were two young girls of 17 or 18, with their parents, who stood up and said ‘I’m not staying in this fascist concert’ and they left.“.
The Parisian reports that several spectators left the scene, like one of them who declared to the newspaper: “I was shocked by his comments on consent. In 2024, we can no longer talk like that. Maybe it’s not bad after all that he retires“.
A joke in bad taste that will not pass in 2024
It was at the precise moment when he was about to sing his song I will love youthat Michel Sardou was interrupted to declare to the public: “I’m going to sing you a song that we couldn’t write today“. The singer then continues, amused, “a young man who places his hand without consent on a woman’s hand is in direct custody. If he has the audacity to want to put his hand elsewhere, it’s Fleury-Mérogis!”.
According to Le Parisien, the artist then sent a peak to the environmentalist deputy Sandrine Rousseau stating: “I took advantage of it but for the young people of now, it’s not going to be easy“. A misstep which does not pass for the artist who still has to perform on stage in Clermont-Ferrand and Brest before, he assures, retiring for good.