After several weeks of controversy, the main interested party himself took the floor to put things right. “She said something stupid, it happens to everyone,” said Michel Sardou on Monday about Juliette Armanet, who had taxed one of his hits this summer as “filthy”. Connemara lakes.
“She sent me an email, very nice, where she apologizes, I replied a very nice email, I have no reason to blame her”, delivered the singer on European 1. Juliette Armanet, successful singer who fills the halls in the wake of her latest album “Brûler le feu”, had crushed Connemara lakes in the Belgian online media Tipik at the beginning of August.
Sardou will go back on stage for a last round
Asked about the idea she has of three repellent songs in the evening, the interpreter of “Last day of disco” had tackled: “Three times Les Lacs du Connemara, I think (…) It’s really a song that deeply disgusts me. The scout, sectarian side, the music is filthy… It’s from the right, nothing is going well”. “It’s not worth starting a ridiculous controversy,” concluded Michel Sardou on Europe 1, while the singer’s words fueled conversations and talk shows this summer.
“Michel Sardou is simply France. The idol of many generations, a singer with a strong character and who assumes himself. Difficult to swallow for the well-meaning! “, had posted on social networks Eric Ciotti, boss of LR. Who moreover entered the scene to the sound of Connemara Lakes Sunday for his political return to Le Cannet in the Alpes-Maritimes.
While the singer said to stop the song to devote himself to the theater, he announced his comeback behind a microphone at the end of 2022 in The Parisian. At 76, he offers himself an XXL tour which promises to attract crowds. His tour will begin on October 3 in Rouen to stretch until March 2024.