Speeches, performances… The highlights of the Victoires de la musique 2020

Each ceremony has its share of key words and moments. The ceremony of the 35th Victories of Music which took place Friday at La Seine musical, in Boulogne-Billancourt, crowned Philippe Katerine and Clara Luciani best artists of the year 2019, and rewarded the album Âmes fifties by Alain Souchon and the song "C'est va, ça vient" by Vitaa and Slimane. But the prize list is not the only thing to remember from an event marked by the suppression of musical categories, against a background of controversy around a lack of diversity among the personalities named.

Philippe Katerine's costume

Without hesitation, the Victory for the most eccentric outfit went to Philippe Katerine for his song Stone avec toi . The song's hiss had adopted as a “boa” a string of blue plastic gloves inflated like balloons. And he slipped on his nose his inimitable glasses with a false nose in the shape of a penis, which recalls the cover of his album Confessions . All after arriving out of giant nostrils ... Crazy great art, which did not fail to inspire Internet users, some comparing the costume of Katerine to those of Mask Singer , others going as far as evoking the coronavirus .

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The singer, later crowned male artist of the year, also marked the audience with his speech, in which he asked for a fusion of the categories "male artist" and "female artist". "Hopefully one day we can play the same games together in the same yard!" ", did he declare. "There are lots of possibilities for categories, I don't know, the weight, the height, the drugged artists, the clean artists, the cholesterol level, the flat feet ... well, anything is possible!" "

Hoshi advocates "sincere love" with a kiss

Named in the category “Revelation scene”, the singer Hoshi interpreted her title Amour censure, in which she returns to the homophobic aggression of which she was victim more than six years ago. The performance was disrupted by a technical bug, which Hoshi calmly passed.

"Are we going to one day end / with hatred and insults? / Will someone come to tell them / that we love each other and that it is not unclean? Sang the artist energetically. While in the background, the soundtrack broadcast extracts of homophobic remarks, Hoshi ended his performance by kissing his partner, Gia Martinelli, live, to the applause of the public.

With "Amour censure", @HoshiOfficial denounces the fragility of universal love in our society ...

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The scene is a combat sport. Jeanne Added, Suzane and Aloïse Sauvage delivered three powerful stage performances. Suzane performed SLT , her anti-harassment title, with an “high kick”, an impressive high kick. Worthy of Bruce Lee in the movie The Dragon's Fury , which partly inspired the singer's suit.

Jeanne Added sang Mutate on a square inspired by a boxing ring, a sport she practices, as some "jabs" [direct punches given in a vacuum] have proven. The song ended in a very club atmosphere, where Jeanne Added was surrounded by dancers between sensuality and high energy.

Finally Aloïse Sauvage, former circus artist, played on the effects of weightlessness by bowing horizontally , like the title of her song, only retained by a rope hanging on her microphone.

When @AloiseSauvage told us that she was "horizontal", we didn't think she would end up levitating!

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History of A

Nice moment of emotion when the late Fred Chichin appeared on a giant screen, stalling the arrangement of a song. An archive image that contemplates for a few seconds from the scene, with a small tender smile, his ex-accomplice Catherine Ringer, before embarking on a small medley of Rita Mitsouko. Place aux Amants - song from the film Les Amants du pont-Neuf by Leos Carax. Follow The Stories of A and C'est comme ça from the cult album The No Comprendo (1986). On the electric guitar, under his long hair, Raoul Chichin the son of the couple revives the riffs chiseled by his father.

Maxime Le Forestier in the spotlight

There are not many of them who can boast of being able to get retired pensioner Jean-Jacques Goldman out of his media silence: Maxime Le Forestier is one of them and received a nice video message from "JJG" on the occasion of the presentation of his Victory of Honor. Trophy that the author of Né somewhere (distinguished male performer in 1996) was awarded by another great songwriter, Alain Souchon, accompanied by Vianney who took over San Francisco . "My strain, we have entered the age of integrals," said Maxime, 71, to Alain, 75. "Thank you for bringing me this trinket, charge of revenge!" "

Pagny's surprising speech

Florent Pagny, honorary president of the evening, launched into a rather unexpected inaugural speech retracing the evolution of the music industry since 1985, year of birth of the Victoires. Invention of the CD, stealthy appearance of the MP3 then domination of streaming, which he criticized the rate of retribution for artists. The ex-coach of The Voice ended by sharing his "vision": a future where each artist would be in touch with the public and would have his platform to broadcast his productions. And to conclude with a quick note for the people in the profession who had to start fussing in their seats: "Don't worry, record companies, we will always need to be accompanied ..."

Absent noticed

The PNL duo received a Victoire de la Création audiovisuelle for the clip of Au DD , shot on the Eiffel Tower. The award was hailed by their fans, especially since the two brothers are the only rap artists awarded this year. They were not present at the ceremony to collect their trophy, and the reason given by the presenter Julian Bugier made people react.

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# Victoires2020: it would have been good not to say "the two brothers were retained" but rather "PNL chose not to come in a ceremony that poses and narrow and condescending look on rap", for the sake of credibility. .

Hearings go up a bit

In 2019, the Victoires de la musique had gathered only 2.103 million viewers, the worst result of the decade for the ceremony and a loss of 30% compared to 2018. France 2 tried to revitalize this often long ceremony, by bringing in 13 star presenters alongside Daphné Bürki.

If the 35th ceremony remains far from the 3 million viewers of 2016, the audiences go up a little: 2.41 million people attended the retransmission until midnight 30, or 15.8% of audience share (PDA) on the general public.

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