The coronavirus sets its pace. The coronavirus inspires songs that proliferate on video or streaming platforms and all genres are represented, with more or less tasteful titles, which find a spectacular or confidential audience.
The Dominican musician Yofrangel, established, thus accumulates more than 2.8 million views on YouTube with Coronavirus , clip posted on February 9. The singer, lying on the stretcher of an ambulance, begins by coughing on a Latin tempo taken to the extreme, before intoning in Spanish "Watch out, here is the coronavirus".
Far from this production which benefited from an honorable budget, there is also the Sega Coronavirus , shot with the means at hand on the Reunion Island. We see the unknown JF Aubin dancing in a checkered shirt or sitting on a hospital bed, protective mask on his head. The lyrics, in Reunion Creole, give in the prevention register: "A little virus that we barely see is bothering us / A simple touch a simple cough (a simple cough) can kill you / The coronavirus has landed, you have to protect yourself ”.
The principle of the "short circuit" appeals to artists
On streaming platforms, it's the deluge. There are songs released alone like La cumbia del coronavirus , by Mister Cumbia or playlists that bring together songs from famous artists, echoing the pandemic, like Temperature by Sean Paul, Hot N cold by Katy Perry or Don ' t Coldplay Panic .
Most of the countless original titles created around the Covid-19 are the work of "illustrious strangers, not necessarily artists" and do not "pass the ramp", as Bertrand Dicale, a music journalist says. But rather than knowing if some will remain in time, "what is interesting" is that the platforms allow a "short circuit, from producer to consumer". "These homemade pieces are available to everyone, visible," he explains.
Bertrand Dicale sees this as “the ability of the people to create a song or a slogan, around a significant event”. During the Fronde - unrest that broke out in France between 1648 and 1653 during the regency of Anne of Austria and the ministry of Cardinal Mazarin - "there are over 5,000 printed mazarinades", or pamphlets hostile to the statesman , he reminds.
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This catch of "popular speech", in one form or another, punctuates history, he adds. This collector of versions of the Marseillaise also points out that just a few months after the original version, an alternative "bachique saw the light of day with words like" The day of drinking has arrived "".
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