The year 2020 will definitely never be a year like any other, but it may still have its summer hit. In any case, this is what the Wejdene phenomenon foreshadows. At the end of May, Anissa , the clip of a complete stranger (or almost), is posted on YouTube. To date, the video already has more than seven million views.
If everything is going faster in the age of social networks, we must recognize that Wejdene strikes hard and fast. The reasons for success? A Tik Tok challenge, a story of deception (and dirty underpants), and a good swig of self-deprecation.
A story of cousins
The song Anissa is the story of a girl, Wejdene, whose age we will probably never know since she does not want to give it. Maybe she is 20 years old? Maybe she has 55? We don't know… Anyway, Wejdene is a young singer from La Courneuve who has already released two titles, J'attends last December, and J'peux dead in February, in which we understand that she is no longer with her boyfriend but in fact she regrets. But the big question is: is this the same boy as in Anissa ?
Because in this song with R'n'B tones that hits the mark, she drops a guy with questionable hygiene (we will come back to this later), who cheated on her with a girl (who is called Anissa). "The two of us are done," she said to the guy. And who is Anissa? Wejdene's cousin. "She's my real cousin," she said, laughing at the Parisian . I haven't spoken to her since I discovered that my ex-boyfriend cheated on me with her. I don't know if she heard it. If so, so much the better. "
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The fact remains that the song was a phenomenal success on Tik Tok, where the users had fun doing choreographies on Wejdene's lyrics. A challenge that has been relayed more than 100,000 times by nearly 900,000 users of the social network, and gave a big boost to Anissa .
"You out of my sight"
Why such a success ? Probably because Internet users appreciate the openness of Wejdene, but also the somewhat WTF character of the song and its own way of telling its story. "You take your dirty pants and you out of my sight / You have no principles, I swear on my life / Cheating on me with my cousin, but you have no values", she sings in particular . Already, beyond the story with the cousin who is downright borderline, Wejdene should never have tolerated dirty underwear. Nobody deserves that. And we want to tell him, too bad for his cousin who ends up with a guy who smells like undergrowth.
Some will have noticed some syntax problems: "You out of my sight". Well know that Wejdene does not care, and even prefers to laugh. “And the quirky side, with the journalist of the clip who tells me that I don't speak French, it's voluntary. It's my way of anticipating criticism!, She explains. The singer had to learn from Aya Nakamura (to whom she is already compared), who spent the first six months after Djadja's success , having to justify taking liberties with the French language. Bad news for the haters, the "you out of my sight" is already a classic, and may resonate all summer in weddings (in small groups) and discos (if they reopen one day).
Heady words, life lesson (beware of your cousins), and sense of humor, Wejdene ticks a lot of boxes to ensure a great success. Ultimate proof of the singer's potential? Jul himself fell for Anissa by posting part of the clip in an Insta story. Some already cherish the hope of a feat between the two artists ... Who will also be a hit of the summer? Case to follow.
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