Camélia Jordana in December 2020 in Paris -

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Camélia Jordana is not afraid to go there frankly and it does not always please.

The former candidate for

Nouvelle Star

spoke during an interview with

L'Obs

this Friday to talk about her next double album

Facile

, which will be released on January 29.

Openly feminist, the singer tells the genesis of the song

If I was a man

, which was created following an assault she experienced.

On a scooter, a taxi blocked by traffic jams hit her with his car.

“I went downstairs, looked at him, taken aback, and he allowed himself to yell at me.

I was furious when I got to the studio and asked myself: if I had been a 2 meter tall guy would this man have allowed himself to ride a scooter and scream?

She asked herself.

"White men responsible for all the evils of the earth"

I wrote this sentence: "If I were a man", and the rest of the song was released in 10 minutes, "she continues before referring to the song

Les boys which

she describes as" declaration of love. to men ".

“All of these songs say that if I were a man, I would ask forgiveness, I would question fears, and I would take the time to question myself.

Because white men are, in the collective unconscious, responsible for all the evils of the earth, ”she said.

Words that made the Licra react on Twitter.

The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism relayed the screenshot of this quote and captioned: "Unconscious statement", before retweeting: "Read Le Droit de Vivre, the universalist, anti-racist and anti-sexist magazine which prefers the consciousness to the unconscious ”.

📢Read Le Droit de Vivre, the universalist 🌍, anti-racist 👥 and anti-sexist👫 magazine which prefers consciousness to the unconscious >>> https://t.co/VmbsCHDQ6P pic.twitter.com/Zt7majSLX1

- The DDV - Universalist review (@Le_DDV) January 14, 2021

At the end of May, the singer had created a controversy for his remarks on the police.

She said that "men and women who go to work every morning in the suburbs (... are massacred for no other reason than their skin color". Comments which had been qualified as "false and shameful" by Christophe Castaner, then Minister of the Interior.

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