"You get up, and you jostle me, I'm not pretending to do anything, as usual ..." This Tuesday, Barbara Pravi took advantage of the traditional "carte blanche" left to the personalities invited to
Boomerang
on France Inter to deliver her proofreading of
As
usual
.
The singer took liberties with this classic of Claude François' repertoire by partially rewriting the text in order to give the female point of view.
In the original version, the singer told in the first person his couple in crisis trying to keep appearances.
Under the pen of Barbara Pravi, the companion confides her weariness and her disgust ("Your hand strokes my hair, but it's in spite of me. (...) All alone, you drink your coffee, I can't wait for you to leave, like usual ”) and saw the departure of the other as a liberation (“ All day long, I would no longer have to pretend… ”)
"I said to myself:" She is the one who is going to leave ""
“I love this title.
I listened to the song a lot and I thought it was really hard on the girl in the story.
I said to myself: "Well no, she's going to leave," "Barbara Pravi explained to Augustin Trapenard before singing, accompanied on the piano by Agnès Imbault.
Its resumption ends with a definitive "More usual", synonymous with effective separation.
This is far from the first time that the artist, who will represent France at Eurovision on May 22, has resumed, in his own way, a musical success.
She previously offered a female version
of Pretto's Eddy's
Kid
and turned
Orelsan's
Note Too Late
into a feminist anthem.
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