Alexis Patri 11:39 am, August 27, 2021
The singer Barbara Pravi, representative of France at Eurovision this year, presents Friday in "Media Culture" her album "We do not lock up the birds", released the same day.
She returns to her song "La femme" and the point she wanted to defend by writing and composing this song.
INTERVIEW
She had announced the name and the release date on Europe 1 during the summer. Singer Barbara Pravi, who made France dream last May at Eurovision, released her first album Friday,
We don't lock up the birds
. She presents it the same day at the microphone of Philippe Vandel in
Culture Médias.
The Eurovision finalist returned to the writing and composition of her song
La femme.
A song written a few years ago but presented for the first time to the general public thanks to this disc. "Who decided what the woman is?" asks the artist in the words of this track.
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A question that resonates with the news of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"They are not the only ones to decide what a woman is. Unfortunately," Barbara Pravi reminds the microphone of Europe 1. "It is a huge news on this subject. But the reality is that all days, all the time, in all countries, everyone decides and everyone has a say in what a woman is or should be. There are codes for everything, for everything. "
"When I'm in these codes, I want to hit myself!"
In
The Woman
, Barbara Pravi also sings to be fed up, that she is always asked who composes her melodies for her, which she always composes herself. "Of course, we are more astonished to see the success and the job well done of the girls than that of the men", she regrets. "And it's something that I apply to myself: I realize that I too, while I'm a chick, I'm also in these codes. When that happens to me, I have want to hit me! "
"It's really something I'm working on," adds the artist, who composes a new title each year on the occasion of the international day of struggle for women's rights, on March 8. "But when I have a man and a woman in front of me, I tend to tell myself that it is normal that it is the man who composed or wrote, rather than the woman. When it is completely. unfair."