Aya Nakamura has fun singing her detractors

Europe 1 with AFP // Credits: Bertrand GUAY / AFP 11:54 a.m., March 30, 2024

“I have no enemies, it’s them who don’t like me”: Aya Nakamura makes fun of her detractors in “Doggy”, a song released on Friday, without changing anything in her style, decried by the extreme right put off by the idea that she could sing at the Olympics. This song, extracts of which were leaked several years ago, was posted online on Friday on streaming platforms by the most listened to French-speaking singer in the world.

The music video for "Doggy" was also revealed, where we see the star ensuring that she is always ready for the "fiesta", always having the "cardio" for that, surrounded by friends. The release of this single comes in the midst of controversy over the singer's possible participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26. Never confirmed, this idea was put forward by L'Express magazine a few weeks ago. A hypothesis that neither the artist nor Emmanuel Macron, who would have discussed with her the possibility of a cover of an Edith Piaf song for the occasion, have confirmed. 

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This scenario makes the far right and the ultra-right bristle. "It's not a nice symbol, honestly, it's an additional provocation from Emmanuel Macron who has to get up every morning saying 'Hey, how am I going to succeed in humiliating the French people?'" , declared Marine Le Pen, president of the deputies of the National Rally, last week on France Inter. Previously, Marion Maréchal, head of the list for the European elections of the Reconquête party! by Eric Zemmour, said on BFM: "we like it or we don't like it, she doesn't sing in French". Aya Nakamura nevertheless mixes French and slang from the four corners of the planet.

“I feel like I introduced you to Edith Piaf”

“I have the impression that I introduced you to Edith Piaf and that she was reincarnated in me. The rest, whether they like us or not, is their back (file),” she laughed. artist in mid-March on his social networks. The Franco-Malian star born in Bamako 28 years ago, who grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois in the Paris region, experienced her first global success with her hit “Djadja” in 2018.

Aya Nakamura, who released her fourth album last year, "DNK", has since been playing in the league of the greats. At the end of 2022, the singer delivered an interactive show in Fortnite, a video game blockbuster fond of this kind of collaborations, a type of gateway reserved for global megastars like the American rapper Travis Scott or the Brazilian soccer star Neymar.