Asked by The Parisian on the gesture of the candidate, the last French singer to have won the competition in 1977 considers that she is “obviously” a bad loser.
The hand gesture addressed by La Zarra to the camera at the time of the allocation of Eurovision 2023 points, and which agitates social networks, greatly displeased Marie Myriam, the last French singer to have won the competition in 1977 .
“This gesture of La Zarra at the end of the evening because she did not win, it is really shocking”, she estimated Sunday in the columns of the Parisian. La Zarra, however, clarified that it was not a middle finger, but a “gesture of disappointment”.
“I am extremely disappointed”
“Watch the video, it’s a middle finger! And it has been seen by nearly 200,000 million viewers. What a shame! I’m extremely disappointed because it’s just not possible,” lamented Marie Myriam, before adding:
“She made this gesture sitting in an armchair with French flags behind her. France does not deserve this! She justifies herself by saying that this gesture expresses disappointment in Moroccan culture, but it will start a racist controversy which we do not really don’t need…”
And to conclude on the subject: “I know exactly the stress we feel before singing, when we count the points, the tension which rises… But nothing explains that we slip!”
“Grey in his image”
According to Marie Myriam, La Zarra is “obviously” a bad loser: “Perhaps we should have explained to her that she was not sure of arriving first. It’s the principle of a competition. If we don’t want don’t lose, we don’t participate!”
“By expressing her dissatisfaction, her disappointment, with this vulgar gesture, she put gray on her image, she who was all sunny with this red, this black, her magnificent hat”, still regrets Marie Myriam.
For her, “La Zarra’s gesture remains exceptional”: “It should not hide the fact that all the other candidates behaved very well. Eurovision is a competition and she was the only one to react like that.”
France finished in 16th place in the standings. Saturday morning, the singer was 6th in the top bookmakers. She refuses for the moment to analyze this failure: “There are other things surrounding Eurovision that are beyond my understanding.”
