Feminism, ecology, pension reform … Guest of BFMTV this Wednesday, the singer spoke on various social issues.
“It’s not a century that I appreciate”. Invited this Wednesday from BFMTV, Michel Sardou persists and signs: the current era does not suit him. However, the singer rejects the somewhat reactionary image that has stuck with him since an interview with RTL in 2019:
“I hate that time,” he said. “We no longer have any freedom. Remember the 70s and 80s: we smoked, we made love, we drove fast, we could drink, the theater was good, business was good… Now everything is networks ridiculous social (…).”
Words that he qualifies today. “Everyone says it was better before… but it wasn’t better before: there were strikes, war, a lot of political problems, a lot of parties getting in on their face…” , he explains.
“What we regret, in fact, is our youth,” he analyzes. “What we regret is that we were 20 years old. All that passed like a bad cloud, it disappeared. Whereas today, the 20-year-old guy has barriers.” And to conclude by saying that he is “not at all” nostalgic: “I don’t think it was better in the 1960s.”
Neither misogynist nor feminist
Michel Sardou has often been singled out for a rhyme, in particular, which he sings in his title cities of loneliness released in 1973: “I feel like raping women / forcing them to love me”. “All the crazy feminists said that I proposed to rape women; I never said that!”, He defends himself. “It’s a poor idiot who says that to himself in his suburban tower! There has always been this misunderstanding”.
“I’ve never been a misogynist, I’m not a feminist either. Feminists piss me off. MeToo, for example, is dangerous.”
“The brutality is intolerable, (but) the media tribunal, I don’t like it a bit. Now, that women defend themselves, have the same rights as men, can walk freely without getting their hands on their ass, yes!”
The pension reform was “poorly explained”
The singer also expressed his point of view on other hot topics, including ecology: “I think everyone is green. We don’t want to rot the world, to see these horrors (. ..) but on the other hand, I don’t make it a weapon of attack. I like ecology, but I don’t like political ecology.”
Finally, he spoke about the very controversial pension reform, and the discontent it generates: “I believe that this demonstration exists because things were badly explained from the start (…) we don’t understood nothing (…) there are so many exceptions, special cases that we no longer understand anything.
“I am a bit against this demonstration,” he concludes. “Not on the merits, because I think there has been a misunderstanding between the French people and the French government. But I am against paralyzing France (…) Paralyzing France at this time after having suffered the Covid, the yellow vests…”
