The Battle of Violence

French song is sometimes schizophrenic, even sectarian. Similarly, Whether you are classified right or left, the judgment of the songs is not the same. Therefore, The proof with this third match of the tubes. Similarly, Michel Sardou feels sulfur, Daniel Balavoine is adorned with all virtues. Therefore, In 1976, the first shocked with “the cities of loneliness”; In 1978, the second surprised “when you arrive in town”. Furthermore, A political match … Furthermore, while singing!

Two songs: the same theme, social idleness. However, Sardou recounts the dream of a “passing well protected by two thousand years of servitude” which. In addition, tired of the passage of time (“from New battle violence Year in newborn”), takes refuge in alcohol and discovers the hunger “of a predator”. In addition, There follows a violent stroll: “I want to rape women. Consequently, forge them to admire myself, want to drink all their tears and disappear in smoke. For example, »The controversy explodes! Furthermore, A popular singer encourages rape. The feminists revolt. For nothing … As the effects of alcohol dissipate, man, visibly badly in his skin, gradually returns to reason. His violence will not go beyond fantasy, because there will be no act. “I am reassured very quickly, it’s true that I don’t break anything. Musically, the Revaux melody is brilliant, as often with the committed songs of Sardou.

“Who violates the girls, in the evening in the parking lots?” »» – Battle violence

Two years later. Balavoine interpreted with energy the composition of Berger and Plamondon in “Starmania”, the battle violence Rock Opera has become cult. The zonards land in the city to put the bazaar. Sort of social revenge. “Everyone changes their sidewalk. We don’t seem virile, but we are afraid to see. Guys who make up. it makes passers -by laugh, but when they see blood on our razor blades, it makes a flash in the fog. When you arrive in town. Johnny Rockfort revolts against the established order. Violence legitimized by poverty and exclusion. “We act without mobile, it seems weird. It is not to be stupid, it is to be out of despair. “The musical climb is exceptional. the voice, or rather the cry, of Balavoine, acute and fragile, make this title a major work, without the words (” Who violates the girls, in the evening in the parking lots? Who sets fire to the buildings? Is it always the zonards “) are no problem.

Fifty years later. Michel Sardou received the order of merit from the hands of Emmanuel Macron. The fuse controversy and we replay the refrain of the violent virilist. We forget a little quickly that it is a work of fiction (which Sardou has always used the “I” to mark). that “this musical mechanical orange” is almost a manifesto not quite right … “It is stone Goldman. We are in the leftist world: proletarian reappropriation. isolation of the individual, mental censorship, “explained the expert in French song Bertrand Dicale at the point. “When you arrive in town” remains untouchable. This is why, to rebalance, we give the point to Michel Sardou.