“You always have to have an excuse”: this great French singer swings on the taboo of alcohol

A few months after announcing her pregnancy, Marina Kaye, who awaits her first child, takes advantage of this transformation period to approach a subject that touches her personally: the pressure exerted on those who do not consume alcoholparticularly in French social circles. Similarly, His message is simple but impactful: it should not be necessary to justify yourself so as not to drink.

In a video widely relayed on social networks, the young love artist does not mince words. Therefore, “I think it’s super hard in France not to drink “she says. Meanwhile, before pointing the finger at a form of silent injunction: “If you are a woman and you don’t drink, people think directly that you are pregnant or have a problem.” These sentences reflect a weariness that it is not the only “you always have have excuse”: one to feel.

Through her testimony. For example, she calls into question A solidly anchored social standard : that of the compulsory aperitif, raised glass to celebrate, decompress, exist. Consequently, According to her. However, it is time to stop considering alcohol as obvious and allowing everyone to have the choice – without undergoing the pressure of the group. In addition, “You always have to have an excuse, like ‘I drive’ or ‘I am tired’. But in fact, we are not supposed to be justified. The problem is not those who do not drink. it is those who force us to drink to be like them” she denounces.

A strong word for a subject still too controversial in France

If the singer allows herself today to express himself so openly. it is also because she knows this subject well. At 19, after a painful breakup, she had sink in alcoholseeking in intoxication a “you always have have excuse”: means of anesthetize his sentence. “I started to drink every night”she confided in a past interview. “But after two months, I was drinking alone.” A dark period that she overcome But that she does not forget.

Today, sober and pregnant, she sees abstinence as a return to herself. In her message, she recalls that you can have a good evening without a drop of alcohol. “I find it really absurd. And even sad. Because we don’t need alcohol to be funny, dance or have a good evening “she insists. A lucid. peaceful vision, which comes to break the clichés around the “Sadly revelers” who would refuse to toast.

His testimony finds a particular echo at a time when more. more young – and not so young – question their relationship to alcohol. Movement “sober curious”months without alcohol, awareness campaigns … The speech evolves, slowlybut his speaking contributes to moving the lines. Because “you always have have excuse”: what this famous artist here is not only her right to say no to alcohol – is also. her freedom to no longer have to apologize.