Barely believable words. The musical columnist and press officer Fabien Lecoeuvre drew the wrath of Internet users on Wednesday by describing the singer Hoshi as “scary”. The 62-year-old was speaking on the Arts-Mada webradio.
Posted on Twitter, the footage has been viewed over 600,000 times. We can hear the former presenter of the Years of happiness lament the lack of “sublime girls” making a career in song. He then cites the example of Hoshi, the interpreter of the hit Your striped sweater. “Do you put a Hoshi poster in your bedroom?” He asks the show host, who responds with a smile.
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Fabien Lecoeuvre goes even further and even suggests to the 24-year-old artist to “give[r] his songs to sublime girls “. The main interested party was quick to react.” So serious to hold this kind of thing, “she wrote on Twitter, denouncing a” patriarchal response “.
Awkward apologies
She has received the support of many Internet users and personalities, including the singers Coeur de pirate and Lola Dubini. “How can we let that be said! It’s misogynistic, sexist and purely subjective. It’s shameful!”, Also condemned the artist Victoria Sio.
Faced with the controversy aroused, Michel Polnareff’s press attaché tried to apologize by evoking “awkward remarks taken out of context”. He justified himself on Twitter by assuring that he wanted to relate “a difference from the time when record companies and audiences paid much more attention to the physique of artists than today”.
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His answer did not convince Hoshi, also known as Mathilde Gerner. “It’s because of people like you that young people give up their dreams, not because of the record companies,” she replied. His album Sleep rising sold 200,000 copies.
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