Angèle, Hoshi, Eddy de Pretto… The new scene that sends sexual and gender norms flying Loading Loading Loading

During the 2020 edition of the Victoires de la Musique and as she ends her performance on the title "Amour censure", the singer Hoshi, in the running in the Stage Revelation category, kisses one of his dancers. The sequence will become viral, taken up by almost all the French media. Same thing more recently, when it is described as "frightening" by the columnist Fabien Lecoeuvre. Quickly, the remarks deemed misogynistic and retrograde of the former press attaché of artists such as Claude François or Chantal Goya are denounced by thousands of Internet users including this "new French-speaking scene", which places the cursor between the standards where good seems to him.

Diversity, trivialization and freedom

Because this "difference", if there is one because we are always "different" from someone, is a significant part of the identity of these artists who are no longer afraid or want to hide who they are. "I want to trivialize the fact that my homosexuality can only be a detail in who I am, like being a man, having a 'particular' style", assumes the singer Eddy De Pretto when asked to talk about his sexuality on the show C à Vous.

"I was borderline too hetero, just maybe to prove things to myself", remembers for her part the singer Apple, multi-awarded at the Victoires de la Musique in 2020 and 2021, interviewed on Canal + .

"I try to explain that you don't choose your sexual orientation, that you can be very feminine by being homosexual, or not, to make sure that there are fewer clichés around that" , pleads Suzane when she tells 20 Minutes how she wrote and composed the title "Anouchka" which appears on the album which revealed her.