Saturday, May 13, La Zarra obtained the 16th place at Eurovision. The young woman was filmed performing a controversial gesture that shocked the singer Marie Myriam.
An event that music lovers did not want to miss under any circumstances. Saturday 13 May, the final of the 67th edition of Eurovision took place in the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool (England). At the end of an evening rich in emotions, it is Loreen, the Swedish candidate, who was crowned – once again – the big winner of the competition. In front of conquered viewers, the artist interpreted Tattooshis song released last February.
For La Zarra, the Quebec singer who represented France, the defeat was bitter. The young woman ended up 16th place, after obtaining a total of 104 points: 54 from the international jurors and 50 from the public. After the announcement of this score, she performed a gesture resembling a middle finger, which did not fail to revolt Internet users, many of whom reacted on social networks. The singer Mary Miriamwho had won Eurovision in 1977 with the title The Bird and the Childwas also shocked.
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Marie Myriam: “If we don’t want to lose, we don’t participate”
In the columns of ParisianMarie Myriam confided at length on this subject, this Sunday, May 14. “What a shame ! I am extremely disappointedbecause that is just not possible”reacted the 66-year-old Franco-Portuguese singer, deploring that such an inappropriate gesture was “seen by nearly 200,000 million viewers”. While recalling that La Zarra made this gesture by being “sitting in an armchair with French flags behind her”the one who is the last French artist to win Eurovision further held that “France does not deserve[ait] not that”.
During this interview granted to the regional daily, Marie Myriam estimated that La Zarra was a bad loser. She considered that by performing “this vulgar gesture”the young woman had “put gray on his imageshe who was all sunny with this red, this black, her magnificent hat”. And to assert: “Perhaps it should have been explained to her that she was not sure of arriving [la] first. […] If we don’t want to lose, we don’t participate.”
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Nevertheless, Marie Myriam said she appreciated the side “glamour” from La Zarrawhich she particularly likes costumes and clothes. “I am all the more disappointed and sad [de son comportement] that she had spoken a lot about me and said that when she was little, her mother sang to her ‘The Bird and the Child’she finally concluded with the Parisian. I had sent him a little message to support her.”