The provocation of Line Renaud

En full disco madness, Line Renaud returns to the front of the stage by adapting the success of Barry Manilow, “Copacabana”. The one who is not the favorite grandmother of the French, despite Thierry Le Luron’s recurring jokes about her age, multiplies the clichés linked to Brazil, but goes further in the B side. Passed unnoticed, the song “Bananas Island », a nice tropical hymn with neat brass instruments (thank you Loulou), is an invitation to travel to an imaginary island but with a very real subtext.

What can we see on this “Bananas Island” – an island in the Pacific does exist, but in the name of Banaba. We come across “tanned boys” who “walk under the banana trees”. Discomfort far from the Zambezi. “Bananas Island, paradise by day, aphrodisiac, is love”, cha…