On February 11, the Victoires de la Musique will take place. To everyone’s surprise, Grand Corps Malade received no nominations. He reacts.
In a few weeks, Laury Thilleman and Olivier Minne will present the Victoires de la Musique from the musical Seine. Many artists will find themselves on stage to hope to win a reward for their work provided in 2021. Among those absent from this exceptional evening, Grand Corps Malade. The singer was not nominated in any category. Outrage for Cyril Hanouna, who invites viewers to boycott the event. “We will tell the truth. Absent from the list, the biggest record seller: Grand Corps Malade, absent from the Victoires de la Musique. If there is no shenanigans! I ask everyone to boycott this nameless shit, it’s a hoax, it’s a huge charade. It is shameful“, protested the host of Do not touch My TV. Guest of Philippe Vandel in Media culture on Europe 1 this Friday, January 14, the artist reacts to this scandal.
Grand Corps Malade expresses its disappointment
Grand Corps Malade does not hide being “disappointed“after working so hard over the past few months.”After the year that we had, we are in the best sales of albums. We have a tour, which we have already started. We do more than forty Zeniths. We have a Bercy open“, he confides. Success is clearly there for the slammer: “It’s kinda our year“So in a way, he understands the C8 star’s annoyance.”That year, to be completely absent, not even to be named in any category, we were disappointed, it’s true“, he declares.
Grand Corps Malade contests the defense of the Victoires de la Musique
According to the Association des Victoires de la Musique, his album would be “out of date“since it was released in September 2020. Nevertheless, Grand Corps Malade and its producer refute this argument.”What they said is wrong“, he announces before developing: “It is not because my album was released in 2020 that I cannot be nominated this year, since the proof, Julien Doré, who released his album at the same time as me, there he is nominated in (the category) Artist of the year. Their argument does not hold“. He specifies all the same that indeed, he cannot be named in the category Album of the year since his opus ladies has been on sale for too long. But his concerts are taking place at the moment and other titles have since been released: “I can very well be in Tour of the year, in Artist of the year“. The artist insists, he has nothing against this ceremony, despite the delicate situation in which he finds himself: “I don’t want to boycott. Go see the music victories. There are plenty of fine artists.“