“So !” The meeting is presented as fortuitous but it remains no less symbolic. In a video broadcast Monday on social networks, Aya Nakamura appears with Brigitte Macron. The internationally successful singer and wife of Emmanuel Macron pose all smiles in a restaurant alongside Hélène Mercier-Arnault, the wife of Bernard Arnault, the first fortune in France. Swaying framing, pieces of ambient sound, shots of the dishes served and essential filters that add blush… Nothing is missing. Not even the little comment from the singer who is delighted to be “with the girls… so beautiful… There you go”.
According to TF1, the singer and Emmanuel Macron’s wife did not dine together but met at the end of their respective meals for this little impromptu Snap session.
The video, however, occurs in a very specific context. The most popular French-speaking singer in the world is expected to sing Edith Piaf during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26. Nothing is official yet but Aya Nakamura is having fun with this rumor. Two days ago, she posted a video of herself wearing the wig of the singer from La Vie en rose. As a new indicator of his participation and, certainly, as a new piece in the controversy machine.
On February 19, the singer was received at the Élysée by Emmanuel Macron and the idea of her participation in the Olympics ceremony made noise, notably in L’Express. Almost immediately, pro and anti-Nakamura fought to defend or condemn the idea. Far from putting an end to the controversy, Emmanuel Macron himself felt that “it has its place”. An opinion far from being shared on the far right: “It’s an additional provocation from Emmanuel Macron,” Marine Le Pen declared at France Inter. She doesn’t sing French, she doesn’t sing foreign either. It’s not crossbreeding, it’s nonsense (…) That it represents France, that displeases me. »
Several public figures still gave their support such as K.Maro, the interpreter of Femme Like U: “I am 1000% behind her, and she has all my support,” he declared to France Info. Or the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games of France, Amélie Oudéa Castera who took up, on the camera of C à vous, the tune of Djadja emphasizing “there is rhythm, there is vitality” . “These attacks have no place in our country in any way.”