Live reports from Liverpool • The reaction of de is making the rounds on the web The Zarra to the negative outcome of televotingwhich despite the presence of the rest of the world (and therefore also of Canada and Morocco, its lands of origin), brought to the French representative just 50 points: the artist is clearly seen at first doing the middle fingerat the time of the announcement and subsequently leave the arena.
A complex situation, that of the French artist, targeted by the national media – especially the newspaper Le Parisien – for having deserted the live performance at the Amsterdam Eurovision in Concert: according to the French newspaper, the artist would have complained about the hotel room saying he found it dirty and had to clean it.
A reconstruction not confirmed by the rest of the French press, but which nonetheless marked the path towards Eurovision de The Zarrawhich he has not released since no interview and also in Liverpool he spoke only with the BBC, the official site and briefly with the French media.
Eurovision 2023, Zarra justifies the middle finger
The artist, hot, tried to justify his gesture by speaking to rtl extension explaining that:
It’s not a negative gesture, on the contrary, it’s just a gesture of disappointment that we use between friends. I should have understood earlier that abroad it can be considered another type of gesture
More or less similar words he used them on Instagram where in a story he thanked for the support returning to the story that is making the rounds in the international media:
It is a gesture of disappointment that we could translate as “What the hell” or “That’s how it went”, it is absolutely not a vulgar gesture, it is in no way a middle finger and I apologize if this has been misinterpreted, there is no it was no intention on my part to shock or provoke.
In the meantime, however, the first to dissociate were the French fans who responded in kind to the Canadian artist, also because those who contested them alsoearly exithe replied of “going to the bathroom, then coming back“.
The question does not seem destined to end here because the french tvs they were already yesterday evening dissociating en bloc from the gesture and from the behavior of the artist: there is no doubt that beyond the Alps the disappointment is very much and that sixteenth place is a great setback for TV, which had canceled the selection to bet everything on the rising star of French-speaking pop, but it is clear that such a reaction puts the whole France Télèvisions.
Waiting for one now official answer of the issuer – assuming he wants to give publicly and does not prefer instead to let the matter settle – but the French press in Liverpool leaked that the TV, in great difficulty in managing the artist, would not have not at all welcome.
Certainly something will have to happen, also in consideration of the fact that in November, it will be up to them to organize it Junior Eurovision in Nice.
