Nouvelle Star: Do I quit watching now?

OK, I have a whole weekend in Berlin for this to get my head around, but I don't even know how to begin doing that for this format. It sure was fun, though, but I think it was more than that, too. Monstrous fun, no doubt, but I'll try and quit boring you with that one.

But I did just want to say for whatever anglophone reader who crosses this page and lives in France and just watched the extremely tragique cut to 10 from 13 on La Nouvelle Star: aren't you just a little bit PISSED OFF?! And doesn't it scare you that in this country of France, which is just getting ready to have presidential elections, ALL FOUR of the candidates who were not chosen by the paying texto-sending customers of the show were people of color?!?! One of them sang like shit tonight, but each of the three others was fucking fantastic. The jury got to save one of the candidates. And I'm a faggot who likes Marianne James, as I said before, but now I'm also a non-voting citizen of some yet to be defined place that likes her, too, since she fucking called the French racist to their noses. "Funny how much color we have on the faces of these brilliant singers." Or something to that effect. She also mocked the television station that pays her: the show's hostess kept telling the jury to hurry up, and MJ's comment was "What, for some commercials? It's not like you're getting ready to broadcast any Marguerite Duras." I love MJ. But, boy, I sure am disturbed about the idea of living under a quasi-fascist in a country with a television public that votes like they did tonight. Titi thinks that the jury, who had given high ratings to three of the people left out by the public, should just up and quit. That could do that, or they could inflict live  and violent non-physical punishment next week on candidates who didn't deserve to make the cut. That would make for better spectacle, for sure.

Comments

[jennie]

but? johnny depp lives there, so that's a plus.

[wilma]

yeah, i guess that is at least one perk. it's also much closer to berlin than nyc is, not to mention the unspeakably far san francisco.

[Titi de Paris]

So Marianne James didn't quit after all, which I guess is fine. Tonight (we're in between the two electoral rounds of the French presidential election, with socialist Ségolène Royal trying to win over right-wing nasty Nicolas Sarkozy) before the end of the voting period of the show, she reminded the public that it was up for them to vote, and then went on adding "and in real life too" and proceeded to turn to the lady-presenter and exclaimed "and do I see pink in your dress!?," a much less subtle call to vote for Ségolène than the "neutral" position of the center-right-leaning-towards-the-left third contender in the election. As Wilma and I both exclaimed: "We do love Marianne James." And by the (important) way, Ségolène Royal was on TV tonight, and I have to say: she was great!!! And I had doubts about that a few months ago (and even last Sunday when she gave a rather disappointing talk after learning that she was on for the second round).