“Several album sales” is not a sufficient criterion for participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, the festivals’ artistic director Thomas Jolly managed in response to DJ David Guetta, who was angry at not being invited.
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“Actually, we’re not creating an art movement with a lot of album sales,” Thomas Jolly told reporters during a meeting around the Olympics on Wednesday evening.
“I have nothing against David Guetta or anyone. I’m not here to offer my tastes (…) and David Gutta, quite simply, what he creates as art is not related to what we want to say.
The DJ with international flair was annoyed at not being asked to perform at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 26.
“If you have an answer, you’re going to give it to me. Because I don’t understand,” David Guetta told an AFP reporter before his concert at the Chateau de Chambord last weekend.
“I’m still 4th through 15th,” he insisted.
The delivery of this ceremony is always kept secret.
Nanny Nakamura, who has been in the limelight in recent weeks, will be dressed in Dior, according to a source close to the matter. According to Le Canard chainé, Céline Dion is expected, but her participation depends on her health.
Only about ten people know the exact scene of the 3:45 a.m. show, which starts at 7:30 p.m. and intends to “break the codes” by being held outside an arena, via the Seine, for the first time. Organizing board games.
Around 3,000 dancers, musicians, actors and circus performers will take over the banks and bridges along the six kilometer route, with 326,000 spectators expected.
6,000 to 7,000 athletes (out of a total of 10,500) will march in 85 boats.
More than a billion viewers can follow this unique show.
The festival’s soundtrack includes works by music director Victor Le Mazne, mixing pop, symphony orchestra, choirs and electro loops such as “French Touch”.
According to Thomas Jolly, he would also draw “other registers”, revealing nothing more than “France at the same time as July, Edith Piaf or Natalie Desse”.
