Louis-José Houde has hosted the Adisq Gala for 17 years. His animation is older than my tall teenager. And yet he manages to amaze us every year. To put the finger on the bobo. And this year he hit the nail on the head when he denounced the terrible scourge of viewers filming performances with their @#$%?%$#$%?%$ cellphones, an act of idiocy and stupidity, more phenomenal Egoism.
When he said of this stupid practice, “It’s scary how comfy we basements are,” I applauded from my living room! We can’t say it enough: It makes everyone sick when you’re brandishing your phone smarter than you to film a crooked image of a show.
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Even though I find the galas dated when it’s ADISQ’s turn, I’m not complaining, I want more! We performed a miracle: bringing generations together by bringing together Lisa Leblanc and Edith Butler, Ginette Reno and FouKi (despite the slip), and all of Quebec participated in a real karaoke with Bruno Pelletier and Mario Pelchat! Bring such galas with you!
On the other hand, did you notice one thing: the many young (and not so young) artists who sang last night and whose lyrics we didn’t understand? They went to the same school of “non-articulation” as young actors.
Speaking of the connection between generations, my heart ached when Marie-Annick Lépine pointed out that the Cowboys Fringants have been around for 26 years. Where have those years gone? It seems to me that only yesterday they were considered the next generation!
I saw the gala yesterday and thought of the depressing numbers that ADISQ Director General Eve Paré recently recalled in the media. She complained in Le Soleil that the proportion of French-speaking Quebec artists on streaming platforms is anemic.
“Before, half of the records sold were from Quebec artists. Today, the share of Quebec artists in streaming is 5%.
Losing PQ candidate Pierre Nantel summed up what I was thinking very well on Twitter: “I hope that with all this talent and all this professionalism, the sponsors Spotify and Amazon Music realize that Quebec is not just ‘another’. northern province! That we’re not just another listener’s market.”
For this reason, I found it very touching that the gala shows us Patrice Michaud singing from the very first minutes, while many small children are jumping around everywhere. For them, we want Quebec songs to survive.
And that’s why I want to thank Bruno Pelletier for singing La Manic by Georges Dor, to remind the “under twenty” of the great song that preceded them.
I hope that fifty years from now we’ll still be singing, “Tell me what’s going on in Montreal / In the dirty back streets / Where you’re always prettiest / Because ugliness doesn’t concern you / Only I’ll love till death / my eternity »
