Chantal Goya has often been belittled for her songs considered silly and her childish audience. But how does the 83-year-old star react to these sometimes cruel criticisms?
Chantal Goya has often been mocked during her career. Some did not hesitate to criticize the apparent lightness of his hits such as Pandi Panda Or A rabbit and criticized it for primarily reaching a child audience. But was the singer, now 83, hurt by the criticism?
Chantal Goya, called a “cunt”: “It doesn’t matter…”
The interpreter of Bouba the little bear knows that she alienated a part of the public who considered her stupid, during her career. But the one who has been in a relationship with Jean-Jacques Debout for several decades never let the mockery get to her, however numerous they were. “I had an audience! So, I said to myself: ‘The poor people, they don’t understand but it doesn’t matter, when they have a child, they will come and see me‘”, she told Christophe Beaugrand on M Radio.
And if she was even called “cunt“During her career, Chantal Goya knows exactly how to respond to these insults.”It doesn’t matter, now there’s an ‘i’ in front and it’s ‘icon’‘”, she blurted, causing the host to laugh.
Chantal Goya, belittled by criticism: “We have the right to do what we want”
But it is not only the public who denigrated the work of the singer, who was also an actress in the 60s and 70s. Part of the showbiz and the critics did not hesitate to demean her, not understanding how she could act in a Jean-Luc Godard film, in this case Masculine feminine (in 1966), then go on stage dressing up as a fairy to sing in front of an audience of children.
“I remember that at the time, when I won an acting prize with Godard in Masculin feminine, the great intellectual journalists absolutely did not understand how I went from Godard to Bécassine. For them, it was a bad word! They said: ‘But what is she doing? She who plays so well‘”, remembered the octogenarian, who never gave up: “We have the right to do what we want“.
And to conclude: “I am very happy to have been there with the children. And they are not an easy audience. If we don’t interest them, they all talk together and that’s it, we no longer have them on hand. We have to captivate them“. In any case, the mockery does not prevent Chantal Goya from filling the rooms, even today, since the former children’s idol recently launched her “50 years of love” tour.
