Excluded. Kevin (Remember the lyrics) reacts to the controversy over his mistake during the 2022 Masters round of 32

The rule of Do not forget the lyrics ! couldn’t be more basic: when the music stops, you have to continue the lyrics of the song. It is still necessary that there is consensus on the words to pronounce. The 2022 edition of the Masters has already been going on since October 21. This Friday, November 11 saw the return of two former champions: Baptist29th in the standings, and Kevincurrently number 3, winner of the competition in 2019. If Baptiste won the second round and qualified for the round of 16 where he will face Natasha, Kevin had won the first round. He was thus able to sing to hope to win €20,000.

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When choosing the piece, the candidate did not hesitate for long and opted for your legacy by Benjamin Biolay. He then seemed to have mastered the title perfectly and blocked out the lyrics “The sun on the terrace and the moon under the wind“. But amazement in Nagui’s game: the production refuses his words and drops it to €0the expected text being “under the awning” and no “downwind“. Except that Internet users quickly noted that no trace of this “awning” in the lyrics were available on the Internet…

“I ruminated during the whole match”

Asked by Tele-Leisure, Kevin confided in his feelings following this missed final. “That’s what frustrates me more than the defeat. For once, this song was close to my heart, I knew it well, I was super happy to come across it. In theory, I know it by heart. I’ve always sung ‘downwind’. The other Maestros would also have said like me.“A situation which he believes probably affected his concentration and his loss in the following round.”The show after I was not well” he confided to us. “Afterwards, impossible to say if in another state of mind I would have succeeded in the theme ‘It’s the same song’. But in the break between the two shows, when I saw that I was falling to zero on that, I was not well and on the way back I was ruminating throughout the match“, ponders the student of statistics.

“I was disgusted”

Remember that the lyrics validated in the program are those that the publishers deposit with Sacem (Society of authors, composers and music publishers). “We do not have access to the texts of the Sacem“, deplores Kevin. And to continue: “So if there’s a disagreement, they’re the ones with the official lyrics. I was disgusted, but I couldn’t have known. We have to trust what we hear, what we read and nowhere did I find the expected lyrics. you can’t do much“, he concedes.