"At one point, the voice also targets the Mbappé family -- "You'll sink your city like the Mbappés" -- in a reference to the 2024 takeover of Caen's soccer club by the striker's company Interconnected Ventures. Orelsan grew up in the Normandy city and is a longtime fan of the team, which was relegated to the third tier of French soccer last season."
"Mbappé took the lyric personally, accusing Orelsan of being two-faced. "You're welcome to come 'save' the city you love so much," the France captain wrote last week in a message on social media, adding in a postscript: "The guy kept begging us to join with 1% without paying a cent -- because he's broke -- just to look like the nice guy from Normandy.""
""I don't really feel like responding," Orelsan said. "I'm still in the heat of the moment, and I don't really want to talk about it. It's a misunderstanding. I think I just need to properly explain the concept of the album." Elaborating on the song's theme, Orelsan said: "These negative things form a kind of inner voice -- an inner critic -- that starts to eat away at me and only see the bad. It's a big theme of the album.""
Orelsan included a line in a track portraying an inner critical voice that referenced the Mbappé family and Caen's club takeover. Kylian Mbappé publicly reacted, accusing Orelsan of being two-faced and suggesting Orelsan had sought a token association without paying. Orelsan characterized the situation as a misunderstanding and declined to escalate the spat. Orelsan explained the song's theme as an inner critic that amplifies negative thoughts and attacks the artist, his family and fans. Orelsan grew up in Caen and is a longtime fan of the club, which was recently relegated to the third tier.
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