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rasoir-national · 3 years

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I’m really not a Eurovision person but my patriotic gesture this year will be to get snobby at everyone who compares Barbara Pravi to Edith Piaf (be it to praise or dismiss her) when her main influence, both in her writing style and musically, is obviously “The” Barbara :

Though she’s not as famous as Piaf abroad, she’s just as much of an institution here and one of the best songwriters ever. She wrote amazing song after amazing song and I really wish more people would listen to her music because she’s a badass I love her very much.

Here’s one she wrote about returning to the farm she had to hide in as a jewish kid during WWII

Here’s one about being molested by her father as a kid (it’s entirely metaphorical but still CW incest obviously)

Here’s one about finding out her father was on his death’s bead

Here’s a lighter one about having insomnia

And here’s one of my favourite, her telling off the mother of the man she loved who tried to keep him away from her

#eurovision #esc 2021 #personally i'm meh on Barbara Pravi's Voilà #she has a great voice but I don't feel the song is doing much beyond that #incest cw

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