The live format of the “Zénith” musical competition once once more gave the team cold sweats on Thursday, when the video in which singer Annie Villeneuve explained her strategy might not be broadcast due to a glitch. technical.
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We remember that on February 2, at the opening of the show, there was no sound. The host Véronique Cloutier had continued without knowing that we heard nothing of what she said at home. Radio-Canada had explained that a sound failure linked to an on-air error was in question.
This Thursday, it was less serious, of course, and Annie Villeneuve did not let herself be distracted by this glitch. She offered a solid performance with the piece “L’enfer”, by Stromae, which deals with suicide and which the Belgian artist had unveiled in a news bulletin in France.
Dressed all in white and surrounded by dancers in black costumes representing the thoughts that sometimes lead to committing the irreparable, the artist has gradually become stained with black soot – even in the face –, each time the dancers manhandled her or seized her to make her turn in the air. After her touching singing tour, Annie Villeneuve explained her approach, she who wants people who have dark thoughts to seek help.
She hit the mark with her performance, so much so that the Zs gave her a perfect score of 25 and the home crowd gave her the most votes, earning her an extra five points, for an overall total of 101 points (96 + 5), Annie Villeneuve, representative of the Y, slipped into the final where she will find Éléonore Lagacé of the Z. We will know the finalists of the X and the Boomers during the next two episodes of “Zénith” with a view to the final on April 13 on ICI Télé.
Thursday, Annie Villeneuve crossed swords with Matt Lang, Jason Roy Léveillée and Damien Robitaille, who were all eliminated at the end of the evening.
