From our particular correspondent in Vienna (Austria),
Each time we encountered Monroe, Paris, Amsterdam or Vienna throughout his marathon forEurovision 2026the younger 17-year-old artist has at all times been sunny. When she arrived within the press room, through the evening from Saturday to Sunday, after finishing in 11th place, for France, in the final of the seventieth version of the competitors, it was there once more with a smile.
Nothing on her face confirmed attainable disappointment whereas the bookmakers nonetheless positioned her among the many favorites for the trophy initially of the week. Going through the journalists, the one who interpreter Look at ! mentioned she was “very proud”. “We gave every thing on this stage,” she reacted hotly.
She lived “a loopy journey” throughout which she “had numerous enjoyable” and “labored very laborious”. Monroe can console herself with one satisfaction: she got here fourth within the votes of the skilled juries who awarded her 144 factors. The general public was a lot much less beneficiant: with 14 small factors, she got here in eighteenth place within the televote. Disenchanted? “No, no, it’s okay. I’m proud of what we shared,” she insists.
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A priori, she doesn’t plan to take a trip immediately. She says she is “trying ahead to persevering with to make music.” A tour of church buildings is on his agenda beginning this fall. However, within the meantime, his precedence is “to go eat at McDonald’s with (his) crew”. This reassures us in regards to the carefree nature of his 17 years.
At her aspect, the top of delegation Alexandra Redde-Amiel salutes the humility of Monroe for whom she predicts “an incredible profession”. “On the exit of the inexperienced room (the house the place the candidates have been put in through the announcement of the factors), everybody advised her that she is “wonderful” (sensational). I imagine there’s something about her that’s larger than Eurovision, that can proceed to develop.” And he or she intends “to not let go”.
The top of delegation considers this eleventh French place “honorable”: “The very first thing Monroe mentioned was: ‘Thanks for making me expertise all of this.’ She is an instance for immediately’s youth. » And Alexandra Redde-Amiel emphasizes that {the teenager} enters the historical past of the competitors in her personal method by being the final minor candidate to have been within the operating for Eurovision. “From subsequent 12 months the principles change, you’ll have to be of authorized age to take part.”
