Blær suddenly gets up and, because she is also an actress, begins to explain the situation to us with great gestures in support: “We were brought up with examples of strong and cruel women in the sagas. Women beheading men, or throwing buckets of blood on their enemies saying: ‘Here, it’s your son’s that I just slaughtered!’ Here, we have always liked women with typically masculine strengths.”
Iceland, historical land of feminism, therefore. And a heritage that some women of character have no desire to tarnish.
Spectacular bursts
Blær is one of the eight rappers who make up the Daughters of Reykjavik – Reykjavíkurdætur, in original version [et “filles de Reykjavik” en français, d’après le nom de la capitale islandaise] –, a group with ever-increasing success internationally, with no limits in their lyrics and spectacular brilliance.
In bulk: during their first TV show, one of them asks the Prime Minister to come, we quote, “eat her pussy”, because annoyed to hear rappers say the same thing about their own attributes. Another poetically evokes the joys of sodomy (“You’re in the south of me/I’m in the South of France”) and all found themselves in their last music video claiming their right to do anything and everything. The title : Thirsty Whores [Thirsty Hoes en version originale]…
Rap without getting booed
It was clearly worth a meeting to redo history and, above all, scratch beyond their basic provocations. Steinunn welcomes us to her home in Reykjavik. She is a woman of infinite gentleness with her baby on her knees, far from the large format fighting goddess who harangues the crowds on stage.
Blær joins us, then Dísa arrives in turn, with impressive energy and a voice as volcanic as it is enchanting
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