Tayc: the lyrics of “When you sleep” are controversial, the song withdrawn

TAYC. The song “Quand tu dors”, taken from his album “Room 96”, was withdrawn by singer Tayc after a controversy born on Twitter.

[Mis à jour le 15 février 2023 à 10h07] “The song When you sleep is a big debate,” Tayc begins in a new message posted on Twitter, barely 24 hours after the release of his album. Room 96, released for Valentine’s Day. Tuesday, February 14, the day of the release of this record, a controversy arose on Twitter, many Internet users accusing the artist of advocating marital rape via the lyrics of this song. “Reason I have it [la chanson] Temporarily removed,” Tayc tweeted, explaining that he was going to “rewrite it as it should,” “so that it is much better understood by everyone,” before “taking it out in a few days.”

“Ok, imagine something, I’m coming home from work, you see? You’re already sleeping. And rather than waking up, I…”, sings the Marseillais in particular, or even “I beg you, sleep again, sleep again… Why tell you? Why warn? (…) It won’t take any effort from you.” Evocative words about an intimate relationship, during which the woman mentioned sleeps, which made Twitter jump: and consent in all this? On social networks, many Internet users accuse the artist of advocating marital rape. “Tayc deletes ‘when you sleep’, why are you romanticizing rape like that?”, Launches for example a user, when another adds: “What are these sounds of sexual aggressors there?”

Faced with this emerging controversy, Tayc quickly expressed himself on Twitter, just hours after the release of his album: “I see some inappropriate comments around the title When you sleep, he begins. For people who have not understood the meaning of the title, at no time is there any question of an intimate relationship without consent. It’s a couple. This woman is sleeping. Her man returns. Sees her. Wake her up. And decides to embellish their night.”, he insisted.

A justification that did not convince many people on Twitter, some pointing out the contradiction of this message with the lyrics of the song.