Well-known Albanian singer Aurela Gaçe has reacted on her social media accounts to posters put up in different parts of Tirana calling for her music and concerts to be boycotted.
During this “peak” period for all Albanian singers, Aurela had also announced that she would be in Shkodër to open the summer season. Following that announcement, the reaction of Albanians on social media was strong precisely because of the timing chosen, while protests against the government are being held every day in front of the prime minister’s office.
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The singer has a long response for them, in which she in no way accepts their claim. She even stresses that she stands with the protesters, also pointing out the dates when she has been at protests, while in the end she closes by expressing her dilemma about the future of her children. Naturally, she does not hide reality, revealing that her close family members are abroad, while she has to help her parents live because of the insufficient pensions provided by the Albanian state.
Full post:
“Yesterday, friends were sending me such a post, where I was being declared an ‘Enemy’ by someone who thinks or believes that she loves Albania more than I do. I have taken part in protests since I was a student, including over Chemical Weapons, and I have protested with my whole being, even through very strong song lyrics, something I am sure the girl in question may not know.
In fact, she may not know that I have also been in the square alongside my people even now (with the exact date from my archive). I have reacted several times in my own way through this window of mine, but apparently this lady does not like it.
1 – No one can tell me or dictate to me how to love my country.
2: If you complain about dictatorship, then why do you yourself dictate how we should behave? Is this not violence too?
This clearly shows me that if you gain power in the future, you will trample me underfoot.
I have many reasons why I feel I should protest.
I live here and I know very well the heavy burden an Albanian carries on their shoulders.
I know it because I fight for everything myself.
I have chosen to work honestly so that tomorrow I can look at myself in the mirror and not be ashamed. To some colleagues I may have seemed foolish, but my dignity is far more precious to me.
I am the daughter of this people and I stand by my people, who for so many years have been dragged along just to earn bread, to pay rent, to get treated at hospital doors (I too have parents and relatives, and of course I am also a person who tomorrow may face anything).
I am the daughter of two pensioners who have certainly worked honestly like every Albanian, and today they cannot make it without the help of their children, and no one can deny that to me. I am the sister of a brother and a sister who have left, and the mother of two children for whom I naturally have the dilemmas of every parent about the future (which I fear I do not see here).
It would be a long list if I were to list the reasons why I protest. The people are not happy, and again no one can deny that to me. But when I see that you use verbal violence against someone who does not act like you, it shows how violent people can become.
