Paula Hriscu, the performer of the song “Romania, proud plai”, used at the demonstrations for Călin Georgescu, asked Realitatea TV to stop broadcasting it: “I don't support any political color!”

The popular music performer Paula Hriscu (32 years old), the author of the song “Romania, prudu plai”, a song frequently used at the protests of AUR supporters and former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, sent a public message stating that she does not support any political party and that her song “was not sold to a political formation”.

The message was published on her Facebook and TikTok pages, after, according to the artist, a school in an area of ​​the country banned the song from being sung by students on December 1, on the grounds that it belonged to “a political color”.

Hriscu says he received it “a referral from a public figure, a teacher”, who would have wanted to teach the children the song for the National Day.

“The song was banned from being played after it was heard that this song was being prepared to be sung by children for December 1st. Why? Because the leadership of that area believes that this song belongs to a political color and that it was bought,” says the artist.

“The play is not bought by any political color and never will be”

In the video message, Paula Hriscu firmly rejects any political association: “The song “Romania, proud plai” is not bought by any political color and never will be! I do not support any political color, I have no connection with politics and I never will. I make music, I do not do politics. From my point of view, these two do not kiss and will never kiss.”

The artist adds that if she had wanted to publicly support someone, she would have done so explicitly: “If I had any intention of supporting any political color, I would definitely go online and support, like others did. But I didn't come out.”

Appearances on Realitatea TV: the artist says she did not know the political direction in which the piece would be used and that she asked to stop the broadcast

In the message published online, Paula Hriscu also talks about her presence at a television station, which she does not name, but where the song “Romania, proud plai” was broadcast frequently. The song was used especially by Realitatea TV, in shows in which supporters of Călin Georgescu and AUR appeared, and the artist says that at the time of the appearances, she did not know the editorial direction in which the song would be used.

Hriscu states that he accepted the song to be broadcast on that channel, but that he later decided not to allow it: “I left the song on that television channel… not knowing in which direction it would go, because they informed me of everything and everything else.”

The artist says that she went “live twice” on the station and that the discussions were exclusively about the song: “We talked strictly about the song, about its composition, where the inspiration came from. It was not mentioned for a second whether I support someone in particular or not.”

She states that she explicitly asked to stop the broadcast of the song, after noticing that it had become politically associated: “I was also the one who didn't want my song to be broadcast on that television anymore, because I saw that it had taken it in a direction that I didn't want it to be. I repeat, I don't do politics. I didn't know. If I wanted to, I would have gone online and supported something, but I didn't do that.”

The performer claims that, against the background of these interpretations, she also received aggressive comments: “I had gotten to hate… words that at one point scared me, ended up making me Russian or I don't know what.”

On the realitatea.net website, in February 2025, an interview with Paula Hrișcu was published under the title: “How was born the song Romania, Mândru Plai, which Romanians want the new national anthem. Paula Hrișcu, the composer and performer of the song, interview on Realitatea Plus”.

The artist rejects the idea of ​​the song becoming a national anthem

In the message, Paula Hriscu also responds to those who said that the song could become a new national anthem. The artist rejects this idea: “Regarding whether I want it to become an anthem? I don't want it to become an anthem. We already have one that I hope will wake us up at some point, as it says in the first verse: Wake up, Romanians, from the sleep of death, because many of us are asleep, it's true. And we take everything like this, everything that flies to us is eaten…”

“Children can sing the December 1 song”

In the end, Hriscu states that the song is for everyone who wants to listen to it or interpret it: “The song is mine and those who want to listen to it. Children, you can sing it on December 1 or every day, it doesn't matter. I had only one condition when it came to my songs: that the author be mentioned.”

The piece was used at the demonstrations in Piața Victoriei

The song “Romania, proud plai” was present at several demonstrations in Victoriei Square, where supporters of the former candidate for the presidential elections, Călin Georgescu, and participants in protests organized by AUR joined in the chorus to this song.

In one of the moments, from March of this year, Realitatea Plus producer Anca Alexandrescu hummed the lyrics of the song into the microphone, accompanied by Cristela and Călin Georgescu.