garçoncanadien
04-26-2007, 07:27 PM
source: nidalizee.com
INTRO
The text of “Parler tout bas”, 3rd single of the album “Gourmandises”, has a general theme of passing from childhood to adulthood.
To arrive at this transition, Mylène Farmer will personify Alizée’s childhood as a stuffed teddy bear.
As to the level of vocabulary, we find childish words (toys, grown-ups, dream, bear, inanimate world, not for laughs) and adolescent words (sixteen years old, love, friendship, poem)…
1st couplet
When it rains in Alizée’s life, when her days are dark, without hope, she comforts herself near her toys that become alive in a nice dance unique to Alizée.
Adults (grown ups) intentionally forget their adolescence and at the same time, put their tender years aside in the company of their toys. By this fact, their reflections towards Alizée are brought together in “pieces of cement” that injure an adolescent’s delicate heart, not sure enough of her. Paradoxically, Alizée does not know how to leave the ones close to her due to the fact that the is no longer a darling child but a young 16 year old lady who wants to be recognized as one.
2nd couplet
Alizée asks herself “To what good…” secretive love, love, Bohemian way of life. She wants grandeur, and that her greatest dreams come true. Mylène therefore compares this grandeur to that of an elephant.
“Round stomach”, one of Alizée’s wishes is to give life. “Deep eyes”, metaphor of uncertainty, there is no depth in her eyes therefore no future, nor projects to realize, all the things that make adolescence one of the worst times to get through. Even Alizée’s bear puts in a suggestion, to not get involved in adult life, as for her she has a hard time admitting it, but this bear is faithful for life in friendship.
REFRAIN
It is an exchange between Alizée and her bear. For her part, she talks to him about her joys and her sufferings to please her heart and to relieve herself of a weight that no adult could be able to understand.
From the other side, the bear offers his “sweetness”, his soul (he has a heart…).
Alizée signs the refrain offering “Speak softly” to “the inanimate world”.
3rd couplet
Reiteration of the days of rain. This time, the cruelty of the adult is brought together in her dreams that belittle, breeze by, and make sadness. These laughs that take place in Alizée’s view and her ear.
Last couplet
Alizée does not want to get involved in a love without a future, quite frankly she already has somebody who fills her heart and overflows with love, her little bear. By her words, she clearly exposes the final truth that, for the moment, she does not want to leave her childish tendencies and that is what makes her charming and natural.
INTRO
The text of “Parler tout bas”, 3rd single of the album “Gourmandises”, has a general theme of passing from childhood to adulthood.
To arrive at this transition, Mylène Farmer will personify Alizée’s childhood as a stuffed teddy bear.
As to the level of vocabulary, we find childish words (toys, grown-ups, dream, bear, inanimate world, not for laughs) and adolescent words (sixteen years old, love, friendship, poem)…
1st couplet
When it rains in Alizée’s life, when her days are dark, without hope, she comforts herself near her toys that become alive in a nice dance unique to Alizée.
Adults (grown ups) intentionally forget their adolescence and at the same time, put their tender years aside in the company of their toys. By this fact, their reflections towards Alizée are brought together in “pieces of cement” that injure an adolescent’s delicate heart, not sure enough of her. Paradoxically, Alizée does not know how to leave the ones close to her due to the fact that the is no longer a darling child but a young 16 year old lady who wants to be recognized as one.
2nd couplet
Alizée asks herself “To what good…” secretive love, love, Bohemian way of life. She wants grandeur, and that her greatest dreams come true. Mylène therefore compares this grandeur to that of an elephant.
“Round stomach”, one of Alizée’s wishes is to give life. “Deep eyes”, metaphor of uncertainty, there is no depth in her eyes therefore no future, nor projects to realize, all the things that make adolescence one of the worst times to get through. Even Alizée’s bear puts in a suggestion, to not get involved in adult life, as for her she has a hard time admitting it, but this bear is faithful for life in friendship.
REFRAIN
It is an exchange between Alizée and her bear. For her part, she talks to him about her joys and her sufferings to please her heart and to relieve herself of a weight that no adult could be able to understand.
From the other side, the bear offers his “sweetness”, his soul (he has a heart…).
Alizée signs the refrain offering “Speak softly” to “the inanimate world”.
3rd couplet
Reiteration of the days of rain. This time, the cruelty of the adult is brought together in her dreams that belittle, breeze by, and make sadness. These laughs that take place in Alizée’s view and her ear.
Last couplet
Alizée does not want to get involved in a love without a future, quite frankly she already has somebody who fills her heart and overflows with love, her little bear. By her words, she clearly exposes the final truth that, for the moment, she does not want to leave her childish tendencies and that is what makes her charming and natural.