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02-15-2008, 09:11 AM

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Alizee
Psychedelices

FAIRYTALES ARE MADE TO BE UNMADE...

The artistic birth of Alizee starts like a fairytale: Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat leaned over her cradle and they made of her a glamour lolita that sings pop-dance nursery rhymes. In 2000, her clip "Moi...Lolita" (2.5 million copies sold in the world) got number one on the charts in several countries (Israel, Japan, Italy, Spain...) and Alizee even had the luxury of getting into 9th place on the prestigious and very sought-after Top 40 British. There hasn't been such a keen interest in a female French artist since "Joe the Taxi" of Vanessa Paradis (Top 3 in 1987)! The Alizeemania is a pure wind of craziness that blows across the world and she secures the shows and the album: "L'Alize" single from the album "Gourmandises" (2000), and then "J'en ai marre", "J'ai pas vingt ans" and "A contre-courant" singles from "Mes Courants Electriques" (2003). She next goes on tour at the end of 2003-2004, and then disappears... Her artistic rupture with the duo author-composer-producer Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat is complete and Alizee decides to fly with her own wings! Today at the age of 23, she is an independent artist and she is her own producer: she applies the recipes and lessons that Mylene taught! She will have needed two and a half years to concoct this new album, "Psychedelices, that is pure pop with electro-rock and vintage new wave samples.

She is working with Jean Fauque (word juggler, of double meaning and double reading that he wrote for Bashung, Vanessa Paradis...), Bertrand Bergalat (Christophe Willem, Valerie Lemercier), Kore ("Rai n'B Fever"), Oxmo Puccino, Daniel Darc (ex Taxi Girl) & Frederic Lo as well as her husband Jeremy Chatelain (ex-candiate of Star Academy 2). At the end of January, "Mademoiselle Juliette" will be released as a CD Maxi Digipack (9 remixes including 2 unedited ones) and in Maxi 45 RPM Vinyl Picture Disc (8 remixes including one unedited and the Acapella), Limited Edition 1000 copies. Alizee comes back without taboos about her career, her artistic rupture with Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, the two and a half years used to make her album, her relation with the gay population and her filming project in 2008. Like she says herself so well in the introduction of the album (in the limited edition C.D.-Digipack): "Fairy tales are made to be unmade..." but the Tinkerbell, her guardian angel, always watches over her!

Are these "Psychedelices" more edible than the "Gourmandises" that you lured us with in 2000?

(Laughs). Today, I would say yes! Its a bit strange to say this because I adore my two previous albums, but "Psychedelices" matches me exactly. It represents the young 23 year old girl that I have become. Maybe in 3-4 years a new album will resemble me more and "Psychedelices" will resemble me less...

A mixture of pop, rock, vintage new wave with many samples and electro, a universe fresh and coloured, warm pastel colours, plays on words and candy... Is this a good definition of your artistic universe?

Its a bit difficult to define my music! I think that tangy pop is the most exact and appropriate term. Its also possible to find what I did before: the omnipresence of candy and multiple meanings. Except that its not the same person that does it and she doesn't do the same play on words as Mylene. She and Jean Fauque are masters of amusing themselves with play on words, to play with words and to always try to find double meanings. This album is an evolution in contrast to what I used to do: It was much more dance. I have met many people who have brought their touch, and that is what makes there have several different things and a unifying theme at the same time in the album. My voice is the unifying theme between the songs.

You have said about the single "Mademoiselle Juliette": I could not have come back with a urban title like "Decollage", I therefore chose a bridge between the old and new Alizee. How do you see yourself in several years, as a diva of R'n'B, like an urban singer like Gwen Stefani?

I don't really know! Even I ask myself a lot of questions. But in any case I what I know is that in France, we can't come up with too much, we are always required to stay the course, a certain road. While in the United States, if we take the example of Gwen Stefani: she has started her group No Doubt by making punk-ska, then rock, and little by little she has gone towards urban thanks to Pharrell Williams... and at the same time I think that its still very rock and roll. I don't say that I am going to go towards urban, electro, or rock, but if its the case I will mix the genres while trying to let people follow it and to find themselves within it. In France, if we do something that goes counter to what is done, people go away!

I adored your song "Decollage" with the big dancefloor R'n'B sound created by Kore with Oxmo Puccino's words. Is this a first for Alizee?

To let me get that song down smoothly, I was coached by Oxmo Puccino (big laughs). Moreover in the remixes of "Mademoiselle Juliette", I did what was a bootleg urban with "Maneater" by Nelly Furtado: the Deefire 2 Remix. For me, Timbaland is the best in this moment. In France, we can't imitate it, but we can at least get inspired by its style and its sound. Outside of Kore who created "Rai n'B", and who made many different things, I think that the French R'n'B world is a well-oiled machine. Even if we stay in Hip-Hop, now everybody wants to get inspired by Pharrell Williams' or Timbaland's American sound and to import it to France. In fact, the whole world has their eyes pointed towards them...

In fact everything adds up since you like Gwen Stefani a lot who worked with Timbaland and the Neptunes (Pharrell Williams), Nelly Furtado who worked with Timbaland, you like the new wave and the last album of Duran Duran was made for Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills and finally Madonna is working on her new album with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

I know, its weird! I think that thoses guys are the most avant-garde because they take a urban universe that the whole world knows and an urban sound that nobody has listened to yet! That works on a lot of people. for example, Madonna has never done R'n'B in her life and I am sure that it is going to be a success and that it will be cool. They know that they are making a sound that everybody can sing to.

Did you attend Gwen Stefani's Great Ecumenical Mass at Paris-Bercy?

No I regretted it because I wasn't there and I really wanted to see her in concert. I was very disappointed!

Have you seen her clothes collection "L.A.M.B"?

Yes, I like everything that she does. She has a universe that is simultaneously personal and original. I like the way she is directing her career, the way she brings things whether it be in fashion, music... Everything is well placed and above all done in good taste! Good taste is not easy in our day, it is not given to everybody, and whether we like it or not, she manages her career like a great professional.

Let's now flashback to the past: how did you go through the tornado of media craziness about the end of your artistic collaboration with Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat? The gay community was very worried about you so can we talk about it?

Why of course!

You yourself have read in the press: "That you will no longer be anything without them"!

Yes its true! I have read and heard about that.

That you were contractually blocked during the years with them...

Yes, but its false!

How did you deal with all that? That didn't injure you or get the better of you?

No, its maybe that fact that it was me who left. It probably would have been different if I was given my contracts back, telling me that they no longer wanted to work with me! If that was actually the case I think I would be six feet down under and depressed. The fact that it was me who wanted to leave and to go and see and discover new things allowed me to keep my head up! Maybe people will find that pretentious. In any case, I learned a lot with Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. They have given me a lot. If today the gay public is present, its thanks to them: they were the intermediaries. I am very well aware of the good luck that I had and still have! All that we learn, we have it forever, for our whole lives. I just wanted to do something else and to take things into my own hands. I was only taught a single way to work: whether it be in studio, for photoshoots, for choreographs... I have seen how its possible to manage by yourself and to create by yourself I wanted to pass to the practical stage. Before applying her recipes on me, Mylene applied them on herself. I told myself: I am twenty years old, I am filled with everything that I have been taught and I want to make it work for me. I have the means to produce an album and now I want to give myself to means to be able to make what I want while trying to go and see the people that I appreciate. For me, it was a luxury to be able to choose the people that I wanted to work with: Daniel Darc... They all accepted because they all had a good image of me. All in all, that motivated me even more to go even further and to above all forge ahead!

Personally, do you think that you were caged in, that you were artistically frustrated, that you didn't have your word to say...

No it wasn't the case! I told myself instead: "What you are doing musically, is it that if it were not you singing it, you would listen to it on your iPod?" That was the real question!

You therefore had a hard time taking charge of things?

No, because I really had a good time! I got the best out of it. When one is an artist, one has the chance to be able to fully taste different worlds.

The first people that you sent your album to were Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. I read in the press that there was no reply from them. So, how should this silence be interpreted?

I don't ask myself too many questions! They know that I am very grateful towards them. It was the least I could do for them in return to send them my album before everybody else and that is what I did. Personally, I am very proud of my album and I hope that they have good thoughts about it!

I was intrigued by your personality. I know that in the core, you are timid and reserved. Do you think that you still have a place in show business or do we ask more and more of artists: star-making, people-making, reality TV...

It is true that I have a little bit of a hard time with all that! I have the impression that I am there to give what I can give, that is to say music, dreams, images...But today everything has changed due to the collapse of the record market. I have the impression that its necessary to give more to sell more discs, but I don't agree with that! I think that if an album is good, it is good! There are still people who sell millions of discs, Mylene, the first.

The market is now filled to the brim, there are too many releases, everybody wants to be on the big shows (NRJ, TF1...) and if you don't stay on top of that you have a hard time staying alive.

Yes, but besides that somebody like M is never on NRJ and he has sold millions of discs, so there are exceptions and I hope to be one of them! We'll see...

During your 2003-2004 tour you were confronted by the public. People thought that you were a singer for adolescents and there they discovered that you have a real gay fan base?

Its true that I really didn't know what kind of audience that I was going to have! It has been four years snce I have sung and those were my first shows. With singers of my age who each have their own audience, the question that was asked was: "What is Alizee's audience"? This was very eclectic, but I went along with it very well. My songs have double meanings so kids have taken it to the first degree and others have interpreted it in another fashion. I am very proud of having a large audience and to include gays. They are in fact more loyal than the others!

Today, your audience has grown like you have. You will go on tour in 2008 so are you going to change with this evolution and conceive a different kind of show?

I definitely am in the process of thinking about it. For the time being I have no clue what this is going to become, but my album brings up so many different things, it is so coloured that it can't be an acoustic concert. The show will reflect my own evolution! When you look at the CD insert of my last album, it is different from what I did before and more... I eat a cake there while one of my previous albums was called "Gourmandises"!

Exactly, while on the subject of delicacies, it is said that candy have a sensual, even sexual connotation. Do they have a double meaning?

(Big laughs). (Editors note: Alizee makes a mischievous grin to answer this fundamental question). My two previous albums exactly revolved around the double meaning with the sexual connotations. The last one was quite a bit less and the better for it! At the same time its Jean Fauque who writes so its not the same pen as Mylene.

Aren't you a fan of "Desperate Housewives" since there are many references to the series: Wisteria Song, Wisteria Studio and in the words of "Lilly Town" we find Bree Van de Kamp?

I am a big fan of the series and I would like to have a clip that resembles it! Its also the picture of a clip with Nicole Kidman:"And the man created the woman".

Is Bree your favourite character in the series?

Definitely. I also like Susan Mayer, but Bree is so charismatic and Marcia Cross, the actor who interprets that role, is the one who acts the best!

Do you know who is the deseparate housewife that elects the gays guys the most?

Gabrielle Solis (laughs). To sleep with her little gardener! (Big laughs).

In "Lilly Town", is there a reference to gays?

Yes, I sing: "And every night some men, who play the women". (Big laughs). I thought that was very subtle on the part of Jean to integrate that sentence because I like it a lot and it goes very well in the song. Its light and funny!

You are 23 years old, so how can you like new wave so much?

I was born in 1984. I remember still the particular sound that was used in the 80s while I was just a child.

Which artists or groups have influenced you?
I have grown up with Madonna from 1984 to 1990 and I still remember "Like a Prayer". That sums up my entire childhood, because thats the music I have listened to over and over again like her album "True Blue" with "La Isla Bonita", "Papa don't preach", I will also tell you a little secret, I put "Papa don't preach" as my ringtone when my dad calls me (Laughs). For me, the 80s belonged to Madonna. After I liked Depeche Mode a lot... But in my album, I was not only influenced by the 80s, there is also the 70s with Simon and Garfunkel...

Its possible to also feel the influence of The Cure in the song written and composed by Daniel Darc and Frederic Lo :"Lonely List".

At the same time, the sound is very German. Its a song more somber and at the same time it resembles me. Even if I have the joy of living and I have a lot of fun, there are days just like everybody else has when things don't go well. My life is not like a theme park everyday! This song reveals my melancholy, nostalgic, and sad side!

You end your thank yous saying: "Thanks to Mylene and Laurent without whom this fairy tale would never have started". When we open the Limited Edition Digipack, there is: "Fairy tales are made to be unmade...". What did you mean to say?

(Big laughs). Its a beautiful sentence! Its kind of the start of the story of this album: if I had not unmade my personal fairytale with Mylene and Laurent, it would never have seen the light of day. Before we listen to the album, we have to read this sentence!

There are other double meanings about the past in the album, was this intentional?

No, but Jean Fauque couldn't hold himself back! (Laughs).

In "Mademoiselle Juliette", you say "Mademoiselle takes off, Don't break herself apart, In her role she only wants herself, No replicas of all the shows". Is this a transposition to your own past?

We didn't do it in that state of mind! When we sing a song written by somebody else, whether it be Mylene or Jean Fauque, we see several months afterward even more interpretations and then we say: "Cool, I didn't even realize that it could be interpreted like that!". So in effect, I realized a few months afterwards that it could be interpreted badly, but at the same time, I like this song a lot.

In "Jamais Plus" you say: "Yesterday nevermore. But yesterday is wrong. Today you see. It's never more. To forget I adore. That happens effortlessly. It disappeared quickly. And never more".

Its just a song about a love story. You see the vice everywhere! (Laughs).

That could also be a goodbye letter!

Yes, if we want it to be, but its more a good bye letter to a guy... (Laughs).

Lets talk about the clip "Mademoiselle Juliette", you go into a free and decadent universe in the 18th century. What is the story about that?

In fact, I go into that mansion as a visitor. At the foundation of Romeo and Juliette, there are two families: The Montagues and the Capulets. I didn't want to portray the boring story of their battle, so the families are represented by two colours: white and black. Juliette doesn't want to choose between the two and in the end she only makes one.

The clip is pretty hot, you are surrounded by female dancres and there is a bit of unbridled sexuality. Is this a lesbian reference?

In the song, Juliette completely doesn't care about her guy, what she wants is just to have fun. The guys are therefore excluded. There are only girls having the party so in fact its possible to imagine things. Its not explicit, each person has the right to his or her own interpretation. I like it when people put their points of view forward. Last time I met a gay person who told me that found himself in the same place as "Lui ou Toi" (Editors note: this is in the album "Gourmandises") and talks about a girl who doesn't know how to choose between two guys. It could have been a girl who told me that, but hey actually no, it was a guy! (Laughs). It is therefore necessary to do things subtly in the clip and to allow people to have their interpretations...

How many tatoos do you have?

I have a salamander on my ankle and a big one on my back.

Is it the famous Tinkerbell that we find everywhere at your house and that follows you?

(Laughs). I think that it is my guardian angel. I had it tatooed on my back, so I can't see it and I can't get weary of it. I can only see it when I get out of the bathroom. Its a character that I like a lot since I was a little girl, mostly because of her character because she is gentle and discreet. She appears like me from time to time! She is a little bit like me.

I have seen that a fan has tatooed you on his back. Didn't that scare you?

A bit, I must admit! Its me with Tinkerbell wings.

Like you, Lorie has a gay and adolescent audience, she is independent today and her own producer. Its there a parallel between your careers?

I have listened to her single "I am going fast", but not the album. Its very Kylie, but we have to like it as much as Madonna. Moreover, I like Kylie's last album, "X", and her CD 80 Insert speaks to me a lot. Lorie like me as well as the other young girls who have started in this job at the same time as us, today we are growing, we are evolving, and we don't do the same thing. We are always talking about the United States, we all prove that we can do different things in France.

Do you have a particular message to our readers that you want to give through our humble intermediary?

They can write me on mypspace (Editors Note: www.myspace.com/alizeeofficiel) because I receive a lot of messages. I even try to accept them in my friends. I thank them because they have supported me a lot. Between the moment when I stopped the tour and the time when I released this album, it has been a long time. I have put two and a half years into doing it and when we really get involved in it we don't see things anymore and we don't know anymore if its what we are really doing or not. The fact that I am receiving so many messages has made me want to go even further, that has given me ideas, to make things and that it was necessary for a performance for such a public so that they don't get lost, same idea in the picture... I hope that they have liked the album or that they are going to like it, but I above all thank them for having waited for me!

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:11 AM

2008-01-11 - Le Nice Matin (notice the "small" error...)
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Alizee: Always in the wind

Alizee
"Psychedelices"
(Sony-BMG)

It was three years ago, after her rupture with Mylene Farmer, her return to Corsica, and the announcement that she was a mother, many would bet that Alizee's career would end, on a memorable hit ("Moi... Lolita"), followed by discs and phenomenal tours, all the way to the Country Of The Rising Sun [Japan].

We didn't know the Ajaccian girl well, who, having taken the time to get the best out of her motherhood, and to get back into good shape on her island, got bac to work, and decided, at the age of 23, to produce her very own next album.

I needed a break, , she confirms, but also liberty. I wanted to do things differently this time. " Alizee therefore broke her piggy bank and went to knock on the door of people that she admired, like the old Taxi-Girl Daniel Darc, the rapper Oxmo Puccino, the dabbler Bertrand Bergalat, or Bashung's songwriter Jean Fauque, to ask them if they wanted to work with her. "Some were suprised by this step, but they all told me yes" she assures.

Alizee manages the transition from Lolita to Mademoiselle better than others.

That produced "Psychedelices, a fourth album of quite good account, to which the public - and the most astonishing - the critics, give a warm welcome to.

Dominating electro-pop

In the program, of the "psyche", so, above all in the lyrics of Jean Fauque in which the references "Fifty Sixty" speak most to the fourty-year-olds, and some well directed pop "delicacies", with her Star Academy husband and colleague Jeremy Chatelain at the controls, about whom she says "He helped me to push the project in the direction that I wanted. It helps to have as a colleague somebody who has the same tastes and the same passions". A dominating electro-pop, with a unifying video ("Mademoiselle Juliette"), which will not abandon the fans of the past, the album adventures towards more serious ambiances ("Idealiser, Lonely List"), which suit her sound very well. Result: Alizee manages the transition from Lolita to Mademoiselle better than others (like Lorie, while waiting for Priscilla).

"I didn't change my world, nor my look, its an evolution, not a revolution" is how the lady summarizes it, who, between two promotions, is already working on the tour to come and completely refuses to talk about anything other than music.

"I don't ask myself too many questions, she says.If one asks herself, she doesn't move forward." And she is moving forward, with the wind blowing in the right direction: always in the wind.

Ph.D.

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:12 AM

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I never thought to stop my career.

At four years, some started to ask themselves the question. The Net was crawling with rumors that continued to gain momentum. The fans asked themselves if Alizee wanted to stop her career. "Not for an instant. I wanted to make good decisions. Thats why I took a break. I regained all of my contracts to be entirely free. The idea of stopping never even came to me. How can we stop something that we are passionate about?" The answer at least has the advantage of being clear.

Alizee
"Today, I need to affirm myself."

Its been four years since Alizee has released an album. Since "Courants Electriques", the lolita's fans have been growing impatient. And so on the 3rd of December, "Psychedelices", her most recent work of which the single is doing really well, is released during the bacs. The style has evolved, the texts too. Just like a young girl who has become a mature mother of 23 years of age.

Your last album "Psychedelices" has been released on the 3rd of December, and it is very different than the previous ones, why the change?

"In fact, I don't think its a change. I would say instead that it is an evolution. I started my career at 15, I was still a kid. Today, I'm 23 and I have become a mother. I have evolved and my music has too."

What has the birth of your daughter given you?

"Incredible feelings and sensations. Its difficult to describe these emotions. Its really strong. I take pleasure in singing and doing shows, but I have never felt something quite this strong."

And in your work, what have you evolved into?

"When I was starting, I didn't decide very many things, I let myself be lead. Today, also thanks to the experience that I acquired, I can do what I wish. At 15, I arrived into a universe that I didn't know about, so, its true, we let ourselves be lead. But today, I need to affirm myself."

Moreover, you worked with Jean Fauque (Editors note: her songwriter) who knew how to make a new universe for you...

"I wanted to do something different than what I was used to doing before, but also something different than what is possible to listen to today. With Jean Fauque, we have put in two years to get this album done while having the most fun possible. We have taken our time to really get the best out of each moment."

With Mylene Farmer, is your collaboration definitely finished?

"With Mylene, we have gone down the same path together and I don't regret it. Then, the media started a rumour like that we were in a dispute, notably because of a song that started some controversy. How can you have a dispute with somebody who taught you everything? I explained myself, there is nothing more to say."

Super Plus!

For "Psychedelices", Alizee was influenced by the work of The Killers, Daft Punk, Gwen Stefani, and Gorillaz. The words were written by Jean Fauque and Jeremy Chatelain, her husband. If before going on stage, the pretty Corsican has no particular rituals, she confesses that she is just as stressed as when she first started out. Her dream would be to do a duo with Madonna.

You have definitely heard talk about Julien Dore's remaking of "Moi...Lolita". What do you think about what he has done?

"Julien knew how to bring his universe forward and the result has succeeded. I hope that he has a successful career. In any case, he has enough talent for that. He only needs to work at it."

Did you watch the show?

"To be honest, not really, I didn't really have the time."

What do you think about the new type of program, like La Nouvelle Star or the Star Academy?

"What I like the least about Star Academy is its reality TV side. The candidates are filmed 24 hours of the day, we really delve into their minds. But its a stepping stone for quite a few artists. They are working with good teachers, they have the chance to sing in front of millions of people. All in all, I would say that its a good thing."

What advice would you tell somebody who left the Star Academy?

"Quite simply to work because that is the key to success. Work is indispensable. A bit of luck is necessary too. And also, to know whom to work with. Its necessary to totally protect yourself from evil people in this job. And also, to keep a solid base, with the family."

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:12 AM

I guess I forgot to post this...

Dado posted it few days ago.

2008-01-29 - So Foot - #51 - (page 96)

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Alizee is the godmother of AC Ajaccio. She knows Dado Prso, but not Kaka. She is a fan of Basile Boli and thinks that Thierry Henry is still young... And if Alizee was still a little perverse girl?

Maure's head or the bear's head?

Ah, the choice between AC Ajaccio's team jersey... The head of Maure, because its Corsica... The first match I saw was when I was 5 or 6. For some years, I regularly went to the stadium, with my father and brother. When I started to sing, I continued to go to the stadium but I went more discreetly. Anyway, people from the club asked me to be ACA's godmother... My best memory, its when we went up to D2, I was wearing makeup, all that... Dado Prso was playing...

Rolland Courbis or Raymond Domenech?

Rolland Courbis! I met him when I was a godmother, its he who gave my my team jersey, with the number 10. My father and brother are fans of OM, and like Rolland Courbis, its Ajaccio and OM... I really see him as the French team's future coach. Domenech, he is cool but not more...

Mylene Farmer or Daniel Darc?

Daniel Darc wrote me two songs, I saw him in concert at the Plan a Ris-Orangis (1991), it was just great, but its thanks to Mylene Farmer that I am here today. Mylene made me play the role of a little lolita, a little perverse, I was aware of that. I wanted to go to something else.

Bonaparte or Sarkozy?

We'll say Bonaparte! Deep down Corsica... Many times, political parties have contacted me but I have always declined. I have my opinions and I keep them to myself.

Thierry Henry or David Trezeguet?

Go, Thierry Henry... He represents the new generation of soccer well (sic).

Bastia or Gazelec Ajaccio?

Oh no not that! I am a real fan of ACA. That said, my has played pro with Gazelec. I am going to say Bastia anyway. Because the stronger rivalry is Gazelec ACA.

Opel Corsa or Corsica Ferries?

Opel Corsa, it has nothing to do with Corsica. Hey, on my registration I don't have the EU flag, I have the Corsican flag, in blue.

Fraise Haribo or Quality Street?

What is Quality Street?

Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera?

Both! I arrived at almost the same time as them, we are almost from the same generation, but its not the same level! Americans aren't in the same game, its not the same!

Kaka or Messi?

Kaka? I don't know what that is. Messi, in any case, because my brother doesn't stop talking to me about him. Hey, anyway, if I was a fan of Basile Boli: I would have called my cat Basile Boli, with a blue and white collar...

CHERIF GHEMMOUR

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:13 AM

2008-01-18 - Nos tendres années - #11
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Afer five years of absence, Alizee releases her third album. Its very pop with some 80s sounds. Lyrics written by Jean Fauque (Bashung's songwriter), Daniel Darc or Oxmo Puccino and sung by this eternal sexy girl voice who has become this remade Alizee. A sound with synthesizers and beatboxes with a special mention for the title "Lily Town" which makes people think of The Cure.

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:13 AM

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Alizee

After a few years of absence, the ex-Lolita makes a smashing return. At 23, without denying anything about her past, Alizee finally shows her real personality in "Psychedelices", an album that we aren't finished listening to... By Laurent Fialaix

An incredibly fast return

At the current time, Psychedelices has been released for fifteen days. Until then, I have only had good vibes and I feel pretty relieved. I wanted a disc that resembled me at 23 years old. Until now, I had the opportunity to meet Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat who have brought and taught me a lot. They have given me everything on a sliver platter; I sustained myself with this for four years. But, while growing up, I wanted to discover other things, to get out and meet other people. I stopped working with them in 2004, and then I had my daughter. Very quickly after her birth, I have started to work on this CD. In fact, I have never stopped making music.

Prestigious colloborations

When I thought about what this disc would become, I went to find authors and composers that I like (Daniel Darc, Bertrand Bergalat, Oxmo Puccino, Jean Fauque...) I believe that they were very surprised by the step I took. They must have thought that I wouldn't listen to them, that I was far from their world. I had to work also with Indochine. Alas, due to time, it didn't happen. With Jeremy [her husband, the father of her daughter, co-author and director of the CD, editor's note.] to work and to live together give great advantages: we understand each other immediately. The big difference between me and him is definitely not bothersome, because Jeremy prefers to produce, work in the studio, and stay in the shadows. To be in front of the cameras, he realized that it wasn't his cup of tea.

In the past

I started when I was 15. Musically, the world that I was working in was not the one that I listened to, but that didn't bother me because those were good songs. Certainly, one can feel a prisoner in a clip as big as Moi, Lolita. Not me. I am very proud of having a song that has moved people so much. That's not an opportunity that everyone can have! I have been criticized, at the time, for being an inaccesible personality. I must say I dealt well with that. I was a little bit nervous from all the things that were being thrown towards me. So, the distancing reassured me. I felt protected. I was able to live peacefully in Ajaccio, at my parent's house. I went to Paris three days of the week, and the rest of the time I was an adolescent like the others.

If you had to do it all over again?

I would do everything the same way. From A to Z. Before the release of the album, there was a lot of talk about a song in which I settled the score with Mylene. This song does not exist anywhere on the album or anywhere else for that matter. Mylene and I split on very good terms. There was neither a war nor a painful divorce. I don't have a score to settle with anybody. To the contrary, I am very grateful.

Alizee a mother

I know that I seem very young. Jeremy too. It has been frequently said that we look like two kids making kids... at the same time I have the impression of living this relationship with my daughter in a very close fashion. I have fun with her! I am a mother, I am living my passion... I am very happy!

Who are you, Alizee?

A young 23 year old girl who has had a lot of luck and continues to have it. A young girl, not a young woman. Definitely, being a mother gives you responsibilities, but its not for all that that I feel good in my shoes!

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:14 AM

Anais posted article from

2008-02-06 - Est Republicain

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I practically never stopped since my start in 2000, at 15 years old, Alizee confides.

Alizee after Mylene Farmer

Return after three years of absence for a lolita, freed from her cumbersome model, and who has grown up a lot.

Can we talk about a new story that is starting?

Seven years have passed since my start with "Moi, Lolita". I have learned a lot with Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat and now I am trying to keep it going at my humble level. They were very perfectionist with everything and I tried to be the same way with this album. I am not a musician, so I went to look for composers that touched me through their creativity. To unite them posed a challenge because they come from different worlds.

Some time has passed since this recording and the last one!

When I stopped my tour in 2004, I practically had not stopped since my start in 2000 at the age of 15. Everything has gone by without stopping because some songs have gone abroad. And then, I really needed to take a break, to rest myself. I took time for myself, to spend time with my family, without forgetting to reflect on what happened.

Family
Between 15 and 20 years of age, a person becomes totally different.

We grow up above all! I have the impression, with this realisation, that I am not doing something totally opposite to what I did before. I am not here blonde, with super long hair, with jeans and a tee shirt. Everything is continuous and musically, it stays as tangy pop that is quite simply more demanding, with collaborations that move the project forward. So, effectively, I have evolved.

How did the separation between you and Mylene Farmer happen?

It was a bit like when we are 18 years old and we always live with our parents. We want to discover other things, meet other people and thats what happened. I explained myself to my producers, and they understood me very well. We separated on very, very good terms. I thanked them and I continue to do that because I am here thanks to them. They have allowed me to start a career selling millions of discs.

Lets stay in the family. Your husband Jeremy Chatelain has worked a lot on this album...

With others. The word "family" can be used because he is my husband. But there is no difference between him and the other collaborators: Frederic Lo, Oxmo Puccino, Daniel Darc, etc. He wasn't one level above the others. Everybody brought their real personalities to it.

A people show has seen in "Idealiser" a song that settles the score with Mylene Farmer!

Its definitely not about her. Jean Fauque is a man of immense experience. When we are friends, he tells numerous anecdotes, from nine at night to 5am the next day. "Idealiser" refers to a young woman he knew in the 80s, who wasn't doing well and who comitted suicide.

Article by Jean-Paul GERMONVILLE

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:14 AM

Very Nice. Thanks Orion.

Fan 2 N° 74
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Thank you, Rozier!

Garconcanadien's note: cap is shorthand for "capable", so Cap ou pas cap means "Will you do it or not?"

Yes or no?
Alizee
"Eat with a fan? No problem!"

Since the the release of her first single "Moi...lolita", the beautiful Alizee has walked down a long road. Millions of discs sold, a marriage with Jeremy Chatelain, a baby... Adolescence has made a place in a mature young woman. Her album, called "Psychedelices", released last December, marks a turning in the poetic Alizee's life.

by Julie Moisson

Yes or no to participating in the show "Koh-Lanta"?
No! I am neither courageous nor sporty enough to accomplish all the requirements in this show. Sleep on a beach, but hunting to eat seems impossible to me, and I am very scared of big insects. I won't have to do it one day, I think! (Laugh).

To jump off a parachute?
Yes! But maybe not tomorrow! I am convinced that its necessary to feel a unique and extremely strong sensation when jumping from a parachute. I hope that I will try it one day.

"I got married in Las Vegas!"

To sing in the France Stadium?
Yes! If the public is there to hear me sing, I don't see why I would refuse. For me, its more difficult to put on a show for ten people than ten thousand people or even more.

To dance alone on stage in a nightclub?
No! Going to nightclubs was never my thing, so to do a show on stage, is even less my thing! When I visit my friends, we organise nighttime get-togethers in someone's house or we will go eat in a nice restaurant.

To backpack in a country?
Yes! Leaving for adventure doesn't scare me. It has to be very interesting to live this kind of experience and to discover a people and their customs. I have been dreaming since forever to go to Australia. I hope that it will be my next destination.

To dine in darkness?
No! Impossible! I am kind of scared of stuff that can touch me. I would be much too nervous to be able to dine in darkness.

To marry on a whim in Las Vegas?
Yes! And its already done! It was a cool experience and it gave me many good memories.

To accept a dinner with a male or female fan?
Yes! And I will even say no problem. Most fans that I have met have been calm and respectful with me. In these conditions, I don't know why I would refuse to share a meal with one of them.

To go back and live at your parent's place?
Yes! I visit my parents in Corsica once a month, and I bring them my daughter. I always have a good time with them, and they cuddle me just as much as when I was young. That makes me very happy. (Laugh).

To record an album in English?
For the time being, no, I don't know this language very well. I find it ridiculous to record a CD without understanding the words that I am singing. The day that I become bilingual, we'll see, but to start on the American market makes me very scared.

To act in a TV series?
Yes, if it were in "Prison Break" or "Desperate Housewives"! (Laugh).

To leave and live abroad?
No! I have already spent a lot of time adapting to the capital when I left Corsica, so I haven't the slightest desire to move again. From now own, I have gotten my bearings in Paris, I created a good nest for myself and I feel very good.

"Candy is my life!"

To stop music suddenly?
Yes! If one day, I like something else other than music, I will jump on it. I always promised myself to do everything that I want.

To ask one of your idols for an autograph?
Yes! If I find Madonna, I will ask her without thinking and without shame.

To date a celebrity?
Yes! I have even married one! (Laugh.)

To go scuba diving?
Yes, and its already been done! I have tried it once on vacation near Madagascar. It was great! There were multicoloured fish everywhere, and I still have a marvelous memory of it.

To never eat candy again?
No! Candy is my life! (Laugh.)

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:15 AM

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Eight years after Laurent Boyer's "Graines de Stars", six years after her first album, four after the second - both of them written and produced by Farmer/Boutonnat-, Alizee has released the album of freedom. She concocted it with her colleague, the father of her child, Jeremy Chatelain (of Star Academy 2). He wrote 8 pieces and called up his favourite author, Jean Fauque (who wrote him the superb but unsuccessful "Variete Francaise", after getting himself known with Bashung...), who brought seven texts tailored to fit (about sensuality, motherhood...). With eleven songs, there are not many songs that are of low quality. These were optimised and done by the best of creators in France, notably Daniel Darc and Frederic Lo (that RCA had already "placed" with Thierry Amiel). Also Oxmo Puccino, with each team contributing two songs. There is also music from Bertrand Bergalat (Christophe Willem). As for the direction, it was shared between Jeremy Chatelain and: the guitarist-engineer of Sylvain Carpentier's sound (for the majority of the songs), Kore, Leslie's colleague (for Puccino's songs), Lo or Bergalat (for their own songs). Is this opening useful? We could ask ourselves that question. Album of enormous digression from popu rap and chic pop (without even counting the great songs in both of these genres), this disc is a bit puzzling. Finally, what we like are the two opening songs, very close to the universe that Mylene created for her: "Mademoiselle Juliette" (chosen as the first single) and "Fifty Sixty" . With a fresh and fun electro rock style, these songs (as well has others from the Chatelain/Fauque duo) like "Lily Town" or the ballad "Idealiser") seem to us the most logical with the picture of the little tangy Corsican, a picture supported by the photos in the CD insert and the leaflet. Despite all the faults of this album of transition, Alizee, always enjoyable and irresistible, really has the right to her place in "French pop", its nice butt between two rocking and popping chairs...
(AB)

garçoncanadien

02-15-2008, 09:15 AM

2008-01-30 - Fan Girl - #12 - page 20 - with collection card
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Focus on your darlings
Alizee
"I still have a hard time talking about myself"

The most celebrated lolita makes her comeback. But not just any old come back. Alizee comes back with "Psychedelices", an album crawling with double meanings. Absent for four years, the young woman has become in that time a mother, and just like in her personal life, she wants to give a new feeling to her career.

Since Mes Courants Electriques, your last album, you have let four years pass. Why so much time?
I wanted to step back a bit. During the last four years of my career, things have gone by very very fast. I wanted to take time for myself and my family. And then I wanted to look at things closely. I am delighted about my journey. I have traveled everywhere, I have realized success all the way to Asia. When I have put that all in perspective, I understood the incredible luck that I had.

Yep, you have become a mother. What has this changed in your life?
Its a feeling that is not possible to find anywhere else, even in work. These are feelings that the stage can't even offer. Its a very strong feeling. And it helps to put things in perspective.

With Psychedelices, you seem to have wanted to change your image. Am I wrong?...
In fact, its not really a change. Its an evolution. Before, I didn't decide much in my job. One must not forget that I was 15, and everything that was happening to me was completely new. I was discovering. So really, I let myself be guided. But today, I am 23 and I really have the will to affirm myself.

Did you think, for a moment, to stop your career?
Not for an instant. There was one time, when I took back all the contracts that I signed. I didn't want to have anything to do with it in order to be completely free. I succeeded in creating the album that I wanted. The biggest challenge was to unite all the people that I wanted.

And what new things did you want to give to this album?
A different sound than what is done today. To make sure I didn't get my hands tied, I became my own producer. From there, I worked with completely different people while getting inspiration from music that I like.

And what music is that?
There are several groups with different styles. For example, I like the music of The Killers, or even the sounds of Gorillaz or Daft Punk. And then, within solo artists, I have a weakness for Gwen Stefani.

Would you one day be able to sing a song that you wrote yourself?
Writing is a real talent. Above all, like me, we make double meanings. I don't think that I am capable yet. Music and sound is more my cup of tea. When, moreover, you have somebody like Jean Fauque in your team, who really has a talent for writing, you trust him. And then its necessary to admit that I still have a hard time talking about myself.

lowbeam

02-15-2008, 03:26 PM

Thank you garçoncanadien for your hard work. These are a real treat for us.

Zack -Alizee Lover-

02-15-2008, 04:29 PM

Merci Beaucoup garcon ^^
really appreciate your hard work.

lefty12357

02-15-2008, 08:16 PM

Thank you very much, Garçon ! Your translations are excellent and very much appreciated.

nurvonic

02-15-2008, 09:19 PM

holy shit! ill have to read all this later. thanks for the translation in advance

-MihaiL-

02-15-2008, 09:33 PM

good work, thank you garçoncanadien. I will be happy reading about Alizee.. some more. :)

Chommpers

02-15-2008, 10:45 PM

Wow, garcon has been working overtime :p Thanks for the translations it gave me something to read. :D

soik

02-16-2008, 03:06 AM

thanks,Garço, for the translations. Been digging around for these for some time.

marik

02-16-2008, 03:31 AM

wow!,awesome translations G! thankyou for your hardwork! :) gonna read this whole in a lot more time!:)

Tchaikovsky

02-16-2008, 03:17 PM

Yes, thank you very much garçoncanadien! I greatly enjoyed reading these :)

Edcognito

02-17-2008, 12:46 AM

DUDE! YOU ROCK! Thanks man!!!!

I'm TWITTERPATED all over!

Ed:cool:

garçoncanadien

02-17-2008, 03:25 PM

2007-12-02 - Ciné-télé-revue - Belgium
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ALIZEE

Snakes and sharks aren't really my thing!

She is 23 years old and no longer resembles the creature created by Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, at the dawn of 2000. Alizee, whos name is known in all of Europe, at the time of "Gourmandises", is less nervous in interview. It is true that she is back with an album that she doesn't blush about. On "Psychedelices" (Sony/BMG), we find the talents of confirmed authors such as Daniel Darc and Bertrand Bergalat. The song definitely aren't flops. But its hard to say if there is one that will rival the level of the legen "Moi, Lolita". For the time being, Alizee is thinking about a tour in 2008, but she hasn't the slightest idea what the show will be like. Now that she is indepedent from her old producers, it will be necessary that she thinks about that!

Interview: Joelle Lehrer - Photo : Sony/BMG

How long have we not seen you?

Three years. I went to Forest National. After this tour, I decided to take a break. In the first four years of my career, I didn't get the slightest rest. I started to make the third album, and at the same time I separated myself from my producers, Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. I have contacted several people that I wanted to work with on my new songs. Jeremy Chatelain composed several of the songs and he directed the album.

You chose to refocus yourself on your personal life?

Yes, I moreover went to Corsica to live with my parents. I had neither taken time off to live in this haven of a family atmosphere for a long time, nor the sun.

Do you think you are very different?

No, I think I have grown up. I have evolved and learned things.

But you have even married and become a mother. These are important times in the life of a woman!

Yes, but I don't think I have changed.

You still dress yourself like a high schooler with an XL sweater and baggy jeans.

I think I am a 23 year old old young girl who has the tastes of a girl of her age. I like shopping and movies a lot. At my place, I watch a lot of DVDs and lots of TV series.

"Psychedelices" refers in the first two bits to celebrated women like Shakespeare's Juliette and Andy Warhol's Nico. Are these people your inspirations?

Everybody knows the tragic story of Juliette and her Romeo. Its about an ideal love. The song gives a little playful side to this story... Juliette tells William Shakespeare to get out of here. She prefers to party before the tragic end comes. I think that's funny. For the other song, Jean Fauque thought about a young model who didn't feel so good about herself, but the song can also speak about another figure in the sixties. Anyway, among women who have made their mark on history, I like Coco Chanel.

Did Julien Dores "Moi, Lolita" retake serve as a good advertisement to announce your return?

I would say so. But I was surprised to see a song re-released seven years after its creation. Usually, more time is necessary. Because the public liked this version, it proves that it was a very good song!

Have you met Julien Dore?
No, but I suppose that we are going to meet each other on TV shows.

Last september, you have sent a message to the editors about rumours concerning a score-settling with Mylene Farmer. While listening to the album, there is no reference to this.

No, there isn't. I don' see why I would make a song that gets revenge on somebody who has taught me many things. Its thanks to Mylene and to Laurent Boutonnat that I am in this job and that I have sold so many discs.

You don't think that you are evolving in a place where there are a lot of evil people?

Yes! But I protect myself as much as I can. At the same time, it is hard for me to stop people from talking and making up stuff. I keep myself alive with my family. I like my home very much, I hate nights out in public. I prefer beautiful days! I only see showbiz when I work. It doesn't make me happy to see a billion people. Snakes and sharks [Garconcanadien's note: dishonest businessmen/women in general] aren't my thing!

If you don't like to go on nights out, isn't it a bit because of your shyness?

A bit, but even before singing, I didn't go to nightclubs (she wasn't the required age to go!) . Its not a world that I can feel good in.

Jeremy Chatelain is very attuned to new stuff. Does he motivate you?

Its true that he is very creative and full of ideas. He sometimes has too many! He succeeded in understanding what I wanted musically.

The last song of the album is called "L'effet". It speaks about motherhood. We get the impression that you are smiling while singing it!

I sung it smiling and its the song that I recorded the fastest. I believe that its the one that's the most like me. Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Your daughter, with two singer parents, will definitely want to get into the same career...

If she wants it, I won't hold her back, she will do what she wants to do!

"Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me."

She is called Anny-Lee. This sounds like a country singer's name!

Thats funny, nobody ever told me that! The name was completely our creation. She is two years old. I will bring her on the tour as much as possible.

Wasn't it always what you wanted, to have a peaceful life?

It's true that we have a need to have a normal life. When I go on the street, people don't bother me. When I am at the park with my daughter, people leave us alone.

What philosophical lesson would you say you have learned from what has happened to you up to now?

I have the impression that I have always met the right people at the right times. I think we need 50% luck and 50% work. Its also necessary to step up to expectations and surprise people.

-MihaiL-

02-17-2008, 04:11 PM

nice interview, thanks. I didn't know Anny-Lee was the name they made up themselves, that's kind of funny. :D

fsquared

02-17-2008, 04:40 PM

nice interview, thanks. I didn't know Anny-Lee was the name they made up themselves, that's kind of funny. :D

There's also a probably-higher-than-coincidental chance that it had something to do with Nabokov's Lolita, which has a character named "Annabelle Leigh", an allusion to Anabelle Lee from Edgar Allen Poe's poem of that name.

Deepwaters

02-17-2008, 10:57 PM

I wouldn't read too much into that similarity. I have never gotten the feeling that Alizée understood many of the nuances of Lolita when she read it (in her defense, she was really WAY too young for that book when she did), and I truly, truly doubt that she would name her daughter for anything connected with her career.

I'm pretty sure it's just as she said, they made up the name and both of them liked the sound of it.

Hopefully down the road she'll be able to say all three of them do. ;)

rcs

02-18-2008, 01:24 PM

Good read, Garco. Thx :cool:

dreamer

02-18-2008, 01:45 PM

Thank you very much, garcon. And I always wanted to say how much I love that animated gif in your posts, she is just too cute.:blink::wub:

Cooney

02-18-2008, 03:08 PM

Thanks for the translations GÇ, much appreciated.

garçoncanadien

02-22-2008, 12:06 PM

2007-12-03 - Direct Soir - nr.255
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Alizee's new delicacies

Seven years ago, Alizee had let a new wind blown upon France. With Moi...Lolita, the 15 year old adolescent picked up immense success, just like France Gall or Vanessa Paradis. In the wings, we found Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, authors of this song with many underlying meanings. Alizee's success will be confirmed with a first album that will do very very well abroad. But after Mes Courants Electriques in 2003, the singer, weary of being a doll in the hands of the Farmer-Boutonnat couple, broke with her producers and disappeared from the media for a long time.

Four years later, Alizee is a young freed woman, a 23 year old mother of a little girl. Her third album, Psychedelices, was created within the family, because the primary composer was none other than her husband Jeremy Chatelain, who also broke from precocious fame after his arrival on Star Academy. The couple called up prestigious collaborators. Jean Fauque (lyricist to Alain Bashung), wrote most of the texts, playing on sounds like he usually does. Daniel Darc, Bertrand Bergalat and Oxmo Puccino completed this nice casting. The last CD of electronic pop owes its success to Alizee's tangy voice. The singer learned an important lesson from Madonna: know how to work with the right people.

Psychedelices, Aizee, ed. RCA.

After a long silence, Alizee comes back and lets the wind blow upon our ears with her Psychedelices.

garçoncanadien

02-22-2008, 12:07 PM

2007-12-03 - Télé 7 Jours - nr.2480
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ALIZEE

"There is still some Lolita in me..."

In 2000, she made the TV shows go crazy with her show, Moi Lolita, and her (very) scantily dressed appearances. An international star makes a remarkable comeback.

After seven years of absence, we wanted some news from you...

Everything is going well. I really want people to discover my new universe. My life has changed a lot, and so have my musical tastes.

Married to Jeremy Chatelain (Star Academy 2) and mother of a two year old girl... What happened to the 90's lolita?

After a long tour in 2004, I decided to leave my producers, Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. I needed peace and independence.

You have taken your time to get yourself back into music!

Yes, and what happiness! I feel free to make my own choices. Jean Faque (Bashung and Vanessa Paradis lyricist..) came to the house. We made a artistic and family like album.

Its different from the big stuff created by the Farmer-Boutonnat duo!
In the beginning, I asked myself if I would leave. But I have finally completely lived my passion, without the impression of having worked.

Jeremy composed the majority of the songs of Psychedelices (RCA). To work as a couple is...

Cool! I am not a musician. To have him at my side allowed me to give him ideas at any moment of the day. And above all, he knows my tastes.

We perceive new influences, Gwen Stefani, Lily Allen...

Yes, I have voluntarily choosed to put my tastes forward for urban rock and electro. I listen to a lot of Daft Punk, Bjork. To unite people from such different worlds as Bertrand Bergalat (composer for Christophe Willem and Valerie Lemercier), Daniel Darc (ex Taxi Girl) and the rapper Oxmo Puccino allows me to mix things up.

From the Mylene period, you have kept your tastes for words with double meanings and a sexy clip...

I have matured because I have become a mother, but I am still a 23 year old girl. There is still some Lolita in me.

Will your your tours be as long as they were before?

If it were only me deciding, I would stay in France. But the success in Germany, Mexico, or even Japan, for example, is such that I can't escape it!

Can we perceive a bit of you in these songs?

I have chosen the themes with the authors, references to cinema, literature, fashion. I prefer stories with autobiographical secrets. I am very modest.

Daniel Darc's universe is often somber, and yours is more childish. The mixture is surprising...

I like tangy colours, freshness, the joy of living. I am not the kind of person that is down in the dumps. I knew Daniel mostly because of his last album, Creve-Coeur, that I listened to again and again, and the group Taxi Girl. I am a fan of the 80s!

Jean Fauque just wrote for Vanessa Paradis, another ex-Lolita. Do you feel close to her music?

She is a model for all the young singers of my age. But to write for her daughter, like she does, is too personal. Maybe later, if I am still doing this job.

Why, do you think you want to stop?

The future of the record industry is worrying. But I am still hanging on.

Caroline DOUTEAU

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02-22-2008, 12:07 PM

2007-12-03 - Les Incrockuptibles - nr.627
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Alizee catching up on lost time

No longer really a lolita, not really an adult, Alizee plays everything while hatching Psychedelices, her new album.

1. The combination short slacks

Her third album, whose title - Psychedelices - makes my head spin a little, is Alizee catching up on lost time. And yes: the time (seven years exactly) has passed, she is no longer the lolita created by Mylene Farmer the mother and Laurent Boutonnat the father. Its necessary to say that, while re-making her famous show Moi, Lolita, Julien Dore of the Nouvelle Star made her seem really old, already taking the the song to the status of a vintage clip. At the same time, can Alizee get the luxury of reinventing herself as a woman just like Lorie is trying to do now, and lose at the same time her pedophile, absorbed public? Thus, Alizee kind of plays everything, starting with the short slacks, which has the advantage of being a teenage piece of clothing, and to at the same time, and show in quite a stunning fashion her woman's thighs... oh yes, I didn't tell you? Today, Alizee is 23 and is even the mother of a two and half year old girl, Annily.

2. The blouse with a square Claudine neck

With even herself bluffed by this audacity, Alizee divides herself in two and reinvents herself as a wise kid as one image, stashed behind stockings that cover up her legs, with Requin sneakers that suck up her femininity, and above all a little blouse with a square Claudine neck that makes her look like a first of the fourth year class of the bird convent. At the same time, under such a blouse, what is more delicious thatn putting on a bra with black straps without Sister Marie-Moustache (chemistry and physics teacher at the Bird Convent) noticing it for a second. Another advantage of this blouse: Alizee can put it back on later, one day, when she will need to show the kids of her ex fans the rules, for example.

3. The whore high heels

These shining rose-fuschia girl-slippers, with ten centimetre heels, and above all the whore lacing, consitute the biggest fashion mistake of the CD insert. Pass even more for the decorations of the waiting hall of the ukrainian airport, for the three colour light, bargained for in a second-hand trade in Garges-les-Gonesse (why yes, to grab a good deal, one must not get up at 11:30 in the morning), but really, Ali, these pumps, no! OK, you want to make a big showing, OK, you want to be sexy. But in the end, you look like a whore, darling. Think it over, baby. And above all, pretty pleaaase: not on the stage, ever, whatever happens. There, at the most, we still prefer the Requin sneakers.

4. The deadly cake

So, I sum up: the new Alizee is a woman, a real one, capable of showing her impeccable legs, her ankle tatoos, and the pumps dug up in Demonia. But all that clashes with the little Alizee from before, who sang "It's not MY fault, if I hear everything around me L-O-L-I-T-A, moi Lolita", so a "creative director" had an idea to get a big cream cake. Great, that, the idea of an anniversary cake. It is a metaphor for the years that have passed, and its quite childish, on the side of "I live life to the fullest". That said, I calm down the game immediately: its nice to eat cake, but its like in Haribo [a candy company]. When you are 5, its cute, under the condition that you brush your teeth well before going to sleep. But twenty years later, its a way to put on two or three kilos before you put the swimsuit on. Alizee, without ordering you, we really aren't sure we want to see you become obese. So, thats a promise, OK? Go easy on the cakes!

OLIVER NICKLAUS

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02-22-2008, 12:08 PM

2007-12-04 - Le Parisien - nr.19670
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Alizee: "I am freeing myself"

MUSIQUE. Seven years after making quite a storm in European charts, the lolita that Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat created is flying with her own wings. Married and a mother, she bought back her name and releases an album showing her evolution.

We left her in ultra-short clothes and cheerleader boots, lolita singing and dancing on the stages of the Olympia or the Zenith. Since the tour that followed the release of her second album, "Mes Courants Electriques", the Corsican Alizee Jacotey made herself discreet, only seen by chance in people magazines as a mother accompanied by her husband, the ex-Star Academy singer Jeremy Chatelain. Liberated from her attachments to the Mylene Farmer-Laurent Boutonnat duo, (see inset), the young woman today is making her comeback in pop with her new album, "Psychedelices*". That is to say a single pop object which mixes the names of even Jeremy Chatelain, of Jean Fauque (lyricist of Alain Bashung), of the rapper Oxmo Puccino, of Bertrand Bergalat or even of Daniel Darc. "I wanted to work with these people, she explains. And also to united different worlds. I don't like just a single style of music and I don't think I am the only one." Interview.

Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat haven't bothered me"

What are you expecting of this album?

Alizee. I am 23 and I hope that my audience will at the same time share my musical tastes and understand my evolution, my freeing. And why not, touch another audience that didn't listen to me before.

Your last CD dates from 2003. What have you done since?

After the Paris Zenith in January 2004, I needed to take a rest. Between 15 and 20 years of age, I have worked a lot. I did not stop, between the tour and trips abroad. I reflected upon this third album and the founding of a family. Also, it was then that I decided to leave my old producers, Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat.

How did the separation happen?

Even if I was happy with everything that I did with them, I wanted to make my own opinion of music. Like a young 18 year old girl who doesn't want to live with her parents anymore to discover other things. I wanted to learn other ways of working because I only knew one. I taked to them about it and they understood very well.

Even contractually speaking?

For example, I purchased my name back for the symbolic price of 1 euro. They didn't bother me and they really helped me get cracking. Thanks to them, I really had fun and I am very proud of my clip "Moi... Lolita". This song was released seven years ago and it already has another life with Julien Dore's version, that I found out about like everybody else on the TV.

PARIS (8th district), YESTERDAY. While a fan is showing her his tatoo, Alizee dedicates Psychedelices in the Virgin Megastore of the Champs-Elysees. LP/YVES NICOLAS

Laurent Boutonnat and Mylene Farmer also displayed you in a very particular light...

At the time, I didn't ask too many questions. I was 15, I understood the song, but I was maybe a bit immature. I didn't completely interpret it all the way. In any case, there was no vulgarity in all that, it really wasn't unhealthy. "Lolita" is the first song that I sang and I knew that it was going to stay with me a long time. I was also aware that I had the time to record albums that will express me in other ways.

You have never felt manipulated?

Quite the contrary, Mylene used techniques on me that she had used on herself. With success. She shared her experiences with me and she opened all the doors for me. There is worse, right?

You are still have a good relationship?

We don't see each other. But we left on very good terms.

BY SEBASTIEN CATROUX

INSET
A NAME THAT SAYS A LOT

DURING THE TAKEOFF OF Alizee's career, Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat took care of their business. Shown on the TV series "Graine de Star" on M6, the kid records her first tile "Moi...Lolita", written by Farmer herself, and immediately is a sensation. Result: 1.5 million singles sold, Gold discs all the way to Germany and in the Netherlands. In Europe, her first album "Gourmandises", sold more than 4 million copies and even got spots in the British charts. Something never seen since Vanessa Paradis. On the subject of merchandise bearing her name (tee-shirts, hats...), they could have at the time brought in about 5 million euros for the Farmer-Boutonnat duo, via their editing company Requiem Publishing. A company who had also taken care of signing up the names Alizee and Moi Alizee to the INPI (National Patent Office). Result, the singer had to buy back her name from her ex-mentors to completely get her freedom back. S.C.

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02-22-2008, 12:08 PM

2007-12-06 - Le point
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POP

The revenge of the Lolitas

Alizee, 23, and Britney Spears, 26, come back with two albums to let people forget their excessive pasts... real or imaginary. Portraits.

BY SACHA REINS

Alizee (at left) and Britney Spears. Two different lives and two successful comebacks

Remember, it was seven years ago, that a young girl of 15 became with "Moi, Lolita" the star of the Champomy parties, worshipped by gays, and the heroine of a modern fairytale born in the enchanted kingdom of reality TV.

Unfortunate candidate of "Graines de Stars", the M6 show, she was seen by Mylene Farmer, who became her producer. With her sense of manipulation of fantasy applied to popular entertainment, she transformed this timid pre-adolescent into a troubling, seductive woman-girl.

Seven years, 3 million discs sold, seven Olympias, two worldwide tours and a baby even later, Alizee comes back with a new album. And if she could have been forgotten by a part of her audience (childhood successes are transitory), just before summer, Julien Dore, the new star of "La Nouvelle Star", had brought back her celebrated "Moi, Lolita". The road to return was open.

"I took my life into my own hands. For years, I did what people wanted me to do. I wore clothes that people chose for me, I said what people wanted me to say. I was 15, I let myself be guided. And then, at 20, when I had my daughter Annily, I learned that it was necessary that I become totally responsible for my life. I had a kid very young, for me, its normal. My mother had me very young and before that, her mother as well." The break with Mylene Farmer was also sped up by her meeting with the father of her daughter, Jeremy Chatelain, ex-minipunk candidate of "Star AcademY", who also dreamed of emancipation and artistic freedom. To be sure that he would never be manipulated again, he put up his own recording studio. Today, they can't be separated. "We drew up the list of our artistic dream team together, with people that we dreamed of working with. Without believing in it too much. We set the bar very high: Jean Fauque, Oxmo Puccino, Daniel Darc, Bertrand Bergalat. To our greatest surprise, they all accepted without hesitation."

"Psychedelices" was born like that, a kaleidoscope album that lightly changes between pop, hip-hop, and rock. Jean Fauque, author of some of the most beautiful songs of Bashung ("Dare Josephine", "I lie at night"), wrote seven songs, Daniel Darc, the ex-rocker with the nocturnal charm of Taxi-Girl, two, and Jeremy Chatelain took up the directing. "Daniel and Jean left from the darker areas that they evolve in, Alizee says. For me, they became lighter. The recording went on without any pressure at all because I evolved in complete freedom, finally my own producer, financially and artistically speaking. I was in a good school. I took a lot of notes when Mylene was doing this, and I applied it, seven years later, what I learned from her.

Alizee still respects her old mentor, refusing to tell us what their comments were after listening to the album, and continues to admire her old idol, Madonna. "Not a mistake in thirty years, the hight of perfection, the example to follow". Exclusively on a professional basis, because in her private life, the young French girl leads a life totally opposite to that of the "Material Girl". The sometime troubling images of the hot pre-adolescent communicated by her clips don't correspond to any present or past reality. "I am very much a stay-at-home girl, she says, I never go out to parties at night, I don't like night life. Between 15 and 18, during all the fuss, when I was tagging along across the world from palace to another, my mother never left my side for one instant. That is why I didn't go crazy. I am probably too sedate for a girl of my age. Maybe I will have my adolescent crisis at 30!" Might as well be in an eternity.

"Psychedelices, RCA/Sony BMG.

garçoncanadien

02-22-2008, 12:10 PM

2007-12-06 - Fan De Magazine
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Hiya Alizee!
You're finally back, but rumors of conflict between you and Mylene Farmer are going around! Are you in disagreement right now?
Melanie, 15

I am happy to have my audience back. I reassure you, Melanie, these rumors of a dispute are unfounded. Mylene and I, we get along well and we are still friends.

Jenifer, Alizee, and you, you are all releasing an album at about exactly the same time. Do you think this is competing with each other?

Chloe, 15

No! We have different worlds and styles. Its funny that we both come back at the same time into the limelight. And still, I prefer to not be the only one making a comeback. Alizee and Jenifer have grown up and evolved, like me! Between us, there is no rivalry, quite the contrary. We are delighted to see each other when we meet. When I am looking for a new team for my album, Jenifer didn't hesitate to give me the contact info of certain authors that she knew. We are here to help each other, not to compete with each other!

ALIZEE

"My daughter grew up at the same time as my album!"

After several years of absence and a baby, Alizee is back with a new album, called "Psychedelices". As the conductor, her husband and father of her child, the ex-Star Academy singer Jeremy Chatelain proposed a radically different musical world to her. The first single, called "Mademoiselle Juliette", with a devilish electro-rock rhythm, sets the scene.

By Julie Peroni

Why did you wait so long before releasing this album?

To do what one wants and to manage everything, that takes time. It is possible to record an album quickly, but in order to not regret anything afterwards we must take our time. The nights in the studio were great, thats where the songs too life. Its a step that one must not rush.

"I sent my album to Mylene Farmer!"

Can you describe Psychedelices to us?

This album is kind of complicated to describe, because many different musical world are in it. I would say that I got the best out of each of the authors: Jean Fauque and his play on words, the 80s influences of Daniel Darc, the talent of Bertrand Bergalat who brought a jazzy sound and the poetic rap of Oxmo Puccino. It was a challenge to reunite everything on my disc, to prove to the public that its not necessary to create cookie cutter music. An artist doesn't really like only one register.

Why didn't you write any of the songs?

I am a bit bashful and I have a hard time talking about myself. Writing is a talent, like singing or dancing, and I don't have this quality. Anyway, I prefer to work with professionals who really know how to do it.

If one word could define your album, what would it be?

Magical.

Do you fear that your audience will not give this album a warm welcome?

A bit, but my fans have grown up at the same time as I have, and I hope that they have had the same influences, and that they have the same references. This album is so eclectic that I think that they will find their tastes in it. Who knows it won't attract a new audience?

The song "L'effet" is about your daughter, was it important to dedicate a song to her?

It is a reference to my daughter who grew up at the same time as my album. I asked them to write a song about her, because that was close to my heart.

Jeremy Chatelain composed most of the songs. Is it easy to work with your hubby?

Jeremy shares my musical tastes, so it happened naturally. His world meshed well with mine and with those of the other artists who worked on the album. There was a real unity in the songs.

Have you thought about doing a duo?

(Laugh). Absolutely not. I don't see the point of doing a duo with the person I live with. When we do a duo, its to better know the other person and to create an experience. We already share a lot things, Jeremy and me, so we haven't even thought of it!

Have you sent your album to Mylene Farmer?

Sure! She was one of the first to listen to it. I don't regret our colloboration, quite the contrary. We are still on very good terms, contrary to what the naysayers think!

What do you think of the re-take of "Moi, Lolita" by Julien Dore?

It is quite rare for a song to be re-done so early (Seven years afterwards, editor's note.) His version is good, but its easy to do re-takes. We will see what he does with his own album. And still, a show will always be a show!

garçoncanadien

02-22-2008, 12:11 PM

2007-12-08 - Elle - nr.3232
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The Cultural Guide

Match, finally ladies!

Corsican lolita against a popstar from Nice (Corsican origin), a regional duel and pop at the summit.

ALIZEE

Background. Her native land is Corsica, but her godmother is Mylene, who discovered her in "Graines de Star". At 15, she released her new album, "Gourmandises", and becomes the icon of campings and gays.

Rebirth. After an eclipse because of her split with Farmer, of a marriage with Jeremy of the "Star Academy", she is back with a new album that her hubby worked on.

Music. 80's candy pop, forward thinking rap, electric ritornellos between Lio and Yelle: custom created by Dnaiel Darc, Jean Fauque, Oxmo Puccino, and Bertrand Bergalat.

Clip. Quite decadent, between a Chantal Thomass showroom and the party from "Eyes Wide Shut".

Whats at stake. The singer of "Moi Lolita", (re-done by Julien Dore) is she still in style?

heyamigo

02-22-2008, 12:24 PM

before i even read all this, damn garcon, are you on a winter break or something? you've been on a tear on these articles as of late!:D

garçoncanadien

02-22-2008, 12:41 PM

well, there is a more serious issue behind all this - but reality is that i can translate most of these articles in 15 mins a piece, the shorter articles in 5 min. I was a good student of French and English as a toddler :p

Sir Wood

02-22-2008, 02:13 PM

Dang Garçoncanadien, I've a lot of catch up reading to do. Merci beaucoup!

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:28 AM

2007-12-10 - TV Grandes Chaines
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Alizee "My album is family-style and artistic"

After four years of absence, Mylene Farmer's old student is back with Psychedelices, that she produced herself.

Does this album represent a new departure?

I have grown up. I don't regret what I did before and I will do my old songs again on the stage. But these new songs resemble me more. As producer, I dealt all the cards. I am more plain and direct. I am very proud of this album.

What did you do during this long break?

After having lived through four years of craziness, I decided to have a pause. I needed to lead a normal life. And then, I had a child. I am a satisfied mother, my girl comes before anything! If Psychedelices sells well, I will make sure to, above everything, preserve a peaceful family.

Why did you separate yourself from Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat?

I wanted to live my own experiences, free myself. Thanks to them, I was able to learn about the job and I was in a good school.

Jeremy Chatelain, your husband, is everywhere on this new album. Is this disc your second baby?

He shared my desires. He composed seven songs and participated in the direction. But it is still my album! I didn't get the impression that I was in a bubble with my husband. We worked together with the other artists. It is an artistic and family-style album.

Electro, hip-hop, pop,Psychedelices is eclectic!

I want the public to discover the different styles of music that I listen to. I collaborated with authors that I admire. Whether it be the rapper Oxmo Puccino, or Jean Fauque, the writer for Alain Bashung, it was me who knew to search them out! With my lolita label, it was quite a daring move. But to my great surprise, they accepted.

With his retake of Moi...Lolita, Julien Dore made quite a good advertisement for you, no?

His version is cool. I am simply stunned. Usually, we re-make old songs. Moi...Lolita has entered into music history. That's luck!

EMMANUELLE MAGNE

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:28 AM

2007-12-09 - Public
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ALIZEE AND JEREMY CHATELAIN

STILL NOT VALIDATED IN FRANCE!

Those two would certainly not have let things linger around...In March 2003, Jeremy meets Alizee. Eight months later, on the 6th of November, the couple ties the knot in Las Vegas. Against all expectations, their union came out to be really serious two years after their marriage, the lolita giving birth to a little girl. Today they just need to validate their marriage in France.

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:28 AM

2007-12-09 - Gala
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Clashing winds. ALIZEE stops the wind just short of Mylene Farmer's team. While doing the promotion for Psychedelices, the lolita certifies that she has stayed on good terms with her ex producer. In the latter's team, we still hear that the young Corsican was silent since her visit to the lawyers to cut the contract that bound them together. And that, despite the suggestion to work with other artists, notably Diams. Hair raising, did you say hair raising?

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:28 AM

2007-12-11 - Le monde
online version: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-987858,0.html
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Alizee and Lorie in the adult world

"Psychedelices" and "2LoreEnMoi", two albums with a pop-dance-electro ambiance

It could be called the Britney Spears Syndrome. Or how to evolve when one has started very early in singing from a public of pre- and young adolescents. Miss Spears, like the Australian Kylie Minogue before her, have firmed up their voices, showing leather or glamorous robes on stage and have put their flavour on the most fashionable music of the day. Today, it is Alizee (23, four albums) and Lorie (25, five albums) 's turn to enter into the adult world.

The label that adorns the case of 2LoreEnMoi? of Lorie shows things clearly: "New album, pop-dance-electro". And for Alizee, under the title Psychedelices, we see in purple letters (reference to LSD purple haze?) the announcement of "colloborations", with notably Bertrand Bergalat, Oxmo Puccino, or Daniel Darc, more often talked about by Les Inrockuptibles than by OK Magazine.

Lorie, in electrocution and Alizee in the smoky wisps of psychedelism. That is funny, in theory. But Lorie (who in concert changed her hairpin) hangs on with boomboxes and sythesizers of the same name as her CD. She confirms on "Kylie Minoguien" I am going quickly, Play, go forward more, with even a Madonna-like song with Pas un ange. The majority of the twelve songs were created by the following people: Fred Chateau (Obispo, Natasha St Pier...), Terry Ronald (Kylie Minogue) or Peer Alstrom (Janet Jackson, Madonna). In the duration of the album, some reliefs and contrasts are missing, but the whole thing is quite effective. The voice just needs to be more mature.

With Alizee, there is more diversity, even if the majority of the album is dance-pop. Which is exactly the case with the already successful and future standard Mademoiselle Juliette. We also hear memories of the original sponsorship of Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. Daniel Darc and Frederic Lo in Jamais Plus and Lonely List take the young girl towards more abstract environments, with a more sombre sound (Taxi Girl not far from the same) which match her very well.

As for the announced psyche, it happens mostly by the use of referenced terms - which speak mostly to the fourty-year-olds - like in the songs Fifty Sixty or Lily Town. Or in the final awesome song, L'Effet, with Bergalat as a multi-instrumentalist where Alizee expresses quite a bit of emotion.

SYLVAIN SICLIER

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:29 AM

2008-01-24 - DNA
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Les Enfoires heat up the Zenith

Being the reliable people that they are, Les Enfoires took possession of Zenith Strasbourg-Europe yesterday for the first of seven sold out concerts.

Smiles all night, from both the public, which was wooed in advance, and from the artists present on stage.

This traditional tour allows us to see that Coluche's spirit is still very alive thanks to his Restaurants of the Heart. Always looking for formulas where the show happens as a unifying force of an enthousiastic public, the bunch of Enfoires concerts has gone above the level of a cocktail program that stars wait on. The show has found its calling, even its distinction, through a back-and-forth of help and support of the association, whose mission has never been more crucial.

For joy and emotion

Back to the stage. Memory of a time when even those younger than 20 must know about it, the group of Enfoires repeats several oldies of French pop with several digressions towards international pop or rock, the whole thing nevertheless taking the form o f a musical with sketches, jokes... that night, it was all about piercing the secrets of Les Enfoires.

A public that goes above all for that: to get swept away by the words and the notes, for the sincerity and professionalism, for the joy and the emotion. A true definition of popular song.

The ramparts of an imaginary Middle Ages city were used as the set, panels slided, trapdoors opened and closed.

The crowd hushes. The notes of City of Light grabs their attention. Small boats arrive on both sides of the stage. Their occupants are dressed and masked to go to the Carnival. Venice? Bale? Then, then leave their boats to finish the song and show themselves to the public, who already, recognized quite a few of them: there are Jean-Jacques Goldman, Francis Cabrel, Nolwenn Leroy, Pascal Obispo, Maxime le Forestier, Michele Larque, Mimie Mathy...

The sign of more than three hours of timeless hits, that the public salutes them with a big round of applause, and even mumbles the songs themselves. The voices are accompanied by a solid group for a show alternating between ambiances that are sometimes sealed, and sometimes lifted.

When Les Enfoires redo the Wampas and their Manu Chao, rearranged for the occasion, or Argent, trop cher by Telephone, we hear the voices better. We hear more than this success blunted by habit, by the familiarity of it.

Elsa, Marc Lavoine, Frederic Diefenthanl and Francis Cabrel sang without difficulty a gripping Toi, la télé et moi.

Because, following the example of repertoire used, most of Les Enfoires know that these songs have their lot of common themes. And that the public that it is targeted to is commonly bashful. Anyway, the canvasses of the Zenith are still shaking.

JOEL ISSELE

garçoncanadien

02-23-2008, 11:30 AM

a round of applause for Max_Jeuxeg_Emiens, who translated it to French for me first to make my life easier ;)

--Edit--
Ok, here is all of the pages of the article released in Mexican magazine called Gente.

Big thank to person who scanned them for me.

2008-02-03 (?) - Gente - Mexico

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ALIZEE

At only 16, the girl that was born in Corsica, she conquered that hearts of those who saw her in 2000, in the show "Graines de Star". Three years afterwards, she married the singer Jeremy Chatelain and in 2005, she had her first daughter, Anny-Lee (Annily). Today, the sexy French girl realizes that motherhood propelled her back onto stage and makes her continue with her growing career.

Her name is an homage to the tradewinds that come towards the blue expanse of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic Ocean, music always being close to her life, taking her even closer to dance and afterwards placing her as one of the best singers in France. However, in 2005, Alizee (23) decided decided to take a break to become a mother to her first daughter: Anny-lee (2), whom she had with her husband Jeremy Chatelain (23), who also came from a music show : Star Academy 2. Motherhood and the anxiety of going back on stage brought the French lolita to think about the best way of doing a comeback. At the end of 2007 she came back with "Psychedelices", a disc that she defines as the one most like her and she would like to visit Mexico. But before that, Alizee was a funny tourist guide for the City of Lights, Paris, which is considered as the best place in the world to make purchases.

You have lived four years in Paris. How would you define this city?

It is big, maybe too big for me, who is used to living in a city of 60 000 in Corsica. For me, I like shopping and the best place is the capital of fashion but on the other hand, traffic is a nightmare! (Laughs).

What was leaving Corsica like, when you started your career?

When I recorded my first single I was 15, and my mother was always with me. I traveled and was situated in a hotel for three days to do promotions, and then I went back to Corsica. When I left at 18 I started to travel alone and I had to prepare my team every week, which is something that tired me, which is why I decided to move into Paris, its much better to go back to your own home after work.

What places do you like here?

The terrace of the "Cafe of the Trocadero Man"; there is a really beautiful view towards the Eiffel Tower.

In 2005 you became the mother of a beautiful young girl. How did it change your life?

It was something important in both my personal and professional life. Becoming a mother made me understand which things are really worth having, and motivated me even more to continue my work and to give the best to the public.

What do you do when you go to the "Tuileries Garden" and "The Concord"?

I love "The Tuileries Garden"! Its a beautiful place where you can go to walk with your family, exercise, bike, and eat cotton candy! In summer, I used to commonly go there with my daughter Annily, who liked it a lot too.

What is the dynamic like, of being a mother and going back to the stage?

I try to adapt my agenda. I am very happy to be able to combine my passion for singing with the experience of being a mother. I try to make the best of it.

You a success, but you have weaknesses like everybody. Today, what are your greatest fears?

I don't think I worry about anything, except illnesses, I think that would be the only that would prevent me from realizing my dreams.

And what is your biggest weakness?

Candy, I am the worst kind of candy eater. When I go into a candy store I always leave with an enormous bag, it should make me feel guilty! (Laughs) I prefer little gummies and specifically little bears covered in chocolate.

How was the process of making "Psychedelices"?

I started to think about what I wanted to do for my new album and bit by bit things came along, I asked myself whom I wanted to work with, who agreed and then we spent around about two years making the disc.

This album has influences from "The Cure" or "Bjork". How did you decide to go away from pop?

I wanted to do something that was not totally different, but that constituted an evolution and that sounded like the music that I like, like "The Cure","Matmos", "The Neptunes" and "The Killers".

Deep down, are you a rocker girl?

Yes, its true, in this album you will find rock and other sounds like electro and hip-hop. In Psychedelices I obtained composers from different worlds that pleased me. I tried to make the album the happiest possible, and for it to have a lot of imagination, even if there are references to "Alicia in the country of the best" and films of Tim Burton, that, in addition to being films that I like, influenced me a lot.

Is the road to becoming a star easier when that star comes from a TV show?

It depends. Effectively, its the chance to be on a program that will get your name out, but it is necessary to not stop working even for one moment, it is necessary to keep meeting people and to never let your guard down.

How did you find out that you were very famous in Mexico?

Six months ago, I was surfing the net and I understood that in Mexico I was very welcomed and that in addition, there were people who liked my music. So since then, I have received many messages from fans from over there. I felt pleasantly surprised, truthfully I am very anxious to go to Mexico and to make the most of the trip, so sometimes I went to several countries just to work and come back, it made me frustrated because I was not able to visit and get to know anything, but I hope that Mexico will be an exception.

What is the best part of this career?

I think that it was the first time I was on stage, in a great room in Paris, that is called the Olympia. It was like my crowning moment, I felt a lot of pride.

What dream or dreams have you not realized yet?

I think, to get to know Madonna one day. Why not? I could sing with her. (Laughs.)

SilentFox

02-23-2008, 01:38 PM

Nice there garçoncanadien! thxs alot there man!

Runner Simon

02-23-2008, 02:02 PM

This will take some hours to get through :D
Anyway thanks man.

Tical 808

02-23-2008, 02:52 PM

Thanks for the translations :)

lefty12357

02-23-2008, 05:11 PM

You're my hero, Garçon !

rcs

02-23-2008, 08:35 PM

Boy, Oliver Nicklaus was pretty tough on the poor girl. What makes him a fashion expert? :blink:

Also, another thing I share with Alizee--Gummi Bears...miam, miam. :p

garçoncanadien

02-24-2008, 02:05 PM

The full article in better resolution and slightly edited by me (Scans by Hermes) :
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And 2 out of 3 photos separated edited slightly (the third one is pointless to edit from this scan. Need better scan of the photo) :
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ALIZEE TECHNO GIRL

Who said that girls don't know anything about a computer? Not Alizee! We met the singer during the release of her new album, "Psychedelices". Interview with a charming geek, an absolute fan of the iPod.

A rude awakening on a February morning... Hard to get up, even the iPod would refuse to get out of its case! Only enough time to get a cafe and to get warmed up near the road by the big Parisian hotel where we invited Alizee. The singer is back after three years of absence. The time was used to have a baby and to conceive an album. Just like the sound of her new disc, the young woman has matured. Finished with playing lolita under the leadership of the duo of Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. The little Ajaccio girl broke with her mentors who discovered her during the show Graines de Star on M6. The artist affirms herself in life without denying anything about the past and takes her career into her own hands, knocking on the door of Alain Bashung's favourite author, Jean Fauque, or of the sombre Daniel Darc, singer of Taxi-Girl. That gives quite a mix to the intersection of pop, and even rap. An eclectisism done in her image, likeable and quite the opposite of the singer marketed by her record company. Alizee shows her tastes like her addictions for boys toys. The iPod and and the Mac are very important to her daily life. She's arriving now, smiling despite looking tired from doing seven Enfoires concerts for the Restos du Coeur in only five days. Meeting.

SVMiPod - You are back from the Enfoires concert... Tired but happy?

Alizee - The Enfoires tour is an interesting moment. It is a bit like a summer camp, you sacrifice your own interests for the interests of the whole group. This year, the show was changed into a play, we put on costumes, we have fun! Most of the artists don't feel nervous at all, when we are singing in front of 10 000 people...

You and your iPod, are you inseparable?

I always have it with me, even during concerts. With the Enfoires, we each have to sing about fifteen songs, and my MP3 player allows me to rehearse. Same with the TV shows, where I am frequently asked to sing several different versions of the songs on the album: I take my iPod, I listen and I count the number of refrains, its a great reminder (laughs...)! All the artists that I work with have an iPod, and that doesn't even count MacBooks or iPhones. During the creation of the album, I kept all the different versions of my songs on my mp3 player, from the initial draft to the first time I sang it, with the musicians recordings... In summary, the iPod is an amazing work tool, but thats not their only role. I like to see films as well. When I go flying, I take my iPod so my daughter can look at cartoons. She was born with an iPod, she doesn't even know what it's like to fly without an mp3 player! My iPod is also quite useful for sports. I don't do sports anymore without music and without a playlist that I let the thing run, and time flies!

How do you explain the success of the iPod?

For girls, its above all a fashionable thing that comes in different colours, that we can engrave... All the biggest brand names make accessories for it, like Chanel or even Vuitton who have released cases for the iPhone even before its release! Its also ultrasimple, like everything else that is stamped with an apple.

Aren't you afraid that the usage of mp3 players supports illegal downloads?

No, mp3 players are not at the source of piracy, its the price of progress and the Internet... we can't do anything about it, we made a lot of laws, it was a battle lost before it begun, unless we go back to vinyl records. I think we should prepare for the death of the CD.

Are you a fan of the first days of its release?

I found out about the iPod via the Mac. During my tour at the end of 2003, I went into a store to get a Powerbook. I wanted to get the best out of three months travelling and musicians' advice, who all work on Mac computers, to really get into it. And then, when I saw the iPod beside the Mac, I really fell for it! Then, I really loved the Mini rose, a limited edition Hello Kitty that I ordered in Japan, until the day when a funny icon appeared on the screen, a person with little eyes and a smiling mouth. I tried everything to reboot it, pressing both buttons at the same time without success... its my little girl who inherited it as a toy, to do the same thing. Then, I went to the black Nano, all the way to the new Classic 80 Go gray that I received as a birthday present.

You aren't convinced by the Touch?

16 GB of memory is not good enough. With my Nano, already, I had to keep selecting bits of music in iTunes. It is too frustrating when someone like me has a musical library that is 40GB in size! I prefer to take all my music in my pocket. The Touch, I give to my husband (Jeremy Chatelain: editors note), I gave him one for Christmas.

According to you, the status of geek is no longer reserved for just guys?

Effectively, since I have always liked new things in technology... Finally, a few years ago, I blamed myself for only liking guy things! When I started to earn my own salary, I spent as much money on gadgets as handbags, my two passions! I love going to Japan to shop in high tech shops. There, they have several story buildings where each floor is reserved for cameras, videocamcorders, computers, quite a surrealistic thing! Quite modestly, I have learned some stuff and today I know more than my husband...(laugh). With him, I play the customer service representative. Its my dad who is responsible for me liking this stuff, and he is proud of it. I have always had computers at the house, I have photos where you can see me as a little kid beside a piano. When I have a problem, I will troubleshoot for hours why it doesn't work. It's only in really difficult situations that I call my dad up. Besides, he always picks up the phone and says "Apple Assistance, hello!"

What do you use your computer for?

I do a bit of everything. In total, I have 21000 photos that I keep track of with iPhoto or Aperture (that my dad told me about), and, definitely, Photoshop to do some retouching. I also like making some small movie cuts with iMovie to show them on my iPod for people close to me: vacations during making-of the recording of my last album while going through my dad's birthday...In 2003, I called him during a concert with 4000 people to tell him happy birthday. The makeup artist filmed in the wings of the set and I put everything on my Mac to give to him. Its a unique gift that particularly touched him.

Do you use the Net a lot? Do you personally work on your site?

Artists official websites are heavy and difficult to keep up to date. I prefer to use MySpace with is really accessible to everybody, to publish new photos and news. Therefore, I keep up my pages everyday and I receive fans messages directly... I am naturally on FaceBook, but there, its more personal.

What digital device has not been invented yet that you dream about?

Something that can drive everything in the house (from TV to food), like the iPhone, at the touch of a finger. And so something I liked a lot on my iMac and the other manufacturers should get ideas from: it only has one wire! And that, for a girl who is doing housework, its very important...

By Olivier Frigara

I BLAMED MYSELF FOR ONLY LIKING GUYS THINGS!

MP3 PLAYERS ARE NOT AT THE SOURCE OF PIRACY

HER SITES

The Geek Journal: this site talks about current gadgets.

Nitrolicious: A fashion blog that is about the latest bags, sneakers, and even MacBOok Air. I could have done it myself, it is quite like me.

Clubic: I get little shareware programs that I need for my Mac there.

Purse Blog: A blog on It Bags, these timeless high fashion bags like Hermes' Kelly.

FaceBook: This is the fasion site. Its cool to keep in contact... But in the end, I think I will get tired of it.

Sold Out: Collete's store website. I order sneakers or clothes that you can only find there.

HER PLAYLIST

Gorillaz - Dare

I am totally a fan. I adore the graphical universe of the clip!

Madonna - La Isla Bonita

I had the chance to sing it in her presence during a special show on France 2.

The Killers - Somebody Told Me

It is my favourite group and the reference album for the creation of my last CD.

50 Cent and Justin Timberlake - Ayo Technology

I am not very hip hop, but there, I have always had feelings for that music!

The Beatles - Let it Be

The song for my dad. Everytime I listen to it, I think about him.

IN HER BAG

A Beez pink robe: it looks like a big Malabar. There is nothing that could be better for protecting the MacBook.

A FreecomToughDrive Pink Hard Drive: 250 GB always in my hand, for pictures of my daughter!

A Blackberry: A work tool, above all.

A LG Shine telephone: I adore its good luck charm, a USB keychain drive of 2GB, that it is attached to. Its a gift from my dad.

A paper Louis Vuitton agenda book: I have had too many problems with the electronic version...

A MontBlanc in its case: I signed my first contract as a producer with this pen. I am sure it will give me good luck!

Ray-Ban sunglasses: these are Wayfarers, that my dad used to wear for a long time and that are now back in fashion again. I use them to remind me of the Ajaccio sun.

rcs

02-24-2008, 04:10 PM

Good info, way different and diverse than previous interviews. I love it. Guess this answers what kind of PC she has and how she feels about IPODs and so forth. She's quite the JBG with all kinds of gadgets. She knows more than me...Go Lili. She'd be a blast to go shopping with. We like the same stuff.

Also noted: Attention Japanese fans, sounds like she's still active as far as traveling is concerned. She could be visiting right under our noses...:)

Moi-aimes-Alizée

02-24-2008, 04:32 PM

Very nice So much info that it will take days maybe weeks or months to take all in. But Very much thanks mate I am pleased and amazed to see how much late quotes and info there really is from and about Alizée ;)

Tchaikovsky

02-24-2008, 05:11 PM

Thanks Garcon. Keep up the good work.

Chommpers

02-24-2008, 06:13 PM

Thanks for all the traslations garcon, I really liked this interview, we have known she was a techno girl, but I dont remember any articles asking this many questions about what tech stuff she is into. She is a Apple lover woo hoo :D. I don't know it's pretty cool to hear shes into a lot of the same stuff as me, my dad also got me into computers, apple, and all recent technology.

Hmmm I wonder if she know's its Steve Jobs birthday, he is 53 today.

ciarac77

02-25-2008, 01:30 AM

Thanks garçoncanadien! These translations have been a great source for furthering my already out-of-control procrastination habits...and I'm ok with that. Your work is very much appreciated!

Ali

02-25-2008, 03:25 AM

Thanks for the tranlation garco. You have done an excellent job. :)

Yaceman

02-25-2008, 03:47 AM

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Get it done Alizee^^^

Moi-aimes-Alizée

02-25-2008, 06:17 AM

:) She got a nice mp3 :p like 40 times better than mine ;)

Renegade

02-25-2008, 08:19 AM

All I got is an I-pod Nano.
The bad thing is that my I-pod is already full.

ggin

02-25-2008, 09:25 AM

I have the same iPod as Alizee!!! But mine is the 160 GB. If I gave her an iPod it would have been the biggest one! In fact I would give her mine!

Amigo!

02-25-2008, 10:24 AM

40 GB... Oh my... :blink:

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever catch up to that.

Well, not anytime soon :p

brad

02-25-2008, 01:04 PM

awesome gc! thanks for this, great work man :D

Sir Wood

02-29-2008, 12:56 AM

Anyone know the rest of the article about Jenifer?

http://moi-alizee.us/forums/showpost.php?p=92839&postcount=37

Since it's a comparision article I think it is important to have too.

Thanks in advance! (I'm trying to put all these to PDF so I can print and have reading materials during the plane ride since I don't have a laptop.)

--Edit--
Okay I think I have the gist of it, if someone can double check the work:
JENIFER

Background. Losing “Graines de Star”, this Nice of Corsican origin wins the “Star Academy” first place. She becomes, at 19, with her first album, the idol of the housewives under 50 and the various barons.

Rebirth. After a break due to a meeting (with the handsome Maxim Nucci) and the birth of Aaron (in 2003), releases a third album, worked by her man.

Music. Sexy-coppered Reggae, Arabic melody, pop-rock'n'roll enveloping: an album diverse but exciting, composed and carried out by Maxim Nucci and written by David Verlant.

Clip. A homage to Harold Lloyd, with Jenifer being Hitchcockian and chic.

Whats at stake. The performer of "Au Soleil" to be a French Beyoncé?

CFHollister

02-29-2008, 01:47 AM

gc, you are freakin' amazing; merci baecoup!!!
'Nuff said.

garçoncanadien

02-29-2008, 08:01 AM

Fralizee

02-29-2008, 08:35 AM

You rock, garconcanadien!
Thanks for all the translations!

garçoncanadien

03-01-2008, 04:14 PM

Scans of Life Star from Nidalizée

2008-02-22 - Life Star - #3 - pages 56 to 57
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ALIZEE
Her Best Damn Thing

We dug up our little notes for Alizee about a wide variety of themes to know her tastes a bit better, we discover a young woman who is simple, funny, and cultivated.

Cinema

(Films that you have memorized the lines to)

Alizee: There are quite a few. Films like "La Boum", which was on TV during Christmas and that I watched for sure. "Dirty Dancing" by memory too. Afterwards, there are cartoons in the "Aladdin" style that I liked a lot and that I am looking at again with my daughter. In the TV series, there is "Friends" that I know the best, its one of the first TV series that I watched, I have the DVDs at the house and I remember the lines very well.

Resolutions

A.: To not bite my nails anymore, try to go to Corsica more often because I don't always have time, try to eat less candy because I have a sweeth tooth and above all try to do a concert tour. Before everything, to be able to balance family life and stage life, I hope to be able to bring my daughter along with me. To share the album with the public who has already welcomed it very well.

VCR
(What you don't ever wanna miss)

A.: I rarely watch the TV, I look at a lot of TV series, I buy then or I look at them online like everybody. Its above all the series. When there is a new one, I watch the first episode or I record it, I try to see if I like it.

TV Series
(What TV series actor could you be?)

A.: I hesitate... It could be a mix between Monica from "Friends" and of Suzn and Lynette of "Desperate Housewives". Not a bad mix! One could create a new one. We can't identify with just one of the characters because they are extreme, but thats cool because we can identify a little bit with all of them. And we can relate with them in some situations, but not all the time. Otherwise, I am "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy", and "Prison Break". I have "Six Feet Under" on DVD at the house, "Sexy & The City" that I know by memory and "Friends" for sure. I tried "Lost" and "Heroes", but it didn't really catch my eye. Maybe its not girly enough (laughs).

TV Shows

I like to do shows where I can sing, speak about music and all that but when I need to speak about my life, the "why", I don't like that so much. There are shows like Cauet, its funny, we are there more to have fun, and I go there relaxed. Everything that I do, I choose ahead of time to not regret it if I don't feel it. I don't go onto a TV show to sell people but to sell music.

I am "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy", and "Prison Break". I have "Six Feet Under" on DVD at the house, "Sexy & The City" that I know by memory and "Friends" for sure.

Ipod
(What you listen to over and over again)

A.: For a long time, I have been listening to Mika. I have also liked Christophe Willem's album a lot. Otherwise, when I started to record my album, I listened to Gwen Stefani, Gorillaz, and The Killers over and over again, these are the three albums that I was most inspired from. I wanted to have the urban aspect, tangy and well worked from Gwen Stefani. At the level of the sound, the cartoons and the narration of the Gorillaz inspired me, and The Killers, artistically, its the album that I like the most. To explain what I like musically, it was necessary to have examples for the guys I worked with. When its known what I listened to, we feel a bit of this influence more.

Internet

A.: I am very well versed with the computer, I go on the Internet a lot. I worked a lot with the people who do my official site to make something that resembles me and that is very interactive. Myspace, I try to use it, I read all my messages but it is impossible to respond to all of them. Facebook, I used it too, but its more personal, for my friends, I don't use it professionally like I do with Myspace.

Interviews
(Do you pay attention to what you say in interviews?)

A.: It depends. If I need to, I read, but I don't buy magazines. I avoid reading it because I am always scared of the way that they will edit what I said. In retrospect, I read all the chronicles because it is interesting to know people's opinion about my music. I took two years to make the album and it is very important to me see what people think. I rarely see negative chronicles, if its the case, I will see if what is written is judiciously done. I tell myself that I can't satisfy everybody, if its well written and constructed, I understand it very well.

alizee-officiel.com, myspace.com/alizee-officiel and nidalizee.com

DISCO: RCA/SONY-BMG MUSIC

garçoncanadien

03-01-2008, 04:15 PM

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ALIZEE

Welcome to the Psychedelice fashion world of Alizee!

"I spend all my money on clothes"

Hi Alizee! What's on your clothes budget?

Alizee: I adore clothes, I am really crazy about them! I will admit it, I spend all my money on clothes... At the same time, the T shirt that I am wearing today cost 9.90 Euros!

We first knew you as a lolita...

Its true, and I don't regret any of it. At 15, I thought it was funny to wear clothes that really didn't match me. But today at 23, I want to wear stuff that matches me.

What is your style in 2008?

A style of tangy pop with freshness. A lot of sneakers since I am a fan of them, even with robes on. I also make sure to not be too fashionable, so that I don't look like a has-been in only six months.

You dress on the stage like you do in the city?

I asked myself this question for the third album: Am I going to play a character or be myself? I also wanted the girls to relate to it. I opted for clothes that I like but that I couldn't wear every day.

The last thing that you fell for?

A pair of unique sneakers that I had done on an internet site that you can personalize the pair that you order. Everybody stops me on the street to ask me where I got them from!

Her model: "Vanessa Paradis is a reference for me".

2000: "At the time, I went shopping with Mylene Farmer".

2001: "This costume worked well with my album Gourmandises".

2002: "Mylene had designed models for each song on my second album".

2003: "I was no longer on promotion, so I got a bit more relaxed with the style".

-MihaiL-

03-01-2008, 04:33 PM

That was interesting, thank you. :)

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:03 PM

2008-03-06 - Paru Vendu - n164
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With Psychedelices, Alizee lets the winds of freedom blow upon her third album! Four years after the extraordinary adventure of Moi...Lolita orchestrated by the Mylene Farmer/Laurent Boutonnat team, the ex-lolita is from now on a freed artist who knew how to work with talented authors like Bertrand Bergalat, Oxmo Puccino, or even Jeremy Chatelain who give a sound that is much more rock to her new work.
Interview by Tony GOMEZ

Alizee: The new flight

Alizee, first of all bravo, because your album is like something from the eighties and is very interesting to listen to...

Thank you! I don't know if it will be the same in three or four years but today, I can't make an album that resembles me more than this one!

It shows. This album, is one of freedom but also of artistic colloboration with Jeremy Chatelain...

Jeremy directed the album with Sylvain Carpentier. They kind of linked everybody together because there are several small teams that participated on this album and Jeremy and Sylvain allowed, despite the different worlds, everything to be coherent. Each song has its world and tells its own story, musically or in texts, but there is always a common thread. We go from one song to another with distinct thoughts but we are not lost because the songs form a group.

Effectively there are lots of different authors who worked on this album like Oxmo Puccino, Jean Fauque, Daniel Darc, Bertrand Bergalat...

These are authors who have a lot of talent. Those are the only authors that I have loved so much! They have a certain way of writing which is not the same but that mix well and I was truly seduced. Notably by Jean Fauque who plays with words and plays on double meanings. I do a bit of that because Mylene Farmer used a lot of word plays, on the confusing side, notably on sexuality. Jean Fauque is more subtle and more mature, he corresponds more to my current age.

"If somebody makes me happy, I decided to work with him/her. I think thats what expresses my sincerity"

The musical philosophy, even artistic of this album is much like the eighties, no?

Yes, I like this sound! That of the eighties, notably Madonna who I have always adored, more particularly when she was just starting out. I have listened to lots of different things so that it doesn't get cheap and that it is contemporary but effectively with several references to the sound of the eighties. I think that even then, you can instantly recognize which songs Daniel Darc wrote. And without any pretense on my part, there are some sounds that makes one think about what Blondie did, another artist that I love...

We recognize you in all these songs, there is a real sincerity...

I work on the human level and this album was based on that. I have a hard time working with people when guys tell you it would be nice to work with them. I don't work like that. I am quite direct and honest. If somebody makes me happy, I decide to work with them, if not I will move on to something else. I think that expresses my honesty. I took the time to be able to make an album that makes me happy, and that I hope will make other people happy. The time to do things the way I want them has come. I don't want to hide myself behind something that doesn't work for me. Through all the songs, I rarely talk in the first person. First of all, I have a hard time talking about myself, even with my closest friends, and I find it more interesting to open up to others. It is like projecting oneself into roles that one could do in cinema. I think its important to tell stories, to take people on journeys. We are not forced to make an album that speaks about difficulties. I don't think about music that way...

I really like the 80's sound, notably Madonna that I have adored since her start

This album is also quite a piece of poetry...

Yes that's true, with other things like the title Psychedelices. A very beautiful song that really reflects what there is in this album, according to me. I like Bjork a lot. At my humble level, I wanted to have a song that would be in his world... Psychedelices I think is a beautiful word. When I was given this word, I thought it was very fine, subtle, and very beautiful. As the title of the album, it sums up its world very well. Psyche for all the sounds that are a bit closed off, a bit like in the 80s and the psychedelic current. Delice for the tangy pop side of the the album!

A song that I think is very beautiful is the one that is at the end and that talks about being a mother...

That is the song that is the closest to me. It is the one that tells the story of a mother's life. With it, I open up to the public and talk about myself. There, I can't lie and I assume that role completely. It is one of my favourites because its a song about my family. My daughter was born just when I started to work on the album. Jean Fauque described all that: the birth of my daughter and her first steps. He saw her grow up so he was in a good position! It closes the album well because now I am a mother with responsibilities and I jumped into the adult world.

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:14 PM

Hit Machine Girl n°72
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Alizée
"I am very romantic!"

Her most recent album intitled "Psychedelices" let us discover a new facet of her personality. The mysterious and vibrant Alizee admits to being a bit romantic, but she doesn't lack character. Today, she succeeded in reconciling her family life with her career. Anyhow, for her life is good!

I forgot the words of "Moi Lolita" on stage!

Most recently, what has made you green with rage?

Getting around in a car, notably in Paris, can make me go crazy. (Laugh). This city is full of bad drivers. Between those people who don't move, those who drive like crazies and those who never respect the right of way, there are plenty of chances to get irritated. Fortunately, I have never had an accident, but one must stay prudent behind the wheel, because one can quickly get nervous.

What makes you red with pleasure?

When my honey gives me flowers. I adore that. I have a lot of luck, because he does it a lot!

Are you romantic?

Yes, I am very romantic. I like films that talk about beautiful stories of love, dinner dates, surprises... But remember, I don't get into silliness, one musn't overdo it.

Most recently, what has made you go white like a piece of laundry?

I was sick a few weeks ago. I got a stomach bug. For several days, I was not feeling well. I was so sick that I was stuck to the bed. It was a bad memory.

When did you get red with shame for the first time?

It happens when I forgot the words to my songs on stage. It is horrible! The last time, I was in the middle of singing "Moi...Lolita", what could seem unbelievable, because its the one that I have sung the most since my first steps into music. (Laugh). Fortunately, the audience is always there to catch this kind of mistakes.

Who would you let to totally make decisions for you?

To my husband, without hesitation! Today, we work hand in hand, we live together, we share everything. I know that, if, one day, he must make decisions for me, he will do his best to fulfill my wishes completely. He knows me so well that he can't make a mistake.

Are you a good cook?

Not at all, cooking is not my thing! (Laugh). I try, sometimes, to make nice little dishes, but its never a great success. I know how to make the minimum, like cream pastries, but nothing more. (Laugh). That said, I have luck, because my lover does it!

Do you ever get depressed?

Its rare. Its not in my character to get depressed and to get down in the dumps. I can get sad, like everybody else, but I come to my senses very quickly.

Are you a gardener?

No, not really. I adore flowers, but I have never had plants in my house and I would not know how to work with them.

Which celebrity would you want to give the red card to, and why?

To Paris Hilton. She often goes beyond the limits of reason and she is too crazy. We should not have had to get the same education! (Laugh).

Do you see life in pink? (GC's note: is life good for you?

Yes, totally! I am very happy. I am in a job that I love and I am living my passion. Both myself and those close to me are in good health, and I have an extraordinary family! When I was younger, I did not imagine that I could have such a good life. I am satisfied.

Whom would you like to see punished?

I don't have any intentions to see anybody punished. I am not a spiteful person. I prefer to forget those who have harmed me, and those who have disappointed me, quite simply.

What is your favourite colour?

Purple. I wear it a lot.

What colour do you hate?

I don't like yellow very much.

by Julie MOISSON
TRADUCTION PAR GARCONCANADIEN

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:14 PM

2008-03-03 - Closer - n142
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Play with Closer

After a four year absence, I have come back onto stage with my album Psychedelices. The lolita that I was made a place was replaced by a Miss Juliette, crazy in love with her Romeo alias Jeremy Chatelain. Who am I?

Participate in the game on www.closermag.fr, Slot "Game", rubric "Star Mystery", and win dozens of gifts...

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:14 PM

2008-03-08 - Le Figaro
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The French Music Scene is United for the Restos du Coeur

True to their work for more than twenty years, les Enfoires follow in the footsteps of Coluche and the Restos du Coeur. Tonight, 40 artists will be on stage, on TF1, for a concert recorded in the Zenith of Strasbourg. Jean-Jacques Goldman, who spent a big portion of his energy on organizing this yearly concert, told the Figaro. And he also says, contrary to rumours, that he is preparing neither an album nor a stage comeback.

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:14 PM

2008-03-08 - Var Matin
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Alizee passes like a breeze and blows kisses...

In the dining hall installed behind the Zenith, they are all there. Starved. Even Benabar isn't avoiding this meal. De Palmas is eyeing the ham, and Goldman is alone walking towards the sausage. And Nolween Leroy looks tired. Julien Clerc asks that we give him a seat, Jenifer would prefer a seat under the sun. Francis Cabrel? He isn't there yet: we saw him finding the "cabin at the end of the garden". As for Alizee, she passes like a breeze and blows kisses. Towards the desserts... Between bites of food, the stars of the French music scene confess their "Pleasure of being there." If the sincerity of the information isn't there, the words used to express it hardly vary: they are "touched", "honoured" that "the great teacher Goldman" (said Obispo) had "thought about them". Certain people, like Catherine Lara, explain that they had reserved their seats "one year in advance". It is a "must" for them, but also a "true delight".

Promised, sworn, the shadow of an ego problem not polluting these annual reunions. And we tried to believe them, seeing them swallowing a last bite before putting on the strangest costumes, ready to joyously dominate the shows of their little colleagues.

As for the artistic plan, the 2008 Enfoires show is not bigger than the previous ones. But this "detail" is swept by the enthusiasm of the artists, by their excitement in making fun of themselves. At the arrival, we have a good time anyway.

L.P.
TRADUCTION PAR GARCONCANADIEN

Tical 808

03-14-2008, 10:46 PM

Thanks for the translations! They really help us english-only readers :D

garçoncanadien

03-14-2008, 10:49 PM

you are welcome guys
i am happy to be an ambassador ;)

rcs

03-14-2008, 11:25 PM

...Yes, I like this sound! That of the eighties, notably Madonna who I have always adored, more particularly when she was just starting out. ...And without any pretense on my part, there are some sounds that makes one think about what Blondie did, another artist that I love...

I loved Blondie growing up. This is great!

Roman

03-17-2008, 07:56 AM

...
Alizee: The new flight
...Wow. Really good interview. I had some trouble understanding some of it, but she really seems to project a lot of emotion in this one.
Garçon, you have to be one of my favorite people now.:D

I like the colors one too. So, now for the next ten years we will say that she doesn't like yellow instead of green.

Hyrus

03-18-2008, 03:16 AM

Hello garçoncanadien, I was wondering if u would be kind enough to translate the following interview for us as well :o

http://www.lejournaldesplages.com/2008/03/06/740-alizee-je-fonctionne-beaucoup-a-lhumain

And thanks very much for sharing all these translations with us. I really appreciate your hard work :D

heyamigo

03-18-2008, 04:35 AM

Which celebrity would you want to give the red card to, and why?

To Paris Hilton. She often goes beyond the limits of reason and she is too crazy. We should not have had to get the same education! (Laugh).

Whom would you like to see punished?

I don't have any intentions to see anybody punished. I am not a spiteful person. I prefer to forget those who have harmed me, and those who have disappointed me, quite simply.

hmm..isn't the red card sort of a punishment? :p

What colour do you hate?

I don't like yellow very much.

so she didn't like the alizee en concert yellow outfit? :(

Tical 808

03-18-2008, 05:50 AM

It probably wasn't her choice during the concert. She was still under Mylene's wing back then :)

garçoncanadien

03-18-2008, 07:21 AM

Hyrus

03-18-2008, 03:08 PM

Hyrus that is here ;)

http://www.moi-alizee.us/forums/showpost.php?p=95448&postcount=72

Oh gosh. Since that interview appeared on an actual magazine, I thought it was different from the web article. Sorry bud, I didn’t notice both were the same :p

SilentFox

03-18-2008, 05:03 PM

thxs there GC! :D keep them coming there man!

Future Raptor Ace

03-18-2008, 05:10 PM

Alizée
"I am very romantic!"

Her most recent album intitled "Psychedelices" let us discover a new facet of her personality. The mysterious and vibrant Alizee admits to being a bit romantic, but she doesn't lack character. Today, she succeeded in reconciling her family life with her career. Anyhow, for her life is good!

I forgot the words of "Moi Lolita" on stage!

Most recently, what has made you green with rage?

Getting around in a car, notably in Paris, can make me go crazy. (Laugh). This city is full of bad drivers. Between those people who don't move, those who drive like crazies and those who never respect the right of way, there are plenty of chances to get irritated. Fortunately, I have never had an accident, but one must stay prudent behind the wheel, because one can quickly get nervous.

What makes you red with pleasure?

When my honey gives me flowers. I adore that. I have a lot of luck, because he does it a lot!

Are you romantic?

Yes, I am very romantic. I like films that talk about beautiful stories of love, dinner dates, surprises... But remember, I don't get into silliness, one musn't overdo it.

Most recently, what has made you go white like a piece of laundry?

I was sick a few weeks ago. I got a stomach bug. For several days, I was not feeling well. I was so sick that I was stuck to the bed. It was a bad memory.

When did you get red with shame for the first time?

It happens when I forgot the words to my songs on stage. It is horrible! The last time, I was in the middle of singing "Moi...Lolita", what could seem unbelievable, because its the one that I have sung the most since my first steps into music. (Laugh). Fortunately, the audience is always there to catch this kind of mistakes.

Who would you let to totally make decisions for you?

To my husband, without hesitation! Today, we work hand in hand, we live together, we share everything. I know that, if, one day, he must make decisions for me, he will do his best to fulfill my wishes completely. He knows me so well that he can't make a mistake.

Are you a good cook?

Not at all, cooking is not my thing! (Laugh). I try, sometimes, to make nice little dishes, but its never a great success. I know how to make the minimum, like cream pastries, but nothing more. (Laugh). That said, I have luck, because my lover does it!

Do you ever get depressed?

Its rare. Its not in my character to get depressed and to get down in the dumps. I can get sad, like everybody else, but I come to my senses very quickly.

Are you a gardener?

No, not really. I adore flowers, but I have never had plants in my house and I would not know how to work with them.

Which celebrity would you want to give the red card to, and why?

To Paris Hilton. She often goes beyond the limits of reason and she is too crazy. We should not have had to get the same education! (Laugh).

Do you see life in pink? (GC's note: is life good for you?

Yes, totally! I am very happy. I am in a job that I love and I am living my passion. Both myself and those close to me are in good health, and I have an extraordinary family! When I was younger, I did not imagine that I could have such a good life. I am satisfied.

Whom would you like to see punished?

I don't have any intentions to see anybody punished. I am not a spiteful person. I prefer to forget those who have harmed me, and those who have disappointed me, quite simply.

What is your favourite colour?

Purple. I wear it a lot.

What colour do you hate?

I don't like yellow very much.

by Julie MOISSON
TRADUCTION PAR GARCONCANADIEN
wow she really expresses her love to Jermey here, never saw that before. Its nice to know shes happy with her marriage :o it seems like Jermeys a great husband

Fish

03-18-2008, 05:38 PM

hmm..isn't the red card sort of a punishment? :p

so she didn't like the alizee en concert yellow outfit? :(

Red cards in football get you thrown out and out for the next game- I must agree with her there ! :p

I think back then her least favorite color was green. I'd guess her tastes can change as quick as anyone else's.

Amigo!

03-18-2008, 06:39 PM

I think back then her least favorite color was green. I'd guess her tastes can change as quick as anyone else's.

Maybe it's both :(

Rev

04-01-2008, 02:06 AM

Thanks GC. I really appreciate the translations. :)

Tchaikovsky

04-01-2008, 02:15 AM

Keep up the good work Garcon.

garçoncanadien

04-06-2008, 04:18 PM

sorry this article was a really tough one, I hope my English is understandable. Get out your dictionaries :D

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ITS NOT HER FAULT

AN UPSCALE PROMOTIONAL PLAN AND A NEW ALBUM IMPROVED BY DANIEL DARC, BERTRAND BERGALAT OR STILL JEAN FAUQUE: THE PERVERSE EX-LOLITA ALIZEE WANTS TO BE AN ADULT INDEPENDENT POP ARTIST. THE TURN TOWARDS MATURITY, BUT ITS EVEN HER DOUBLE IN PINK VINYL THAT WE ELECT. PORTRAIT OF THE YOUNG WOMAN, AROUND A DECEPTIVE CONVERSATION.

HYPER SEXUAL

We hear from here the sarcasm of the embittered. We can even smell from far away the smell of rotten tomatoes that they will fuss about and catapult towards the face of our proud essay when their dismayed eyes see the name of Alizee in the summary. “Cynical and commercial!”, they will exclaim. “A typically independent pose consisting of getting infatuated with a nice old piece of mainstream bad taste to have an air that is more cool! When will we have a file comparing the merits of Deerhoof and Eddy Mitchell?” , the fin psychologists will retort. And everybody – almost – will finally be right. Because an artist that sells six million albums of her “Gourmandises”, all the while being elected by the NME (who chose the sultry “Moi Lolita” as single of the week in 2002) and Jarvis Cocker (who saw at the time in this same piece the quintessence of pop done the French way, perverse and heady, in the right lined by Gainsbourg of the sixties), its not nothing and – most of all – it interests us.

We are in 2007, and the case of Alizee makes us extremely excited. Her benevolent (euphemism) record company put up quite a bit of promotion for the young woman, but only heavy stuff, strictly speaking, and hype. The attached press is very proud: “On the promotional planning we have Liberation, So Foot, vous! On the other hand, we refused the people magazines. A question of image!” Ah yes! The image of Alizee has sensibly changed, even if it were impetous to say that “Psychedelices”, the young woman’s new work, announces a “turning towards maturity”.

The divorce with the multi headed snake Mylene Farmer – Laurent Boutonnat and the announcement of unexpected collaborators (the duo Daniel Darc/Frederic Lo, Bertrand Bergalat, the songwriter for Bashung Jean Fauque) beside the hmmm, arguable boyfriend Jeremy Chatelain to compose this third album “Psychedelices” have still achieved the goal of our participation. Who can actually hide behind the famous “Moi Lolita”, a phenomenon as much musical (irresistible melodic saw in the form of a gift from the sky for Julien Dore) as societal, as much as he has confirmed the impressive and worrying Lolita fashion – the truths, the 12 year old hypersexual little girls – in the recreation courses of France and of Navarra?

The response is without call: nothing. Nothing is hiding behind the wall of fluorescent plexiglass that will give us the place of participant. Alizee is on the face of VoxPop on this Monday 26 November and we are, how to say it, a bit disappointed. We were looking for the lit up Lolita and if possible a little bit lit up. Facing us, a big girl who is 23 years old, quite simply, refusing introspection. Peppered with countless “don’t get ahead of yourself” and others “feeding off of meetings”, the discussion looks like a battle lost ahead of time. Smothered under this avalanche of common links, we run up against the trademark “Alizee” (that the interested party had to buy with “a symbolic euro” after its faithless acquisition by the couple Farmer-Boutonnat), and lets declare it logically forfeited. You’ve got nothing against Thenardier, Alizee, while VoxPop comes to save you? No? Really, nothing? Good…

EVERYTHING THAT COUNTS TAKES A LOT OF TIME

No, nothing is hiding behind the impeccably smooth surface of this little machine of 23 years of age, and its precisely that thing which, passed the relative irritation of this non-interview, becomes more and more fascinating. More than a singer, Alizee incarnates an entire generation of popstars concocted like pure “media”: we are not talking about being the source or receptacle of discussion, we are talking about assuming and claiming the fact of only being the support or the envelope of it, whatever it may be.
This obviously implies a total dedication to neutrality and distance. Was she a puppet of producers that were vaguely diabolical? “They worked with me and protected me permanently. They brought me everything on a silver platter. I could not have dreamed of more.” Does she feel a responsibility in the problematic evolution of the behaviour of certain girls? Kids don’t see the double meaning of the words to Lolita”. How does one live through a hyper-mediatized exposure that is so sultry when one is 16? ”At the time, I didn’t ask any questions. I doubted that people could have interpreted ‘Moi Lolita’ in a sexual way, but me, the only thing that mattered to me at the time, was to have a good time.” Prudent, the answers sliding far away, without ever taking a stand or point of view, or even a simple change of attitude : “One could say what they want to happen to me: good, bad, I don’t care. It rarely gets to me”. Things pass by her, and don’t really stop.

KSSS KSSS LITTLE GIRL

As consumers and amateurs of a certain idea of throw away and transient pop, it would be hypocritical to play the troubled virgins while seeing this balance between work and singer. It would even be proof of a certain cowardice through our own attraction towards guilty pleasures, these famous “Gourmandises”, that to get the chance to step back, this reflexive and well thought out posture which could consist of apologizing for being superficial. They quite simply can’t do it. Its almost structural. We will certainly concede quite willingly that the famous saying by Nietzche “superficial by depth” is far from being pertinent here, and that the old precept “one must not judge by appearance” knows its limits. Very good. To that, one will only answer that being superficial to the first degree doesn’t really prevent from expressing a certain mystery, or, more modestly, certain obsessive faults. Probably without knowing it, Alizee makes herself the smiling inheritor of people like Bret Easton Ellis or Talking Heads: the norm, is good, and good, is what is normal. “Normal” is certainly the word that comes back the most in her mouth when she describes a situation or a feeling. Some that “went by well” (adolescence, relationships with paparazzi, the break with Aunt Mylene) will “pass normally” – “normally[/I”] – meaning from that moment “what allows her to follow her course without too much damage”. One term chases the other, progressively. The ladder of values shakes but never collapses. Alizee doesn’t see what we are getting at when we compare her to Laure Manaudou, or to it doesn’t matter which high level athlete. She is almost amused by it. Still, when we ask her what inspires her from the hair raising destiny of Britney Spears, this logic of performance and distancing through everything that holds her up achieve their paroxysm: “[i]What happened to her, I think is bad. She didn’t know how to find good people in human life like she did in her musical life. The proof, her new album is great”.

SCOOP! JEREMY CHATELAIN CLASSED HIGHER THAN JEAN FAUQUE

And her new album, in all this? Evidently, these few songs are far enough from the staggering level of her American counterpart. Not “great”, no, lets be honest. But not shameful either. “Psychedelices” (this title, even!) flirts with a pop/R’n’B style that has no soul and is openly garbage. For the time being, the collaboration with Daniel Darc and Bertrand Bergalat really disappoint. And even if it costs us quite a pain in the butt, we have no choice but to look at the ineffable Jeremy Chatelain author of the best moments of these “Psychedelices”. Sung by Fountains of Wayne, the effective “Fifty Sixty” delights more than an independent boy. As for “Mon Taxi Driver”, it sounds more like a Broadcast done by Madonna of “Ray of Light”. Of weird flashes of despair striping an album that is frequently coloured like a stolen car. The sadness of the machines, assuredly.

CD “Psychedelices” (Sony/BMG)

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Deepwaters

04-06-2008, 04:53 PM

Having already translated that one myself, GC, I sympathize. It was hard.

garçoncanadien

04-06-2008, 04:57 PM

hey why didn't you post your version muchacho XD

Deepwaters

04-06-2008, 05:11 PM

hey why didn't you post your version muchacho XD

I did.

http://moi-alizee.us/forums/showthread.php?t=3138&page=3

http://moi-alizee.us/forums/showthread.php?t=3138&page=4

heyamigo

04-06-2008, 05:13 PM

interesting interview. at least it seems like they're being honest with their criticisms. a lot of the interview i have no idea what is being said, but it seems like their stuff is targeted at somewhat intellectual readers. anyways, thanks GC, great job.

add: no wonder it seemed familiar. deep already did it. heh

Roman

04-07-2008, 08:24 PM

Classic attempt at intellectualism as excuse for being rude. I guess the point is really that they got their opinion across as unconvincingly apologetic as they were (for what, not really sure).

SilentFox

04-08-2008, 10:30 AM

Thxs again there garçoncanadien! Keep up the good work!

rcs

04-08-2008, 09:28 PM

A bit harsh they are.

garçoncanadien

04-19-2008, 11:40 AM

Another cover magazine, gay magazine ,well um not gay for girls but you feel like a gay buying it xDD

2008-03-24 - Lo Mas Pop - Lo mas pop - Mexico
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The French girl visited our country,

eeeeehhhhh that first paragraph in yellow I do not understand. Somebody fluent in Spanish please translate it for me :(

Lo+pop: Did you think that you were going to become a singer when you were a kid?
Alizee: It was always a dream that seemed inacessible to me. I lived in Corsica (France) and when somebody gets that kind of

a dream its necessary to live in Paris to realize it.

L: What would you have done now if you were not a singer?
A: I would have been a dancer or choreographer.

L: Did you think at anytime to dedicate yourself totally to dance?
A: Now that I know about music, no, but I always try to dance in every way possible way because dancing was my first

passion.

L: Kids follow you a lot. What do you think about that?
A: For me, kids are very important and for example: when I was a kid I was a big fan of Madonna. So I hope that in 15 years

there will be kids liking me just like I liked Madonna.

L: Do you have direct contact with your fans?
A: I read their messages and sometimes I meet my fans in France. Some time I send them autographs, for those who ask for

them, I send them it by mail, I take time to do them.

L: Why did you take such a long time to come back?
A: Mexicans asked me to come many times, for more than one year, and I thought that it was the time to come.

L: When will you come back to our country?
A: In May I start my tour, which will be here from May to June.

SOME LITTLE DETAILS
- Her musical idol for her whole life is Madonna
- She closely followed all the details of her new disc
- Her favourite song of the disc is "The Effect", which talks about her daughter
- Her husband products and composes the disc with her
- The cover of the disc is idea of her photograph, which sees how she is: half adolescent and half woman.
- the song "Mademoiselle Juliette" speaks about Shakespeare's story, only from Alizee's point of view, where the heroine

wants to have fun.

HER LOOK

Alizee is no more the lolita of eight years ago. "Fashion passes with time and is no longer the same. If there is sexy

clothes I like I buy it, but in general I try to get clothes that I like", she tells us about her clothes.
During her visit, we see Alizee with curly hair, she says that she doesn't have it "neither nonsense nor limp, when she was

a little girl she had it half wavy. But now it depends on the day and the climate of the place she is in".

THE SIGNATURE

The signature of the autographs that were planned for the 5th of March in a mall in Mexico City, didn't happen due to the

disorder that happened with the thousands of those who went. Alizee was disappointed that she was not able to be with her

fans, but security comes first.

"I came to this country to thank my Mexican fans for their support and their letters, I will sing for them soon"

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garçoncanadien

04-19-2008, 12:43 PM

Courtesy of Daniel006 (Alizée Mexico)

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THE TWO FACES OF ALIZEE

She is the perfect incarnation of Nabokov's Lolita: she looks young and innocent, but she can express a sensuality that can drive any man crazy. Here we give you an exclusive interview with her.

BY LUIS MANUEL AVALOS

ITS REAL. The Alizee phenomenon visited Mexico to do a promotion of her last disc: Psychedelices (Song-BMG, 2008). It has been more than two years since this singer caused a revolution on the internet with her video. The image, taken from a live TV presentation, showed her as an 18 year old girl dancing in such a sensual way, by a tender adolescent. Her dance brought her around the world, even making her famous in our country. The singer admitted that it was a surprise for her to be known in Mexico, so that she didn't hesistate to visit. However, she didn't even imagine in her dreams the commotion that would have followed, even the prearranged autograph signing session that was canceled due to the crowd getting out of control; even a group of fans from Brazil came to Mexico just to see her.

"I AM TWO PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME. NOBODY COULD IMAGINE A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT ME, I AM NOT AS SWEET AS THEY THINK..."

Curiously, the trip to the hotel did not have the look of a famous popstar and the ambiance was peaceful, except for the TV cameras it didn't look like there was anything great there. When Alizee enters into the little place, reserved exclusively for interviews, she greeted us with a smile and even the nerve to say "hola". A bit higher than what appeared in the video and with a air which was more friendly, Alizee took her seat, in the best posture, and translated by the intermediate, prepared herself to give us one of the little interviews that she did in Mexico.

What is the difference between the Alizee of J'en ai marre, the sensational video, and the Alizee of today?

So, I think there is a great difference between one and the other, before I was younger and more innocent. Now I have learned a lot of things, and above all, and I have understood many things about life.

What is different between your new discs and the previous ones?
Much. I think that the music was different. I had ideas of how I wanted to sound and fortunately in the studio they put these into very clear ideas.

Why Psychedelices?
Because it represents the different ideas that there are in disco: Pop, electro, dance, rock, etc. Also because it is a mixture of tastes. The tastes of the sounds and the delicacies. It is a musical delicacy.

Have you taken time to try Mexican food?
Sure! I liked it. I have already went to Teotihuacan and I have eaten something delicious called... (asks her translator for help ), That! great. I thought that it was one of the most exotic tastes. I have also ate chiacarrón (GC's note: this is a fried spicy pork sandwich).

Nobody would have that a girl with your body would eat so much...
Nobody thinks think a lot of stuff about me.

Exactly. Only that many people did not imagine that you are already a mother...
Thats true. I am very happy. It is one of the best things that has happened to me and I like this role very much. I have never imagined that it would be that beautiful.

How do you cope with being a mother and a popstar at the same time?
I don't know (laugh). I use the rockstar face sometimes and afterwards the mother face. I mix them (laugh). So, first of all its a lot of responsibility. It is a hard task and it requires a lot of time, but if you are organized and you understand the roles, you will flow through the roles without a problem.

Speaking of this duality, the great big tatoo that is on your back was brought to my attention, being a girl who has a tender image. Is it real?
Yes, I like tatoos. I would cover my body with them! At least I would have a lot with different pictures, I am not as tender as you think (laughs).

And why did you choose to be Peter Pan's Tinkerbell?
I am a fan of Walt Disney and Tinkerbell is the character that I like the most. She is like me. She is discrete and gentle, but jealous and mischievous. So am I. Moreover, she protects Peter Pan from all situations. I do too, I take care of the people who love me very much.

There are many dualities in you. Now I understand why there are two photos of you in the insert of the CD.
Sure! I am two people at the same time. In the disc (she shows us a big photo that is in the bottom of the room) it looks like a well off girl, in the other photo it looks like a little mischievous girl who is eating pie. Thats how I am.

Just like the two faces of Tinkerbell...
A French Tinkerbell (laughs).

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garçoncanadien

04-19-2008, 01:06 PM

well I am only studying Spanish, I assure you I did my best, but if you see something incomprehensible in my writings you should consult a real Spanish speaker in the Spanish forums. :D:D

Spaltl

04-19-2008, 01:16 PM

Thanks garçoncanadien, great work

Speaking of this duality, the great big tatoo that is on your back was brought to my attention, being a girl who has a tender image. Is it real?
Yes, I like tatoos. I would cover my body with them! At least I would have a lot with different pictures , I am not as tender as you think (laughs).

Dont do that please:(

lefty12357

04-19-2008, 01:30 PM

Dont do that please:(

I agree. It’s like putting graffiti on a work of art.

garçoncanadien

04-19-2008, 04:23 PM

Newest Fan 2 has two pages for her :

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She says that she was 22 kilos cuter during the pregnancy and tells about her make ups and stuff. Most known already of course but there's always some little details you wanna know.

ALIZEE

"I got 48.5 lb (22kg) heavier during my pregnancy!"

Winning return for Alizee with her latest album called "Psychedelices". As happiness never comes alone, the ex-lolita prepares herself to get on stage from September. Glamour, but very natural, the pretty brown haired girl doesn't leave a single person without an opinion. That's why why wanted to discover her beauty secrets!

BY Julie Moisson

What can we find in your makeup bag?

Base colour, as a foam, by Gemey-Maybelline, and expanding black mascara (errr expands your eyelashes, GC doesn't know how to say that in English xD)

What do you do first to make yourself up in the morning?

I wash my face with fresh water.

What is your favourite perfume?

"Angel", by Thierry Mugler.

Do you often go to the stylist?

Almost never. I take care of such things myself!

How do you do your hair?

After summer, I colour it lightly, because with repeated sun exposures, my hair gets lighter. And because its very dry, I take care of it by putting on a protective capillary mascara (again GC doesn't know how to say this in English, Im not familiar with girls things XD)

What do you like about yourself?

My eyes.

And What do you like the least?

My hands.

What is your favourite beauty product for the lips?

A moisturizing balm, lightly pearled, by Avene. I very rarely use gloss or lipstick, because I kiss my daughter a lot and I don't want her to look like an artists palette because of me! (laughs)

And for the face?

I like this brand a lot, because I have sensitive skin, particularly when its cold.

Which female celebrity do you admire the most for her body?

Marcia Cross, from the TV series "Desperate Housewives". She has the face and skin of a doll!

Do you pay attention to your hands?

Yes, but its not my priority. When they are dry, I put on cream.

And your nails?

I have the very bad habit of biting my nails, but one of my resolutions for 2008 was to free myself from this villanous habit. That said, I don't let them grow out too much. On the varnish side, I like dark colours, like Bordeaux.

Do you have a secret for staying slim?

None. I still eat as much. I was a lot heavier during my pregnancy - 22kg in total (48.5 lb)! - and if I have succeeded in getting a slim body back, now I pay closer attention to what I eat.

Have you already been on a diet?

One time. After childbirth, I kept to a protein diet, that my dietician recommended to me. It was more safe and serious.

What is your beauty secret?

I use only small amounts of makeup. I am certain that girls who abuse makeup damage their skin more. A bit of mascara and blsuh is enough for the day.

What does your favourite clothes look like?

My favourite set: a jean, T-Shirt, or a shirt, and ballet shoes. I tried to put on high heels, but I don't feel good with them, and they give me back pain.

What are your preferred accessories?

My Zadig &Voltaire watch never leaves my wrist. I even sleep with it! I also wear small bracelets.

Do you do sports?

I have done dance since I was 15, but, now, I don't do sports anymore. That say, I should go back to doing it, if not, I won't be up to speed physically during my tour. I will probably go to a sports coach.

What object do you take with you everywhere?

My Cellphone, for sure!

What do you think about comestic surgery?

If it is about surgery that repairs things, I am for it. On the other hand, American style lifts and Botox injections or other stuff, I am against it!

garçoncanadien

04-20-2008, 12:51 PM

Gracias! Daniel006 (Alizée Mexico)

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THE SENSATION OF FRENCH POP

This showy singer is a musical phenomenon. We give you the reasons to consider her unique!

Very few times is it the case that an extremely sexy artist is admired not only by men, but even thousands of women. Sometimes in Mexico we go out to listen to music that is sung by a artist who sings not in Spanish or English. And we can almost consider it a miracle that a performer gets great fame without having done intensive promotions. Why did Alizee achieve these three things? We can say that we have a special case in our country.

HER CASE IS UNIQUE IN MEXICO

ALIZEE IN MEXICO

Since the year 2000 the singer started to sell millions of discs in France, when after winning a talent show she got transformed into a star. In short time almost all of Europe her single "Moi, Lolita" (Me, Lolita) became a hit. Two years afterwards, and without any promotions, this song started to be listened to in Mexico. In 2006 a video was circulating among Mexicans that was a presentation by Alizee, recorded three years ago, when she was always an adolescent and shined in an extremely sensual way. In the recording she also sang another single: "J'en ai Marre!" (I am fed up), of her second CD. The video caused so much admiration that the public wanted to know who was this French sex symbol. So, now that her fame was created, causing her DVD to be rapidly launched as a Mexico-only version, in which was included the best songs of her two past albums. We can say that before Alizee's songs were broadcast on national radio, everybody was already dancing to them in the clubs. Success that does not occur very often.

In the month of march, the beautiful French girl visited Mexico to promote her new album release "Psychedelices". The girl promoted went back to the second part of the year to give concerts and to please her Mexican fans.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

NAME: Alizee Jacotey
PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Ajaccio, Corsica, born on the 21st of August 1984.
HEIGHT: 1.61 cm
WEIGHT:45 kg (99.2 lbs)
Her mother Michelle is a businesswoman; her father Joseph, is in computers.
WHAT SHE LIKES THE MOST IN LIFE Dancing.
BRAD PITT Is her favourite actor.
JULIA ROBERTS Is her favourite actress.
IN SPORTS She admires her countryman Zinedine Zidane.
SHE HAS A YOUNGER BROTHER called Johan.
THE SINGER SHE ADMIRES THE MOST Madonna.

THE NAME OF THE SINGER CAME FROM HER PARENTS PASSION FOR SAILING. ALIZEE MEANS 'TRADE WINDS', WHICH ARE THE WINDS THAT BLOW UPON THE MEDITERRANEAN.

- Since she was little, Alizee felt an inclination towards dance. When she was four she already was taking classes of dancing and sing. She was already a very talented person!

- When she was 11, an airline set a contest in which kids were supposed to design the outside of a plane. She won it, and she got her first voyage to the Maldives. Afterwards, her design was reproduced on a plane, which was called 'Alizee'.

- Her weakness is candy, especially gummies.

- Her favourite animal is the dolphin.

- Tout Alizee, a CD-DVD which includes a documentary about the singer, was on sale in Mexico only.

- Her favourite TV show is Friends

- She collects toys. "Once I said that I liked stuffed teddy bears, and since then thats the gift I receive the most", she says.

- The choreography of "J'en ai marre!" is used in the videogame World of Warcraft. The video of this same song, which is available on the site of youtube.com, which is what got her known in Mexico, has more than 6 500 000 visits!

HER DREAM IS TO SING WITH MADONNA

HER CAREER

- In 1999, Alizee registered on to the show Graines de Star (Seeds of Stars) with the intention of participating in a dancing contest; but since she went alone, they didn't accept her, because the requirements were for groups. So she chose to participate in the singing contest, where she was approved. With just two showings in the program, Alizee got a recording contract.
- In the same year, Mylene Farmer, a famous French singer, and her husband the musician Laurent Boutonnat, made a big musical project for an adolescent. They knew her and decided upon her.
- In the 21st of May 2000 she was heard for the first time on "Moi...Lolita" (Me, Lolita). The single sold more than a million and a half copies just in France.
- Of her first album, Gourmandises (delicacies), there were more than four singles done.
- Her music went to Japan, Canada, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, England, and Russia in 2001.
- In March 2003, "Mes Courants Electriques" was promoted (My electric currents). Of this disc the single "J'en ai Marre!" surged to success, and put out four more singles in France. The international edition included four songs in English; 4 million copies were sold.
- In 2003, she gave a concert in France, which her fans called "memorable", in the Olympia stadium, in Paris.
- In October 2004, Alizee recorded a disc in concert, with the best of her performances. She appeared again during the end of 2007, with the CD Psychedelices, in which the producers who got her career started and helped her to release CDs were no longer a part of.

PERSONAL LIFE

- Her husband, Jeremy Chatelain, is a musician and a pop singer, who is also French. They knew each other from a presentation in Eurobest (2003).
- They married in Las Vegas, in November 2003.
- On the 29th of April 2005, her daughter Anny-Lee was born, who was adored by both.

In 2002 she was awarded with a World Music Award for the high sales of her discs.

IN HER OWN WORDS

- My great passion is dance. I practiced 8 hours a week. I like very much jazz and flamenco.
- My favourite film is 'Le grand bleu' (Great blue). I identify with the character of Jacques mayo, who speaks with the dolphins. I am fascinated, my great dream is to swim beside them.
- The difference between this disc - Psychedelices - and the ones before is that now I want to change and experiment with the unique sounds of rock.
- About her long absence, she says: "I needed more time with my family, although I also dedicated myself to listening to other artists, like Gorillaz, Gwen Stefani and The Killers, to know which sounds I was going to include in my new material.
- The image of a lolita was the idea of my producer. Its not something that bothers me.
- I didn't know that I was famous in Mexico, I knew it through various websites.

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lilly

04-20-2008, 01:39 PM

garcon, I know lili is short but she is definitely not 1.61 cm!!....u need to correct that :p

garçoncanadien

04-20-2008, 01:49 PM

no
in the magazine it says 1.61 cm, and it also says that Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat are married LOL

jung_adore_ALIZEE

04-20-2008, 02:08 PM

garcon, I know lili is short but she is definitely not 1.61 cm!!....u need to correct that :p
they use digital enhancement to make her look taller duh

lilly

04-20-2008, 02:19 PM

Wow!! portable lili!! I want one. Seriously they be careful about what they write!! MF and LB married!?!? wtf

Tchaikovsky

04-20-2008, 03:20 PM

Thank you once again garçoncanadien. I can't believe she said she would put tattoos all over her body. I would die if she did that. :p

rcs

04-20-2008, 04:39 PM

Also, I hope she goes back to dancing, or at least doing sports. I wanna see that high kick again Lili. :p

Paulina

04-20-2008, 11:41 PM

I'm surprised her least favorite body part is no longer her feet but her hands and her favorite is her eyes and not her nose! :p

garçoncanadien

04-24-2008, 01:10 AM

STAR SECRET N° 29 :
From rozier
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ALIZEE VS LORIE

The two singers seem to have been born under a lucky star. Celebrity has taken them from adolescence, to never quit them again. In short, they are successful! But when we need to tell them apart, we don't know how to do it...

THEIR STARTS
Fundamentally, Lorie was destined to follow an artistic skating career but she was forced to stop at 15, because of an injury. She went towards music after her exams and created quite a following on the Internet thanks to her song "Close to my house", in 2000. She signed her first contract the same year. Alizee, she got interested in singing earlier. She proved herself in the show Graines de Star, in 1999. Mylene Farmer fell under her spell and wrote her "Moi...Lolita". Like Lorie, she released her first work in 2000. Both of them took home great success. Only: Alizee is two years younger than Lorie. She therefore has a bit of an advantage on her rival.

RESULT: ALIZEE WINS THIS ROUND.
SHE STARTED AT THE SAME TIME AS LORIE,
WHILE SHE IS THE YOUNGEST.

THEIR LOOK

Fashion? Its what they love! They are interested in high fashion like ready-to-wears. They adore shopping and wearing beautiful clothes. At the level of their look, they have had similar revolutions. Fundamentally young streetwear lolitas, they have welcomed styles that are more and more sexy, but have never expressed vulgarity. Today, they don't hesitate to opt for low necklines, makeup and high heels. They have become women, quite simply, and that fits them like a glove!

RESULT: TIED, THEY ARE ALWAYS IMPECCABLE, IN THE CITY LIKE ON STAGE.

THEIR LOVES

Since Lorie and her dancer Khriss have separated, the blonde wanted Garou. Their couple seemed improbable since the beginning. Still, now that they have been together for several months and that everything seems to be getting better... A little fling or a big love story? Something to keep an eye on... In any case, Alizee has found her love with a capital L. Since she met Jeremy Chatelain, the candidate of Star Academy 2, she is on her little cloud. The lovebirds married in 2004, in Las Vegas. They even have a little 3 year old girl who is called Anny-Lee.

RESULT: ALIZEE FORMS A SUPER COUPLE WITH JEREMY CHATELAIN AND THEY ALREADY HAVE A BABY TOGETHER. LORIE DOESN'T WEIGH IN.

THEIR CAREER

In seven years, the two singers have taken their paths. Today accomplished women, they are collecting rewards and are as respected in the profession as by the public. Lorie already has five albums to her credit: Pres de toi (Close to You), Tendrement (Tenderly), Attitudes (Attitudes), Rester la meme (Stay the same) and 2lor en moi (wordplay; Two Lories in me - Is there some Lorie in me?)? Each of them has been very successful. With Gourmandises, Mes courants electriques (My Electric Currents) and Psychedelices, Alizee is not her equal. Its necessary to say that in between 2003 and 2007, she gave herself a musical vacation, when Lorie was still going on TV.

RESULT: ONE POINT FOR LORIE, WITH 5 STUDIO ALBUMS, SHE IS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN HER COMPETITOR.

THEIR WAY OF PRESENTING THEMSELVES

Always open to discussion, relaxed during interviews and close to their fans, they both have a pleasing simplicity. Both knew how to keep their feet firmly on the ground. Alizee is certainly the more discreet of the two. A bit like Mylene Farmer, she likes to stay away from projectors. It is a choice like another. Nevertheless, her reserved attitude can sometimes come across as coldness. Lorie, she is easier to reach.

RESULT: THEY ARE ALL COOL,
AND THEY HAVE THEIR FEET ON THE GROUND.
ANYWAY, LORIE WINS BECAUSE SHE IS MORE SOCIABLE.

THE FINAL ONE

Useless match: impossible to choose a winner in this battle of the titans! Its still the first time that two stars tie each other in the verse of Star Secret, the brunette or the blonde? Its really a question of taste. The two singers have a great course, a fulfilling life, a spotless style. In brief, they have everything to please. Will one outcompete the other? The future will tell us...

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garçoncanadien

04-24-2008, 01:11 AM

ALIZEE ALWAYS IN THE WIND!

She was waited for, but her return is a success. The secret of her success: Put her dear husband on the job...

He has changed a lot since Star Ac 2. But with his sweatshirt, Jeremy always has an olympic body!

HER RETURN TO THE STAGE IS COMING SOON
How to recognize a star of singing? Easy, she is wearing a scarf with stars and sometimes, an amplifier in the bag.

She is preparing her tour with Jeremy

He decided to live in Alizee's shadow. However he still needs to take front and center sometimes.

A tour to prepare, hardware to transport, no time to get bored. With Jeremy, it moves!

One day, Annily will be as great as her mother. Maybe even greater...

Since the month of may, the brunette will proceed on a world tour. A long awaited for moment and that she wants to share with her family.
Without Mylene Farmer's support, some people didn't expect too much of Alizee's future. But Alizee has managed her return well: her album, Psychedelices, Golden Disc in France, success in Mexico where the brunette was welcomed a month ago, like a star. A success that she owes in part to the new equilibrium that her family gives her. Married to Jeremy Chatelain, the staggered dude from Star Academy 2 who today prefers to stay in the shadows, she has found in him the ideal mentor. A sort of young Laurent Boutonnat. It is he who composed and arranged her album. And it is he who helps her conceive and organise her world tour. After Moscow the 18th of May, she will sing in Mexico, before going on the stage of the Grand Rex on the 23rd of October. While waiting, in the middle of April, she was the surprise guest in the concerts of Jean-Felix Lalanne in the Casino of Paris, for a duo on The Javanese. Her new serenity, Alizee also owes it to her role as a mother, that she treats very seriously. Her little Annily, who allowed her to decompress softly after the whirlwind that accompanied in 2000, the planetary triumph of Moi...Lolita. Nothing like a kid to keep your feet planted on the ground! Now, loved and surrounded by those she cares about, Alizee looks to her future with confidence. Whatever: the winds are always favourable for her!

JEROME DELAITRE

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forgot_86

04-24-2008, 02:38 AM

Merci Beaucoup garcon! I've been waiting for it, and again Thanx a Lot for everything. You're always my saviour:D

Rev

04-24-2008, 02:54 AM

"Golden Disc in France" - How many records sold does that represent?

JuanARG

04-24-2008, 04:14 AM

"Golden Disc in France" - How many records sold does that represent?

She received the "Golden Disc in France" for putting in the shops for the sale more +75.000 copies of Psychédélices, but in real sales to the big public, of this number only it has sold 37.300 copies until April 12 (Source Infodisc (http://www.infodisc.fr/Ventes_Album08.php)).

garçoncanadien

05-10-2008, 10:52 PM

Merci a Daniel 006 from alizée mexico!!
wonderful scans!!

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ALIZEE

What is so special about this French girl that the Mexicans adore her? Read and you'll see!

BY PILAR MAGUEY

In person, Alizee looks like any other girl. Perhaps she doesn't have perfect Spanish, but this was not a barrier to chatting with us about her new album Psychedelices. The singer will soon come to our country, and you can enjoy her shows live.

Alizee is your real name?

Yes, thats true. My parents were fans of surfing, and they decided to give me this name because it refers to a wind current.

How did you get into music?

I studied dance since I was 4. When I was 15, I auditioned for a TV program and they invited me to record a disc.

Do you feel like a different girl than the others?

A bit, because I do a specific job. In secret, I am on exactly the same level as my friends when I am around them.

What do you friends think about being accompanied by a star?

They are already accustomed to the fact that people ask me for autographs. Its something normal for them, now it doesn't matter too much to them.

"My musical career has given me much more than what I wished for."

From the cover

You spend it travelling across the whole world, how is your daily life?

I am travelling less, before I didn't live in Paris and I had to fly every three days. Now I try to as much as possible to have a normal life and have a good time with my family as much as possible. I intend to plan things better so that I don't need to be in a different country every week.

Boys think you are a sex symbol. Is it a part of your style to use little dress?

Lets say that it is the image that comes across in my performances, but in daily life I try to dress myself normally and move around undetected; that way I can be more peaceful.

Do your parents support you?

Yes, they are the first people who hear this material. My mother called me four times a day to give me comments about it.

What is the hardest word you know how to say in Spanish?

All are hard for me, ha ha. "Hi", "Thank you", "right", "left"; in reality I know very little.

Do you miss your baby during the tours?

Yes, a bit. Normally I let her come with me.

What do you want to sing the most?

I have the good luck to sing my own songs, that is very special for me. Creating a role and presenting it in a concert when thousands of people are singing it is the thing that I like best!

If you had to write a song about Mexico, what would you talk about?

I would talk about the Sun, human warmth and the beautiful way that the people have received me.

In what other language would you like to sing?

In Spanish. In school they teach me some words.

Of the cities that you have been to, which was the most special?

Tokyo was the city that suprised me the most. It is like another plant, it is so fantastical that it seemed like something unreal.

Has anybody ever broken your heart?

Yes, when I was a teenager. Fortunately, it was nothing serious, and I lived my life normally.

What was the best moment of your life?

Definitely, the day when I gave birth to my daughter.

From your first disc to this last one, what about your music has changed?

I was involved in every aspect of this new album. When I recorded my first, I was 15, now at 23; the words clearly reflect my personal growth.

I identify with Tinkerbell, from Peter Pan.

Zodiac sign: Leo.

My favourite clothes: H&M.

Best party: when I had my 18th birthday, and I was of legal age.

Best place to have fun: in Corsica, where I was born, at the edge of the sea.

When I was a kid: I danced a lot, including in stores inside malls.

Favourite film: Deep blue and Marie Antoinette.

Three favourite artists: Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Daft Punk.

"I am a successful person, who fights for what she wants".

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Tical 808

05-10-2008, 11:06 PM

ALIZEE

Has anybody ever broken your heart?

Yes, when I was a teenager. Fortunately, it was nothing serious, and I lived my life normally.

Whoever did that to her back then is probably regretting it now :cool:

Future Raptor Ace

05-11-2008, 01:35 AM

yeah haha I bet he wishes he could turn back time. I say we all shank him for hurting Alizee, whose with me? Let me see your war face :eek: you call that a war face? LOL

Amelie

05-11-2008, 04:00 AM

What is your favourite perfume?

"Angel", by Thierry Mugler.

I have and use "Angel" too :D:D:D isn't that cool? btw, it was the greatest article about Alizée ever. her normal day make-up is exactly like mine. that's really cool. only difference that i use much more of lipstick because my lips are damn dry so i have no choice.

MERCI GarçonCanadien!:wub::wub::wub:

lilly

05-11-2008, 05:02 AM

Has anybody ever broken your heart?

Yes, when I was a teenager. Fortunately, it was nothing serious, and I lived my life normally.

I think this is a job for the "Lilly Town Amigos". What say we take care of this
guy!??!:cool:

Or maybe not coz he prolly might have killed himself for being such an idiot!lol :blink:

bergy

05-11-2008, 07:44 AM

i would like to thank you for this translation and artical we need more to be up to date on thinks quote i dont speek french but love alizze

garçoncanadien

05-11-2008, 08:28 PM

Scan from unknown magazine by Sebastien.

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I want to give you a big kiss

The thirty or so winners of the contest in Le Republicain Lorrain - Direct FM met yesterday in the Snowhall of Amneville around an Alizee who was radiant and very accessible.

The warm room of the Snowhall of Amneville had a great meeting yesterday. Its referring to the singer Alizee and her fans who had the chance to win their place after a contest organised by the Republicain Lorrain and Direct FM. Coming as a family or among friends, everybody had a certain feverishness in the few minutes before the arrival of the ex lolita. For Elizabeth, 17 years old, from Briey, it was a dream come true: "I follow her from the start, from Moi...Lolita! Everything that she does is super, her music is genius and her last album Psychedelices is the best of them all. We can say that I am a real fan, I can't pass up an opportunity to listen to Alizee. I had the chance to see her in concert in the Galaxie of Amneville but I didn't think that I would have the chance to see her one day. I prepared lots of questions for her, there are so many things that I want to know!".

Among the adolescents and the little girls who made up the majority of the group, some boys, more spiffy, took their places on the Savoy Swiss log cabin style sofas. Mika, 23 years old, from Metz admits "I fell in love musically when she released her second album in 2003; I fell in love with the song J'en ai marre. I already liked lots of Mylene Farmer music, so liking Alizee, naturally flowed.

Ankle boots and a leather jacket

Stars have a habit of making people wait but Alizee very professionally arrived right on time, with healthy applause. Ankle boots on the feet, a hippie cool little dark pink shirt and a black leather jacket, Mademoiselle Juliette arrived to answer questions. It felt suddenly very stuffy around the dumbstruck audience, who was able to see up close and personal someone whom they usually admire from behind a TV set. "Go ahead, I don't bite.", she says, to let the atmosphere relax a bit.

The most courageous got right into it: "When will be be able to see your new clip?", "15th of May if all goes well.". "And for the tour, have you chosen a date?", "Yes, it will start on the 23rd of October. I don't know if that will happen nearby but it would be a great pleasure for me. I like the Amneville site a lot, I always take some time to get myself relaxed in the Thermes after the concerts... and sometimes even before". The exchanges happened in a relaxed manner, which even let the young ones get over their shyness. Morgane, 8 years old, from Courcelles-Chaussy asks "Will you sing us a song?". "No, not today, Alizee answers her with a big smile. But on stage I will sing extracts from my three albums". "So we will go and see you!" The little girl answers, brimming with enthusiasm. "Do you have another question?" The singer asks. "No, but I wanna give you a big kiss!" Done as soon as it was said. Alizee prepared herself with a lot of generosity and kindness with the kissing game, photos, and autographs.

Some fans offered her candy or roses, but its her who gave the best gift: a unique moment with their idol.

Alizee met yesterday the readers of RL in the snowhall of Amneville.

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forgot_86

05-12-2008, 04:14 AM

Aww, Thanx a Lot garcon! That has to be the best thing I've read this week! Made up my day, Alizée is very very sweet and kind. Now my desire to see her upclose is burning even more! Anyway, congrats to those lucky kids, I envy them a lot

SilentFox

05-12-2008, 09:09 PM

Thanks there garçoncanadien! :D its nice to read some good news on a day like today for me :D

Sir Wood

05-13-2008, 11:24 PM

Merci Garçoncanadien ! More reading materials for the plane. ;)

garçoncanadien

07-14-2008, 01:35 PM

BIOGRAPHY

Alizée

Twenty Thirty

At 24 years of age, Alizée has no less than 4 albums to her name, including one free Psychédélices, freed and liberator. From the incarnation of the Lolita to her musical flowering, lets go back to the phenomenal path of the really young girl who has already had 1000 lives.

Ephemerides (GC’s note: this is a table of astronomical data)

It’s about winds that take one far, much further than the thoughts of the young girl. It’s also about names that predict fantastic destinations, and predestined first names. That of Alizée only announced a periodic breeze on “Made in France” pop, but definitely aroused a hurricane of an opinion. In 2000, at the release of her first album Gourmandises, most of the media, up to date with the word of the day, defined the wave of Alizée as a fresh wind on the world cleaned of songs for romantic and spotty teenagers. It was without doubt that the video “Moi…Lolita” would go much further than French recreation centres and would touch a public of all ages, all styles, and all acquaintances, fascinated by this young genius Corsican singer, singing melodies that are wily, suave, and ambivalent. For Alizée, it was time to have fun and to experience the media hurricane: An explosive single and an album given multiple awards, and then a second work that kept the ball going and quickly breaking across borders. The braids of a young apprentice (GC’s note: a Star Wars reference to Jedi Knights), she got them courageously through self-sacrifice to the Farmer school, the toughest of them all.

But, with the majority helping, the winds took the singer to new shores, that conform more closely to her own tastes, of a young woman who is mature and responsible. It was necessary to get away from appearances. The trade winds are not spring-like refreshing sea sprays that one imagines, but dry winds from intertropical regions, that upon the arrival of the summer, will disappear into the Indian Ocean and the Sea of China. Alizée is no longer a vinyl puppet of Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. With words with double meaning and irresistible melodies, she slid shamelessly into the big costume that was made for her, between Nabokov and Gainsbourg, and became despite all that a symbol of French pop that is half-detached, half-depraved. Now, Alizée changes and frees herself, like those before her: Shirley Temple, Petula Clark, France Gall, Lio, Vanessa Paradis, Charlotte Gainsbourg… and Sabine Paturel (Note from editor: remember, the girl who only made mistakes). No, she is not the heir of Marie-José Neuville, the “College student of singing” who sang in the 1950’s “the little pests”, surprised before “the Mr. of metro” and was not against “A little walk in the forest”. If the young girl had to compose something between what she was and what she sang, the raw 2008 of Alizée doesn’t work. With Psychédélices, the singer tries to be, instead of being an incarnation. The weather is looking good, under the sign of independence. Nobody is surprised when the story starts on the foothills of the Corsican scrubhills…

An island…

Its in the heart of 1984, as soon as the July vacationers have gone back home, on the 21st of August, that a new islander called Alizée was born in Ajaccio. First child of the Jacotey couple, the legend says that she got her name from her father Joseph’s great interest in nature, the sea, and aquatic sports (Editors note: and particularly windsurfing). At almost 50, this passionate photographer since adolescence, who shows himself today superbly by the pseudonym of Getchell, by opening his own internet site, where he shows his talents through lots of common photos, with particular attention towards seascapes, scenes of ports, and views of surfers. When Alizée gave her first cries, it is a triumphant Jeanne Mas who is on the top of the charts with “First time”, a song that she wrote with Romano Musumarra with music from Roberto Zaneli. Still, a serious rival appeared in March 1984 with a little tortured nursery rhyme, sung in a wispy voice and accompanied by a troubling clip. This new singer found nothing more rejoicing than to lend her pseudonym to an American actor from the 1940s, who frequents psychiatric hospitals, concentration refuges, electro –shock therapy, and other treatments. The song is called “Maman a tort” (Mom is wrong), the singer is called Mylene Farmer and Alizée, who didn’t know how to talk yet, knew even less what role this woman was going to play in her existence. During this time, France Gall belted out “Debranche” (Disconnect) and “Hong Kong Star” and delivers some of the most delicate texts of Michel Berger like “J’ai besoin de vous” (I need you) and “Cézanne peint” (Cézanne paints). Axel Bauer sings “Cargo” dressed in leather in a sweaty, manly environment full of machines. Renaud, Goldman and Dutronc each add their own stone to the musical building of the year, the first in inaugurating the Zenith of Paris, the second in getting a platinum disc for Positif and the last in letting come out of his hat a elegant irreverence to virulent humor and a bit crappy with “Shit in France”. In November 1984, the Top 50 were born. Without knowing it, destiny would forever link the Ajaccio baby and the celebrated classification.

Alizée’s childhood is sweet and happy. Her father is an IT specialist and her mother is a storekeeper in a leather shop. Could there ever be such a gene for craziness for bags?!)

Alizée’s childhood is sweet and happy. Her father is an IT specialist and her mother is a storekeeper in a leather shop (Editors note: could there ever have happened, by the strangest of coincidences, such a gene for craziness for bags?!). From the age of 4, Alizée went to the Ajaccio Dance Center of Monique Mufraggi. After several years of service as a choreographer and a professor in several associations and for the municipal club of music and dance, this artist made her own school in the beginning of the 1980s. When Alizée joined the ranks of the centre in 1988, the reputation of the school was already excellent. Monique and her students had already won several contests, in both Corsica and continental France, have produced several first class stars in the 80s and received several prizes during the Lions of Gold of Dance in Nice. After having started in Ajaccio under the tutelage of Mrs Roussel, and then being perfected by madame Vigneau of the Oran opera, Monique quickly got interested in all aspects of dance by working just as well with Mrs Singer and Bosset of the Paris Opera, Mrs Cagneau of the Marseille Opera, as with Laurent Biancotto, Serge Piers, Alice and Sylvie Kay, Moise Kengbo, Thierry Godefroy and Stephane Locci of the Rheda group. Made strong from learning from these multiple teachers, she founded a dance school where the students are invited to avoid blinkers and taste everything, from modern jazz to clapperboard dancing while passing by flamenco, rock, tango, waltz, latin dance… and even a recent addition, tecktonik. For her first year, Alizée entertained herself with an initiation into modern jazz and classical dance. The young girl familiarized herself with the gestures thanks to roleplaying and to apprenticeship of the rhythm of French songs of the Fatherland and of English hits. From then, she discovered a true passion for dance. Monique Mufraggi, a privileged witness of the young girls first artistic steps confides to us that “Alizée had a sharp sense of rhythm and danced with much expression. She quickly got her first role when she was 5, that of the wolf in The Little Red Riding Hood, A role much more difficult than the others because it needed terrifying expression, a supple but complex animal gesture, quite the opposite of the choreographic knowledge of the other kids.”

From there, Alizée worked hard on her classes and made her first steps on stage participating in all the shows of the center. Some snapshots from the period immortalize her as a ballerina in a tutu, adolescent in rollers, leader of a clapperboard dance group or a flamenco dancer. She plays the gala games at the end of the year, bringing to each unique table nice costumes needing a second degree that only childhood allows. One year, among her disguised sidekicks in Village People, one wearing a construction worker hard hat, the other wearing a cow boy outfit, yet another wearing a revolutionary costume dating from the Madonna period American Life, Alizée chooses simplicity and outfits herself as a sailor, with a striped sea blue and white pullover. In November 1989, she and her friends perform the first part of the singing tour of Patrick Fiori, a child of the country, who, without being a star, is on the way to becoming an established kid in the pop music scene of the island. In 1990, Alizée continues to explore her talents as a dancer on stage, and must find another place to perform. In fact, the Jacotey family is growing up and the young girl has the joy of welcoming a little brother, called Johann. The infant is made to continuously listen to Madonna, Alizée’s favourite artist, as well as the more classical tastes of his father, an LP enthusiast who listens to “Let it be” from the Beatles and Beethoven symphonies.

…and wings

In 1995, Joseph Jacotey, having blind confidence in the infinite imagination of his kids, proposes to them to participate in a contest

INTERVIEW

Oxmo
Puccino

THE AUTHOR OF “DECOLLAGE” AND “PAR LES PAUPIERES”

When he put his pen to work on two songs of Alizée’s disc, Oxmo offered a style. Much more than a cautious hip-hop.

A connected person could say that there is a rift beween Alizée and Kool Shen, your duettist on “Un flingue et des roses” (Gun and roses) in 2004, no?

From that perspective, definitely [smile]! But when Jeremy Chatelain contacted me, due to the friend-friend relationship, I didn’t know who he was. I don’t look at TV and I had never heard of him. We met at Republique, in Paris. I thought he was cool and he explained to me why Alizée wanted to work with me. We met again and got more serious about things. He knew my first album Opéra Puccino. He wanted to give a particular colour to a song lyric and knew that we could do something good together. As for me, I didn’t worry about what Alizée did before this disc. She made me listen to a bit of urban music. The sound was just about complete. The melody was already there, the arrangements were done and there were even some voices. So I wrote “Décollage” (Take-off) and it was recorded.

How did you coach Alizée to learn this flow that was not natural for her?

Her singing impressed me. Even if you truly wrote from the heart, if the singer just puts a part of her heart into it, the whole piece is only the part of the heart. All artists are not as concentrated as she is, in studio. Many lust after a song or are looking for a signature act. Not her. I was extremely disappointed by some of her colleagues, who at the exact moment of getting to work, forget their cute talk and are not quite as good as what they want. With Alizée, none of that! She wanted to ensure that the piece reached exactly what we imagined it to be. To see an artist give herself the means to talk the talk and walk towards her artistic ambitions is rare. What we talked about since the first models has not changed one bit. What was said was exactly what was done. I liked this business.

Was it known ahead of time that you would work on a second lyric?

Right from the beginning, there wasn’t even a question whether or not we were only going to do a single song. Because everything went well with “Décollage” (Takeoff), we recorded “Par les paupières” (By the eyelids). This bit was created with such particular conditions that I was made to discover another part of myself. I found out that urgency is the mother of creativity. It was a last minute title, completely improvised. It was written and recorded in one day, and ended at 3 in the morning. If the situation didn’t drive me into a corner, I think this piece would never have been born.

Did Alizée tell you to write songs about certain themes?

For “Décollage” we had time to discuss the subject and the text is quite precise. Looking back, “Par les paupières” was written under stress, fatigue, and rain. I just came back from concert, totally exhausted. I threw blocks of words on paper, spontaneously, without rereading them. As soon as I was happy, I kept them. The piece was recorded before we were able to put everything together. They are different in the method of writing as well as the form. Where “Décollage” is lively, almost a club song, “Par les paupières” brings a feeling, a sense, an atmosphere, and it will probably stay in the mind longer because it is timeless.

When you committed yourself to working with Alizée, you flirted with pop. What relationship do you maintain with singing since your retakes of “Ces gens-là” (Those people) on the compilation Hip Hopée in 2000, “Je suis une bande des jeunes” (I am a gang of youngsters) on Hexagone 2001 (GC’s note: Hexagone is slang for France) and more recently “J’en déduis que je t’aime” (I deduce that I love you) by Aznvour on France Inter?

I learned to open myself to other styles of music. Even if the work back when I was starting was very hip-hop, I very quickly made myself stand out with texts on kids, mothers, and friends. I expressed through hip-hop subjects that usually only pop got into, like “L’enfant seul” (The Lonely Kid), “Alias Jon Smoke” or “Le jour où tu partiras” (The day where you leave) with K-Reen. I started to listen to much more varied styles of music with my second album, L’amour est mort (Love is dead). I grew up listening to Renaud and Brel. To redo them was the right thing and a way of opening a blocked door, even if it wasn’t really closed. At the time, rappers were nothing. Collaborating with pop artists, it was unthinkable since there was such animosity on both sides. Now, it is natural for me to work with Alizée, Ben Ricour, or Grand Corps Malade.

You discovered jazz with Step in the arena of Gang Starr. Do you think that while working on Psychedélices, you give Alizée’s audience a need to discover Oxmo?

I hope that they want to know me more. For the time being, I am writing my next album about time and pleasure. I want to distance myself from ambient pessimism and instill some positivism in my tour this autumn. I am working to explore art that really hits the mark, the mixture of words, flows and verses. My number one priority is to find new things, feel pleasure and allow pleasure to be felt too.

Oxmo Puccino, Lipopette Bar
(Blue Note /EMI)
and La reconciliation (Label Rouge Prod)

[continuation of article]

of drawing organized by AOM, a French airline that was founded four years ago and has gone under since. Objective of the game, called “Draw me a plane” in a Saint-Exupéry style outburst (GC’s note: this is a very famous French author): make a sketch of a plane and colour the cabin, the design of the winning candidate will be reproduced on a real plane of the AOM fleet. Just by chance, Alizée just completed reading Petit Prince of the aviator/writer. Inspired by the fairy tale for big kids, poetic-philosophic allegory, the young girl coloured her design with a deep blue and sprinkled the cabin of her air bird becoming a night bird, with a moon, planets and stars with golden and orange colours. Some months later, she finds out that she won the contest, chosen from some 6 000 young Picassos. Like promised, her ideas were retained completely to paint an MD-83, one of AOMs planes that flies towards the Dom-Tom. Alizée and her family were invited on the inaugural voyage and happily participated in the media photoshoot covering this event destined to make Marc Rochet’s company known, a direct competitor from Air Inter in this 90’s market. Before the camera or on the wings of a plane, Alizée is with the angels and is not intimidated by this media attention towards her. Smiling with her parents – an elegant mother with a suit and white pants and a relaxed papa in jeans and a Camargue shirt (GC’s note: Camargue is a location in France) -, she holds her brothers hand, to reassure him in the face of the photographers. Johann has a t shirt labeled Tintin et Milou and by a strange coincidence, it’s the singer of “Comme Tintin”, Chantal Goya, who finds herself being the godmother of this great promotional event. If Alizée poses voluntarily with the ineffable singer of “Bécassine”, “Bouba”, “C’est guignol”, and other “Pandi-Panda”, she wins above all a trip to the destination of her choice. So, the whole family flew to the Maldives Archipelago. The news quickly went around the dance school and the Centre for Dance, and when she came back, Alizée didn’t hesitate to share her souvenirs with photographs. With pictures filling her mind, she peacefully retold the story of her life.

Alizée won’t delay her 11th birthday party. She is at the point where people still play Cowboys and Indians. In addition to being an emeritus professor, Monique Mufraggi is a child of cabaret. Her parents owned the cabaret Le Bonaparte in post-war Morocco, where they welcomed flamenco orchestras, jazz groups like Glenn Miller, Los Machucambos or Charles Aznavour. Since the creation of the school, Monique wished to create shows that reunited elements of traditional cabaret: comedy, dance and music. Well before the Parisian success of the play Notre Dame de Paris, she juggled her own creations and more classical repertoire. 1995 was, on this point, a year of all kinds of happiness. In the summer Alizée participated in Carmen of Bizet choreographed by Mr Alvarado with the Opera of Draguignan, on the scene of the theatre of greenery of Casone at the foot of the statue of Napoleon, on the heights of Ajaccio. Thanks to unfailing dedication, the little girl also got the title role of the show at the end of the year dedicated to Pocahontas. The director remembers that for each show, she got her students, from the intermediate level and up, to propose dance moves for the ballet: “The most deserving got their names written on the program of the gala and Alizée excelled at this exercise. As soon as she knew the chosen theme, she researched the texts, taught herself the music, looked at films, cartoons or videos on shows that had similar themes and the next week, she came to class having knowledge about the scenario and the melodies on her fingertips. She thus transformed herself into a little director, knowing how to give dynamic energy to her group, who for the most part, followed her like a bunch of lemmings. She prepared her original choreography in top secret and to keep the surprise, didn’t reveal anything until the last moment, and definitely didn’t reveal the costumes, it sufficed to her to use plain dress during the rehearsals!”

If one sang?

Strong from success that she won from representation, Monique Mufraggi feels the winds turning and went against the trend while making shows at the crossroads of multiple disciplines (GCs note: using expertise from multiple disciplines), at the speed of three creations per year since the middle of the 1990s. In 1996, she invited the singer Eric Choley to participate in her shows. A student of Jasmine Roy and Armande Altai, a member of the Ajaccio Estudiantina (Editors note: a local musical and folklore group), he became a crucial link of the teaching team in making a singing studio in the center, renamed for the occasion The School of Theater Performance. At 12 years of age, seeing her school diversifying by adding singing and acting lessons, Alizée decides to follow new courses. From then, she participates in all the spectacles created by the school as a singer, dancer, and an actor. In 1997, she goes on stage in a show founded on the songs of the boy band Alliage, and then revisits the classics of Starmania and West Side Story, and sings several hits during a show called Cocktail de tubes (Cocktail of the TV shows). In “Un drôle de magician d’Oz” (A funny wizard of Oz) in June 1997, Alizée plays the role of Judy Garland and depicts a Dorothy that is more true than the real one. The show is a great success, mixing singing, acting, classical dance, jazz, clapperboard, and flamenco… Monique had taken the liberty to replace the clown monkeys of the Sorcerer of the West by wild gypsies throwing bad lots.

The next year, the school proposes an original creation, Le Château de Varnemont, (The Mansion of Varnemont), a fantastic story of a ghost pirate who makes a martyr of the people on vacation living in an old mansion. “Like certain other gifted students, Alizée had several roles in the show, her professor remembers, including commander of the army of the ghosts. Juggling between dance, singing, and sketching, she came to the set in a costume of the living dead that made by herself that would even make Michael Jackson jealous!” During this time, its without great pomp that Alizée gets her license and enters into second year classes at Fesch High School, just a few steps from her old college. The evidence is clear: Miss Alizée wants to become a choreographer and wants to stop her studies to dedicate herself completely to her passion. She completely gave herself again to the gala in June 1999, in the paintings made around Corsican, Celtic, Iberian, and African legends. A scene of Irish folklore, choreographed like Lord of the Dance, was a crowd pleaser for both the crowd and the parents.

The young one grows

On the advice of her singing professor Eric Choley (Editors note: who also will coach Florian Lesca, unhappy candidate of the “Nouvelle Star” (GCs note: New Star, a TV show similar to American Idol), dropped out in May 2006, some weeks before the victory of the celebrated Christophe Willem) and of those around her, she signed up for the selection process of the show “Graines de star”. Hosted by Laurent Boyer, friend of the stars and king of intimate interviews thanks to “Frequenstar”, this TV hook has become an unavoidable show since February 1996 on Friday evenings. The music industry has profoundly changed, the artistic directors of this end of the century don’t anymore bet on long careers, instead focusing on marketing blitzes and not daring to work on development. So, TV takes the places of the decision makers of the past, skims the regions and picks up the talents of tomorrow that will feed the Dream Machine. In November 1999, the casting team of the show went to Ajaccio. Alizée wants to compete in the category “Graines de danseuse” (Seeds of dancers), but because of a late registration, she was forced to give that up. Because of choices and rules, she decides to try her chances as a singer, and shows up in an Ajaccio discotheque to audition. The wait feels like forever, but supported by her mother, the young girl ends by singing at 3am “La vie ne m’apprend rien”, (Life doesn’t teach me anything), a retake of the regrettable Dnaiel Balavoine. Against all expectations, Alizée got second place in these regional auditions. Just like her colleague Jenifer, an unhappy candidate in 1997 but future icon of the “Star Academy”, or of Gregory Lemarchal a few weeks before her, Alizée is about to enter into the big family of artists discovered by M6 when the radio waves are occupied by the big voices (Johnny Hallyday, Celine Dion, Notre Dame de Paris, Tina Arena…).

A few days before Christmas, she was invited to the capital to do her first studio work in order to prepare the song that she will sing live in the show a few weeks later. On the 16th of December 1999, Alizée finds herself for the first time in front of a microphone in a Parisian recording studio. She chose to do “Waiting for Tonight”, an effective dance song from Jennifer Lopez and released during exam week for a month day after day before these voice tests. The objective of this trial was to work on her tessitura and choose the song that she will sing live on the day of the show. A camera was installed in a corner of the studio, filming her jump into the giant bathtub. Alizée seems to be at ease, she gives her name, age, says that she has been singing for two years and does some galas every year in Corsica. And the she bursts into song:

Fixty Sixty

07-14-2008, 03:27 PM

Fabulous article! It shows how hard Alizée has worked to develop her performing skills, and her dedication to excellence. This is a good article to go with the Fun TV interview. Thanks very much for the translation.

brad

07-14-2008, 03:27 PM

thanks gc!!!

Amigo!

07-14-2008, 10:28 PM

Merci beaucoup garçoncanadien! Vous etes tres serviable. ;)

heyamigo

07-14-2008, 10:46 PM

merci GC, that was a good read.

Rev

07-15-2008, 01:41 AM

Wow! Thanks GC. That was a lot of translating. :)

Ben

07-15-2008, 02:33 AM

Epic .

garçoncanadien

07-17-2008, 04:47 AM

“Like a movie scene/In the sweetest dreams/I have pictured us together/Now to feel your lips/On my fingertips/I have to say is even better/Then I ever thought it could possibly be/It’s perfect, it’s passion, it’s setting me free/From all of my sadness/The tears that I’ve cried/I have spent all my life/Waiting for tonight/oh oh oh!” The people in the room immediately find some problems, a nasal voice that needs some work, a bad choice of song, but they agree on the fact that the little girl has an incredible charm. The bet is won. Could it be necessary, in retrospect, to think about another song so that she can really give it her all in a live show?

Life in red

It’s finally “Ma prière” (My prayer), a song from the second album of Axelle Red, À tâtons (By feel), that the production team gives Alizée for the big night. The singer is concentrating, her baptism by fire will happen on the 25th of February 2000 on the fourth anniversary of the program. In Corsica, her friends at the school of theatre gather together to make sure not to miss even one second of her first appearance on TV. Her sober and no-fuss attitude convinces the viewing audience who will choose the big winner of the night, to offer her the possibility to compete during the next show. “She had a real sweet face and a different style, remembers Laurent Boyer. Not the kind of singer with a Mariah Carey voice, but someone with a real stage presence like Vanessa Paradis.” On the 14th of April, she again tried the refrain that made her famous a few weeks earlier: “Moi qui aurais tant voulu/Un monde qui évolue/Je cherche mais je ne trouve pas/Un pays qui me va/Moi qui aurais tant aimé/Me sens paralysée/J’ai traversé la terre entière/Ecoute ma prière.” (Lyrics translation: I who wanted so much/A world that evolves/I look but I don’t find/A country that I can get along with/I who loved so much/Feel paralyzed/I traversed the whole world/Listen to my prayer) The TV show puts on a little report in a way that only journalists at M6 can do. Alizée’s father talks about how happy he is to see his kid sing, the very well hardened character of his baby and her resemblance to her mother. The little one gives us this secret: “I am very shy, I really don’t have any confidence in myself. That’s why I take classes (…) to conquer my shyness.” She appears dressed in a big green camouflage shirt and sings live with a voice that has a bit of a soul flavour, without forgetting to swing her hips, discreetly… but surely! The whole package under the watch of the duo of the comedians Kad and Olivier, and of Larusso (Editors note: for the young ones among you, Larusso was a singer in vogue in the 90s, who did “Tu m’oublieras” (You will forget me), one of countless variations on the song “I will survive” by Gloria Gaynor, on the highest steps of the French singles list, and who set herself apart by a petulant strabismus). Despite an a cappella on “Envole-moi” (Take off) by Jean-Jacques Goldman that was pretty good and the advice of Larusso (“You must not lack confidence. The sun shines for everybody. There is room for all styles of music, and if you get there and you persevere, if you believe, and may you always believe in yourself!”), the good fairies will be absent tonight and another young girl, Marie, will take the crown from her. But what a surprise, Alizée is caught one month later and M6 gets her to do another performance. When it rains, it pours, you tell us… Still, she declines the invitation for “personal reasons”, without even a word from the doctor! In the wings (GC’s note: theatre wings) of the show, it is already rumored that the young Corsican could have signed a golden contract with a renowned French artist. Who is hiding behind this mysterious producer? What secret is Alizée hiding? These two questions burned the lips of all of France at the beginning of summer.

Some days after her appearance on “Graines de star”, the record company Polydor told her that the very discreet Mylène Farmer has seen her performances and wants to meet her.

Mylène is calling

In reality, it’s a hydra with two heads that is hiding behind this mystery that is as full as the hair of the leader of Tokio Hotel (GC’s note: a French band). A bit disappointed by her sudden eviction, Alizée wisely decided to keep dancing. Sure that she doesn’t want to be thrown around by the Parisian limelight, she swears to her friends that it won’t be done again anytime soon. Still, several days after her return to Corsica, she receives a call from the record company Polydor. She is told that the very discreet Mylène Farmer has seen her performances on “Graines de Star” and wants to meet her. In reality, the deal is a lot more intricate than the producers want to immediately admit. Mylène Farmer and her accomplice Laurent Boutonnat are looking for a young girl to sing a song that they have in their desk drawer and smells like a good one for a video. With some well known songs (“Sans contrefaçon”) (Without counterfeit) and generational (“Désenchantée”) (Disenchanted), Mylène is a different kind of artist who has had success since the 80s making herself a repertoire that has both intimacy and grandeur, sadness and smiles, and putting herself on stage with sumptuous videos (“Libertine”, “Pourvu qu’elles soient douces”, (Given that they are sweet) “Beyond my control”, “California”, “l’Âme-stram-gram”, “Je te rends ton amour” (I return your love) …). Disappointed by the lukewarm welcome for her first film Giorgino but reassured by the success of her two previous albums, Anamorphosée (GC’s note: Anamorphosis, what you see in a hall of funny mirrors at a circus) and Innamoramento (GC’s note: Italian for 1st moment of love), she just finished a tour of royal proportions that took her as far as Russia. While her fans expected her to be ready to leave the media scene after the release of her next disc, she surprised the world in the month of May 2000 by wanting to produce Alizée.

The young girl and her future mentors met during a meal. Alizée knew the fame of the duo, but isn’t really a big fan of the star. Interesting point. Reassured by the behaviour of the adolescent, Mylène and Laurent were relaxed and the meal went on very well. Alizée sealed her musical destiny that day by accepting to record the song that they provided to her. The song is called “Moi…Lolita” and the signature recipe of the team was applied to the letter. “Moi…Lolita” is a very effective dance-pop bombshell, both good for the dance floor and perfectly calibrated for the radio. If the first two bars of the introduction sound like they come from the main theme of the film Giorgino and give the harmonic whole a mysterious and somber tonality, the rest of the song makes you want to dance with forceful synthesizers, a very present bass and nice rhythms that are dear to the composer. The first couplet is sufficiently long to let the levels of programming enter in crescendo and to make an explosive entry on the refrain. Mylène, who delights in neat words and scoundrel evocations, really had a field day with the play on sound and play on words. The Lolita costume that she conjured up owes as much to Dolores Haze of the novel by Nabokov as to Serge Gainsbourg’s Melody Nelson.

Without a doubt, a scandal will surround “Moi…Lolita”. Alizée is a minor. She sings a text with a sexy background made of incestuous relations, of impossible attraction, of age differences and sexual awakening. Nothing better than that to excite the media! The song brushes upon transgression, and only evokes false candor (“C’est pas ma faute/Et quand je donne ma langue au chat/Je vois les autres/Tout prêts à se jeter sur moi ») (Its not my fault/And when I give up/I see the others/Ready to jump on me) and secrets to keep quiet in the name of Judeo-Christian morals (“Motus et bouche qui n’dit pas”) (Keep quiet, don’t talk) …even if it is obvious that the adolescents of today say the three syllables of “Lo-li-ta”, “rêve[nt] aux loups” (dream about the wolves)) without blushing and are not ignorant. Too proud of her little jewel, the redhead godmother of Alizée can’t hold herself back from signing her authorship by innocently sounding out her own first name in the second couplet (“Moi je m’appelle Lolita/ Coléreuse et pas/ Mi-coton, mi-laine”) (I’m called Lolita/Quick tempered and not/Half-cotton, half-wool).

THE CHEEKY ONE

As soon as the song was recorded, the staff started working on Alizée’s image, taking advantage of her undeniable charm. The personality of the high schooler took form first under the lens of Philippe Salomon, fashion photographer more used to professional models than starting singers. And since there is no one better to rely on than ones self, Laurent Boutonnat directed by himself the clip “Moi…Lolita” like the short musical films that he has the secret recipe to. For a first filming, Alizée is spoiled. Her producers didn’t save or skimp on anything. Filmed in three days, the video uses the cinematographic favourites of the director, but also the flavour of the long films of Claude Miller. To shoot the exterior scenes, the team set up near Senlis, and then came to the heart of Paris to shoot at the Bains Douches. Alizée pays dearly for the bucolic scenery of the Oise. Bitten in the eye by a horsefly, she forced the team to postpone the two day filming. The young girl shows a Lolita sure of her attributes and who knows how to get what pleases her. To get away from the fields where boredom racks her and to leave a filthy-mouthed and fat mother, she gets an odd lover and shamelessly gets 200 F from him. With a look of genius and a smile, Lolita goes back home and experiences motherly rage. Accompanied by her little sister, she takes a bus – registered to the heathens! To get herself to the disco

[article continues after Maurane interview]

INTERVIEW

Maurane
LA JOLIE RENCONTRE

CROISEE in the cours of the Enfoirés, (GC’s note: A yearly big musical event, with France’s biggest artists, that is a charity benefit for the poor. The funds from this show go to support the network of Restos du Coeur (Restaurants of the Heart), which cook free food for the poor.) The woman from Brussels is one of Alizée’s favourite artists. Story of the birth of a friendship.

Is it always a pleasure to find Alizée doing the Restos du Coeur?

Whats good about these shows, is that you meet people when you least expect it. Alizée and I weren’t initially destined to meet, since our musical universes are different. For her first Enfoirés, she was rather introverted and quite shy. This year, she really became a part of the team. I get the sense that she is less afraid of herself.

You shared with her an homage to Gainsbourg last March. You could have found her arranger Jean-Claude Vannier, who wrote you several beautiful pieces (“Sur un prélude de Bach” (On a prelude of Bach), “Juste une petite fille” (Just a little girl), “La chanson de la pluie” (The song of the rain)…) but was not one of the invited artists?

He still could have had his place. At that time, we didn’t really meet each other. He proposed to me three magnificent songs for my last disc, one of them being “Le jardin de mes soucis” (The garden of my worries), but they unfortunately came too late. I was very well aware that Alizée was singing strong lyrics and working with somebody like Vannier. Her timbre has been refined, there is a pretty grain in her voice that she will put the finishing touches on and I don’t think there is anything bad in her voice anymore.

Did you think she was at ease on “La javanaise” (The Javanese) that she sung as an acoustic version?

Yes, she understood that in growing up, one goes back to the acoustics. The further one gets, the more one wants to take away and not add. I just finished a tour with some twenty people. We are a family, but when we are in a little committee, like I was able to do with “Au milieu d’eux” (Among them) or my acolytes from HLM (Editors note: her jazzy trio which released its second work Un ange passe (An angel passes) in 2005), its not the same thing. When we eat, there are only two musicians and three technicians. Suddenly, the other links weave together.

What do you think about Alizée’s unusual journey?

At the beginning, I reacted like most other people. I thought that she was the new Farmer product. However, she may have brilliantly sailed her boat. During “Moi…Lolita”, was she really taking that seriously? She was a cute little girl, a little pussycat, … I was surprised when I heard she had the guts to tell Mylène Farmer that she was mature enough for other things. It must not have been easy because, even if I don’t know this woman, I know that she is a personality that is rare, a woman of taste and a strong character. She must have been its mother because when she works on a project, she completely puts her back into it. Today, Alizée uses what she experienced as a springboard and has not stopped surprising us. When we hear “Mademoiselle Juliette”, one can imagine that she will have a great career.

In the space of several years, you have seen her grow up…

… and pass from Lolita to mature woman. Maybe this happened since she became a mother? She knew how to stay authentic, but she has gained in security and openness towards others. In addition, she lacks neither the intelligence nor the energy to do things well.

You are also a client of Camille, Olivia Ruiz and other Jeanne Cherhal as well as personalities with a more consensual appearance like Alizée or Nolwenn Leroy for whom you have written “Sereine”, (Serene) a song that you have created on your last disc…

I forbid myself to do any segregation. I don’t listen to Alizée over and over again and she doesn’t use her platinum with Maurane albums, and look at the good it does her [laughs]! That doesn’t prevent us from having real tenderness and true mutual respect when we meet. If I ever have the chance, like today, to present my friendship or support, I will do it with pleasure.

Like her, do you think you have had to fight against labels?

Sure! For a lifetime, one fights against labels. Alizée will have to rise over her image as a Lolita. She truly had to see immature people, and I know her desire to evolve. As for me, I frequently hear talk about my voice and my curves. I am not big and thin, but I am not an ugly beast either [smile]! A good girlfriend, is good for five minutes. Yes, I know how to sing, but maybe do I also want to impose another image?

If they knew the insecure abyss that is hiding behind this fake smiling face?…

I wrote that, and I don’t deny it. But like every melancholy person, I like laughing a lot. And like every funny person, I sometimes know how to be completely devoid of humor.

You share an infinite love for Corsica Is there a Corsican soul?

In any case, Alizée calls the shots – talking about islanders. She never lets anybody take advantage of her, and still, she is very sweet. I need to go to Corsica at least one or two times each year. One feels good there, it’s at the same time relaxing and not too far away from home. One has everything at the same time, mountains, sea, an island of beauty and an island of goodwill.

In adolescence, when Alizée was triumphant, over-protected by her producers, you sang Brel and Leonard Cohen in the streets with your accomplice Dany with the utmost independence… Your paths are direct opposites, right?

Exactly, and it’s probably also what brought us to talk to each other. Our itineraries are so different that our conversations are great.

Are you up to date with Alizée’s success outside the country?

Yes, I saw the riot in Mexico on the internet. In Paris, she does her errands alone. In Mexico, thirty bodyguards are not enough! For me, I think I am convincing in French more so than in any other language. I am able to sing in Spanish, but in English I get the impression that I am a bad imitation of somebody…

You still recorded English versions (“Breath of life”, “Down for the last time”) for Différente in 1995. Was this an idea from the record company?

Absolutely, I didn’t believe in it at all. What wasted time! In retrospect, I know that Alizée is very well known in Asia where there are a lot of Francophiles, and me too, I dream of going to Japan. I sang three nights in Tokyo at the Quattro club. I was welcomed like a princess, even if over there they don’t laugh on the promotion. I have also sang in Algeria for one of the biggest moments of my career and I remember a surreal concert in a room for several hundreds of people in Italy where I am completely unknown (Editors note: in Aoste).

Alizée is also a star in Russia. What memories do you have from your tour with Brel in 1000 times at the beginning of your career?

The last time I went to Moscow, was in effect 1986. We experienced three grueling and passionate weeks while sometimes doing three shows a day. With the help of vodka, we worked on speaking every language. People asked about news about Brel, since they were cut off from the world. It was before the fall of the Berlin Wall. I am curious to see the change today, the passage from one state to another. I am going back to participate in a concert with Michel Legrand, my father’s idol who cradled my childhood and my adolescence with “L’été 42” (The summer of 1942) and “Les moulins de mon coeur” (The grinders of my heart).

This friendship with Alizée shows your taste for friendly and musical meetings done in a feminine way (your duos with Lara Fabian, Les Muzik’elles, Bach au féminin…). It has been said that you are writing witih Colette Nys-Mazure, the author of Singulières et plurielles ?

Yes, but that will be for later. This is about a book linked to music and to the interpretation of dreams. I have written the first one, La Vie en rouge (Life in Red) with Gilles Verlant which helped me to structure my memories. Today, I am working on something called Maurane au jeu de l’intimité (Maurane in the game of intimacy), under the direction of Muriel Beyer of the Plon Editions and about an idea of Daria of Martynoff, my lyricist friend and director, who created this game in the line of Stratégies obliques. There will be deep reasoning about philosophy, religion, sexuality or spirituality, but rest assured, I will answer existential questions like “Have you already worn a helmet?” or “What do you think about the kangaroo slip?”. Maybe I will be ready then, to write alone…

[b]Do you regret that we still don’t recognize your talents as an author in your discs?

I have to admit that my style is quite distorted. I don’t trust myself and I don’t see why I would refuse a good song to get texts that are less than successful… I attract talented composers and authors. If a song fits me like a glove, why not do it? In my last album, I worked with Art Mengo, which I have known for twenty years. The jazzy or Brazilian sounds, the rich and complex harmonies, it was always my thing! I know whom I inherited this from: my dad was a professor of harmony and director of a conservatory. It is not by chance if one of the albums that I am most proud of is Toi du monde (You of the world), where despite the great orchestrations, we did quite some research and exploration work. It was my fault, I wanted to hear everything!

Si aujourd’hui (If today) isn’t it justly called the ideal equilibrium between the effectiveness of Quand l’humain danse (When the human dances) and the profoundness of Toi du monde?

It’s possible. Each album is a piece of life, its never something plain. When I feel that it could be good, I act on instinct, like Daran, who presented Pablo to me (Editor’s note: Pablo Villafranca, her ex-husband and father of her daughter) and who convinced me to let myself step aboard… to the whim of an electro arrangement or of songs that make me deathly afraid like “Si aujourd’hui”. On the stage, now, it is a pleasure to sing it. I have the feeling of being a bird flying over great spaces, like in a dream.

If Bertrand Burgalat wrote “L’effet” (The effect) for Alizée, its with his ex-colleague Valérie Lemercier that you did your third film. Hows it going with Maurane the actor?

Very good, thanks [laughs]! When I filmed Carnaval, I didn’t take advantage of it because I was tired. I filmed from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening and left to sing afterwards. As for my role in Le Comptoir (The Bar), it suffered from my too great of a friendship with Sophie Tatischeff. She could have been less lax on certain scenes. I think I am very uneven in this film, frequently too soft. For Palais Royal, I was never directed with such strictness. Valérie never let anything get by and forced me to go beyond my shyness. To be an actress in reality, I think requires you to know how to lack shyness.

Will you go and clap for Alizée in the Grand Rex in October, a room that you have been to in 1996 and that you didn’t like too much?

Yes, I even indicated on Facebook that I will go and see her! I am curious to see how she is in concert, it will be a first for me. I wish her much happiness on that stage, even if personally that room makes me scared. It lacks warmth and I don’t like the vibes in it. My show at the time was still magnificent. I was surrounded by an orchestra of eleven strings, which came all the way from London…

Maurane, Si aujourd’hui
(Polydor/Universal)

ggin

07-17-2008, 09:30 AM

Thanks so very much for these, Garçoncanadien!

SilentFox

07-17-2008, 09:48 PM

Thanks there GC! :D

MonteCristo

07-17-2008, 10:28 PM

garçoncanadien

07-25-2008, 09:20 AM

Translation by dana0_7
translation: 69-83 (without interviews)

alizee planet
on 14th of august 2001, polydor proposes alizee’s “gourmandises”. This electro-pop song gives a hint on “little red riding hood” and bets on the sexual connotations of the text. “quand tu penses a moi/toi le loup des steppes/tout au fond de toi/ressens-tu l’ivresse/j’ai si faim de toi” sings alizee, making a list about her loving states. The moral shows us the fright of the wolf when girls have just a desire: The knowledge. Rather then teaches us to be afraid of it, alizee invites in spite of her to return the jolly sexuality and assure that the wakening of the libido is not so frightening. To carry this philosofical message, nicolas hidiroglou films a group of teenagers who discover the pleasure of the body. The spirits warm and they touch their bodies. Step by step, first kisses appear and hands become more portable. Cherries, strawberries, melons, juices, tarts, charlottes and other sweets are all reunited on a picnic blanket. Useless to invoke freud, bataille or alberoni to understand what is hatched in the words and the clip of “gourmandises”. Dressed with a comic dress made by castelbajac with a “miam miam” belt, alizee goes to every television show, in the company of a band composed only by girls.

On 15th of septembre 2001, she goes to “rire de plaisir”, then to “hit machine” and “graines de stars”.

In october, she’s received by patrick sebastien at “prima donna”, by michel drucker at “vivement dimanche”, by flavie flament and fabrice ferment at “tubes d’un jour, tubes de toujours”. “gourmandises” is for 2 months in first 15 positions of the top. Seeing this succes which doesn’t seem to end, alizee wants to come with a new single, “jbg”. But there will be nothing. She will go abroad, on tour. Encouraged by the succes at pays-bas, she goes to russia where mylene has an active fan-club. In juin 2001, she receives there a hit fm award. “moi...lolita” is no 1 in japan and israel, so “gourmandises” is sold in canada too. In autumn, she also presents “moi...lolita” to the germans, who receive her very well. Another fan club is created. She goes to “the dome”, a show created by ann door, who also created “dance machine”. Alizee wears the same dress she used in her clip and on the album’s cover (mylene used the dress too, in 1998 ). She goes to “viva interaktiv” and german “top of the pops”, before winning austria and poland too. But her succes doesn’t disappear, since she goes on 6th of november at “music factory awards”, where she receives a platinum disc for “gourmandises”, a double platinum disc for “moi...lolita” and a gold disc for “l’alizé”. They heard about her on the other side of atlantic, since she receives a new price at the second edition of “dmx music awards”.

During her international promotion she does an act of charity, participating at the concerts of les enfoires from 18 to 21st ofjanuary 2002. Zazie, elsa and mc solaar sing “moi...lolita”, while she signs with pascal obispo and marc lavoine and then she sings “ca va pas changer le monde” with maxime le forestier and francis cabrel. That year, their single was mylene’s “rever”; mylene wins the title “the artist of the year” at nrj music awards.

Alizee goes again in her internation promotion, happy knowing that after germany, italy and spain, she would go to london. There, only 3 french songs have ever arrived in the top: Birkin and grainsbourg’s song, vanessa paradis’ song and desirless’ song. Alizee’s clip is first censored in england, but their interest in this new french singer appears quickly. Alizee arrives on the 9th position in the top and that’s how she wins her ticket to the great “top of the pops”.

On 6th of mars 2002 she goes to monte-carlo to receive her price: World music award for the french singer who sold most albums abroad. Daft punk and manu chao won this price too, but that was the “moi...lolita” ’s turn. Paparazzi taks photos of alizee when she leaves the show with olivier kahn, her manager. In a very short time, the press say they were in love.

Four days later, she goes again in germany to “the dome”. Into the next weeks she sings “l’alizé” at “bravo super show” and german “top of the pops”.
Alizee continues her tour in hungary, danemark, then in italy where “moi...lolita” becomes again no 1. In july 2002 she wears a jean-paul gaultier suit at festivalbar. In august 2002 she’s exhausted because of this international tour and she goes home to celebrate her 18th birthday.

coup de gueule - it's a french expression. Don't know what it means
didn’t we say that is better to beat the iron as long as it’s hot? (proverb) for some of the listeners, alizee sings just a song and nothing more. The succes who came after this one was just because of it. The second album is waited by her fans and by the critics. On their position, farmer et boutonnat watch. The trio knows each other very well now. The composer worked at so many song and the autor watched more alizee’s personality. While “gourmandises” was more like an album-concept, this second album was supposed to represent the double game, the woman-child. Of 30 songs proposed by laurent, she records only 11. She grew up, so she wants to insert her personality on this album: More electric songs, especialy with guitars and organs, orientated to pop-rock. So, starting with september 2002, alizee is working with the same team, but a little more expanded. About the office, the producers create in february, especialy for alizee, a new company: Isiaka. About the studio, boutonnat has confidence in jerome devoise to record and mix the new album in his studio. In the role of the guitarist is philipper bouley, who entered in the univers of alizee as a photographer. The percussionist loic pontieux lends his work to mathieu rabate, like morgane maugran to ann calvert. Finally, the songs needed some strings and the right person was jean-philippe audin, a violonist who worked with mylene since her biginnings. Also, they needed an arrangement and the compositor was jean-jacques charles, who worked with mylene at “les mots”. After all the work at this album, alizee offers to her family a christmas holiday in sicily. To forget about the parisian stress and, even there were paparazzi, the plan was simple: Beach and laziness.

In january 2003 we hear her new single. For this return she proposes “j’en ai marre”. She gives an interview for “tele 7 jours”, who presents a three pages interview and a cover who sais “goodbye, lolita”. Definite string lines, rhythm and acoustic guitar... That means that alizee didn’t lie. “j’en ai marre” has something between the acoustic air and the traditional taste of mylene and laurent. The song is about a girl who’s relaxing in her bath, far away from the worries of the world. “j’ai la peau douce etc” sings the spoilt girl, but very clear to make fun with autoderision of her small rebellions against cynicism and surrounding pessimism. But, in fact, because of what or of whom is she exactly fed up? We should think she’s fed up of rain, of vegetable marrows who make her vomit. In japan the song is named “my soap bath” and is used for the publicity of elise biscuits.

In february 2003 is made the clip for “j’en ai marre”. It’s realized by olivier megaton, and shows an athletic alzee, closed in a huge aquarium. As a fish in water, she’s playing with a tennis ball and with the camera. She invites us to join her, but everything ends by breaking the glass. An ironic allegory of the diktat of the image that she’s suffering – she breaks a camera – or a metaphor of imprisonment in singer's status which forces her to live always the permanent look of the public? Anyway, the filming was wow. A moking-off clip shows her difficult days with nutela breaks. During the filming, alizee receives the cameras of m6. “j’en ai marre” doesn’t fascinate the radio’s producers, although it’s on 5th place in top 10 until avril 2003. Alizee appears with 2 giutarists at “pour laurette”. She sings it and we see that she really grew up. She’s a beautiful woman, using a great coregraphy made by valerie bony. She also has, sewed on the backside, the famous red fish that she’s talking about in her song, the fish which was on her cover album since her return. This new look makes the mass media speak, because they imagined her more serious for a show where the main role was to collect funds against leukemia. But she persists and goes to “hit machine” and “la chanson numero 1” where she sings “ella, elle l’a” together with a chorus.

an electric girl
her new album appears on 18th of mars 2003. On the cover album she wears the dress she used for the promotion of “j’en ai marre”, a dress created by mylene. She has now confidence in herself (“j’ai pas 20 ans”, “hey! Amigo!”), even if she’s not 20 and she speak about the love passion: The electrochimic reaction and the wish “under high pressure” (“sous haute tension”), her ideal lover “toc de mac”, about separations (“c’est trop tard” – “it’s too late”), the virtual love (“l’e-mail a des ailes” – “e-mail to the angels”) or jealousy (“coeur deja pris” – “already taken heart”). About music, the songs are between guitars (“toc de mac”, “c’est trop tard”) and programmings (“a contre-courant”, “tempete”, “l’e-mail a des ailes”). Some infantile lyrics (“toc de mac”, “youpidou”) are adapted to her age and they exclude an old public. Too bad, because the songs which are the most successful are those who keep their effectiveness without becoming therefore insignificants, like “coeur deja pris” or “tempete”, a dark and nostalgic song, closer to the pictures of vermeer, closer to the meanders of love at the banishment of most famous of history, the corsican napoleon. “compter les batailles qui t'ont fait mal (count the battles which hurt you), tous les équipages ont pris le large (all crews sailed), je cueille ta fierté qui s'est blessée (i pick your pride which hurt itself), faut-il que ton deuil dure des années pour m'aimer?” (is it necessary that your mourning lasts of years to love me?), asks alizee. In “amelie m’a dit”, mylene is inspired by amelie poulain, a request of alizee, so she could represent a thoughful and solitary girl, ready to accept the shades of her lover, but who wants to give a better life to all who surround her.

“mes courants electriques” is better received abroad that the other one. There are 4 songs in english, too. “j’en ai marre” becomes “i’m fed up”, “amelie m’a dit” – amelie, “j’ai pas 20 ans” – “i’m not 20” and “youpidou” remains “youpidou!”
on 23rd of mars 2003, the most know french singer goes to “eurobest”, the final of the european “star academy”. There she meets a guy named “jeremy chatelain”, but she also sings “jeam” and “moi...lolita” in trio, with chenoa, a girl who was chosen to represent spain at cannes. There’s the place where alizee will go: Spain. She goes to “musica si” on 16th of may. After spain, she changes the background and goes to asia (21-28th of may 2003). Japan discover in the same time “moi...lolita” and “mes courants electriques”, chosing alizee for elise. They make an interview, a shooting and a conference. She goes to radio and tv shows. A show was “warratte itomo”, on fuji tv.

the big first ones
during her journey in asia, jpva arrives in front of jeam into the french tops. The new clip was made by laurant and it bets everything on the live. Alizee anounces a huge tour, starting at olympia. The tickets are sold in a constant speed, so an impulse (the clip) is well received. The scrip is minimal: Alizee is sitting on a bench, thinking at her concert: Pink dress created by courreges, silver-plated boots, coregraphy, musicians and lights. Everything for music, everything for the concert. Contrary to lorie who said “at 20, nothing is impossible”, alizee is proud to have more time until that age. She feels free to chose with her heart and not with her mind, to receive the every day surprises: “i don’t want a “for life” which lead to heaven (...)/ i don’t like to get used to something/ i hate when that hurts/ i’m not 20/ i have no attitude/ although i have carriage/ i change as i rhyme, hiding the aspirine/ we’re old at 20/ but i have more time until then”. She sings jpva on 3rd of june 2003, when is chosen mister france. Then, on 8th of june, she goes at “la chanson numero 1” to sing this song and she also sings “la isla bonita”, because the show was about madonna. On 18th of june she sings jpva at “top of the pops” and a few days later she sings it at “la fete de la musique” (21st of june).

She goes to “baciami versilia”, in italy, and to “festivalbar”. After she comes back, she sings for the 100th anniversary of “tour de france”, in front of hotel de vile, on 3rd of july 2003. Then she goes to germany, to sing “i’m not 20” at “top of the pops”. In june, jpva is on 18th place in the top. Benni benasi makes a special version, a remix, which will be heard on the radio. She’s very busy with the latest details for her concert, but she promote also this second single. A few days before her concert at olympia, she goes to “stars a domicile”, for the second time, where she meets a fan from arcachon. 3 days after that, her show beggins at olympia. Her firsts show are in paris (26 august – 4 september). Although the shows need more things, the essential is already there. She changes 5 costumes during her shows, all created by courreges. She sings and she dance ok, having a coregraphy made by valerie bony. The concert is modern and very coloured and her band knew how to keep the original songs, but also to bring new notes, for “mon maquis”, “j’en ai marre” or “gourmandises”.

The casting for these shows was a high quality one. Jean-marie negozio, a michel sardou’s musician, shares his work with jean-philippe schevingt, who comes to work with the keyboards. For the guitars, alizee calls olivier marly, cologero’s guitarist, and gil gimenez, bernard lavilliers and murray head’s percussionist, but who becomes a guitarist only for this occasion, making a new version for “c’est trop tard”. Philippe chayeb was a percussionist for huge singers, like michel legrand, diane dufresne, france gall, patrick bruel, larry carlton or billy cobham.

Coming soon the other pages. Sorry if i have some mistakes.

garçoncanadien

07-25-2008, 09:20 AM

Translation by Dana0_7

Translation 83-94 - without interviews

Reconnected, disconnected
Alizee goes into a short tour in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, exceeds the understanding. Paparazzi are waiting for her there. She’s insulted, but she continues her tour to South Korea, giving a great show. Before she goes again abroad, she presents us her new single, “A contre-courant”, including a new clip made by Pierre Stine. It was filmed in Binche, in a huge old building. She’s running after a man through the ruins of that building. She goes to several shows, including the sixth part of “Star Academy”, where she sings on 4th of october 2003 with Johnny Hallyday, Isabelle Boulay et Nolwenn Leroy. She goes in different parts of France during 10th of octobre – 20th of december 2003. She goes also in Belgium in october and in Sweden in november. Although the concerts should last until spring, her las show is on 17th of january 2004 at Zenith, in Paris. The public knows he’s filmed because of the new live clip.

In february, the newspapers write about the separation between Alizee and the recording label, but there’s nothing more than a rumour. But what is true, is the relationship she has with Jeremy Chatelain. They went in Las Vages where they got married in secret, on 6th of november 2003.

She goes for the second time at “Pour Laurette”, dressed with one of the dresses she used in her tour, singing with Natasha St Pier a Pascal Obispo’s song, “L’important, c’est d’aimer”. A few weeks later, she celebrates with Jenifer the 43th anniversary of Charles Aznavour, singing “For me, formidable”.

On 18th of october 2004 appears the live recording. But her fans have to thanks to a little, only an album and a DVD, with a little of making off. Although a new single is sent to the radios (“Amelie m’a dit”), Alizee decides not to promote it until her 3rd album is ready.

In november, one year after her american marriage, seems that she’s going to be a mother and we understand why she had this lack of interest in promoting her new single. On 29th of april 2005 she gives birth to a lovely little fairy (petite fee) named Anny-Lee.

Starting with this moment she’ll think more about her 3rd album. No new infos about it, but the separation seems to be done. Her destiny won’t be reduced to Mylene, but maybe to Indochine. Asked about a colaboration, Nicola Sirkis (during a show under the Eiffel Tour, a show for the coming out of their new album, “Alice and June”), sais that, for the moment, he only “gives her advices about how to escape from the claws of the spider (?). It’s not made already, but it’s not wrong either.”

Alizee is present at the party for the appearance of Sir Sid, her husband’s chothes brand. The couple also goes to the theater to see their friend Pierre Palmade acting with Isabelle Mergault, into a laurent Ruquier’s play, “Si c’etait a refaire” (If i had to do it again).

Emancipation(s)
Decided to make an original album, Alizee prepares her return in family. Jeremy is put to make the melodies and to create the songs for the new album, helped by his friend, Sylvain Carpentier. They met each other (J & S) when they recorded for “Varietes francaises”. Together, they moved to B cabin, in Juno studio, Yerres. The album is so waited and the fans are making pressures. A few months later, like so many french celebrities, Alizee is involved in Clearstream, a politico-financial scandal. That’s why the prucence is more that ever here. She makes herself descreet, but she assures her fans that she will be back, using a short lovely message, posted by one of her fans on a site. During this time, a hurricane is almost born in South America. Alizee’s popularity is bigger with every month that pass. An year later, in february 2007, Universal decides, as their request, to public her DVD live and a limited edition of an album connected to the DVD. The newspapers write about Alizee and she becomes an idol there, although she have never been to Mexico.

During this time, at the biginning of year 2007, “Moi...Lolita” is still heard, so everyone speaks again about Alizee. On 3rd of january appears “A good year”, a Ridley Scott’s movie after a Peter Mayle’s novel. “Moi...Lolita” has a huge role in this movie who was filmed in Provence. In may, the same song is sung by Julien Dore, a candidate at “Nouvelle Star”. He sings a rock version. Everyone thought that Alizee would be there on that evening to sing with him, but nothing. It’s not about grudge, but that was the single that she chose when there was the question of publishing a single to make her public wait until her first album’s appearance. And Mylene opposes to every change of the original text.

But where is that preparation of the album that we’ve been heard about? We know that Jean Fauque confirmed on 1st of april 2006 that he was working with her. We hear about Oxmo Puccino too, about the great Bertrand Burgalat, but also about Daniel Darc. The album is ready. She produced the album all by herself, after she bought back her name with a symbolic euro. So, Alizee and her producer go to search a recording label. Finally, the one who accept is Marc Hernandez, from Sony-BMG, RCA recording label. RCA also represent Patrick Bruel, Laurent Voulzy, Rock Voisine, Pink, Avril Lavigne and Usher.

Delight on Christmas
So it started the preparation. Alizee goes a lot at her recording label to discuss about the promotion strategy, about her image and radios. As a first single, they decide to chose “Fifty Sixty”, a pop song inspired of Blondie, with a text writen by Jean Fauque, speaking about fashion and Andy Warhol’s NY. But the spitefulness of a person who worked in the studio makes him post on internet a version of this song, not even the final version. So, Alizee and Jeremy decide to not come out with this song as her first single, but with “Mademoiselle Juliette”. The newspapers start to talk about other rumour, that Alizee has on her album a song about Mylene. The show “50 min inside” shows a report where journalists like Bertrand Dicale from “Figaro” and Benjamin Locoge from “paris Match” are asked about both of them.

On 24th of september 2007, there’s an oficial press release where she deny the rumour and she also sais that the new single will be MJ and the new album, Psychedelices, will appear until the end of the year. First is announced for 26th of november, but it appear on 3rd of december.

Considering Alizee’s interntions, we are sometimes tuched by her 11 songs. It is a pop album, which contain the elegance, the innocence and the glow of the 80s. it has something from Deborah Harry and Madonna (FS, MJ), from Nelly Furtado (Decollage, PLP), from Killers – their “Hot Fuss” period (Psychedelices) and something from Depeche Mode and The Cure too. Most cases of text are writen by Jean Fauque, who makes word games with great meanings. He gave Alizee stories about a dive who kills herself because of drugs (Idealiser), about 80s NY (FS), about sensual dates (Mon taxi driver) or about an imaginary city where you can meet Paris Hilton, John Lennon, Ghandi, Rolling Stones, one of the Desperate Housewives or Al Capone (Lilly Town)... Symbols from a zapping generation. Alizee also asked him for an intime song. So Jean wrote “L’effet”, a song about the great feelings of being a mother. When he proposes her a modern version of the story of Romeo and Juliet, he describes a heroine who wants to escape from her own history. How can’t you imagine that when she sings about a heroine who often had the feeling that she was in the audience at her own adventure? And what we should say about Oxmo Puccino’s text which speak about a Alizee ready to take-off? About Daniel Darc, he shows us the dark side of Alizee, speaking about “ac-triste” and “cica-tristes” in “Lonely List”. He also speaks about one who has the courage to write a goodbye letter (Jamais plus).

Don’t cry for me Mexico...
Having a clip filmed at Epinay-Champlatreux, in Val d’Oise, using scenes from “Eyes Wide Shut”, MJ remains only for 8 weeks in the top, but on the last possitions. During this time, her bet is achieved. She has a popular public and new listeners seduced by her originality. Because “Le 6/9” obtains the exclusiveness to show to the public her new single for the first time and some scenes with Alizee and her grandmother Marie-Jo and her bestfriend Helene, “Le grand journal” and “Cafe Picouly” goes together with “Fan 2” and “Star Academy”, and “Le Parisien”, “le Point”, “Le Monde” and others goes with “madame Figaro”, “Liberation”, “So Foot” or “Voxpop”. She doesn’t handle carefully her paine to defend her first album of heart and to explain the return of Tinkerbelle independently of Boutonnat/Farmer. She’s present at the inauguration of Zenith in Strasbourg, she goes to a autograph session on Champs-Elisees and she doesn’t grumble when they ask her to join some chats on the internet.

After she participates in january 2008 at the concerts of Les Enfoires or she goes to some concerts like “M6 Live” in Provence on 15th of february where she sings ML and FS, she goes to Mexico.

Radios, press, tv... There will be a huge promotion. On 3rd of mars, she responds to several questions in a press conference, where she’s dressed with a spring dress, where she seats on a sofa, surrounded with cakes like the one from the album’s cover. Two days later she has to cancel the autograph session from MixUp shop. They waited there 500 people, but there came more that 8000. She presents her excuses on Prodigy MSN’s site. The album receives a gold disc, competing with Alicia Keys album or Britney’s.

After her return in France, she goes on 20th of mars to a concert for Fight Aids, singins 3 Gainsbourg songs with Adrienne pauly, Elie Semoun and Jean-Felix Lalanne, whom she will meet a few week later at Casino in Paris.

About shows, she sings “Love is all”, “hung up” and “Adelaide” with Alain Chamfort. Again bad luck. The FS clip is uploaded on the internet, exactely on the server of those who were responsible for it. Her recording label is asking for the deleting of the clip, but without a good result. To promote the new single, Alizee already taken some photos at H&K. The photos are less sophisticated than the Nathalie Canguilhem’s. Starting with 21st of april 2008 she repetes for her future concerts, which will start at Moscow, than in Mexico from 22 to 31st of may. In june she will go in Argentina and Colombia, and then on 23rd of october in Paris, at Grand Rex. Coming soon a new live adventure.

Sorry if you'll find some mistakes.

garçoncanadien

07-25-2008, 09:47 AM

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of the closest town, leaving the unfortunate first place girl behind her. Under the strobes, she doesn’t dance jerk (Editor’s note: a moving thought for the fans of Thierry Hazard), but kindles the jealousy of other less desirable women and constraints of playing artifices while searching for their lost youth. She went on the dance floor and becomes the attraction of everybody who has a bit of testosterone, under the proud and dumbstruck look of her little sister, standing on a bar table. It’s the moment that chooses its suitor to leave. A bit lost, he watches her dance until daylight, and at a good distance, follows the two sisters who are going back to the village. The director will not need to look far for the boy in the clip. He is Jerome Devoise, a familiar face on the Farmer team, sound recorder on the Mylène Albums and sidekick of the engineer Bertrand Chatenet. To portray the woman, he uses the help of the Marseille artist Anne-Marie Pisani, who already worked on TV films and ambitious films, such as IP5, Germinal, or Delicatessen. Boutonnat will be faithful to him, offering him a role several years later in his Jacquou Le Croquant (Jacquou the Peasant).

Everything is ready. From the first reactions of the radios from May, we figure out that the song has a good future ahead of it. While Mylène releases “Innamoramento” as an extract of her live album, the single of her student is released on the 4th of July and is received as the best video of Summer 2000. “Moi…Lolita” makes everybody happy, from camps to clubs, of greedy children of a perky song sang by one of them, to a more mature audience, even understanding the double meanings and the strand of vice that comes from it. The song has such great success that the song stays for 44 weeks in the charts, and seven and a half months in the Top 10! Third best sales of the year 2000, “Moi…Lolita” stays in the 52nd position next year of the most sold singles. Strong from this immediate success, Alizée takes the good old string of the Farmer style promotion, and during the whole summer, she is instructed on her coming schedule. With an embargo on information and absolute discretion, it is necessary to know how to maintain mystery, feed absence and create demand. Her record company only accepts very few interviews and those done are by telephone. Also, one favours the risk free feathers of the adolescent press and television, and less than ten snapshots are distributed on the media.

The singer leaves her isolation on the 8th of September 2000 with the show “Le grand soir”. The channel shows a report filmed on her island, where Alizée is filmed on the beach and in the streets of Ajaccio with her brother. The grin is mischievous, the looks are seductive and as soon as a question is asked about her mentor, the singer learns to say “joker” (GC’s note: French slang for “no comment”) with a hearty laugh… We follow the young Corsican in rehearsals at the school of theatre and follow her shopping. She needs to prepare so quickly for her shows on TV that she hardly has time to prepare for her first CD and the stuff of celebrity life. Her look is perfect, mixing a college student outfit with a mini robe from the fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, that is quite in style, with a false fur coat. Discreet makeup but very intentional shakes of the hip, sexy winks at the camera, Alizée sings her show as her name scrolls across screens behind her, emphasizing the official spelling. Quite quickly, eight versions of “Moi…Lolita” are proposed to feed the collectors and the remix discos (Editors note: not less than five different remixes… “Lola Extended Remix”, “Hello Helli T’es A Dance Mix”, “Lolidub Remix”, “Illicit Full Vocal Mix” and “Lola Extended Remix Radio Edit”).

Strong from her success with “Moi…Lolita”, Alizée takes the nice old recipes of Farmer style promotion. Embargo on information and absolute discretion.

Rare interventions, multiple sources of support, sparing declarations, all this seems like its happened before, no? The strategy seems to be perfectly burned-in, will Alizée become a mini-Mylène? One week later, she defends her title on “Hit machine” and comes back on the 29th of September on the show that discovered her. She appears more sedate with an azure blue outfit. Under the gaze of Françoise Hardy, Laurent Boyer joins her and gets a few words about her beginning collaboration with the icon Farmer. Nothing transcendental is in her answers, just a single piece of crucial information: the release of a first album in October.

Delicacies and other treats…

Seeing the success of “Moi…Lolita”, Laurent Boutonnat and Mylène Farmer have created a team of faithful people to make the young girl’s creative work in record time. We find Slim Pezin, Mylène’s favourite guitarist on her first three albums and pillar of her show in 1989, the well known bassist of Francis Cabrel, Bernard Paganotti, the drummer Mathieu Rabaté and the singer Ann Calvert. Alizée records in the Guillaume Tell studio under the watch of Didier Lozahic, Dominique Blanc-Francard’s old assistant and engineer of her favourite original soundtracks of Luc Besson’s films. The album, called Gourmandises, owes a lot to Boutonnat’s direction and offers a sampling of up tempo juicy bits (“Moi…Lolita”, “L’alizé”, “Gourmandises”, and the successful “Veni Vidi Vici”) and other synthesizer based ballads in the form of electronic and evanescent marshmallows, fortified with keyboard (“Lui ou toi”), percussions (“A quoi rêve une jeune fille”) or done with an almost speaking voice (“Mon Maquis”). It is filled with references to childrens literature (“Gourmandises”, “Veni Vidi Vici”) and allusions to Gainsbourg. The text of “Lui ou toi” invokes Adjani and his “blue sweater”, Paradis and her “wave of tears”. Alizée plays the chameleon, being at the same time a seductive Lolita, adventurous James Bond Girl, romantic adolescent or a tortured child-woman. Mylène uses her to describe the period of adolescence, a time when childhood seems far away with its group of illusions. “A quoi bon/Les vies chiffons/Les mots d’amour/Qui sont trop courts”, Alizée asks, in « Parler tout bas ». It is a time of questioning, (« A quoi rêve une jeune fille »), of awakenings (« Gourmandises »), of capricious humors (« Abracadabra », “L’alizé”), and of impossible choices.

Mylène Farmer wins the bet of instilling personality into this painting while taking care to highlight Alizée’s group of unique characteristics.

This confusion of feelings, the writer translates it into a cacophony of styles and people (“Lui ou toi”), even going as far as writing grammatically incorrect sentences (“S’il te plait/Arrêtez”) (GC’s note: te (you) and Arrêtez (stop, subjunctive) should agree in number, but they do not, this is what the author means by grammatically incorrect) .

Outside of the sensual sounds and the effective gimmicks, Mylène Farmer wins the bet of instilling personality into this painting while taking care to highlight Alizée’s group of unique characteristics. As evidence, she could neither allow herself to pass by a song titled “L’alizé” nor advertise her Corsican origins (“Mon maquis”, “Veni Vidi Vici”). “Et si ça se corse/Elle se décorsette/Une île de beauté » she makes her sing in « JBG ». The discretion of her goddaughter also inspires two pieces talking about the secret garden of each little girl. The bed of a child becomes a secret and trespass-free territory, a place of giving the ultimate secret to “The Inanimate World” (“Parler tout bas”) and the siblings hideout (“Mon maquis”). Still, Mylène does a portrait of a young girl who is demystified, who takes the role of “un zeste de féminité/Sur un corps-puce de gamine” (“Veni, Vidi, Vici”), and describes the strong character of her student by saying that under her timid character, mademoiselle always gets what she wants (“Canon, car on/Doit tout lui donner/Le bon dieu sans resister, car…” in “JBG”). “Ce qu’elle veut, A-LIZEE l’a toujours” she writes in “L’alizé”.

Sweet breezes are made of this…

17 november 2000. The first edition of “M6 Awards”, new ceremony occurring with the “NRJ Music Awards”, happens in the Zenith of Lille. Alizée had only published one single, but the channel did not want to wait for the imminent release of her album, it wants to bet on the excitement and is eager to put the plough on the cows (GC’s note: get the ball rolling, get stuff working), by proposing to put her on the TV viewers vote beside Pit Bacardi, Mystik, Damien Saez, Superfunk and Yannick. The public awards her the prize of “Best discovery of the year”, which is given to her by Tina Arena. Very moved, she thanks her parents, her audience, her record company and her producers under the applause of Olivier Kahn, her manager. During the ceremony, Mylène Farmer is also awarded for her clip “Optimistique-moi”. She thanks the audience while saying a few words to Barbara, and congratulates Alizée, all the while crying at the podium.

After this awards ceremony, Gourmandises is finally released. “L’alizé” is chosen as the new single, published on the 28th of November 2000, and accompanied by the usual dose of remixes, like the good doctor Mylène Farmer ordered. To create a bit more agreeable image, this song shows a happy Alizée, ready to experience her first feelings of love during the rough times of adolescence (“Moi, j’suis comme le vent/L’esprit à mille à l’heure/Je juge sans doute trop vite/C’est ok, tant pis”). Whether it be the CD insert of Gourmandises or the video of “L’alizé”, we are going towards the little girl! Wahoo! The singer films this second clip in Belgium, under the direction of Pierre Stine and his chief operator, Aldo Piscina. In the presence of Dnaiel Davoudian, a celebrated glassblower and sculptor of bars of soap, Alizée evolves like in a dream in a carefully done pastel painting. She is carefree, she has fun, she flies and she does some acrobat moves. The filming turned out to be quite grueling. A story that reminds us that Alizée is above all a singer, the musicians are filmed, using their respective instruments on elevated platforms. The pop song goes to 11th place in the charts, but has first place for two consecutive weeks in January 2001.

The singer does her best and presents her single on “Hit Machine” on the 2nd of December with the same musicians as those in the clip, who unfortunately had not yet learned how to mime the playback recording! On the 9th of December, she sings in the Telethon and next tours several TV shows for kids like “Les petits princes” (The little princes) and “Les petits anges de Noël” (The little angels of Christmas), and does nights of pop taking advantage of the success of the year. Therefore, Alizée finishes the year 2000 on “Le grand hit” of M6, on the 28th of December. During that week, she succeeded in placing her two songs on the first and the 3rd place of the most sold singles. Only “Les rois du monde” (The kings of the world) of the musical Romeo and Juliet slid in between the two successful songs. Despite the late late release, the album Gourmandises is raised to the 51st place among the most sold albums in 2000 and starts to seduce the French speaking world (Editor’s note: “Moi…Lolita”, sixth most sold single in Belgium in 2000).

Veni, vedi, vici

The year 2001 starts with a very good outlook. Alizée continues to promote her album, notably in “Video gag”. A week later, on the 20th of January 2001, she is in Cannes for the “NRJ Music Awards” where she sings in lip-sync “L’alizé” and wins the prize for the best internet site, and the more coveted award of best Francophone discovery, awarded by Patrick Bruel. Nominated to “Victoires de la musique”, she is shunned by the Academy, who prefers Isabelle Boulay on the 17th of February 2001, probably because of the difficult relationship between the association and Mylène Farmer. However, she gets another form of award because she is invited to participate on the Enfoirés show, recorded this year in Lyon. Alizée becomes the narrator of a medley constructed from the “Rock collection” of Voulzy and sings for the first time on stage, live and with an audience blown away by her new star status. The press follows the phenomenon very closely and the singer poses with Henri Salvador on the cover of Paris Match for a strange multi-generational page between the old bloke and the wise little girl. In March, Alizée is called to Holland, where the original version of “Moi…Lolita” sees great success. On the 30th of April, she participates in an exceptional open air concert, before 40 000 people in Amsterdam, organized by The Music Factory as one of the events celebrating the birthday of the Queen of Holland.

While Europe is discovering the French Lolita, Alizée continues her journey by releasing the ballad “Parler tout bas”, broadcasted on the radio since March. She sings about her difficulty growing up and confronting what she imagines to be the violence of the adult world: “Les grands ont des griffes/Comme des bouts de ciment/Comment leur dire/Quand on a que seize ans/Le lit qu’on défait, n’a plus/Le gout du zan(…)/Les grands ont des rires/Qui vous gifflent/En passant ». To protect herself from the unknown, she closes herself up in her imagination, preferring to receive love from her toy bears rather than crashing into real love: “Parler tout bas/Trouver les mots qu’il faut/Parler de tout, parler de moi/Pour trouver le repos”. Some snapshots from Philippe Bouley appear and the clip is signed Laurent Boutonnat, assisted by Jean-Marie Dreujou, the chief operator who was his second hand man for the clips of Nathalie Cardone, picks up with a more obscure tone. Alizée is stretched out on her bed, her house is in ruin. Rain is falling down on her face and her toys are broken. Her dolls become alive and try to escape with her. Alizée decides to bury her bear – and to symbolically quit the world of childhood – under the eyes of her dolls, perched on the branches of a tree. Liberated from all that troubles her, she can finally live a life with her lover, rejected without shame in the video of “Moi…Lolita”.

“Parler tout bas” takes an honourable path in the charts for more than twenty weeks, attaining in June, 12th place in the Top single. On TV, Alizée presents herself in a laid back way and sings while sitting down on a chair, notably in two editions of “Tapis Rouge” (Red carpet) (Editor’s note: including one dedicated on the 4th of July 2001 to Enfants de la Terre (Children of the Earth), the association of Yannick Noah). She does shows on “Hit machine” in April, in “Drôle de petits champions” (Funny little champions) in May, and on June 1st 2001, she participates on the famous “Stars à domicile” (Stars in your house) filling little Julia with joy from the Eure-et-Loir. For the occasion, she barges in on the little girl’s birthday party, while singing “Moi…Lolita”, her show, that was awarded a few months earlier, on the 31st of May, with the SACEM Vincent Scotto prize. Loyal to Laurent Boyer, she goes on the show “Bébé stars” (Baby stars) in the beginning of summer and stops on the 22nd of July 2001 by an appearance on the show “Génies en herbe” (Geniuses in the grass).

garçoncanadien

07-25-2008, 11:13 AM

no more translations of this book from me
Backinblack is doing pg 1-40 :D

lefty12357

07-25-2008, 11:17 AM

Thank you Garçon ! That must have been quite a lot of work. I can't thank you enough for your efforts.

Ben

07-25-2008, 08:29 PM

Awesome Garcon, thanks so much. How about the interviews dana skipped though? :p

heyamigo

07-25-2008, 08:39 PM

damn i'm gonna miss your translations GC... great job yet again.

and the successful “Veni Vidi Vici”

how are they calling VVV successful when it wasn't a single? (it does happen to be one of my favorite alizee songs though)

TheBarrett

07-25-2008, 08:58 PM

If you like it, then it's successful! :)

Rev

07-26-2008, 01:48 AM

Thanks very much GC. :)

NarutoSoul

07-26-2008, 02:39 AM

Merci beaucoup, GC!

wildfire

09-29-2009, 03:00 PM

ALIZEE TECHNO GIRL

Who said that girls don't know anything about a computer? Not Alizee! We met the singer during the release of her new album, "Psychedelices". Interview with a charming geek, an absolute fan of the iPod.

A rude awakening on a February morning... Hard to get up, even the iPod would refuse to get out of its case! Only enough time to get a cafe and to get warmed up near the road by the big Parisian hotel where we invited Alizee. The singer is back after three years of absence. The time was used to have a baby and to conceive an album. Just like the sound of her new disc, the young woman has matured. Finished with playing lolita under the leadership of the duo of Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. The little Ajaccio girl broke with her mentors who discovered her during the show Graines de Star on M6. The artist affirms herself in life without denying anything about the past and takes her career into her own hands, knocking on the door of Alain Bashung's favourite author, Jean Fauque, or of the sombre Daniel Darc, singer of Taxi-Girl. That gives quite a mix to the intersection of pop, and even rap. An eclectisism done in her image, likeable and quite the opposite of the singer marketed by her record company. Alizee shows her tastes like her addictions for boys toys. The iPod and and the Mac are very important to her daily life. She's arriving now, smiling despite looking tired from doing seven Enfoires concerts for the Restos du Coeur in only five days. Meeting.

SVMiPod - You are back from the Enfoires concert... Tired but happy?

Alizee - The Enfoires tour is an interesting moment. It is a bit like a summer camp, you sacrifice your own interests for the interests of the whole group. This year, the show was changed into a play, we put on costumes, we have fun! Most of the artists don't feel nervous at all, when we are singing in front of 10 000 people...

You and your iPod, are you inseparable?

I always have it with me, even during concerts. With the Enfoires, we each have to sing about fifteen songs, and my MP3 player allows me to rehearse. Same with the TV shows, where I am frequently asked to sing several different versions of the songs on the album: I take my iPod, I listen and I count the number of refrains, its a great reminder (laughs...)! All the artists that I work with have an iPod, and that doesn't even count MacBooks or iPhones. During the creation of the album, I kept all the different versions of my songs on my mp3 player, from the initial draft to the first time I sang it, with the musicians recordings... In summary, the iPod is an amazing work tool, but thats not their only role. I like to see films as well. When I go flying, I take my iPod so my daughter can look at cartoons. She was born with an iPod, she doesn't even know what it's like to fly without an mp3 player! My iPod is also quite useful for sports. I don't do sports anymore without music and without a playlist that I let the thing run, and time flies!

How do you explain the success of the iPod?

For girls, its above all a fashionable thing that comes in different colours, that we can engrave... All the biggest brand names make accessories for it, like Chanel or even Vuitton who have released cases for the iPhone even before its release! Its also ultrasimple, like everything else that is stamped with an apple.

Aren't you afraid that the usage of mp3 players supports illegal downloads?

No, mp3 players are not at the source of piracy, its the price of progress and the Internet... we can't do anything about it, we made a lot of laws, it was a battle lost before it begun, unless we go back to vinyl records. I think we should prepare for the death of the CD.

Are you a fan of the first days of its release?

I found out about the iPod via the Mac. During my tour at the end of 2003, I went into a store to get a Powerbook. I wanted to get the best out of three months travelling and musicians' advice, who all work on Mac computers, to really get into it. And then, when I saw the iPod beside the Mac, I really fell for it! Then, I really loved the Mini rose, a limited edition Hello Kitty that I ordered in Japan, until the day when a funny icon appeared on the screen, a person with little eyes and a smiling mouth. I tried everything to reboot it, pressing both buttons at the same time without success... its my little girl who inherited it as a toy, to do the same thing. Then, I went to the black Nano, all the way to the new Classic 80 Go gray that I received as a birthday present.

You aren't convinced by the Touch?

16 GB of memory is not good enough. With my Nano, already, I had to keep selecting bits of music in iTunes. It is too frustrating when someone like me has a musical library that is 40GB in size! I prefer to take all my music in my pocket. The Touch, I give to my husband (Jeremy Chatelain: editors note), I gave him one for Christmas.

According to you, the status of geek is no longer reserved for just guys?

Effectively, since I have always liked new things in technology... Finally, a few years ago, I blamed myself for only liking guy things! When I started to earn my own salary, I spent as much money on gadgets as handbags, my two passions! I love going to Japan to shop in high tech shops. There, they have several story buildings where each floor is reserved for cameras, videocamcorders, computers, quite a surrealistic thing! Quite modestly, I have learned some stuff and today I know more than my husband...(laugh). With him, I play the customer service representative. Its my dad who is responsible for me liking this stuff, and he is proud of it. I have always had computers at the house, I have photos where you can see me as a little kid beside a piano. When I have a problem, I will troubleshoot for hours why it doesn't work. It's only in really difficult situations that I call my dad up. Besides, he always picks up the phone and says "Apple Assistance, hello!"

What do you use your computer for?

I do a bit of everything. In total, I have 21000 photos that I keep track of with iPhoto or Aperture (that my dad told me about), and, definitely, Photoshop to do some retouching. I also like making some small movie cuts with iMovie to show them on my iPod for people close to me: vacations during making-of the recording of my last album while going through my dad's birthday...In 2003, I called him during a concert with 4000 people to tell him happy birthday. The makeup artist filmed in the wings of the set and I put everything on my Mac to give to him. Its a unique gift that particularly touched him.

Do you use the Net a lot? Do you personally work on your site?

Artists official websites are heavy and difficult to keep up to date. I prefer to use MySpace with is really accessible to everybody, to publish new photos and news. Therefore, I keep up my pages everyday and I receive fans messages directly... I am naturally on FaceBook, but there, its more personal.

What digital device has not been invented yet that you dream about?

Something that can drive everything in the house (from TV to food), like the iPhone, at the touch of a finger. And so something I liked a lot on my iMac and the other manufacturers should get ideas from: it only has one wire! And that, for a girl who is doing housework, its very important...

By Olivier Frigara

I BLAMED MYSELF FOR ONLY LIKING GUYS THINGS!

MP3 PLAYERS ARE NOT AT THE SOURCE OF PIRACY

HER SITES

The Geek Journal: this site talks about current gadgets.

Nitrolicious: A fashion blog that is about the latest bags, sneakers, and even MacBOok Air. I could have done it myself, it is quite like me.

Clubic: I get little shareware programs that I need for my Mac there.

Purse Blog: A blog on It Bags, these timeless high fashion bags like Hermes' Kelly.

FaceBook: This is the fasion site. Its cool to keep in contact... But in the end, I think I will get tired of it.

Sold Out: Collete's store website. I order sneakers or clothes that you can only find there.

HER PLAYLIST

Gorillaz - Dare

I am totally a fan. I adore the graphical universe of the clip!

Madonna - La Isla Bonita

I had the chance to sing it in her presence during a special show on France 2.

The Killers - Somebody Told Me

It is my favourite group and the reference album for the creation of my last CD.

50 Cent and Justin Timberlake - Ayo Technology

I am not very hip hop, but there, I have always had feelings for that music!

The Beatles - Let it Be

The song for my dad. Everytime I listen to it, I think about him.

IN HER BAG

A Beez pink robe: it looks like a big Malabar. There is nothing that could be better for protecting the MacBook.

A FreecomToughDrive Pink Hard Drive: 250 GB always in my hand, for pictures of my daughter!

A Blackberry: A work tool, above all.

A LG Shine telephone: I adore its good luck charm, a USB keychain drive of 2GB, that it is attached to. Its a gift from my dad.

A paper Louis Vuitton agenda book: I have had too many problems with the electronic version...

A MontBlanc in its case: I signed my first contract as a producer with this pen. I am sure it will give me good luck!

Ray-Ban sunglasses: these are Wayfarers, that my dad used to wear for a long time and that are now back in fashion again. I use them to remind me of the Ajaccio sun.

:wub:OK, this is the HOTTEST interview with her that I've read!!:wub:

I took a cold shower! :p

Delicious insights into her intellect. I keep saying: the more I know about this gal , the more I like her. I luv the strong bond she has with her father. A note to designer single moms: see what happens when the father is around? your daughters grow up to be well adjusted pop stars!:D

ALIZEE

TV Series
(What TV series actor could you be?)

A.: I hesitate... It could be a mix between Monica from "Friends" and of Suzn and Lynette of "Desperate Housewives". Not a bad mix! One could create a new one. We can't identify with just one of the characters because they are extreme, but thats cool because we can identify a little bit with all of them. And we can relate with them in some situations, but not all the time. Otherwise, I am "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy", and "Prison Break". I have "Six Feet Under" on DVD at the house, "Sexy & The City" that I know by memory and "Friends" for sure. I tried "Lost" and "Heroes", but it didn't really catch my eye. Maybe its not girly enough (laughs).

DISCO: RCA/SONY-BMG MUSIC

She doesn't like "Lost"? :eek: Not Girlie enough!!! My heart is broken!!