Making art pay
 

Yes, Plaz, I join with Rev in thanking you for providing the <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=153010&postcount=15">translated interview</a>.

I know AAm has a central collection of videos. It would be nice if there also was an archive of translated (and <i>authenticated</i>, e.g. mass-media-sourced) interviews. This could include links (or even IFRAME embeds) of materials originating elsewhere. Ben, would you have a helper who could accept nominations for entries in same?

On the other hand... maybe it would be much better for <i>la fille corse</i>, if she secured exclusive online republication rights to such things via Opendisc®! (Let's defer a discussion of legal vs. practical exclusivity for now.)

That is very sensitive of you, Fall, but many people have it <i>much</i> worse! For part of my life, now mostly very long ago, I earned a living as a teacher. This not only included lecturing to hundreds of people at once, but at one point tutoring a dozen groups of a half-dozen students at a time once weekly with the <i>same</i> material. Believe me, by the tenth group, one was pretty darn <i>sick</i> of the material. I always respected those who had the stamina to continue not only year after year, but decade after decade.

This was decades ago, when the only <i>electronic</i> video-on-demand device on campus was a single large-format video cassette recorder which lived in the engineering library - and got almost no use at all. When I passed by it on occasion, I fantasized about the future day when everyone, both students and professors, would have a device like that for use ALL the time (cf. YouTube) LOL! Sadly, as recently as half a decade ago, I STILL saw a need, at least for some people, to <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=150085&postcount=803">evangelize</a> the benefits of electronic video for instruction.

But if you REALLY want to pity someone who has to dish out the same <i>spiel</i> over and over and over again, look no further than someone running for political office! They will devote no small part of their life to having lunch at every two-bit civic society, at which they will give the same basic <i>stump speech</i> for the gazillionth time. I wonder when the day will arrive that society will grow up and settle for a video of the stump speech, followed by a live Q&A. Perhaps that is <i>already</i> happening in our YouTube age! (I haven't devoted a whole summer to serving as a political campaign volunteer in nearly four decades.)

Getting back to the interview, recently I <a href="http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showpost.php?p=152308&postcount=93">wrote</a> the following:<blockquote><i>It happens there is also one song in her repetoire which really haunts me, in the sense communicated by the singer of </i>Killing Me Softly with His Song<i>. I know much better than to make too much of this, but the profound memories and feelings are evoked anyway, will and wit be damned. And if that is not delivering what art should, I don't know any better.</i></blockquote>I was amused that Alizée took the opportunity now to make a similar point about what she is trying to do:<blockquote><i>There are songs which represent me less than others, but it's not an [auto]biographical album where I only sing about me. Every one can finds himself in my songs and by every song they'll discover a new story.</i></blockquote>I have written a bit of satirical poetry, but never a song intended for sale. Yet even I know that in doing the latter, whether or not one simultaneously fashions a video for it greatly influences design: radio is not television!

Surely Alizée is sorry there was no opportunity to do music videos for this album, as she did a fine job with the <i>Mademoiselle Julliette</i> video, upon whose charm I have commented <a href="http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/o/docdtv/Alizee/2010Jan/">here</a>. But you have to appreciate it costs a lot of money to lease (as well as decorate and staff) a facility like <i>Château Champlâtreux</i> - so much, in fact, they their Web site does not even quote a price (so they can <i>means-test</i> leasing parties during vacancies).

We operate a historic 19th century courthouse which has been used for location shooting more than once. We took in well over 1% of the tax digest value of this property just for a ONE-DAY <i>status-quo ante</i> shoot which provides location footage for the popular music video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKm9hfxcHE8"><i>Naggin'</i></a>(+)

Is it surprising to read, that hypothetically, I would have much preferred we had had the <i>business</i> from <i>Société Alizée</i> instead?(++)

There is perhaps no little irony that our rustic venue (fewer people live in our <i>entire</i> county than Ajaccio) would be used by so "urban" an act as the <i>Ying Yang Twins</i>. But sadly, that's not to say there hasn't been a long history here of violence, vice and corruption to humble any <i>Gangsta Rap</i> video - or certain Mediterranean islands, for that matter. (People who know history suspect that <i>L’Île de Beauté</i> was previously called <i>L’Île de Batterie</i>, LOL!) We recently hosted a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution">Smithsonian Institution</a> exhibit on vernacular food culture at the courthouse, so I made sure that part of the whole exposition included an exploration of our extensive and internationally (<i>sic.</i>) infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshining"><i>moonshining</i></a> history. (Don't laugh, but the current <i>mayor</i> of our county seat was an extra on the original US TV series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard"><i>The Dukes of Hazard</i></a>.) Given that this history includes lots of horrific violence, I ended the story we tell with some comic relief: a <i>double sens</i> music video borrowed from YouTube. The performance is not up to the highest standards, but if you liked the double entendres in Alizée's earliest songs, you'll get a laugh from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9op-Cq6Oto#t=0m13s"><i>The Moonshiner's Daughter</i></a>, who perhaps is kin to the infamous "Farmer's daughter" (capital intended), even if she is <i>nothing</i> at all like our princess, Mlle. Alizée.
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(+) I don't like <i>Rap</i> music any more than does Alizée, but as someone who was a sensible provincial bourgeois girl even before she became an artist, <i>la fille corse</i> understands that the bills <i>must</i> be paid. To do penance for contracting the shoot of <i>Naggin'</i>, I wrote an (unpublished) satirical poem called <i>Smurf Rap</i> which does a number on the <i>Gangsta Rap</i> genre. Friends insist it is quite hilarious. Typical <i>Rap</i> lyrics treat nubile women like inanimate toilets, rather than people with souls. It is very depressing to contemplate some poor woman reduced to "bitchdom." Those who have read me know I prefer to celebrate <a href="http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/o/docdtv/Alizee/2009Dec/">Italian princesses</a>! Of course, being human, even they can prove a vexation to their men, as explored in the late <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/04/nyregion/nicola-paone-the-italian-troubadour-and-a-restaurateur-dies-at-88.html?pagewanted=1">Nicola Paone</i></a>'s classic Sicilian-dialect English song, similar in spirit to <i>Naggin'</i>, called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHSszSDTxI"><i>Blah, Blah, Blah</i></a>.

(++)I wrote my fellow facility lords the following jocular advice concerning future affair leases:
<blockquote><i>...if you do want to draw people to [our place] all the same, I think you should instead consider decorating it with the very pretty, lively things featured here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKl6b7JZjA
(I hope you like Shakespeare.) [A person] even has a free-standing metal bathtub I donated to his charity warehouse he can let you have for a real bargain! <G>

Best,
[me]

...P.P.S. If you can't reach me by e-mail, try sending an SASE to
Attention: [me]
Casa di Giulietta
Via Cappello 23
Verona, Italia 37100

Grazie!</i></blockquote>

Yes, it was pretty cool for me to be able to just understand some of what was spoken with no translation necessary. It's like being lifted from poverty, though I'm still not really quite there yet. I also agree that Alizée was easier to understand than others, though she also slurs some words sometimes like a typical native speaker.

Indeed. Back then she had been away from any interviews or the like for over three years, she was 19 the last time, and it was her first attempt to put together an album as "producer"--an album that she really put a lot into. Still, Alizée seems to usually have a way of coming off pretty laid back. In this interview it seems to me that she was pretty comfortable with them and just having a nice chat. She did have to fight her way into the conversation at times since they seemed to want to talk over her. I've noticed that a lot in various interviews with French people: interrupting each other. I don't know if that's more a French thing or just that I'm paying more attention.

Agree. It is kind of funny. Alizée has a very laid back kind of laugh.

and it gave certain people visiting Paris (such as myself) the chance to go visit something Alizé-esk.

<object width="480" height="365"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xceddr"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xceddr" width="480" height="365" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xceddr_alizée-interview-radio-france-bleu_music">Aliz&eacute;e Interview RADIO / FRANCE BLEU (27.02.10)</a></b><br /><i>Hochgeladen von <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/alizee-corsicajaccio">alizee-corsicajaccio</a>. - <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/de/channel/music">Entdecke weitere Musik Videos. </a></i>

maybe this will help... merci alizee-corsicajaccio

Thanks, Jenny ! :)

Quicktime/Itunes don't play Windows Media files (wma & wmv), you need to download flip4mac, it's free.
(http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id...mac-wmv-player)
Or use VLC instead (free also)
You could have asked Alizée, she's a real mac addict...

@docdtv

I enjoyed your post immediately above. In my personal life, I am just as verbose; but typically not online.

My communication driving force:
If I have one cup of coffee, I talk quite a bit;
If I have two cups of coffee, I ask lots of questions;
If I have three cups of coffee, I ask lots of questions and will answer them for you as well.
:)

The On Repeint La Musique podcast is also on Itunes now,

Just search for the 27th January show, Alizée is on about 8 minutes into the show soon after Les Rois Du Monde is played.

sorry, but that's really funny here...:D
it's not "Lauriette" but " l'oreillette ".... the earphone !

btw: you did not translate everything ( i know it's a hard work) :
at one moment, the speaker is surprising to see what fans know about her and she says: " they know everything about me !" with a smile...

that was cool...

Yes, there is much more in interview, but translation of everything is time-consuming work.
And I didn't noticed that translation, but it could sound pretty convincing:)

Bénéficiant des médias à la française
 

VLC is very good - I've used it a lot (on Windows 98 no less).
You can even have it transcode between formats.
By the way, it's French, like the <i>Toc de Macintosh</i> lady.