Bad news .
 

http://www.metrofrance.com/culture/d...BzPHJDcQYOLlc/

http://www.rtl.be/people/people/news...un-flop-total-

http://www.closermag.fr/people/news-...-alizee-143626




:nervous::nervous::nervous:

So many bad critics... I'm really starting to be concerned about her contract with sony. I really hope she's not gonna withdraw from the music industry altogether :fear:

you ever must post the worst things...

Just like all fans, we tend to ignore the negative aspects and focus on what cheers us up , the good news , good critics etc. Even if I hate it I take some of the responsibility to share some of the stuff that is being said OUTSIDE the fan sphere , that we don't like to hear. But we have to get informations from many sources, not only the ones that make us feel comforted.

I really don't enjoy reading such things... but there are out there .

the only good thing is, all the articles are month old... before new single, hope video too and mexico trip

It's not about how old those articles are, it's about the mindset of the press regarding everything Alizée does or says, which is pretty disgusting.

for me yea... cause then could Sony stop everything that time, and not putting Alizee in shows, and like I read on A-France to make another DJ party...
I know what magazines write about her... like today about what she said yesterday about the Indochine member... however article ok, the comments there...

Oh no, you found some bad reviews of an album, it's not like you can find good and bad reviews of fucking everything right?

I'm quite sure most fans are quite aware of her situation, but thanks anyway for being such a hero and taking "responsibility" by spreading even more shit into these forums. I'm really not sure what you hope to achieve by making me "aware" of these reviews? Is knowing that the general public does not listen to her supposed to make me enjoy 5 more or less, or do you want me to run around the streets putting stickers on peoples cars screaming to everyone to buy her album?

This is exactly why I don't post much on forums, people really can't accept where she is now and you can't go 2 pages without someone bitching about how she isn't acting like that, dancing like this and oh my god I wish she would stop getting tattoos even though it's quite obvious at this point that she doesn't give a fuck.

And no I'm not upset because of some bad reviews, it's you people circulating them, outweighing the good ones, and constantly poisoning this community with ridiculous amounts of pessimism. I really don't want to listen to Je veux bien and start thinking, oh no, will this be sung on TV anytime soon? Will she have a concert?

Just enjoy the music, jesus christ :)

^ Hey calm down dude , don't even think about trying to give me any lesson about that kind of shit, well OBVIOUSLY you'll find positive and negative reviews of anything that exists , I'm just trying to shed some light on what is said about her outside the fan forums . I'm not judging , i'm not trolling, i'm not spamming, just sharing information because I believe that we need to take into consideration what Alizée is going through everyday in order to see the whole picture . It's all about balance: I noticed that I was mostly talking about optimistic and positive news and ignoring what I didn't want to see , I had to be a bit more objective , that's it.

I just don't want to see members of this forum losing hope because they don't understand what's going on. When you can actually read about all the attacks of the press Alizée is undergoing without even looking at her "not so good" public image , it helps keeping faith in her , because it makes you even more enthusiastic to know how far she's gotten in spite of all this.

Very harsh and unnecessary comment Kronos.......

I can't imagine life without Alizée singing anymore :(
I just hope these are nothing but foolish critics :pray::pray::pray:

Butthurt much? Face the reality, breh.

I hate to say it, but I think Alizee is toast.

Me neither! But even if Sony cancels their contract with Alizée I don't think she would stop singing, maybe she will go for another contract with a smaller french or mexican label... but of course it would mean a far lesser budget for her promos...:(


But I'm still positive that if the Je Veux Bien music video is a success , and if she keeps surfing on the "France Gall wave" like Jenifer , she will manage to keep her head above the water :thumb:

:scrunch: We're talking about our unpredictable little :alizee1: after all! :scrunch:

;)

I'll be praying for this, my friend! :pray:

I feel sorry for the fans who live in France and other countries where she is in the media. On my daily life, there would be no difference, since absolutely no one seems to know Alizée here. However, internet would be a lot more senseless for me without the wait for an Zée-update on facebook or You Tube... :sigh:

Geez, it creeps me out just to think about it :fear:

I know how you feel, can you imagine going back to before you found Alizée? When you didn't have anything Zée to look forward to? :(

The sales figures are based on certain stores' willingness to share their data.
It does not reflect the sales in France. Only in some stores in France.
The numbers are for CDs only.

Does it surprise anybody that people buy less CDs now than they did in 2003?

The "album sales figure " does not reflect the fact that a large percentage of Alizée's audience is outside of France, thus buying their music outside of France.

The reported figures ignore digital sales; digital stores; Amazon.com (Fod God's sake?!); stores in other countries.

Here's something else:

If 95% of Alizée's Facebook fans did not buy the album, that still means 30000 sales.

Apart from Alizée and her team, nobody has accurate sales figures; least of all French tabloids who certainly do not care about "informing the public".

She still hasn't made it to 10,000 units solds , that's been confirmed .
I don't how much money she made out of them though...

"Alizée: Her comeback is a total flop !"

Don't call it a comeback , she's been here for years - ROCKING her peers .

Those being very small have been heard to say that being smalls o k .
Those getting rather large , may come to find they've left their space behind .

A few more things I found funny , when Karin replied it is funny how things must always be turned into the bad side views . This is reflected in a few of my subjects which had nothing even to do with meaningless sales and numbers and then when immaturely manipulated into such when replied to become upset that anyone would see the greener side of the fence and refusing to even consider with any objectivity at all . The most hilarious part is and no one can answer . How do we always keep going back to , her career is done , she keeps losing money , she is a failure , thus saying from reading critics bs she will NEVER have another album , song , performance , video and so on . Yet here we are again year after year with her having new songs , albums , videos and so on . I'd really love to know how many more albums of failures in the eyes of these " critics " , til she is broke and no major label will sign her til those with that attitude give up on the ridiculousness of such ideals . Then again i'll bet that non-sense will continue forever . Fact of the matter is there she is without a doubt a highly acclaimed and successful artist . PERIOD .

Why the heck would anyone even ever want to read critics bs ?
Don't get me wrong make subjects as you wish here but please consider this . .
If you were Alizee and most of the subjects at forums like this are turned into just as the critics put it how bad everything is it's no wonder she may read here once in awhile but would never herself participate in these type forums . Then again for all I know Karin is Alizee scoffing at the very critics here incognito , not that I think that and the former true .

You know what they say about critics . . or maybe not ? It's a well known saying and well known for a reason . .

The most sad thing about critics and tabloid bs . . . Those trash rags only exist because people buy them and into the ideals always the bad side and love the drama . They would NEVER or rarely tell a good story about say some charity work she did because those good stories aren't interesting to most who love to buy right up the dramatic , sad gossipy stories . Don't read me wrong there either , to each his own on what you collect of Alizee and if she is featured in a magazine , online story feel free to spend time as you see fit and I see nothing wrong with that or discussions of such . Just don't become obtuse when some won't agree to the point of refusing to even acknowledge or see the other side of things .

Lap you being the subject author and obviously by your replies especially about the enthusiasm created within such subject do not reflect the attitude of my statement above don't take this as some attack upon yourself it's more an over all reflection of my views at this forum . Which I think is also where many of the replies above come from and you're seeing them as more replies to any of your comments herein . But i'd like to leave you with one final thought -

Does it really matter how much money she made on this album , I mean she does have money right ? She is still working right ? She does still have a few fans right ? Isn't that what its all about and not how much money she is making off any one particular item in a long career ?

To give an example of such critical bs and if you want the link showing the interactions i'll provide ya'll proof .
There is a girl who recently won in France the Incroyable Talent . . .
Before that for a couple years she had very few fans , as a matter of fact I was pretty much her only fan besides her own family . She wasn't making money singing and only was a youtube video singer , yet happy to be doing such . Once the critics started in on her pre-fame award winning days , similar to Alizee how her English wasn't perfect instead of listening to them . Listened to me saying that her English pronunciations in a French accent was cute and a few misused words were part of her unique charm so don't change just for the critics . She then went on to win 100 grand and Incroyable talent with the same songs , same voice and same as the critics had put it poor use of English who would never win on a prime tv show competition without changing . . . Yet if she had changed for them she may not have won for all we know , may have but may not . Fact is she didn't change voice wise besides a lot of hard work to get there and DID win . . That wasn't the only critic non-sense and is one example of many faced . So to say , critics are usually wrong and while that may not be in the eyes of those who focus only on money and sales numbers has little to do with over all success in a career standpoint . Especially with one so successful over ALL and very happy within that success no matter what anyone says as an Alizee is .

Lapinscous, thank you for the translations.
While we all have our own unique feelings on this "critic" matter, I personally find it good to enjoy Alizée as much as possible. None of us can predict how things will turn out for sure, so enjoy the "here and now" here and now.

I LOVED how Kronos put it , makes perfect sense to me and wasn't harsh at all to anyone . Then again maybe that is sarcastic but I don't get it if so .

The French are in their own little world when it comes to music. I've realized this ever since I started following Alizee. Have you ever taken a look at the Billboard charts for France? Remember René la Taupe at the top of their charts? :)))

I don't think it's that surprising that Alizee would struggle with album sales in France. Her fans and market is everywhere but France. You've sifted through her Youtube videos. Probably a couple of hundred million views since 2006 (when Youtube began and after she retired). Most of the comments are in English and Spanish. There are more comments in Russian and Chinese than French. Unfortunately, most of the people enamored with Alizee have no idea she is still singing and just released a new album. I honestly will not be surprised if Alizee's US sales for "5" surpasses her sales in France. And that's with no marketing to her U.S. audience.

Maybe you should try reading my post first.

That is a very good point that many are unaware of. Back in 2008 we would vote on Radio Atlantis 107's Hit Parade to get Alizée's songs played on their station. FYI the station is located on the west coast of France just north of Nantes.

The songs that would be in the top ten or fifteen were to be nice, mostly garbage. There would be a few that were good but more trended to mediocre to really bad on the Hit Parade weekly voting.

The other point was Jean-Jacques Goldman really wants to work with her, and offered her songs for this last Album. As one reporter pointed out that working with J.J. Goldman was instant success in France. If she is so washed up why would Goldman want any thing to do with her?

Here is the harsh reality of Alizee: most of her fans are only fans because they think she's pretty. Not because they like her music.

That's what I'm here for: letting you guys know :)
I'm not judging , just letting people know not only about the good aspects of her promo but also about its downside, even though I want to punch in the face all the people who wrote those dozens of bad articles for the press. :punish::angry::bash:



This is part of the reason why I admire so much JJ and Les Enfoirés ! There's always this spirit of comradeship, never letting a fellow Enfoiré down , always helping each other out . That's why I'm really grateful regarding Goldman's leadership of Les Enfoirés! :bow:


Some of you guys may not know, but not so long ago Alain Chamfort was close to being homeless, ( http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3o...c#.UZoymaIwc2M) he lost everything, his label cancelled his contract, and struggled to find a small back up label, he was refused the budget for a music video, so he had to do it himself and he was calling for help in it. Some of Les Enfoirés family helped him to get back on stage ,perform with some of the Enfoirés artists for his promo album .. http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...8k18o2_500.jpg

That's why the picture says : "Alain Chamfort's last chance"


That would be the worst case scenario for Alizée, but it's highly unlikely, since she's a part of Les Enfoirés

Try to enjoy good aspects of the forum rather than getting frustrated about everything which you dislike slightly.

That doesn't sound like slight dislike to me. He mad.

Feels like ages ago, I don't even remember how it was like

The end of the world was not a fake, guys
It was delayed, but it was real :(

That is true, but it is not a really big problem. The problem is that some of those fans have none critical views, everything is perfect and pink related to Alizée.

The problem with that is none of those fans actually buy her albums. If they did, she'd be made in the shade.

In that case they are not fans, just heterosexual homo sapiens.

Let's face it.. the Alizee of old is no longer with us. Instead, we get one that doesn't live up to par.. mediocre at best. Hate to say it but it's true.

I would not go that far... but it is a fact that she is not dancing and performing anymore. She does not have to dance or do concerts for the sake of it or trying to emulate the old days... She should do it because her beauty and dancing skills are assets that are being misused.
And I am not talking about doing the same things she did 10 years ago, she should adapt her skills to the 2013 Alizée and take them in as part of her show, her "brand", Alizée. We were all excited when she was training hard at Muffragi's.

But then many fans are just happy with her tweeting stuff and doing dj sessions, so I suppose I am being too demanding.

Let me rephrase that .. :

Let's face it... the Lolita is GONE forever . Dude, you can't expect a 28yo woman to act the same way as a 15yo teenage girl . She's getting older whether you like it or not. I wouldn't say that she is mediocre, she's been hit by the CD sales crisis, disadvantaged by the choices she made in her personal life, poorly prepared by Mylène and Laurent to go solo ... yet she survived in the music industry and I admire her for that.

Alizée said in a recent interview that she might include some of J.J. Golmans songs in her next album. So the fact is there will be a next album and I'm sure there will be many others too.. she's an established artist in her own right and that's a fact.

Offcourse she will always be cast as a one hit wonder by the critics but that's because they really know nothing about her.. she's still here making albums over ten years later still.

So lets just think about that and enjoy the new album.. because Alizée hears, sees and knows no evil.. so it won't prevail.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQnZLhT612U

Agreed. If it's Lolita you want then I can understand your mourning Davedel. But the rest of us have grown up along with Lilly and her music/style. For my part I'm 21 now, not the same 17 year old that was introduced to Zée.

Yeah, me neither, and I'm not aching to go back.

FACT she was just singing and dancing on live tv in front of a live audience . your facts suck . On top of that her latest interview she spoke about wanting to do a lil tour , so uhmm if she wants to she will , she isn't right now and for reasons that are NOT up to you some zealous fans who want this and that otherwise she is a failure to them .

Last I checked you weren't her manager , last I had seen she actually DOES emulate her old days performing some of her old songs and dances . Again your facts suck and overlook REALITY . Just because YOU think her being on a tv show dancing and singing are being misused in some way you failed to mention why . . . Again fact is your opinion sucks because you refuse to even see the reality of her doing exactly what you claim she isn't doing . . .

Your assumption of the purposes of her training in your fantasy of how we ALL were excited were flawed as your facts above . Uhmm she been training in dance for a long time , she probably always will . Just because you saw that as her training for some imaginary world tour doesn't mean anyone else besides very few thought that way .

Demand all you want in one hand and take a crap in the other - see which you get to become a reality first .

That is only in your head and a few other arrogant minds , no one ever claimed anything about anyones life ever in the history of life being perfect let alone here at this forum about Alizee . If someone did say everything is perfect and pink related to her in the frequency you attempt poorly to make it look like it should be easy enough to quote or link to one of those perfect life posts . . .

You just like to twist things into some unrealistic non-sense - such as those who for years have been claiming her career is in trouble , she is broke , she is all done , she is washed up . yet as I keep telling you have been for YEARS and will now make it a point to bash it into your Neanderthal skull here we are again new album , here we have her in interview Alizee HERSELF KNOWING she will have another album soon .

So again she aint washed up , never will be and SHE is pretty damn successful and happy . No matter what you whiners want to cry about the proofs in her pudding .

Even if some did have the attitude that her life and career etc is all perfect . Why the F would that be and I quote " The problem " ?
What problems would that really be in your life ? - you wont answer so let me - oh because you don't want to agree with those who may say that even though they never did and really has nothing to do with anything else . . .
What problems would that be in her life ? you wont answer so let me answer for you - Get a life of your own and stop worrying about what you think others feel when clearly no one even feels that way !

Edit:

Since her career is over she is all washed up according to some of you here I guess i'll follow suit and download her new album instead of buying it . I mean why should I support her when all she does is make bad decisions . I just hope she wont be homeless one day spending ALL her money to make these albums . All though i'd hate to see her on the streets begging me for Euros soon .

I mean she cant have much money left spending all her money to make these albums and videos , and clearly isn't recouping anything at all being such a failure .

( for those who do not know the above is totally sarcastic to make some arrogant jerks feel useless and stfu )

On a recent science show I watched they said that every single cell in your body (except teeth) will die and be replaced over a given period of time. Skin, bone, muscle, blood, everything! The time that this takes? 10 years for everything to go through it's complete cycle. So, over a 10 year period your body will be completely.. 100%.. replaced. With this in mind is it no wonder that the old Alizee is gone. Jen ai Marre was 2003 and this year, 2013, is the 10 year mark. Yep.. the old Alizee is now scientifically completely and utterly banished to history. Science fact.. not fiction. And what do we now have.. The new Alizee! Quick.. where's a time machine???

If possible, I would like for the mods to keep my post as intact as possible since I took the time and effort to reply in a non native language, and certainly I am not the brightest in here, for sure! :p
















First: Come on... Did you really need to insult that much? :13:



Clearly when someone jumps and acts the way you do, appearing here suddenly and posting in a compulsive and agressive way, there is something not quite right going on... And in that state, you are not ready to behave in a proper way in an open discussion forum. And trust me, it really backfires at you. First, because it makes you look bad, and second, because not in a million years I am going to give you a reply in the same level of agression as you just did, which probably will make you even angrier, so sorry in advance for that...


So compose yourself a little bit and let's try to keep this as civilizased as we can, not just for us, but for the people reading this forum, because honestly it is not that good to post in the way you just did even if you are 100% right about everything you said.

To be honest I lost track of all the questions you did to me and replied yourself... please write them together in one post and I will gladly give answers to them. Try not to get that frustrated since my comprehension of what you write fades a little when you write in that mood. :)


You really twisted a lot of my arguments, but no worries, I will explain just a couple of them:
When I say she is not performing anymore, obviously I am referring to traditional concerts like she did in Russia or Mexico. Of course she is performing in TVs, I have eyes and ears, I was talking about touring like she has in mind doing right now. (I can not believe I have to explain this things...)

It is the same with the dancing thing... she is a trained dancer, it is supposed to be her passion, and all I wished from her was to take the maximum out of her skills. You can say I want Lolita back and then you would be wrong... And the rest of your post, like I just did with the performing and the dancing topics, can be explained in the same way, but it would be very boring and time consuming.









Of course we all were excited when she was training hard her dancing. Were you in a cave at the time? Why did you need to invent that I was expecting a world tour? There were rumours of her taking part in a dancing TV program, and she was talking about going back to her roots with her new album and dancing would be part of that.
Can you see how easy is to explain facts instead of making up false claims of what my expectations were?
I would invite you to read my posts with some kind of interest and trying to understand them as an adult would do, even if you fully disagree, and not trying to mock and twist every argument as a five years old boy would do.

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Since her career is over she is all washed up according to some of you here I guess i'll follow suit and download her new album instead of buying it

That is a perfect example of your late behaviour... First, if you can find a post from me saying her career is over I will leave the forum forever. Is my bet to you, since you like them that much.
Second, you make up the claim about downloading her album, which is not only wrong but ilegal. I think that was way out of order, even as a joke, or "totally sarcastic" as you put it.



Bottom line is, there is nothing wrong with being a singer with moderate success, she has a nice voice, she is gorgeous, she is calm, she is different, she is great and for all I know, a good mum and a good person.

But if you expect from me to be happy like you are just because her sales being low are giving us the chance of having multiple cd signing events, and the luxury of forums like this not being crowded, then you are wrong.

I would want her to sell ten times what she is selling now, I would want the french public not laughing at her, to have the recognition she deservesm and I want her to do good in the music industry, and to be as good artist as she can be.
Is that possible? Maybe not, but you are nobody here to tell me how I should or should not think.
Forgive me for my terrible sins, Alizeefan:)





I will leave you with a single and simple question, and unlike you, I will give you the courtesy of answer it yourself.
Since apparently many of us want lolita back (false) and she desperate is trying to get rid of that image, could you explain to me why on earth she acepted the word LOLITAS in her dj sessions? Or why she still gladly sings it in tv shows. Because if she is trying hard to get rid of that image, something is not adding up here, isnt it?





http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...76559045_n.jpg







Is it possible some wrongdoing in some commercial strategies? Some room for criticism from us evil fans? Am I making and inventing this things up too?
Come on, don't be blind, nobody here is attacking her career or her personal life and certainly you are mocking yourself trying to defend arguments that you make up in your mind, trying to make me look like the evil overprotectionist fan.. Get a grip, my friend:)

If I am worried about her sales being poor, it is my right to be worried. Unless a mod or a member of this forum other than you tell me to stop writing about this topic I don't see the reason why you try to make me stop writing my views with such poor language and mood from you.

I know you don't tolerate any criticism related to her, that is ok, but did you really have to go so low and look that much rude? Surely not, Alizeefan.




Edit: As a deference for mods and fellow members of this forum, I decided to end this discussion with this post, it will help to calm down the situation and the state of agitation of a certain member too.

I'm a medical student and your facts are bullshit.

Neurons are never replaced, the deep layers of the skin are only partially regenerated (that's why the skin ages with the person and scars don't go away) , bones are regenerated by the cycle of osteoblasts and osteoclasts but this process takes way more than 10 years to make a full cycle in adult life and it slows down with time (that's why kids take less time than adults to recover from fractures) , muscle fibers can be regenerated by the limited action of localized stem cells, but the number of muscular fascicles is predefined and will remain the same throughout life...

Alizée is the same on an anatomical, physiological and psychological level as she was 10 years ago ... your argument is invalid.

Edit:

That's because she is still widely known as a Lolita in France, if she wanted to get rid of it for good she woulnd't sing Moi Lolita anymore... It's just a part of her life she can't ignore even though she'd like to change her public image.

its going here on really weird way...

yea, she is now older but I must disagree with lapinshous, that you cant expect from her to dance and move like before 10years. She showed in Generation 2000 that she can still do it, however that time is was "light" version of dance, but still. You must agree she is still in form. If she would like to do it, she would do it... but thats her thing if yea or not.

That sales are bad, ok, we know... but look, she is presented in medias more than by UEDS and her album is really more commercial. Thats for me one BIG + .

Like was wrote before about the fans, she has 500.000+ likes on FB, 160.000 FF on twitter, 56.000 FF in instagram. If just the 10% of the people would buy new album, she would be saved. But why it not happened? Euphoria has good point, there are fans just cause Alizée is nice girl... you can see it in most comments on FB like "you are sexy - come here - and blablabla" .

I wrote it many times, but I see fault not just in Alizée but in all the management. They make big things, but compared to many faults incl. the LONG waiting for album. If the album would be released in October 2012 as was the plan, would like to see the sales. If its the long time part of fault, why its not going ok.

Then all french singer (which I know) have their FB/TT/INST like Alizée. But Alizée is only one who is SELF managing her FB. There is noone who would keep it alive (or at least it look like so)... that cant happen ex. by M. Pokora, his FB is permanently actualized with informations where, what, with who. Thats missing on Alizées side. This everything is in hands Alizées fanpages. Thats good, but still on official channels it would work much better.
The same is with Sony/Jive. If Alizée dont post something about that she will be somewhere, you dont get infos from Sony/Jive.

So for end, I know its not good, I but see still little light in future, but I hope not with Sony but by another label... If I would be her, I would try EMI... they make excellent job, which I never saw by Sony.

Im Alizées fan 10years... yea, the Mylene era was great... but if fans will still look to past and compare things which cant be compared, then I have nothing more to say...