I suppose it's about time I joined this forum.:)

I did some translations on alizee-forum without realizing that they were already done here. So that we can coordinate our activities better, we should make a list of interviews that haven't been translated yet.

professeur bienvenue chez nous ;)
vous pouvez nous faire des traductions et moi je vais faire les sous-titres; on a besoin des "textes" aussi. je crois qu'il n'y a pas de probleme si vous faites les votres et je fais les miennes :p
y a des gens qui ne veulent pas lire les sous-titres xD

god i need to go back to school and learn french! :)..and welcome!

Good to see you here! Your transcriptions have been invaluable in helping with our translation efforts here. I'm delighted to see you have joined us!

Welcome.

sorry i am having lots of technical difficulties with the videos
please be patient i will have the subtitles here eventually ;)

And some day translate the radio programs too, like the one I was on. This is great, it seems like we recently got a bunch of people who can do translations and BiB has been knocking them out. I've been rarely on AAm recently. I think I've missed some stuff.

It's sad though. Frankly, I was recently looking the the Moi...Lolita translation that I have and even that could be improved. I guess if 7 years after her most famous song does not improve a translation, nothing ever will. I suspect I could get a better translation by reading discussions about it, but really we need to have an official translation area like alizee-forum had (except that those translations were lousy). Maybe there could be a few translations "officially" if there are arguments and they should all be riddled with footnotes as things absolutely must be explained. I guess that would be both translation and analysis. Anyway, thanks guys.

The best translations for the first two albums that I found were the ones at mf-international done by "The Honorable" (well, I couldn't gauge the translations myself for quality against the originals, but they seemed to be the best annotated and etc.)

http://www.mediafire.com/?c13fiejhlsy
sorry for my terrible work this time its a really bad translation
i tried to give you a general idea but there were several places i just could not understand :(
if theres other French willing to help me i would appreciate it please PM me

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The wind blows in the right direction again for Mylène Farmer's Lolita,

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finally, Farmer's ex and now its her husband

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Jérémy, who works with Alizée, 3rd album, meeting.

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Remember a few years ago Alizée was this.

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A playful girl, a cute little wink, an flirting adolescent

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whom we gave money to so she could buy herself lollipops.

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Do you have little kids? Then forget all that! The old singer from

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Graines de Stars has swapped Mylène for a corset appropriate to the era,

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and comes back with Psychédélices, her multicoloured album.

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I try to create my universe, and to create my sound with

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certain influences, things that I like, more éléctro, pop, rock, urban,

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voilà, and I know how to make a mix.

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Fed up of the rules, Alizée did not want to choose between all the

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influences that inspired her. Like her model Gwen Stefani, she even

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courageously tried rap,

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by talking to a master of the genre Oxmo Puccino.

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I asked Oxmo, because to convince him he was the rapper who

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set the bar for other French rappers, who talked about other things,

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to have flow, that it be innate, that it be learned so I asked

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Oxmo to really teach me, I let myself loose, and

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it was a great experience.

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You hear it when my man isn't feelin good

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A kiss and I set sail

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It's the awesome source

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Destination, a destination

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Take risks and putting her own choices first, that is

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Alizée's new objective, its for sure that her story

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began with Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat.

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Did they follow their ex-student's activities?

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They were the first, its their album.

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And what did they think about it?

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Ok! This beautiful mother will do without, producer of her album,

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she also works with her family, because its her husband

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Jérémy Châtelain who codirects Psychédélices. Between the

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studio and the house is it easy to work with your husband?

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It's not like we went to the office to work, we share the same

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passion, the references that I had for this album, and he understood them,

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and tried to take the project where I wanted it to be taken.

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Good for her! The JT of music is on the move, so its

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grown up and well connected that Alizée comes back to

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the stage, and with this sexy little bomb.

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I think I succeeded but anyway I put my heart into it.

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And also modest!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ezemymzsnjx

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Alizée is back after a three year absence! And its quite the event.

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Let's get right to the interview.

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It is the most waited for comeback! Comment, imagine, get jealous, of this

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end of 2007, at the age of 23 Alizée the lolita created by Mylène Farmer is

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back after three years of silence.

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I took some time for myself, I spent time with

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my family, and stepped back a little, in relation to everything that I had done.

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When we meet Alizée, what gets you is her very refreshing demeanor.

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We feel that she has definitely decided to
take her life and career into her own hands,

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the proof: it was three years ago that she decided to free herself from her

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mentors, Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat,

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and Alizée found herself without a record company.

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I was no longer fifteen, I wanted a bit of freedom,

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in fact I only knew one way to work, its that during four

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years I always worked with the same people, and then my objective was to

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learn other ways of working.

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A great passion that definitely was commented about. When the

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When the first rumours of Alizée's new album started to come out,

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the press spoke of a painful separation and even a "revenge" song

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about Mylène Farmer.

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I took that with a good laugh, but at the same time people have to talk

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when there is nothing to talk about.

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What was talked about also was that Alizée's brand was taken by

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Farmer/Boutonnat, and if she wanted to continue to use her name, which

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is really hers, Alizée had to buy it back.

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No, I bought my name back for the symbolic price of one euro.

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Something that knows about today's release, and about rumours that

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Alizée will never talk about, the young lady has great communication skills.

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We are forced to look at her education in music and media,

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under the guidance of the French singer who knows the most about mystery.

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I learned a lot of things, I learned toughness, that we don't get a free lunch,

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that it's always necessary to work, to always give, more than is necessary.

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I think I was in the right school.

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For two years Alizée worked secretly, to convince herself about the points

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of working with her, the result, a surprising album, very rock,

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that expresses an evident desire to break away.

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And to show the first single Mademoiselle Juliette, Alizée dressed herself

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just like in cinema, just like Mylène's?

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I wanted to, like her, a reference, because that's what I did before,

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because Mylène, her clips are film. I did what I was taught,

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voilà, how I was taught to work, and I tried at my own

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humble level to do the same thing for me.

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The same for her? As mysterious as her? As in control as her.

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A feeling that she has already learned it.

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Its not Mylène and Laurent who told me "don't say this", "don't

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do that, you need to sway less, more. I am like this

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I am shy, timid, and that I don't think will change.

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Alizée will not say anything more about the past,

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but for now, Alizée's principal collaborator is Jérémy,

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her husband, so when two stars marry, have a baby,

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and a CD, what does that give?

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And the covers of People magazine, definitely talked a lot about it.

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I don't wager with life, but I protect myself a lot. I think that the fact

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he's on the album, it won't stop them from talking more or less,

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if he wasn't on the album, he would have been talked about anyway.

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At 23 years of age, Alizée has already sold more than 5 million albums in the world,

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today she has definitively shelved her Lolita clothes,

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and its even her who did the dance, that's what we say to ourselves.

Hits & Co Interview
http://www.mediafire.com/?0dxkw9xt9h1

Transcription: garçoncanadien
Translation: Toc de Mac

Special Thanks: Bigdan, for aiding with translation.