My take on this is:
Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat are a musical SUPERteam. I have nothing but praise for them, they are two geniuses in every way.
Moreso Mylene Farmer, is just an amazing artist. She has such a high quality of art, expression and creativity in her work, and it is very noir, very chic at times. It has so much culture to it, and it comes from her heart seemlessly.
She knew what it was like to be in the business, and I'm sorry to say, if they wanted Alizee to succeed, they needed an IMAGE. One of the most potentially beneficial images were her sexy-ness, and thats what they naturally chose. So they needed to emphasize it, or else nothing would have sold like it did. That's how show business is, its brutal some times, but that's just how it goes; Alizee needed to be a lolita to be so influencial and famous. End of story. Which means, Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat KNEW exactly what they had to do, and did it, flawlessly.
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