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Originally Posted by babyblue558
I think (hope!) Deepwaters is just speculating and that Alizée has never given any indication that she thinks music might not be a viable path for her any more. But I'll ditto Wasabi and say that if you know something that the rest of us don't, then please share, even if it's bad news. We'll all have to face it at some time.
I don't think that the attitude she's taken towards her career could be seen that way. If you're referring to the sudden change to electropop then I think it's only natural that after 3 pop albums she wants to do something different. Her fans must accept that, even if they don't like the change, and realise that she's not doing it out of contempt for the fans, but out of a natural evolution of her musical style.
Another thing that bothers me about the way she's been managing her career is the astonishing lack of promotion for UEDS. I mean, I have friends in France who knew all about her first 2 albums, had heard of her 3rd but had absolutely no idea that a 4th Alizée album is out. This is not good at all, considering France is still one of her main markets.
I don't think that the lack of promotion was a decision on her part - it would be stupid not to promote an album, and we know she's always been up for TV performances/interviews before (she did far more of these in the Psych era) so why not so many now?
I think that the most likely reason for the lack of promotion in France is the fact that people have lost interest - she can't do a TV performance if the TV station doesn't want her on. I think that as a result of her recent decline in popularity and poor sales of Les Collines and UEDS, many French TV stations aren't offering her the airtime she would have had for promoting the album if sales were better.
If I could make a suggestion - it might be possible to let France go and focus on Mexico as her primary market. As far as I know, she hasn't appeared on Mexican TV, done interviews in Spanish or any of those sorts of things yet. Mexico will probably be far more accepting of her and allow her to do many of the promoting she couldn't do in France. But it's probably nowhere near as simple as that or I'm sure she would have done it already.
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It is definitely not due to lack of effort on her part the UEDS was not promoted properly. Remember she did some autograph sessions when the album was released. And we know she just came back from a trip to Israel.
I've mentioned this on the thread that I created: Alizee....Eurovision 2011.
I've read in one of her recent interviews that she was complaining about lack of TV shows where she could sing and promote her new album. According to her, the TV nowadays seem to have more reality shows (which is cheaper to make and more popular/profitable, like here in the US) than variety ones, where she used to guest a lot.
This is why I made that suggestion. At this point in her career, she has nothing or little to lose. She has to try something different. Some people have negative views of Eurovision. But, I'd rather see her participate there than do a Lady Gaga and start shredding off her clothes in order to revive her career. This will also show her current and former fans that she is still very committed to her musical career. And hopefully, she could regain her old fans back, and gain some new fans along the way as well.
I am thinking of posting my request on her official sites on her birthday!
TS: Sorry, I brought this up. This is not an attempt to hijack your thread. I just felt that this is somehow related with what's being discussed here.