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Originally Posted by JoeNY
..................................... Hell, the only reason I and most Americans know ML exists is because of Alizee.
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Well nothing could be further from the truth. I believe even before she discovered Alizee, Mylene Farmer was know as the most successful female singer in French history and since they have split up, she has expanded on that. I started a thread over a year ago where I mentioned after the release of her second album (Mylene's) since the break up, she staged 2 concerts at an 80,000 seat stadium in France. The tickets for the first one sold out within 2 hours and the other one wasn't far behind. She has a very large following in France.
I think there is a lot of truth in what Bigdan has to say. It was mostly rumors that led to the belief that there was bad blood between the two. Trouble is the rumors weren't really that unbelievable so it's easy to see how people who are easliy led a stray could take stock in them.
I think there might be some truth in what Euphoria has to say to. When I went to the autograph session last year, Neil I believe his name was went with me. He's from the States and him and his girl friend had been teaching in France for the past couple of years and it was very interesting to hear them talk about the many differences between the French and us.
For instance he said in this country we're pretty much taught that if a stranger comes up to you smile and say hi or something to that affect, then if he curses at you, you smash him in the face (just kidding) where as in France if you walk up to someone, they're not going to even smile at you until they find out what you are all about. I noticed that numerous times myself on my different vacations there. Several times I went up to people to ask them directions and at first the look on their face wasn't a welcoming look but just about in every case I found them to be tremendously helpful once they realized what I wanted. There were many other differences they spoke of too. How they're schooled is also very interesting so I could see where they might possibly be more critical than us, but I certainly can't say that for sure.