[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Alizée-Nederland

Thank you.

I discovered Alizée when I went to France for the first time.

When I arrived on vacation in Paris on August 20, 2000 Alizée was like everywhere, although after translating the "Moi... Lolita - Alizée" text from the posters in Dutch I first thought her name was Lolita.
The French-Dutch dictionary listed "Moi" as being "I" and "Lolita" as a girl's name of Spanish origin, while it listed "Alizée" as trade winds, so I first thought "Moi... Lolita - Alizée" meant "I, Lolita - am going for the wind" (as in being successful), which didn't surprise me after seeing her posters all over the place and hearing her music.
So first I thought I had translated the text from the posters very well, only to find out later after the single was released in The Netherlands that my translation was completely wrong.

Music wise there was only the Moi... Lolita single, which could be heard playing on different places throughout the city.

It was impossible not to see Alizée in Paris back then, being on every poster wall and in (magazines in) all kiosks we came by.

Back then you didn't just take pictures of everything (no digital camera's yet), although I still would like to find pictures of how the streets of Paris looked in August 2000 with those same "Moi... Lolita - Alizée" posters like literally everywhere.

I later found out I discovered Alizée on the last day that we were both 15 years old.
Because I remember everything so well it doesn't feel like over 20 years ago at all, more like last month or so.

Thanks for sharing that and that's very interesting to hear. I've been lucky enough to visit the beautiful country of the Netherlands on a couple of occasions. I've been a part of this forum for 14 years and in that time we've only had a couple of people who were at one of her concerts and could give us an idea of what it was like but we hadn't heard what it must've been like in Paris with her posters all around. It would be great if we could somehow get pictures of that.

So did you get to go to any of her concerts? We know she got up to Belgium with her concerts, but not the Netherlands, but she did make a few appearances in the Netherlands including that awesome performance in Amsterdam. Were you at any of them there or in other countries?