I "discovered" Alizee in 2006 when I clicked on a link in a World of Warcraft gaming forum where somebody posted about the Night Elf character in the game having a dance where part of it was emulating the dance of some French singer. It brought up a grainy YouTube video just called "Alizee" and nothing else. Now I know it to be the Pour Laurette performance and other videos have been posted of that performance with higher resolution. But remember this was 2006 and YouTube was only a year old, so you take what you can get.
So in one regard this was my best moment, but there is another best moment (can this even happen?)
Again, I have to emphasize that this was 2006. It was still the "old days" in the Internet world, like the Wild West. The iPhone was yet to be introduced. Social media options were limited and video sharing was in its infancy and struggling because not many people had the Internet bandwidth necessary to stream (yes, a lot of people still had dial up).
Bigger than YouTube in those days was MetaCafe, which started in 2003. They had a collection of Alizee videos including some compilations that people put together. I got stuck on a particular compilation that had some short clips of Alizee dancing and singing some unknown song because the compilation music was something else.
Alizee was just stunning in those clips and I had to find that performance in total!
We all know that performance now and it's at our fingertips.
But back then, I knew very little about her. AAm didn't exist. I became obsessed in finding that video.
It might have been weeks or months or who knows, but I finally found it on YouTube. That was my other "best moment". It became in an instant my favorite Alizee video and still holds that spot today.
It was at that time I realized that I have never seen anything like her. Her beauty, her moves, her energy and everything else all wrapped up in this tiny package. And to top it off, she seemed like a very sweet person.
She did not disappoint since then.
