It's more than just the guarantee of a good album. What makes a good album? What makes a good Alizée album? "UEDS" and "5" were well received and at least the latter deserved more success than it had. That's the general consensus. Taking time, being inspired and writing good songs or having someone to do it for you still wouldn't make it an instant success. There's also the factor of not having released a new album in close to eight years and at 37 years of age she's at a cross roads of appealing to both a younger and older audience. It feels like it should be now or never for the past two years and there's been no sign of Alizée even trying to put in the effort to capitalize on it to meaningful extend. The album would need to be a resounding success in her eyes before even getting that project off the ground in the first place. How do you do that except for involving Mylène Farmer and preferrably Laurent Boutonnat, simply for old times sake? It's what she must know is what most of her fans would like to see happening. There's also a great deal of Mylène fans who would be open to the idea (more than another Julia album anyway). But it's a matter of everyone wanting to make it happen. Alizée has, these past few years, actually seemed to embrace that 'heritage', instead of trying to escape it - as she tried to thoughout most of her time between 2007 to 2014. I truly hope that they come together to create and recapture that old magic one more (last?) time at some point before that window closes entirely on her and us.
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