It's about 7 years and 5 months for me. And I also wasn't much impressed the first time I saw Alizée either, but actually it was a bit different with me. One morning I was listening to the radio and among several songs one of the songs caught my attention who knows for what reason, it was
Ella, Elle L'a by France Gall, and idea came to mind, to search some info about that song on the internet. In google search results I saw several web pages in French on that song, and despite I don't know French I just took a look at those few. And on one of those pages there was a video, it was when Alizée was on TV performed
Ella, Elle L'a
... I clicked on the video just out of curiosity to see what it was. I was watching that video and I can't say that I was literally impressed, but it was different, she rather caught my attention, intrigued me, fascinated me. I just wanted to know: Who is she?
Then it all came little by little about her. But what I was really impressed with a lot is that I've seen many fans were on youtube uploaded a fan videos about her. There were so many Alizée fan videos. I simply couldn't understand why are there so many of them, what inspired so many people to create a fan video dedicated to her and to upload it. I've never seen anything like this, such a commitment to one person with whom people were inspired. So at first it was you people who were fans of Alizée who have impressed me. And then I wanted to explore what is so inspiring in that person that all those fans see in her, and then I gradually realized that through all those videos, interviews, songs and pictures, and a forum.
And yeah, that something, that special thing people describe as "it found one jaw hitting the floor performance after another" (Scruffy), or like "the charms of the French angel and turned our lives around drastically" (Ajaccio), or "the magic" (Ray), etc.