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Originally Posted by Aragorn97
Hi, Alizée-Nederland! Your story is fascinating. It isn't hard to believe that Paris is so vivid in your memories. To imagine Alizée and Moi... Lolita as popular and omnipresent as today's famous songs is intriguing.
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Back in 2000 being popular and omnipresent was completely different compared to today, everything was physical, there was no online promotion / banners, no streaming and no online sales except for physical delivery of the CD single, and the percentage of people even having Internet access was low, and you had to pay for every minute you were online. So nearly all promotion and sales were physical.
In Paris in August 2000 there were way more (large!) physical advertising spots compared to nowadays, almost every street had one, and they all had the "Moi... Lolita - Alizée" poster.
By literally every few shops / kiosks / street vendors Moi... Lolita was being played, with a person next to it actively approaching all tourists who walked by, telling them they had to buy the Moi... Lolita CD single then and there, because it was the greatest French invention ever etc. (like market vendors promote their goods).
That doesn't happen with today's famous songs.