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Old 07-06-2015, 08:37 AM
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Default Alizée vs Gregoire fandomism

I look at some of the comments being made about Alizée's and Gregoire's appearances at these different dance shows, work shops and so forth and I hear people say the majority of the fans are coming to see Gregoire and I'm not sure what to believe.

Is he that much more popular than her in France? If you look at her Wikipedia page, it goes way back to 2003 and has had over 500 revisions over the years. He, despite being rated as one of the top 10 hip hop dancers in the world and his great win with Alizee on DALS2004, doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.

If you do a web search of either of their names and click on "images for", about 1/2 the images for his name include Alizee in the picture. Where if you click on images for Alizee, you have to go far down the main page before you run into any images of him.

Now if I'm not mistaken, DALS4 did very well in the ratings and I believe much of that was due to Alizee. Her story was a great story, then the developing story of her and Greg was another great story. Certainly he played a major role, but I doubt if the show would have had the success it had without her.

So apparently Alizee won a lot of fans during the course of the show. But are they new dance fans of her or were they fans of her singing who came out of the woodwork or are they more fans of the Soap Opera Alizee and I don't mean that in a negative way. It's just a story that was being played out on tv.
I've gone to France and waited in line on a few occassions for over 6 hours on cold drizzly days to see her perform in Les Enfoires, but it was mostly to hear her sing. I made a trip to Paris, just to see her sing with Olly Murs. I tried going to a couple of her concerts in Paris years ago that were cancelled. But I've had numerous opportunities to go see her dance and I was never really interested. I did entertain the thought of going to Ajaccio a few months ago when she and Greg were supposed to dance at a show there, but I mainly wanted to see the hometown fans reaction to her dancing rather than see her dance.

If you look at the Alizee Forum, it has had a very large membership over the years; up in the thousands. But now it is a ghost town in danger of falling by the wayside. We see activity by Alizee almost on a weekly basis, but nothing is ever said about it, at least in the English forum. AF's problems run much deeper than what's going on with Alizee, but still, if she announced she was going to put out another album, I'm sure it would again become a bee hive of activity?

So is this the case of the fans in France; they are waiting for another album and most of the fans who are showing up to the dance appearances are mainly fans of Greg?
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