Moi... Lolita
Available in :
2 tracks CD
International 2-tracks CD
2 tracks tape (England)
Maxi CD (cristal and digipack)
International Maxi CD
English Maxi CD
Maxi EP (available in hole or golden version)
Italian maxi EP (available also in Maxi LP)
Spanish maxi LP
Date de sortie (France) : 4 July 2000
Remixes
radio edit 3'55''
radio edit 3'40''
the piano version 4'20''
Lola extended remix 6'30''
Lola extended remix radio edit 3'25''
Hello Helli T'es A dance mix 5'50''
Lolidub remix 3'45''
Illicit Full Vocal mix 8'05''
Charts
France : number 2
Germany : number 5
Austria : number 5
Belgium (Flanders ) : number 4
Walloon area of Belgium : number 2
Denmark : number 9
Spain : number 1
Great-Britain : number 9
Italy : number 1
The Netherlands : number 2
Sweden : number 52
Switzerland : number 11
Taiwan : number 3
Sales (France) : 1 280 000 (diamond disc)
Televised appearances (nonexhaustive list)
Le Grand soir (TF1)
8 September 2000
Hit Machine (M6)
16 September 2000
Graines de star (M6)
29 September 2000
Dansez maintenanr (France 2)
30 September 2000
Tapis rouge (France 2)
7 October 2000
Vivement dimanche (France 2)
22 October 2000.
Tubes d'un jour, tubes de toujours (TF1)
26 October 2001
Top of the pops (RTL- Germany)
27 October 2001
Top of the pops (BBC1- Great-Britain)
2 February 2002
The Dome 21 (RTL2- Germany)
10 March 2002
Top of the pops (Rai 2-Italy)
20 April 2002
Wetten dass ? (ZDF- Germany)
6 July 2002
Tubes d'un jour, tubes de toujours (TF1)
8 March 2003
The music video
Director : Laurent Boutonnat
Duration : 4'40''
The first images show us Alizée coming home from a ballad in the fields with a young man. This man looks for a sentimental affair with our héroïn, but she doesn't want. Back home, our « Lolitalizée » is reprimanded by her mother (so graceful). But that can't stop the rascal. She goes outside again, but with her little sister ! To a nightclub. Just arrived, she lets the little girl on a stool and goes to the toilet to get dolled up ; Might as well say that she lets the «*girl*» outside to turn into a woman. The little sister is there to remind us that ok, Alizée dances with sensuality in front of men, but that's just a lie. Lolita is a kid who just wants to play. It's not her fault if other people's opinion makes her a woman. It remains to be seen if she uses of that or not...
The song
Lyrics : Mylène Farmer
Music : Laurent Boutonnat
Duration : 4'16''
Alizée was chosen to sing this song, and not the contrary. Might as well say that we recognize more the world of the authors than hers ; in particular their love for literature, cinema and scandal. All these elements obviously are into «*Moi... Lolita*», a homage to Vladimir Nabokov's novel, published in 1955 and adapted by Stanley Kubrick, a polemic director if ever there was one, seven years after. In this song, we can recognize the sense of taboo with Mylène flirts since ever. We can also recognize the dualities so «*Farmeriennes*» ( good/ evil, purity/sex, child/adult) , in particular with «*mi-coton, mi-laine*», as a wink to the redhead rascal.