Thanks for all the thoughtful remarks you guys have offered. So far, the voting is very split, with three comparable blocks - acquiesce, advertise and mobilize.
I'm very grateful to that gentleman who leads us, Ben, who tells us he will attend the New York City show. I look forward to hearing his report. I wonder if one is allowed to demurely shoot video there. Perhaps
Chateau Marmont might appreciate receiving a bit of footage which they can exclusively edit and then publish to their advantage.
For the sake of readers new to Alizée, I provide the material immediately below for background.
When asked about them (
Chateau Marmont?) last year in the March 10, 2010 issue of
BRAIN MAGAZINE (
ALIZÉE – Une Fille Dans Le Vent (A Girl In The Wind)), she
said
They all four have different personalities. They complement each other. And they are super good melodists. After all is said and done, they may be known to most as musicians and producers of music but in melodies, they are really strong, in fact it is they who made my first single. I believe they have a great career ahead. I think people will ask them for a lot of titles and not just from the industry side, but also the popular side. I hope so, because they deserve it.
The single mentioned was (the teaser for)
Limelight from
Une enfant du siècle, Alizée's fourth studio album.
As also noted by
Alizée South Africa,, a year ago tomorrow
Chateau Marmont had the pleasure of
tweeting that Alizée was then briefly the number ONE search term on Yahoo France.
Of course the bad news is that
Wikipedia reports that the estimated total sales for
UEdS has only been about 20,000 units. Lyrics from
Limelight itself recount how hard the struggle for success can be -
I don't know where I'm going.
Looking for the limelight - bright
In passing I will observe that when the play version of the fable
Peter Pan is staged, it has been traditional to depict the character
Tinkerbell (Alizée's self-described mascot) with a spotlight, which stage effect was first created (generations ago) using a limelight.
Limelight was also the name of Alizée's short-lived virtual radio station hosted by
Goom in 2010.
It would seem that poor Alizée's good-luck fairy
Tinkerbell has been kidnapped, bound and gagged, and locked into a closet - perhaps by an evil twin named
Stinkerbell!
I wish
Chateau Marmont a successful tour and hope their sometimes-partner Alizée sees happier days soon as well. As encouragement to Alizée, I will remind her of the career of the famous late American actress Katherine Hepburn, whom I once comically took pains NOT to meet, as related in a story at AAm
here.
After a number of films, Hepburn had become so unpopular that she was called "box-office poison" and everyone thought her showbiz career was over. But she persevered and came back stronger than ever, ending her long and distinguished career as the most celebrated American film actress of the entire 20th century.