I look at this poll and I wonder why the fans of these other singers don't step up the way Alizee fans do. Take Adele, she has a great voice, has come out with some great songs, but she's no wheres near as beautiful as Alizee, but there has to be more to it than that. Adele is British, she released her first album in 2008. She even appeared on SNL in 2008 which at that point set a record for viewership.
I've had my head buried in the proverbial Alizee sandbox for the past 4 years, so there's a lot of new songs I'm not that familiar with. This year while I was on vacation in France, I thought to whenever I heard a song I liked and didn't know the name of, I'd turn my camera on and record it, so I could look it up later. Well one song I recorded turned out to be an Adele song; Rolling in the deep. It's a great song and she's had others that have had great success. I checked on line and found there are plenty of fan sites for her. So why don't her fans step up at times like this or the fans of these other singers in this poll?
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I took a look at another one of her big hits; Someone like you. It's a beautiful song. Then I took a look at one of Alizée's songs, Coeur deja pris. They both tell somwhat similar stories, stories of a love triangle in which case the singer turned out to be the odd person out.
Here are the lyrics for both.
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Now Coeur deja pris was not one of Alizé's most popular songs., but I feel it was her most beautiful song. I wanted to have a video to go along with it, so I made a poor attempt to link up clips of other videos where it looked like she was saying similar words.
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I feel this song is by far more beautiful than Someone like you, so why has it had so little success, not to mention several of her other songs?
My trips to Europe have made me realize that MF and LB focused so much of their promotion of Alizee on the sexy side of her and it was a tremendously sexy side, that the people of France didn't realize she had such a beautiful side. Songs like Coeur deja pris, A quoi rêve une jeune fille, Lou ou toi, and others, never got the recognition they should have.
I think many of these songs could have done much better if they had been better promoted. The fact that most of these songs are in French, also limited her chances at international success with them.
But the people of these forums; AAm, AF and so many others have come to realize the beauty of all her songs and know they have not recieved their just due, so we put in the extra effort, we go the extra yard, to try and educate the world about this great singer. It's been an uphill struggle, but I feel with this next album, our efforts will be rewarded.