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Originally Posted by Corsaire
Jerome Dahan (LB collaborator of the time) has discussed this issue. The trick of using a 15 year old to sing sexual and controversial songs was in LB and JD plans before Alizée was even born. They actually dropped the idea because of legal complications. This text is also interesting because it does confirm what I have always maintained on this forum, MF was timid, fragile and had no particular vision or obvious talent (besides looking psychotic) before LB made her the artist we know today.
http://jodel.saint.marc.free.fr/jeromedahan.htm |
I see now, so there really was a strong wish from LB and JD to pack as much innocence and candor in the girl that would be chosen to sing their ambiguous songs... That's really a copy paste of France Gall's collaboration with Gainsbourg, but in a more perverse sense, in the way that would shape the singer's reputation according to the lyrics of their songs , with no turning back. That's why Mylène sticks to her original style while France Gall and Alizée managed with difficulty to diverge from their imposed sexual symbolism and shape their public image more like their true selves.