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Originally Posted by TheBarrett
It's usually on a Weekend.  |
Right. Though the last three have been hosted on Saturdays, we're going to be moving to Sundays in the future now that I'm no longer on-call.
And everyone is welcome to participate, of course! The only prerequisite is that you have to adore Lili! So if you're on this forum...guess what, you qualify!
(And you don't even have to be from
this forum in particular, either! In fact, on that note, I'm going to make a point of posting an invitation on LTUSA and AF for the next one...)
Anyway...I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been more discussion about possible topics, especially given that we touched on quite a few during the afterparty of the last recording. So in a blatant attempt to spur some discussion and kickstart the brainstorm, here's a short list of potential topics to get us started:
Pourquoi Alizée?: An introduction to Alizée fandom, and a discussion of why in particular we're all crazy about this girl half a world away who sings in a language that 90% of us don't understand in the first place. I think this would be good for an initial episode.
The Impossible Dream: Bringing Alizée to America—achievable goal, or fantastic pipe dream? There’s been sporadic, some might say heroic, efforts made here and there to further the cause…but are we just tilting at windmills in the name of Dulcinea? What will it take? Are we up to the challenge? And what lessons can we take from the Mexican miracle, and from Yelle’s C’est Amerique tour?
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The many hairstyles of Alizée, as discussed and debated by a handful of ostensibly heterosexual males. This has the potential to be a double episode.
Parlez-vous francais?: How important is an understanding of French, both the language and the culture, to an appreciation of Lili and her music? A few of us take it upon ourselves to learn the language and painstakingly translate lyrics and interviews, but most of us are content to just hum along. Are we missing out?
Parlez-vous anglais?: Are we pro- or anti- Lili singing in English? Appreciated, or does it ruin the mystique? The English versions of the MCE songs are widely derided as being inferior, but I kinda dig Amelie. Would it help if they more accurately reflected the source material? How do we feel about her doing English covers like Hung Up or Sound of Silence?
Metalizée: If you drew a Venn diagram of Heavy Metal fans and Alizée fans, you might be surprised at how big the overlap was. (I know I constantly am.) So seriously dudes, what gives? Are the rest of us who aren’t Metal fans missing something?
eBée: Some fans have spent a small-to-medium-sized fortune on their Alizée collections. Me, I’m content with just four CDs and a DVD. What drives fans to have everything? At what point does it become too much? What’s the most expensive, most amazing, or most ridiculous Lili item you’ve seen for sale?
VousTube: The art of the fanvid. Despite having a relatively limited amount of source material available to work from, some very creative tribute videos have been created over the years. We discuss our favorites, and talk about what sets them apart. (Ideally, I’d like to have somebody who’s actually created a fanvid on this one, so we can discuss their process from beginning to end.)
Alizée vs. Alizée: Stealing blatantly from the
Alizée Nation blog, I see this as a recurring segment. We take different performances (music video, TV performance, concert) of the same song and face them off against each other, debating which is the best. For a little bit of added interactivity, we post a poll after the episode and get the community to vote on which they like best.
(Album) Thunderdome!: Ten songs enter, only one song leaves. We pit the songs from an album against each other in a round-robin tournament, voting on which we prefer, until one emerges as the sole survivor! A silly idea, to be sure, but one that’s bound to generate some fun and heated debate among the participants.
Thoughts? Like 'em? Dislike 'em? Think they're terribly cheesy? (Some are deliberately so, I must admit.) Have some ideas of your own? Sound off!