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Originally Posted by Rev
The Charleston would work with a Blonde Alizée. 
On a more serious note, she is attempting to sell over 100 000 tickets (a guess) for people to come see her sing and dance. That is a major undertaking. She needs to get everything right.
So far, she has not done so.
The Plusses
- She is still Alizée. Also, she still has a great personality.
- She won DALS.
- She was in high demand during the DALS tour.
- She is getting out there and making appearances.
- The Blonde video was competent.
- The album sounds good so far. If it continues in it's current vein, it should be at least good enough to work in support of the tour.
The Minuses
- Her blonde makeover will be a surprise to all of her fans - both DALS and older. She just doesn't look that good as a blonde (with the possible exception of the Amor Amor casting commercial - where I thought everything worked). Also, her current blonde hair style just doesn't compliment her well.
- She needs to stop picking her own outfitting. She is too conservative. The last few choices just have not worked well for her. When DALS was outfitting her, every outfit worked well for her. Some were showing more skin than she probably wanted, but they worked. She needs someone else to outfit her.
- She still has tattoos.
- She has chosen outfits that highlight her tattoos. (the DALS outfits drew the attention away from her tattoos. Her choices in outfitting on the other hand - for example, covering up in black - end up highlighting her tattoos.)
- Her dance numbers have been patched together. They are not fluid enough.
She is essentially out of discretionary choices. She needs to rethink her approach to this NOW, while there is still time to correct her direction. Each appearance from here forward is an opportunity to either remind the audience why they want to come see her, OR to say to them that she doesn't care. Currently, she is often mixing the second message with the first. She needs to change this, and fast! |
I agree with just about everything you said. I've criticized the outfits, but have not said much about the tattos because I didn't want to set off another fire storm. In the early days, a good dress would complement her looks, but now these so so outfits just make the tats look worse.
I'm not really surprised she doesn't realize it, but I'm terribly disappointed that Sony either doesn't notice something or just refuses to do anything about it.
The ground work for a successful tour should have already started, but we had a video that had numerous dislikes which I think reflects a lot of other people who weren't happy with it and didn't vote. Then we had a couple of performances where her outifts were very lacking. She and Sony have to realize when it comes time for the tour to start, people will want to see a good show and if they don't expect to get one, they wont go.
A couple of years ago we discussed how after Alizee left MF, Mylene put out another album (actually 2 or 3, maybe more by now). She scheduled 2 concerts at an 80,000 seat stadium as part of one tour. The tickets for the first show sold out within 2 hours of going on sale and the second one wasn't far behind because Mylene knows how to put on a good show and more importantly, the fans know that.
Alizee does not know how to put on a good show and fans are seeing these performances where she's looking average at best and she's making bad impressions on a lot of them, but I think most of the blame lies with Sony, because what is happening is right in front of their eyes. Are they oblivious to it?
But a golden egg has been laid in the form of a song called Alcaline. It is a great song in my opinion and what it hatches into can make all the difference in the world as far as the success of the album and the tour.
They need to come up with a top notch video and she has to look her best. They don't want to let this opportunity slip away, because one as good as this, might not soon come along again.
P.S. Welcome to the forum Morten_DK!