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whereas in pysch, most were would id call poppy. MJ, Fifty Sixty, Jamais Plus, Decollage, Lilly Town, Mon Taxi Driver, Lonely town.. but no doubt in the lack in the dance department.
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Psych was a good album, piss poor promotion, wardrobe and performances. Nuff said.
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other than that, im down with it! not the sophisticated sexy lolita, but cute as hell and adorable to me! <a target='_blank' href='http://img165.imageshack.us/i/fotoportadaespec180608gir2.jpg/'><img src='http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/9274/fotoportadaespec180608gir2.th.jpg' border='0'/></a>
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Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder or in the case of music, the ear of the beholder and there are a lot of different tastes out there. But the fact that two concerts were cancelled seems to point out that the majority of people, at least in France did not like the music of Psych. A lot is said that Alizée doesn't put that much effort into her dancing any more and a lot of people including myself think she could do a lot to improve her appearence on stage, but to be perfectly honest, it doesn't matter if she doesn't dance at all, doesn't quite matter how she looks. If the music is good the people will come. If they had done a much better job of promoting her last two concerts in Paris, they probably would not have had to cancel them, but back in the days of MCE and Gour, they probably didn't have to do any promoting. They could have just put a poster up on the side of a theater with Alizée's name and a date along side all the posters of other singers, and I'm sure the theater would have been mobbed. But with Psych, in my opinion, everything was lacking. The music, her appearence, her dancing, then re-orchestrating those beautiful songs of her first two albums, then the lack of promotion of the concerts, it's no wonder they were cancelled. Hopefully this new album will change all that. Only time will tell. Has she learned anything from all this. We'll find out next year. Last edited by Scruffydog777; 11-25-2009 at 12:38 PM.. |
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Dang! Thinking about all this just makes me want to see Alizée perform something new again. I hope there's something good coming up. Surprise me (just not tooo much if you know what I mean)! Quote:
Obviously, not everyone saw the charm and appeal that we see. I think people had difficulty taking her seriously - as a singer and as a personality. There was a bit of, "she's for little girls", much like people have and still do take Britney Spears here. But for one thing, she had momentum at the time and they moved on it. Still, that album in that year did not sell nearly as well as the first. That may be partially why Alizée left that scene - she didn't see the success she expected, though she pretty much denied that being the reason. It was hard for me to see why Alizée would not be more popular back then and I'm still not really sure about it.
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Probably the most widely disliked song from Psych is Decollage. But that's not because it's not a good song. It's because it's rap/hip-hop, and Alizée singing rap/hip-hop does not compute for a lot of people. She does not have a classic rapper voice. People who liked her earlier music often don't like that style, and people who do like that style don't think of her as a singer of it. As for showcasing her voice, there are two songs in all the years she has been singing which do that best IMO, and they are Coeur déja pris from MCE -- and Idealiser from Psych. I understand you didn't like the megaphone part of 50/60. Can you see that there's a difference between saying that you don't personally like something, and saying that it's mediocre? Quote:
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Well apparently there are a lot of people in France who are having trouble stepping out or their skin too. Two cancelled concerts and disappointing record sales in France prove that. You can try and twist this any way you want but the proof is in the numbers and those numbers aren't very impressive to put it mildly.
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Psych needed to find its own audience. Her old fans could not be counted on to come back, especially when she changed so much. That's where I think a part of her mistake lay. She did not realize, perhaps, how much effort would be required. It was naive. You were disappointed, because you didn't hear the same sort of music you were used to from her. So were a lot of her French fans, I would say. Since she had decided not to sing the same sort of music, she needed to market the music she was singing to a new audience -- NOT to her old fans. She failed to do that. THAT is the lesson she needs to learn this time around -- NOT that she should return to the same sort of simple pop Laurent wrote for her. She can succeed singing the type of music she wants to sing, but she has to recognize that it's music for a new audience, not the old one. I wasn't disappointed the way you were, because I wasn't surprised. She had said she was moving in new directions and I took her at her word. But I can understand how a lot of her old fans had a problem with it. No matter. Move on to new ones. That's the only way to do it.
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The public in France obviously did not take her effort of independence seriously...there was no clear message what the "new Alizée" stood for. While the old fans were alienated, she failed to aquire a significant new following. Bad management decisions and promotion made things worse. As for the new album...i expect that fans of the "old" Alizée will be even more alienated by "une enfant du siècle" than by psych...ofc this is speculative atm.. The question is: Will the new album appeal to enough people who don't know Lili yet? Will she be able to aquire new groups of fans? More speculation..ultimately we'll have to wait and see.. |
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