Will she JEAM again?

[Deepwaters]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

Well I think the fact that she performed in over 20 concerts in France in a little over a 2 month period after her first two albums, but after psych, she couldn't get enough fans to perform 1 concert, shows there's a lot more people who have similar preferences as mine. And as far as Mexico was concerned. They were expecting the beautiful young woman in the sailor suit to show up.

You didn't say her older songs were, in their time, more popular. You said they were better. More popular is an objective fact. Better is a subjective opinion.

An artist has to follow his or her heart. That's a more important consideration than fame or popularity. Calls for Alizée to go back to singing the old material, or to reunite with Mylène and Laurent, are calls for her to do what her heart says no to. That she might be more of a commercial success if she did is in fact questionable (because it's doubtful she could do it well if her heart wasn't in it), but in any case it's irrelevant. She is doing what she wants to do, going where her muse leads, and if that means not as many people will get it, and she won't be the huge success she was in the past, but must be content with a lower level of fame, she seems OK with that, and that means I am, too.

EDIT: I was once asked by a friend in Paris what I, as a fan, wanted from Alizée. I said that I thought the next album needed to be more focused than Psychédélices with a unified style instead of a melange. I also said I wanted her to be happy and as successful as she wants to be. That's still what I want.