Post your Alizée collection

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Silencio

Of course, they would have chosen the second option. But you're comparing Alizée with herself. This is not correct because she were competing with other, more pushy artists, including foreign ones. Furthermore, I'm sure there were other shows, unrelated to music, e.g. fashion shows, sporting events etc. What could Alizée offer to the potential spectators? Outfits that are not unusual to Paris, the fashion capital of the world? Dances that they have already seen on TV? Moreover, I consider DALS with its old-fashioned dances more harmful than useful to Alizée's image. The main thing that distinguishes musical tours from other shows is the music in itself, as corny as that sounds, and this is where the problem was. There were no singles like "Moi... Lolita" from the last album and those who had already bought the album and listened to it, I'm sure had said to their friends neither to do the same nor to attend any concerts related to the album.

Now imagine what it would be if Alizée was lucky enough to find more conscientious and talented composers than Pascal Obispo and Laurent Konrad. Even with that failed 'blonde' image, if she had sang something like the following songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StKVS0eI85I

she would not only had a successful album and the Blonde tour but also a triumphant return to the stage.

How can you not compare Alizee with herself? There was the successful Alizee of the MF/LB era and there was the unsuccessful Alizee of the post MF/LB era. To even think of competing with all these great international singers, she needed to figure out what she was doing wrong. Why was the MF Alizee so successful and her first three albums, post MF, failures, at least at theatres in France? They needed to do the groundwork for an album, but instead, Blonde was built on a Friday.

As far as Dals being harmful to her image. At that point when Dals came along, she was a forgotten star. I think those who still knew of her, didn't take her seriously. She needed Dals

As I said, there are two Alizees, the successful one and the unsuccessful one. The successful Alizee was successful because of MF/LB.

Then there is the unsuccessful Alizee. Why was she unsuccessful? Well, it's not necessarily because of a lack of MF/LB. It was a lack of good direction, good production, good promotion. Of course, those were something that MF/LB had an abundance of. Her music post MF, had potential, but it was handled all wrong.

Her biggest obstacle, her biggest enemy was herself. She needed to have someone managing her career, who knew what they were doing and she didn't. She couldn't figure that out, even after 3 failures. If she could get past herself, then, maybe she could compete with the bigboys.

Getting back to Dals;

As far as the songs that she danced to in Dals, here are three I love,

Pas Toi.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73d0WYElTbM
J'te l'dis quand même https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdVu_HyLKGQ
One......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftjEcrrf7r0

Another three I enjoy
Video Games....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ajve4nspM
Une femme avec une femme mecano.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMZq1KSrcrE
Somewhere only we know.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ

Songs they danced to that were 'alright' but I'm sure did nothing to hurt her image;
Jai Ho, a Pussycats Dolls song. This is not one I particularly like, but I can't see it hurting there image
Watch out for this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGza1pWZ_E

Great dances that came out of the show....




Another great benefit of Dals is the people really got to see Alizee the person and I'm sure she won a lot of fans with that and I'm sure she gained a lot of newfound respect all across France.

So in no way do I think the Dals, the competition, hurt her career. I'm sure it was a huge boost to a career that was on life support at the time.

But there is one aspect of 'Dals' that I think did potentially cripple what hopes there might have been for a new album after Blonde failed and that was the Tournées. The Tournee were shows they'd put on after the competition each year was over and most of the participants and a few extras like Alizee would go around to different cities in Europe, putting on a dancing show.

Unfortunately, these shows took place at the same time as the Les Enfoires shows. Now for those that don't know, The Les Enfoires show, is a show to help feed the homeless. They put on about 6 shows in a week and it's usually early in the year and as I mentioned, it just happened to be at the same time as the Tournees.

Some of the top stars in France perform on this show and I'm sure there are several, producers, directors, musicians, etc at these shows. It's a place where Alize would have rubbed elbows with many people in the industry and I'm sure it would be the place where discussions about a new album would take place, so we lost those opportunities. This year represented a perfect opportunity for both Greg and Alizee to be in Les Enfoires. There seemed to be no other commitments except for the school which I'm sure they could easily rearrange. So it looks like she wont be in that show again. Even in the years without successful albums, it was still great to have the shows of Les Enfoires.