Anthony's Analysis of the song Gourmandises

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Le source de cette analyse est le nid d’alizée

Anthony’s personal translation for the site Alizée’s nest. Please do not take this and put it on your sites.

INTRO :

The « Delicacies » of Alizée are definitely the pleasures that she offers to the public. The album itself is called “Delicacies”, it therefore indicates to us that the collection of songs is a real delicacy, and that is not even mentioning that it is a sin! Kids are greedy for certain things and adults are for others, we again find this double entendre in the words, one meaning for kids and one meaning for adults…

The first couplet:

“When you think about me”
You, the wolf of the steppes”: In the symbolism of kids fairytales, the wolf represents evil, but here it is referring to someone who admires her, who has passion, and love for her. This maybe the public or a man. “The wolf of the steppes” lives on the plains with sparse vegetation, thus it has no choice but to think about what it wants to have, and here its Alizée. It’s also a reference to the book “The wolf of the Steppes” by Herman Hesse where Alizée takes the role of Hermine (female alter ego of the main character of the book).

“In the depths of you
Feel the drunkenness again”: Alizée asks her admirer (man, public) to know if his passion for her is sincere.

“I so hunger for you
You constantly say it”: Those who think about Alizée give her a lot of love and sometimes too much, the metaphor of hunger represents the public’s desire to talk to, touch, and hear Alizée. This is also maybe the man’s desire.

“And take good care of me
Tell me if it hurts”: “Take care of” might mean many things for a public, we say that the public that decides the popularity of an artist, without all the attention that the public (and in particular the fans) give to Alizée (websites, collections, letters, fan clubs…) Alizée would not be what she is. She therefore asks if this time spent on her invades on our private life. It is the same request that she asks of the man, if his attention, his love, his gifts, his surprises tire him.

“Oh wolf are you there for me
You make the promise
And If I offer myself to you
It is with thousands of kisses of tenderness”: At a first glance we see that she can only offer herself with tenderness, by friendship, and that she cannot offer love to whomever asks for it, at a second glance, Alizée asks those who admire her (always the double entendre public/men) to promise her that they will stay faithful… In exchange she promises to offer herself completely to whatever task she is doing.

Refrain :

The refrain is composed of 4 sentences: “The first kisses”; “The stolen kisses”; “The kisses (…) where the hand goes towards” and the climax: The kisses of Alizée (the male sex’s tender kiss).

“There are kisses
The first
Taste of sea spray
Taste of sadness”: First love is, quite truly, subjected to sadness (spleen) and to nostalgia. Sea spray is a fine rain that come after waves that splash upon shore, in a more suggestive sense it can express the little drops of saliva that come after kissing Alizée…

“There are stolen kisses
In the trains of tsarinas” : To be surprised by an unwanted or unexpected kiss in a luxury place (tsarinas) that move a lot, the movement is represented by the train, this movement can be a place where many people pass by.

“Kisses of a summer
Where the hand wants to reach”: After the first two sentences it is the hands turn to reach out in order to add caresses to the kiss.

“But Alizée’s kisses
are real delicacies”: Delicacy is in the dictionary as one of the synonyms of “fellatio”. That is what might happen in the end, Alizée’s kisses.

The second couplet:

“When I think about you
You the wolf of the steppes”: Here it is Alizée who has been charmed by her admirer(s), it’s a key phrase of the song, in the second couplet it is man/the public that is trying to dominate Alizée, but not so much that Alizée is starting to get scared.

“I am not scared of you
Does it intimidate you”: Alizée admits being charmed by her admirer but not being afraid and above all not being under his control, and she asks him if it is a “heavy weight” to bear for him to not be able to manipulate her by this domination.

“Take that road
You constantly say it”: Alizée is fed up of being guided by what others would like her to be (for the public this could be demands of her style, look, for the man “that road” could be Alizée’s head that moves towards him to give him a new tender kiss).

“Oh! Sleep thou close to me
And devour me with your gaze, my princess”: These words belong to the man/public. They ask for a closer relationship (for the man, to go to actual sexual relations). Devour me with your gaze means to look at her with pleasure, but there we can relate this with the themes of the rest of the song on the theme of “Delicacies (fellatio)”, Alizée sees the man as closer and she can therefore take even more pleasure.

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