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02-12-2010, 09:42 PM
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I *love* the new song...  Which is really weird, as I can't listen to this kind of music from anyone else...I kinda expected this kind of turn for her, seeing as who she was working with, and totally expected to not like it... Wifey just told me "order it and quit mooning around the house..." my wifey too! I heard the song on Mouloud's site first, as that is what the page linked me to... Sometimes its ok to be late!
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02-12-2010, 10:06 PM
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Ed  P.S. - thanks for reminding me of that - that was a LOL moment for sure!
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02-12-2010, 10:27 PM
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OMG I JUST ORDERED THE COLLECTOR THINGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
little late but hey, better than never  LOVE the new song, but it doesn't match any of her other songs so I guess the album is going into the electronic/techno playlist
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02-12-2010, 10:47 PM
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02-12-2010, 11:52 PM
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wow, it's so different but i like it
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02-12-2010, 11:55 PM
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02-12-2010, 11:55 PM
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http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...&postcount=385 http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/show...&postcount=387
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02-13-2010, 12:39 AM
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OK, now I've heard the whole song, and I have several thoughts.
First, I'm thinking this song has meaning on at least two levels. Here are the lyrics, as best I can make out: Dream always and always I don’t know where I’m going, looking for the limelight Bright I can’t recall where I’ve been in this long, long flight Light I always and always I don’t know if I should learn the ways of ecstasy We (EDIT: or "oui"? makes more sense) Stairs – Lights – Music -- Sweat Scares – Fright – Panic -- Threat The straightforward interpretation is that it's about Edie Sedgwick, and the difficulties, confusion, and fear involved in being famous, the confusion about identity and the insecurity that eventually led to her death. On another level, I think this song is saying something about Alizée herself. Superficially, Alizée is very different from Sedgwick -- no drugs or booze, no self-destructive behavior. So it's not quite the same thing being said about Alizée as about Sedgwick. Her Grace simply isn't messed up in the same ways. But I think that she does confront identity questions -- who am I, where am I going -- and a tension between her public and private lives, the difficulty of finding a balance between them. I love that poetic device of the rhyming words at the end. The first four seem to be presenting the picture of glamour, while the second four seem to be going inside, to what she feels. There is I think a particular way in which her public life is a threat to her inner peace, yet she is pulled to both. I'm wondering if all of the songs, in addition to telling the story of Sedgwick, will express Alizée's being in the same way. It seems clear to me that this one does. About the song being in English, it could be that there is no meaning to that other than Alizée wanting to sing songs in multiple languages, knowing that she has fans all over the world. Or it could be as Jung said, Edie Sedgwick was an American, so at least some songs in English makes sense. If there's another meaning, it's probably a personal one that the general public isn't meant to get. I like this song a lot. I like the music of it, and the poetry of the lyrics, especially impressive since I think none of the songwriters is a native English speaker. The only thing I had to get used to, and this isn't really a criticism, is the distortion of Alizée's voice. I think that's right for this song and works, but I hope that on some of the other cuts we will hear her voice without so much distortion in all its loveliness.
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02-13-2010, 12:47 AM
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