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Old 06-02-2007, 02:44 AM
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Default Alizée's career arc...comparisons?

This may have been hashed to death already but I didn't see much when searching the forum, so I was curious to hear opinions on Alizée's career arc (I'm not talking talent, looks, or anything else, but focusing on career milestones) relative to others who were in similar positions. Her career does have some parallels to, say, Britney's, e.g., child star, career-defining first hit in mid-teens with a provocative, Lolita-esque image, early marriage, baby, but she seems to have avoided the train-wreck path of drugs, public overexposure, etc. of Britney, Lindsay, etc. (I've always theorized that a lot of these things have been at least partially engendered by the media; if every supermarket check-out counter in the US is chanting every week that your marriage is over, you might start believing it ).

But, perhaps, looking further back (I'm dating myself), perhaps it would be interesting to compare her career so far to those of Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, both of whom achieved great success early on.

With Tiffany, she shares the initial smash hit that is sort of image-defining (I Think We're Alone Now), and a succession of hits from the first album, and then a follow-up album with some successes too. Then a hiatus and a split with her original manager, and marriage and a baby. But Tiffany apparently had a lot of personal problems (which I wasn't aware of at the time, partially because I wasn't a fan at all). I'm summarizing from
http://www.tiffany.org/info/chronology.html
Actually she's apparently been making a comeback of sorts in the last 2 years, reinventing herself as a dance diva.

Debbie Gibson also achieved early success with Only In My Dreams (written when she was 13 IIRC), and several big hits from her first album, and several from her second album. She mostly wrote her own songs, and
I think by the time of her 3rd album in 1991, she was trying to find a more mature, grown-up, adult contemporary sound, i.e., lots of power ballads. I think, for me personally, it was a case where she grew up and I didn't; i.e., I still wanted bubble-gum pop (the evidence for that continues to be clear )

So I guess it will be interesting to see how the 3rd album plays out relative to past histories of singers in somewhat similar situations. Of course the eternal archive of the Internet changes everything, since the fads of what's hot, what's in Tiger Beat this week, and etc., aren't quite as powerful as they used to be.

Thoughts, discussions, amplifications, corrections, criticisms and anecdotes are welcome. Thanks!
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