[2010-02-27] Alizée interview on France Bleu Radio

[lefty12357]

Knowing that Alizée has said repeatedly that she is curious, or even nosy, I would expect that that alone would influence her to check things out personally. And yes, if I was her, I would be checking out the comments too. Some artists say they don't read reviews. I don't think Alizée is one of them. I also believe she enjoys dropping little hints that she's got her eye on things and knows what's going on.

[Criss_pl]

Now when I can understand this interview, I realised why I'm learning French so hard It's very rewarding, when you can understand Alizée without translation, simultaneously with writing this post

Originally Posted by Deepwaters

Hell, if it was ME, I'd be on line every day checking up on the latest feedback. I've got three reviews of my book on line now. You think I haven't read them? Think again, if so.

So, I read your book and it's very good, even if it could be viewed as a very simple novel on first regard, it contains many problems; psychology is visible.
It's not only story about two lovers, but something more.

And I learned some English words as well

[lefty12357]

Originally Posted by Criss_pl

Now when I can understand this interview, I realised why I'm learning French so hard It's very rewarding, when you can understand Alizée without translation, simultaneously with writing this post

I envy you. I still have trouble understanding French while it's being spoken, but I find Alizée easier to follow. Those radio show hosts sure like to talk.

I would prefer to hear more Alizée...

[Ben]

Haven't listened to much of it, but seems very different from her first radio apperance for Psychédélices! http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2511

[Plaz]

translation by Dana0_7 at AF

Radio: And that was the first single of Alizee's new album. It's an album that we'll soon discover, i mean in a month, on 29th of march. So, it's a great pleasure for us to have you here, Alizee.
Alizee: Thank you.
R: And this new album will enjoy lots of fans and i say lots of fans because after we announced that we will have a guest in here, so many people contacted us to guess who can this guest be. And after we said your name, lots of them started to say "i wanna see her, wanna see her. When will we listen to her?" So you have so many constant fans since your beginnings.
A: Yes. And that's great when you're a singer. It's very important and I'm so happy to have this kind of public who followed me from the beginning and who grew up with me, because I was so young.
R: How old were you?
A: 15. This was 10 years ago.
R: So they are always there for you and that good because, from an album to another you changed a lot, you've been proposed different styles of music.
A: Yes. I always try to suggest new styles and after I met them [the producers] I discovered new styles or styles i knew a little. For example, this album has many influences, it sounds a little electric, which is a style i didn't know and after I met them I was able to know it better and they adapted it to me.
R: it was your name that convinced them to work with you because they all said "Oh, i would like to work for her new album and I'm doing this because i like her style" And working for this album you ended by knowing this electric style.
A: Yes. From the beginning of my career I was always meeting new people. First I met Mylene, an artist I loved a lot when I was young. I wasn't really her fan, but i was listening to her songs and I learned a lot from her. Then, when I decided to end it up and to produce my own album, I met BB , Oxmo which are obviously from different styles of music. And I liked a lot the fact that I met them and learned a lot from them.
R: And how did you met them? You simply went to see them?
A: For example, with Daniel Darc, I loved his last album and I wanted to work with him. So I went to his concert and then I asked him what if you worked for me and he was very interested and that's how it all went with every person I worked with.
R: Alizee's new album is called UEDS and it will be released next month on 29th. Alizee's our guess and later we'll ask her why people say this album is a "concept album" [?]

Then a song and Alizee says she likes it.

R: Alizee's here with us today to present us her new album that will be released next month. When I think of "a child of the century" I can say that this really represents Alizee. But it's not about you. Explain us a little who's your heroine.
A: Well... this album was inspired by another song of mine which is called Fifty Sixty and which was part of my last album. It was composed by Jeremy Chatelain and Jean Fauque. And I had the opportunity to meet new people who mixed this song, I mean the new producers, and we decided to continue with this and to release a concept album. There are songs which represent me less than others, but it's not an biographical album where I only sing about me. Every one can finds himself in my songs and by every song they'll discover a new story.

R: We had your friend Jean Fauque as our guest last week and this concept album doesn't sound bad at all. It allows you to discover different characters and we can imagine that this will be an album of songs..
A: Real songs, diversified songs and sounds from almost every style.
R: What have you prepared for us, Danielle Moreau?
DM: A little quiz. I'll start with bad news for you, Alizee. Be strong because we found out that you and Eve Angeli have 2 things in common. It's hard, but here you are. You' ve been the revelation of the year in 2001 and she was in 2002. Ok, so this was the first one. Which is the second one?
A: The leaving.
DM: No, the fact that you were both at Graines de Stars, which I didn't know.
A: But i guess she wasn't there.
R: Yes yes, she went only to the casting but she didn't make it.
A: It was the edition in Province, as I heard later.
DM: She was one of those thousands of participants to Graines de Stars who didn't make it. But she tried to. Lucie Bernandoni and Olivia Ruiz also appeared in and someone from Nouvelle Star wrote a song for Olivia. So, who was that person who wrote the song? It was Lara Fabian, Zazie or [didn't understand the name]?
R: Lauriette tells me it was Zazie.
DM: No, it was Lara Fabian.
R: It was important for you to participate, Alizee?
A: Oh, yes! I was in Corse and i wanted to danse. I had an audition for dancing and my friends enrolled me for singing too.
R: So you danced.
A: Yes, since i was 4-5 years old.

Second song.

R: Alizee accepted to come here today. So, what do you think about our conversation about Danille, Fabian and more others?
A: Oh, it was ok.
R: So we listened to Limelight. It was, in fact, the first single your fans could listen to on your site. How was their reaction?
A: It was positive, I'm very happy. I received messages from people who never listened to my song before.
R: I suppose that made you very happy, because, in fact, that's your purpose.
A: Yes, to keep my old public and to gain a new one too.
R: People write on our blog and speak about Lilly. So, Lilly is you?
A: Yes, it was my nickname at school.
R: Others say it was a pleasure to hear you. Do you communicate with them by internet?
A: I try to. Internet is not good for artists because of the downloading, but I try to control this and to show them different things.
R: I would like to share with you an important date in Alizee's career. I would like to know if she remembers what happened 3.340 days ago. It's probably the most important date it your career.
A: the most important?
R: Yes. It was 9 years ago.
A: 4th of july 2000.
R: Yes, well done!! It was the date of the release of her first single, "Moi Lolita".
A: It was heard at radio in april, but in july was the official release of the single and the clip. I was also invited to my first show and I was proposed for the gold and platinum disc.
R: So.. 4 mil of copies in the whole word. I also heard you were well received in Mexico too. Can you talk a little about this?
A: Yes. I participated in France at a special show about Madonna, where I sang LIB. This was posted on youtube and the fans, who are so active on the internet, saw it and I started to receive messages from mexican fans who said they loved me and knew all my other songs. Sony Mexico decided that my album should be released in the same day as it were in France. And then I went there.
R: You had a signing autographs session for..
A: For 4 mil people. But I had to go because it was in a store and it was full.
A: With ML i sold 4 mil copies and it was my chance to go around the world.
R: That's great. So i guess we need to have another show with Alizee, a longer one, because we have so many things to ask her. Anyway, 29th of march is the day of the release. We're glad to be the first ones who had you to present your album and I hope you'll come back.

[Rev]

Originally Posted by Plaz

translation by Dana0_7 at AF

Radio: And that was the first single of Alizee's new album. It's an album that we'll soon discover, i mean in a month, on 29th of march. So, it's a great pleasure for us to have you here, Alizee.
Alizee: Thank you.
R: And this new album will enjoy lots of fans and i say lots of fans because after we announced that we will have a guest in here, so many people contacted us to guess who can this guest be. And after we said your name, lots of them started to say "i wanna see her, wanna see her. When will we listen to her?" So you have so many constant fans since your beginnings.
A: Yes. And that's great when you're a singer. It's very important and I'm so happy to have this kind of public who followed me from the beginning and who grew up with me, because I was so young.
R: How old were you?
A: 15. This was 10 years ago.
R: So they are always there for you and that good because, from an album to another you changed a lot, you've been proposed different styles of music.
A: Yes. I always try to suggest new styles and after I met them [the producers] I discovered new styles or styles i knew a little. For example, this album has many influences, it sounds a little electric, which is a style i didn't know and after I met them I was able to know it better and they adapted it to me.
R: it was your name that convinced them to work with you because they all said "Oh, i would like to work for her new album and I'm doing this because i like her style" And working for this album you ended by knowing this electric style.
A: Yes. From the beginning of my career I was always meeting new people. First I met Mylene, an artist I loved a lot when I was young. I wasn't really her fan, but i was listening to her songs and I learned a lot from her. Then, when I decided to end it up and to produce my own album, I met BB , Oxmo which are obviously from different styles of music. And I liked a lot the fact that I met them and learned a lot from them.
R: And how did you met them? You simply went to see them?
A: For example, with Daniel Darc, I loved his last album and I wanted to work with him. So I went to his concert and then I asked him what if you worked for me and he was very interested and that's how it all went with every person I worked with.
R: Alizee's new album is called UEDS and it will be released next month on 29th. Alizee's our guess and later we'll ask her why people say this album is a "concept album" [?]

Then a song and Alizee says she likes it.

R: Alizee's here with us today to present us her new album that will be released next month. When I think of "a child of the century" I can say that this really represents Alizee. But it's not about you. Explain us a little who's your heroine.
A: Well... this album was inspired by another song of mine which is called Fifty Sixty and which was part of my last album. It was composed by Jeremy Chatelain and Jean Fauque. And I had the opportunity to meet new people who mixed this song, I mean the new producers, and we decided to continue with this and to release a concept album. There are songs which represent me less than others, but it's not an biographical album where I only sing about me. Every one can finds himself in my songs and by every song they'll discover a new story.

R: We had your friend Jean Fauque as our guest last week and this concept album doesn't sound bad at all. It allows you to discover different characters and we can imagine that this will be an album of songs..
A: Real songs, diversified songs and sounds from almost every style.
R: What have you prepared for us, Danielle Moreau?
DM: A little quiz. I'll start with bad news for you, Alizee. Be strong because we found out that you and Eve Angeli have 2 things in common. It's hard, but here you are. You' ve been the revelation of the year in 2001 and she was in 2002. Ok, so this was the first one. Which is the second one?
A: The leaving.
DM: No, the fact that you were both at Graines de Stars, which I didn't know.
A: But i guess she wasn't there.
R: Yes yes, she went only to the casting but she didn't make it.
A: It was the edition in Province, as I heard later.
DM: She was one of those thousands of participants to Graines de Stars who didn't make it. But she tried to. Lucie Bernandoni and Olivia Ruiz also appeared in and someone from Nouvelle Star wrote a song for Olivia. So, who was that person who wrote the song? It was Lara Fabian, Zazie or [didn't understand the name]?
R: Lauriette tells me it was Zazie.
DM: No, it was Lara Fabian.
R: It was important for you to participate, Alizee?
A: Oh, yes! I was in Corse and i wanted to danse. I had an audition for dancing and my friends enrolled me for singing too.
R: So you danced.
A: Yes, since i was 4-5 years old.

Second song.

R: Alizee accepted to come here today. So, what do you think about our conversation about Danille, Fabian and more others?
A: Oh, it was ok.
R: So we listened to Limelight. It was, in fact, the first single your fans could listen to on your site. How was their reaction?
A: It was positive, I'm very happy. I received messages from people who never listened to my song before.
R: I suppose that made you very happy, because, in fact, that's your purpose.
A: Yes, to keep my old public and to gain a new one too.
R: People write on our blog and speak about Lilly. So, Lilly is you?
A: Yes, it was my nickname at school.
R: Others say it was a pleasure to hear you. Do you communicate with them by internet?
A: I try to. Internet is not good for artists because of the downloading, but I try to control this and to show them different things.
R: I would like to share with you an important date in Alizee's career. I would like to know if she remembers what happened 3.340 days ago. It's probably the most important date it your career.
A: the most important?
R: Yes. It was 9 years ago.
A: 4th of july 2000.
R: Yes, well done!! It was the date of the release of her first single, "Moi Lolita".
A: It was heard at radio in april, but in july was the official release of the single and the clip. I was also invited to my first show and I was proposed for the gold and platinum disc.
R: So.. 4 mil of copies in the whole word. I also heard you were well received in Mexico too. Can you talk a little about this?
A: Yes. I participated in France at a special show about Madonna, where I sang LIB. This was posted on youtube and the fans, who are so active on the internet, saw it and I started to receive messages from mexican fans who said they loved me and knew all my other songs. Sony Mexico decided that my album should be released in the same day as it were in France. And then I went there.
R: You had a signing autographs session for..
A: For 4 mil people. But I had to go because it was in a store and it was full.
A: With ML i sold 4 mil copies and it was my chance to go around the world.
R: That's great. So i guess we need to have another show with Alizee, a longer one, because we have so many things to ask her. Anyway, 29th of march is the day of the release. We're glad to be the first ones who had you to present your album and I hope you'll come back.

Thanks very much.

[wildfire]

Thanks for translation and for post...

I so luv her laugh. Its like she's in on an inside joke!

[Fall]

It must get too repetitive to talk about the beginning of her career, all the time, at every interview. I hope that they fulfill their promise and have her one there again for a longer time

[Criss_pl]

Wow, quick translation, good essence of interview, nicely shortened as for such a quick job.

Originally Posted by lefty12357

I envy you. I still have trouble understanding French while it's being spoken, but I find Alizée easier to follow. Those radio show hosts sure like to talk.

Well, I'm not a big pro, but I'm still trying And it really depends on this who speaks and how; here Alizée's voice was quite clear, but sometimes it's pretty hard to follow her And don't think that I could follow them, when they all speak at the same time

Originally Posted by lefty12357

I would prefer to hear more Alizée...

Yes, the hosts were sometimes interrupting her. It lacks something really new about album. I liked when she said that it's not an autobiographic album, but an album, where everyone could find himself, just like previous works, I think that we have such specialists here that finding Alizée in songs won't be hard. Hearing again and again the same questions about dance, Graines de Stars, ML may be boring for fans/us, but for people who don't remember her and by chance listened that radio, it could happen that they can recall that girl who was succesful nearly 10 years ago(or 3340 days); like: "Huh, Is it really she?"

Btw. That [didn't understand name] is Francois Hardy

[user472884]

Damn it...

I had some stuff to take care of today (had to wake at like 5 am) so I missed both opportunities to listen to the interview.

I downloaded the file, and yet unsurprisingly again..... my macbook/quicktime "cannot play the .wma file because it is not a movie file"

I'm too tired to figure it out now.