Alizée and America

[puffyrock2]

Looks like a photo of an ideal world. In every direction we look there should be a photo of Alizée. God forbid if we get, gasp, sick of her! Nah, I don't think we would.

[rcs]

NY is the new Paris!...Well no, but it's closer to Lili. Time to get this party started.

[Ruroshen]

OK, so here's my two cents:

The biggest issue we're facing, as I see it, is not simply a lack of existing fans, but how spread out the fans are. We are legion, but we're a legion that's spread thin in tiny pockets throughout the continent. (Notice I didn't say country--rowdy Candians represent! ) This limits us to making our case via a co-ordinated viral effort on the internet, and to smaller, unrelated grassroots efforts to promote awareness of Alizée in our respective home towns. And while this is all fine and good, it amounts to a slow trickle when what we really need is a monsoon.

The best way to combat this, again as I see it, is to concentrate our efforts into one massive spectacle that can't help but be noticed by Sony BMG and Team Alizée--a convention or summit of North American Alizée fans that decends on a major American city (either NY or LA) and spends a week (or a weekend, whatever) essentially evangelising for her.

We stage a mock protest at Sony BMG's headquarters demanding they bring her here. We run around the city taking Snatcher's poster campagin to the next level. We position teams outside the major local outlets of the national music store chains, handing out fliers and posters to tell people "Nonono, this is what you really want to be listening to." I'm sure there's tonnes of events we can think of to run that would further our case.

To my mind, this achieves three pretty important goals:

1) It shows Sony BMG and Team Alizée that we're willing, as a group, to go out of our way and come out in force to one place, if necessary. (There's a good chance that, even if she did come to the US, it would intially be for only for an autograph signing, or one or two shows at most, to test the waters...likely in NY or LA.) Like I said, right now it appears like we're to spread out to trigger the kind of "lightning in a bottle" effect that they've experienced in Mexico.

2) It would quite likely get us (and by extension, her) exposure in traditional media. A bunch of lunatics decending on Sony BMG headquarters demanding the appearance of some French chick? That's worth a two-minute human interest story at the end of the news, or a few inches in the Entertainment section of the paper.

3) It has the potential to spread awareness of Lili in a big way, in one of the entertainment capitols of the country. Even if the general public doesn't hook into our message, some enterprising "suit" somewhere will sit up and take notice, hoping he's stumbled onto the next big thing...

Plus, it has the advantage of potentially being a lot of fun. A gathering of hundreds of like-minded Lili-maniacs? What could be better?

[Ben]

Yeah, it was the concentration in Mexico City that really kicked things off for her south of the border. That's gotta be the most fans in one place she's enjoyed since Moi Lolita. So I agree we gotta somehow attempt the same thing here. You all know where I vote for!

[TheBarrett]

Seems fun...
It is sort of...a gathering...
The Fellowship of the Alizée Fans...

I'm all for it, if we're willing to organize it, let's bring back Woodstock on a Lilly Level!

[Euphoria]

I would go anywhere, if she came to the US to perform. Thats all I really want, is for her to be here in our country.

[Amigo!]

Here is something I haven't run across until now

http://www.imeem.com/


Groups, playlists, videos, etc.

http://www.imeem.com/tag/alizee/


Partners

http://www.imeem.com/contentpartners/

Not sure if this could help in any way

But it's interesting.

[Ruroshen]

Originally Posted by Snatcher42

Yeah, it was the concentration in Mexico City that really kicked things off for her south of the border. That's gotta be the most fans in one place she's enjoyed since Moi Lolita.

Exactly. I'm convinced that this was the key. If we wish to duplicate Mexico's success, we need to simulate the same conditions it occurred under, as closely as possible.

[Future Raptor Ace]

The ONLY thing that worries me is are the majority of the American fans ready to end this boycott of all things French? I'm hoping once they see and hear Lily sing they would lose all their hard feelings. Also do you think Alizee and her crew could possibly fear this so called boycott? Deny it all you want guys but that will just make you ignorant. Its the sad truth but this boycott of France is still going on. Of course not as bad as it used to be, but its still present.(Not on this site of course but amongst most Americans.) For example everyone I know who I mentioned Alizee to, the first thing out of their mouth upon hearing she's French was the following rhetorical and sarcastic question "shes french?" which was than followed by an instant loss of interest on the subject. That's just what the polite people did, the others would of course make insults on her nationality before allowing me to talk further more about her or show them a video of her. Everyone here knows it is because of politics and not language- (she visited England and did farley well; and I think if you can make it in England you can make it here in the US) -why Alizee isn't here in the US right now. My statement; like it or not its fact. Believe me I'm not happy about it either but one must except the truth.

I think if Alizee does take the risk and come here, even upon the realization of she being French the people will just fall in love with her like we all did. She has that thing about her were she can just mellow you out and make you forgot about your anger. She melts the heart of all men!

[ImRawdg]

Originally Posted by Future Raptor Ace

The ONLY thing that worries me is are the majority of the American fans ready to end this boycott of all things French? I'm hoping once they see and hear Lily sing they would lose all their hard feelings. Also do you think Alizee and her crew could possibly fear this so called boycott? Deny it all you want guys but that will just make you ignorant. Its the sad truth but this boycott of France is still going on. Of course not as bad as it used to be, but its still present.(Not on this site of course but amongst most Americans.) For example everyone I know who I mentioned Alizee to, the first thing out of their mouth upon hearing she's French was the following rhetorical and sarcastic question "shes french?" which was than followed by an instant loss of interest on the subject. That's just what the polite people did, the others would of course make insults on her nationality before allowing me to talk further more about her or show them a video of her. Everyone here knows it is because of politics and not language- (she visited England and did farley well; and I think if you can make it in England you can make it here in the US) -why Alizee isn't here in the US right now. My statement; like it or not its fact. Believe me I'm not happy about it either but one must except the truth.

I think if Alizee does take the risk and come here, even upon the realization of she being French the people will just fall in love with her like we all did. She has that thing about her were she can just mellow you out and make you forgot about your anger. She melts the heart of all men!

^^^^
Great posting.

And it saddens me. I'm not much into politics, but why do people not like the French? Even before Alizee, I never really knew about or understood this "dislike."