Work in progress : translation of Star One special issue about Alizée (dec.2003)

[Lizbel]

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Star one special issue (december 2003) : Gourmandises, Mes Courants Électriques, the first tour

Gourmandises

Commercial «*supports*»

CD («*cristal*» or «*digipack*»)
Audio K7
International CD
Japanese CD

Date of commercialisation (France) : 28 November 2000

Charts

France : number 1
Germany : number 29
Austria : number 40
Belgium(Wallonie) : number 7
Spain : number 22
Finland : number 26
Hungary : number 23
Italy : place 27
Swiss : number 27

Sales (France) : 800 000 (double platinium disc). Precision : we're on december 2003.

Content

Lyrics : Mylène Farmer
Music : Laurent Boutonnat
Producers : Laurent Boutonnat and Mylène Farmer

With 10 tracks (twelve for Japan which added two remixes of « Moi... Lolita in bonus tracks), « Gourmandises » had already two hits when it's available : « Moi... Lolita » that was been number 3 five months after its release (!) and « L'Alizé » that climbed at the first place for two weeks ! Except Madonna, in 1987, nobody ever succeeded to have two singles in the top 3 at the same time. The album had a great career : he stayed in the top for 84 weeks and became number one in February 2001 ! When you listen it, the songs are in harmony with the packaging : very « rose bonbon » (pink). Lyrics are very naive. Maybe a little more sometimes. Alizée is 16, not 10 ! But we must admit that Mylène's lyrics have always hidden significations. With these songs, in particular, we have to dig more to find them. But when we find one of this hidden sense, it has a particular taste... The albums talks, without order, about her native Corsica, her bedroom, her teddy bear and first teenager's loves, everything with good chosen words : « loup » (« wolf »), « hymen », « impénétrable »... « Gourmandises is clearly a quality album. There are plenty of hits, the production is well-groomed. It's delicious ! Because we're greedy, we say « More» !

Mes Courants Électriques

Commercial «*supports*»

CD («*cristal*» or «*digipack*»)
Audio K7
Korean CD
European CD
Japanese CD
Taiwanese CD

Date of commercialisation (France) : 18 March 2003

Charts (until 19 November 2003)

France : number 1
Germany : number 26
Belgium(Wallonie) : number 9
Hungary : number 90
Swiss : number 13

Sales (France) : 230 000 (double golden disc)

Content

Lyrics : Mylène Farmer
Music : Laurent Boutonnat
Producers : Laurent Boutonnat and Mylène Farmer


With 11 tracks, « Mes Courants Electriques... » has many international forms. Firstly, the European version. It has four more tracks : English adaptations of « J'en ai marre ! », « J'ai pas vingt ans », « Amélie m'a dit » et « Youpidou ». The Japanese CD has only twelve tracks : no French version of songs existing in English, except « J'en ai marre! » (that becomes « Mon bain de mousse »). The Taiwanese version has exactly the same tracklisting than European album, with in bonus track « Moi... Lolita » which is used as a single, three years after its original commercialisation. At last, the Corean CD, in every point similar to the Taiwanese one, is rich of a VCD with music videos of « Moi... Lolita » and « I'm fed up! » (English version of «J'en ai marre! »). A luxury edition even has a little mouse pad and five postal cards !
This disc is a little more mature musically. Alizée has taken a great vocal assurance, too. But the contrast with her look, her age and some songs is sometimes awkward (the worse is « Youpidou »). Anyway, it's one more time an album plenty of pure jewels ("Tempête », « J'ai pas vingt ans », « Coeur déjà pris »,...) and we wait for more impatiently.