Will she JEAM again? - Page 7

another_alizee_fan · #61 04-28-2010, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by HelixSix

... I don't think I'm wrong when I say she wants to be appreciated for what she is now rather than what she was then.

She's ok now but there is no denying that she was the hottest girl on the planet then! When Alizée gets about 40 years old she'll look back and say, "Damn! I was the hottest thing, wasn't I." And I'll say, "Damn Straight!!" And she'll look back and know that Mylène and Laurent made it all happen.

Scruffydog777 · #62 04-28-2010, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Deepwaters

She is doing what she wants to do, going where her muse leads, and if that means not as many people will get it, and she won't be the huge success she was in the past, but must be content with a lower level of fame, she seems OK with that, and that means I am, too.

Is cancelling concerts what she wants to do? I thought if she had included some of her earlier songs in their original format, at the Rex concerts, more people would have been willing to go. I think what would make her truely content, is to be able to have a successful concert at a theater of similar size to the Rex. She doesn't care if there's any more than that. One successful concert in her home country is all she wants.

But right now, even though the album has only been out a few weeks, it looks like it's not exactly burning up the charts in France and if the people of France aren't crazy about this album, it probably wouldn't matter how many songs she included from her first two albums, even if they were in their un-re-orchestrated form. It's the new songs that will initially get people interested in going to a concert.

VVVACCPLPNLY · #63 04-28-2010, 07:15 AM

Look, she would have to do old songs if she did do a concert. UEdS is 36 minutes long. Institubes is a business. They are out to make money. If Alizée refuses to do old songs (possible), and limits the concert to just UEdS, they would cancel rather than put on a 36 minute show. I guarantee it. They would lose face for presenting such a short show, even if it was Alizée's choice. So think of it like this: if she does a UEdS concert, it will have to include old songs in order to be worth the money. Take that how you will. I loved the '08 JEAM, and would be interested to see a '10 JEAM. And ML. But I don't at all expect the dance, and would never request she do it, were the oppurtunity presented. Just again, remember: A UEDS ERA CONCERT (IF THERE IS ONE) WILL HAVE TO HAVE OLD SONGS, TO BE LONG ENOUGH FOR THE EXPENSE! If people went to one show, and saw it was half an hour, they would infuence others not to go, and Institubes would lose thousands.

User22 · #64 04-28-2010, 07:37 AM

Hmmm....this would really blow if she never did a song from Gour,MCE, or Psych again....and there is a good chance that will happen

except JEAM for the Mexican fans

HelixSix · #65 04-28-2010, 07:18 PM

Songs from Psych are an entirely different thing. She had massive input on that album and it is fairly recent.

Take 5 songs from Psych and a few others like her La Isla Bonita remake and that would make a full concert.

User22 · #66 04-28-2010, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by HelixSix

Songs from Psych are an entirely different thing. She had massive input on that album and it is fairly recent.

Take 5 songs from Psych and a few others like her La Isla Bonita remake and that would make a full concert.

Ahh...That is a good idea...

Yah I guess since she did some songs not on Psych in Meico thta she could do songs not on UEDS in Mexico to...But that would just be weird, she would prob do some non up-beat version of Fifty Sixty...i dunno, Flappers and MAdJuliette just don't mix...

MYGOGT · #67 04-28-2010, 07:49 PM

I think there are plenty of songs she can do, to fill an hour, with ueds. And I think she will.

User22 · #68 04-28-2010, 08:03 PM

Yah with all the talking and setting up she can easily take up an 2 hours with UEDS. Then she could please the Mexicans with La Isla Bonita and other Psych songs....and JEAM of corse

Fèvier · #69 04-28-2010, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MYGOGT

I think there are plenty of songs she can do, to fill an hour, with ueds. And I think she will.

well she does sing songs from other artists. For example:

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this post took me the longest due to the fact that as I looked up the video I just had to watch it the whole way through

Deepwaters · #70 04-28-2010, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by another_alizee_fan

She's ok now but there is no denying that she was the hottest girl on the planet then!

She is, in my opinion, a lot more desirable now than when she was 18. I suggest this is an adult perspective, in which sex appeal is at least 50% mental. Physically, she's just as appealing now as when she was 18, no more so really, but mentally, she's much more appealing because she's more interesting. She's gone through more. She'd be more fun to talk to. She has more perspective on life.

Scruffy, Alizée is in a different position from a lot of other artists, because she got this artificial early start as a teenager. In a very real sense, UEDS is not her fourth but her second album. She is not continuing her career, she is building it from scratch -- with name-recognition advantage that most artists would kill for.

No, I'm sure she doesn't want to cancel concerts (although I still think there was a reason for that which hasn't been revealed, and may never be, and that it wasn't due to slow ticket sales alone), but I am also sure that returning to the old music in the old style is simply not an option. If you argue that she would be more immediately successful that way than doing things her way, even assuming that is true (which is dubious), her response would almost certainly be: I don't care.

I don't think she does. Not that she doesn't want to be a success, but she wants to be a success on her own terms, as herself, singing what she wants to sing -- or not at all. She will not go back to the old style because it's not her, and the argument that she would be more successful doing so is not enough to outweigh the fact that it's not her. Ideally, she would like to be artistically true to herself and a big success both, but if that's not possible, she won't choose commercial success over artistic integrity.

For one thing, she doesn't need to. I suspect that she could retire today and live in obscure comfort off the proceeds of her first two albums for the rest of her life. So as long as any current or future efforts at least break even, she's fine financially. She doesn't need to be a mega-star again. Nor does it sound to me from things she's said in interviews as if she expects to be. And that's cool. I wish for her as much success as she wants. It would be pointless to wish more than that.