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It's even better when you're in the middle of class when the lesson just drags. The text really brightens up my mood but have then I the class goes by slower from the wanting of running to the nearest computer and be the first to post it here. Sadly twitter is blocked here so I usually ho on her tumbler thing. Jaja
Haha yeah ever since the UEDS Photoshoot happened and people would post the new pictures within literally 10 seconds of it being tweeted, I always try and post it here first now haha.
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Wink Sequel to "Have You Seen Michael Hunt?" - "Desperately Seeking Amy"

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The line before that also. Not to sound condescending, but what was meant after "love me, hate me, say what you want about me" seemed pretty obvious, even though I hadn't heard of the song before this remix. Yeah, I guess many in France wouldn't notice, but then I figured Alizée the type to be in the loop. Admittedly, I was paying more attention since she had posted it!

Oh well whatever, I do agree with LL Cool B that she probably just thought it sounded cool. And it does, I like it. Actually, I'm no a Brit fan but the video for this says some interesting things about celebrity that I bet Alizée could identify with. The way Britney emerges from her typical bacchanalia out into the 1950s American dream wouldn't work so well with a less explicit track. I guess there's some art in it after all!
I don't consume a lot of mass-media popular culture. So in looking up some stuff on word play, I only now finally ran across If U Seek Amy, and through this thread learned about Alizée's tweet of May 26, 2009 reading:
I like it!! http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4J8KJZ6F
I don't know why people were shocked that Britney would do a music video like that. After all, she had previously entertained us with Have You Seen Michael Hunt?, in which she rides around town with Paris Hilton and "carelessly" gets out of their car.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsuk6GiEN8"></a>

In today's fast-changing world - in which, all too soon, they find themselves obsolete - most people have no choice but to desperately seek MONEY.

Nonetheless, there has always been a storyline about how being secure and affluent is really a shallow comfort, and the real fun is to be had by those who live wanton and penniless lives, seemingly never short of the ability to leach off the labor and property of others to sustain their endless joyride.

<img src="http://blog.envishoes.com/root/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/desperatelyseekingsusan1.jpg">

A quarter century ago, the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089017/"><i>Desperately Seeking Susan</i></a> built a wacky existential mystery adventure around this theme and catapulted Madonna into the public consciousness forever.

Arguably, there is a feminist subtext to the film, in that the affluent character, an unfulfilled housewife played by Rosanna Arquette, is a young, childless, socially disengaged woman who seems to do little to make herself of utility to her financially successful husband - or anyone else. Was she the first "Desperate Housewife"?

Madonna portrays the free-spirited, penniless - and equally useless - drifter who dwells in the exciting underground bohemian New Wave scene of mid-1980s New York City. Her life is dripping with adventure, mystery, and romantic sex - the things of which the first character's life seems devoid.

<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PyV9m9C5P4o?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I just learned from the film's <i>Wikipedia</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperately_Seeking_Susan">article</a> that in 2007 it inspired a very-short-lived musical play in London, featuring songs and lyrics by Alizée's <a href="http://a-store.myshopify.com/products/doctor-a-t-shirt-unisex">lately-romanticized</a> celebrity, Debbie Harry, and <i>Blondie</i>.

The video for <i>If U Seek Amy</i> (note that <i>Amy</i> means <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy"><i>beloved</i></a>) seems to owe something to this film. That is because, in the generation since <i>Desperately Seeking Susan</i>, the Britney character ("Amy"?) seems to have combined the "best" of BOTH the worlds we saw in the movie - the wanton orgies for her nights and the safe, comfortable existence for her days.

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Postscript: In the essay If You Seek Amy's Ancestors, editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary Jesse Sheidlower wrote this:<blockquote><i>The trope of spelling out fuck with the words if you see Kay has been
frequently explored by musicians... James Joyce... used the "If you see
kay" gag in Ulysses... Joyce manages to encode cunt as well... William
Shakespeare used a similar trick. In Twelfth Night... Malvolio says
"These be her very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her great
P's." With the and sounding like N, Shakespeare not only spells out
cunt, but gets pee in there as well.</i></blockquote>I keep telling you guys: English is a dirty language! Speak FRENCH.

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Happy Birthday Walt Disney <3 (5 décembre 1901) pic.twitter.com/CsRXc2do
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@Mauraneofficiel Ma mô !!!!!! <3
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Guys, I think Alizée heard my cry in the other thread and so she decided to return to Twitter to kick things off
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She's back on twitter!!!
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Old 12-05-2011, 03:52 PM
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Old 12-05-2011, 06:31 PM
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It's that time of year again to make Alizée's Twitter and Facebook (and soon to be her official page) your top bookmarks let the suspense...begin!
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She's toying with us now...

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préparer le 5ème álbum, ok mais avec qui? j'ai déjà une petite idée... et vous? des envies?

preparing the fifth album, ok but with who? I have a little idea ... and you? cravings?
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certains d'entre vous, ne sont pas loin de mes envies : )

some of you are not far from my desire : )
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Old 12-06-2011, 12:16 PM
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She is such a tease
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:30 PM
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now I have mixed feelings... its december, album "should" be released in spring, and she ask for ideas... hmmm
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Well if she's really asking with who, I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd have to suggest MF and LB. I'm sure it could never happen, but you'll never get the impossible if you don't ask for it.

It's not encouraging if she's asking her fans for help. I've said it before that she needs a good manager and if she had one, she wouldn't be asking these questions?
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