Did singing in playback help Alizée's career?

[Aragorn97]

Hello, everyone!

So, was lip-syncing a good thing or did it eclipse a little of her "magic"?

Personally, when I find a singer that I particularly like, I always look for their live performances because they are more personal and unique. And if those singers are good, the emotions their songs convey are amplified: more energy, more passion.
Alizée has provided us with a lot of live performances but she lip-syncs in most of them...

As some of you wrote on this forum, singing and dancing at the same time is difficult and some criticized Alizée's voice for not being very looked after. So these may be the bright side of singing in playback. But honestly I prefer an imperfect true live performance over one in playback. All the little imperfections make that performance somehow memorable. Sometimes I even put them in my playlists and, if I want to listen to a song of one of my favorite artists on YouTube, I usually watch the live version. About the difficulty of doing two things simultaneously, many singers do it and... Hey, we are talking about Alizée :P

Anyway I wanted to ask you that question because I think that Alizée is precisely the kind of singer that is most affected by lip-syncing: she interacts a lot with the audience, so if you remove her real voice (which is the soul of a singer), you deprive her of one of her peculiarities. For example I think about the "ENCORE!!!" and "UN, DEUX, TROIS! C'EST PAS MA FAUTE..." in the en concert version of JEAM and ML. But also a simple "OOOOOHH". Not to mention all the tonality differences of the single words.
Singing in playback may be usuful for television, but, if you think about performances like Amsterdam, Lafete de la musique, Taormina, wouldn't they have been even more legendary if she had actually sung live?