What's with Mylene?

[MesGourmandises]

Okay, I have to say... Alizee's making me impatient, so I've looked into Mylene. She's got a nice voice, and four amazing songs I like.

I like (in order of quality to me):

C'est une belle journée
Desenchantée
Sans Contrefaçon
Crier La Vie
and even Fu*k Them All (but not the title)

The thing is, I can't help feeling that I'm favoring a really bad role model. lol. I mean, it looks like all mylene wants to do is undress in every video, and curse around like she owns the place, and she seems way freaky, although it may be kinda cute in the process.

So tell me..
Is she generally a bad person? lol
Does she treat her fans nice and generally the people around which she's inhabited?


Just can't figure this girl out!!!

[espire]

Amelie would be the one to truly know, but I think I have some understanding of it. Mylène Farmer's success and popularity are based on a number of things:

1) Mylène's songwriting and singing
2) Laurent Boutonnat's composing
3) Mylène's image of being dark and mysterious

There's something very tempting about a person with the kind of image and aura that Mylène has, and she plays on it extremely well. Her experience with such a thing is the main reason that Moi Lolita was such a success.

[Calisto]

Originally Posted by MesGourmandises

Does she treat her fans nice and generally the people around which she's inhabited?


Just can't figure this girl out!!!

I haven't done much research on her to answer some of those questions, but she did send Amelie an autograph that you can see here: http://moi-alizee.us/forums/showthread.php?t=1265

That is pretty nice in my book.

There is still a handfull of songs by her that I have not heard yet, I'm slowly discovering her, but the songs you listed are also my favorites. C'est une belle journee is amazing.

[Geech]

Originally Posted by espire

1) Mylène's songwriting and singing
2) Laurent Boutonnat's composing
3) Mylène's image of being dark and mysterious

I have to agree 100%. Thoughts are my favorite things about her. Gorgeous voice but her singing and song wringing just top it all off in my mind.

[Deepwaters]

There's one other factor behind Mylène's success, and it's there for Alizée as well. It's not so easily defined, but it's crucial. I'm talking about the kind of rapport with a crowd that lets her build incredible levels of excitement.

Her style is very different from Alizée's, more remote, less approachable, less friendly, but it still works. It works incredibly well. She has the magic touch.

Here's a pretty good example, the performance of Désenchantée from the Millennium Tour.

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[lefty12357]

Of course there's also the pure spectacle of her concerts, like the intro to the Mylenium Tour:

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And the sharing of emotion with her audience:

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[marik]

well im sure Amelie will pay attetion to this thread:P

[Edcognito]

Originally Posted by MesGourmandises

Okay, I have to say... Alizee's making me impatient, so I've looked into Mylene. She's got a nice voice, and four amazing songs I like.

I like (in order of quality to me):

C'est une belle journée
Desenchantée
Sans Contrefaçon
Crier La Vie
and even Fu*k Them All (but not the title)

The thing is, I can't help feeling that I'm favoring a really bad role model. lol. I mean, it looks like all mylene wants to do is undress in every video, and curse around like she owns the place, and she seems way freaky, although it may be kinda cute in the process.

So tell me..
Is she generally a bad person? lol
Does she treat her fans nice and generally the people around which she's inhabited?

Just can't figure this girl out!!!

#1 - the whole "undressing" thing - well - Europeans tend to be less body "sensitive" than Americans are. I didn't look to see where your from before i posted - but seeing nudity seems to be much less of an issue over there... Just my opinion...

#2 - I like the song "Libertine" (think thats how its spelled)....

#3 - just enjoy the music - don't put too much into any of it

Ed

[Edcognito]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

Of course there's also the pure spectacle of her concerts, like the intro to the Mylenium Tour:

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oh

my

god..........


what an entrance! DAM! I sat here with goose bumps while i watched that!

now THATS how you enter a room!

Ed

[nurvonic]

i dunno what it is, no matter how many videos i see or songs i hear by mylene, im still not a very big mylene fan.