Misc. Alizée Questions! - Page 122

Scruffydog777 · #**1211** 02-12-2020, 10:35 AM

I doubt if any of our active members here have them. Outside of this forum there are a couple of people you could try contacting.
One is RMJ of AlizeeArt (http://www.alizeeart.com/). He was one of the ones involved in the translations of those magazines. Whether he still has them or is willing to part with them is another question.

Another person you could contact is Ske Leton of Facebook or ske_leton of Instagram. He didn't find out about Alizee until 2013, but if he has her blue dress, maybe he has those magazines.

I sent him a message last week and he didn't respond for what it's worth.

I'll try contacting a couple of other people I know in Europe.

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I sent out 2 messages, but I'm not optimistic. Another person you might try is Robert Rhein of Facebook.

QFM23 · #**1212** 04-04-2020, 07:54 PM

I've been helping joebanana with his subtitles which means a lot of rewinding and I've noticed an error in "Parler tout bas" in "En Concert". She swapped "Les grands ont des griffes" with "Les grands ont des rires" and vice versa.

At first, I thought it was an editing error as En Concert is highly edited but the first switch is in a single scene with the next line of lyrics "comme des bouts de ciment" (like bits of cement) which doesn't fit.

https://youtu.be/XwrCtRRm0Bw?t=10 - should be "griffes" (claws) so the next line comparing them to cement makes sense

https://youtu.be/XwrCtRRm0Bw?t=110 - should be "rires" (laughs) so it fits with the "slapping part"

https://youtu.be/QouhRxPE_Po?t=13 - correct studio version

Aragorn97 · #**1213** 04-05-2020, 05:59 PM

I found this interview where Alizée is asked what Mes courants électriques means for her. The question is at 0:55.

I think she says that the name of the album refers to the "vibrations and sensations of her heart" and that singing is her electricity. I'm not sure about this translation, so, if anyone understands spanish or french and finds anything interesting, I'm all ears!
The answer isn't very revealing. It seems the typical answer you give to journalists, but I wanted to shared it here because once I asked this question somewhere in this thread and at least now we have got something "official".

joebanana · #**1214** 04-05-2020, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Aragorn97

I found this interview where Alizée is asked what Mes courants électriques means for her. The question is at 0:55.

I think she says that the name of the album refers to the "vibrations and sensations of her heart" and that singing is her electricity. I'm not sure about this translation, so, if anyone understands spanish or french and finds anything interesting, I'm all ears!
The answer isn't very revealing. It seems the typical answer you give to journalists, but I wanted to shared it here because once I asked this question somewhere in this thread and at least now we have got something "official".

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Take a look at what they've said about her, Claudia.

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Her music is like the perfumes of Paris: exquisite, fragile, and seductive.

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How right he is.

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Alizée. How are you?

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Very well, thank you.

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Welcome to Spain.

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One second, Claudia. I have a question I prepared for her in French, no translators or anything.

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Is this the first time you come to Spain?

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- Second time.
- Second time.

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Second time. Very clear, we've heard it well.

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So, you've come to present us your latest work, which goes on sale the 28th of April.

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And speaking a little about the album, which is called "My Electric Currents,"

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what is it that makes Alizée electric?

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[In Spanish]...here to present us your new album which goes on sale April 28th.

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And Alizée has some sort of electric currents?

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But is this French or Spanish?

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No, no! You have to ask her in French, girl.

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Of course, we still dominate Spanish here!

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...comes out in Spain on the 28th of April.

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What do the "electric currents" mean to you?

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My electric currents are all the sensations, vibrations

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that pass through my body, my mind, and my heart.

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Good.

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The electric currents are all the sensations, vibrations that pass through my heart.

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But I want to know what gives the *electricity* to Alizée!

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What gives you *electricity*?

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- What makes you euphoric?
- Singing, singing simply.

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Singing, simply.

Aragorn97 · #**1215** 04-06-2020, 04:49 AM

Do you have a kind of Google translate microchip installed in your head?

Thanks, JoeBanana!

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- What makes you euphoric?
- Singing, singing simply.

I wonder if she was sincere and singing was more important than dancing for her back then. Or were they just words suited to the occasion?

Scruffydog777 · #**1216** 04-06-2020, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Aragorn97

Do you have a kind of Google translate microchip installed in your head?

Thanks, JoeBanana!

I wonder if she was sincere and singing was more important than dancing for her back then. Or were they just words suited to the occasion?

I think she loved singing as well as dancing in those early days, because of the success she had and I believe it was her lack of success after leaving MF/LB that she welcomed the return to just dancing that came with Dals.

joebanana · #**1217** 04-06-2020, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Aragorn97

Do you have a kind of Google translate microchip installed in your head?

Thanks, JoeBanana!

I wonder if she was sincere and singing was more important than dancing for her back then. Or were they just words suited to the occasion?

Using microchip directly from my head, just for you

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7t5496

The subtitles I used are from someone else.
People usually don't like their subtitles to be rearranged by someone else, so I left them in the original format.

Aragorn97 · #**1218** 04-18-2020, 03:15 PM

Why do english native speakers find ''I'm foamely ecstatic'' so fun?

I agree that it is fun because they invented (?) this word, but when I read people talking about that, they usually have a mocking tone. I mean, ''I'm fed up'' is a song about a girl having a bath; if I didn't know Alizée, I would take it for a song for children. I would find it fun in a good way, without giving it much importance.
Is it so weird for you (you, native speakers)?

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Or, maybe, the people that use this "mocking tone" are actually Alizée fans, so they understand the difference between the original version and the English one. I don know.

Fall · #**1219** 04-18-2020, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Aragorn97

Why do english native speakers find ''I'm foamely ecstatic'' so fun?

I agree that it is fun because they invented (?) this word, but when I read people talking about that, they usually have a mocking tone. I mean, ''I'm fed up'' is a song about a girl having a bath; if I didn't know Alizée, I would take it for a song for children. I would find it fun in a good way, without giving it much importance.
Is it so weird for you (you, native speakers)?

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Or, maybe, the people that use this "mocking tone" are actually Alizée fans, so they understand the difference between the original version and the English one. I don know.

I think it may be a combination of the made up word and the overall poor translation that doesn't make much sense. If you take synonyms of the two words (we'll have to stretch out some vocabulary for "foamely") it might help to clarify why those words are so irksome.

I'm foamely ecstatic
I'm lather-y euphoric
I'm soap-ely excited
I'm froth-ely elated

It just sounds weird? It's a combination of two very unlike things.

Aragorn97 · #**1220** 04-18-2020, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Fall

I think it may be a combination of the made up word and the overall poor translation that doesn't make much sense. If you take synonyms of the two words (we'll have to stretch out some vocabulary for "foamely") it might help to clarify why those words are so irksome.

I'm foamely ecstatic
I'm lather-y euphoric
I'm soap-ely excited
I'm froth-ely elated

It just sounds weird? It's a combination of two very unlike things.

Even in your phrases the adverbs make me genuinely smile.
But I think you are right: it's the combination of the words that is weird.

I guess I don't find it, as you said, irksome because I'm not used to the normality of the language. So, to me they are just invented words that sound nice (I mean, considering the very sound of the words) .