I Could Be Shot For This But...

[DJ_Greg]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

And DJ_Greg, I ask you to buy her new CD regardless of how you feel right now. I don't know if it will grow on you, but I can't help feeling that all of us here owe it to Alizée in a way. After all, all of us fans have been badgering her to come back for quite a while now. It's like talking someone into something and then not backing them up when the time comes.

I have come to this forum almost every day for the past year, emploring Alizée to come back, watching her videos, listening to her music, and just plain enjoying the hell out of talking about her with fellow fans. I figure that's worth the price of 1 CD, even if I hated it.

I would respectfully reply that I owe her nothing. I don't "owe" any musician anything, regardless of who they are. I buy music based on whether I like it - nothing more. (Not even considering that, to my knowledge, no other radio DJ in the United States was playing her songs).

And I have never badgered her to return. As someone who only discovered her in 2006, I never felt like I was "waiting" for a return.

Ryan Adams is one of my favorite musicians, but I don't plan on buying all of his albums. Jacksonville City Nights, for example, is just far too country to interest me. It's not a genre I enjoy, so I'm leaving that one alone. I don't owe it to him to buy that CD, just like I don't owe it to Alizée to buy her new album.

People's tastes don't always mesh with that of musicians. To my ear, this new Alizée album isn't very interesting. I'll pass. If she comes out with something I like in the future, great. But, in the meantime, I'm not forcing myself to listen to an album out of a misguided sense of obligation.

But as I said before, I am glad for those who ARE enjoying the new songs.