Vacation's over-Time to get back to work, but at what?

[Antares]

Originally Posted by Anton

I never understood the extremely harsh reviews on "Blonde". Maybe it wasn't her best album but it wasn't her worst either. It was a fresh, fun album, quite different from the last two. There were gems like Alcaline and Tweet which I would have loved to see played live by Ali.

I really didn't understand the harsh reviews either. Blonde got blasted by critics for a lot of strange reasons. One review I saw criticized the use of retro-style beats, calling it "outdated," which I found funny because tons of music in North America is doing the same thing to great critical acclaim (Like Daft Punk's "Get Lucky"). It was also criticized for being thematically very light, which it is, but so is tons of other music. Charts In France never criticized Yelle for the entirely substance-less (though admittedly catchy) "Ba$$in", which was far worse than anything to be found on Blonde.

Really, I think it comes down to the fact that right now it's really popular for media outlets to hate on Alizée. I don't know why they do it, but there's a constant stream of negativity and criticism targeted towards her, especially on CIF, but these opinions quickly become pervasive in the media.