[2010-02-11] Limelight (New Song... in English!) - Page 11

jung_adore_ALIZEE · #1 02-12-2010, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Deepwaters

Or it could be as Jung said, Edie Sedgwick was an American, so at least some songs in English makes sense.

No need to give me credit for something I did not say.

pepelepew · #2 02-13-2010, 12:08 AM

I have never liked canned synthesized music and especially synthesized voices. Although it seems to work in this instance. As others have said I would have liked it better if they would have left her voice natural. If they add pure guitar riffs, acoustic drums in most of the other remaining songs even with the soulless electronica sounds I may just like it. I hope that I like it and it is wildly successful. I would be happy if I hate it and it is wildlly successful. Her success is the most important however Alizee defines it. I just want her to be able to continue creating music for ever. By the way if it is all electronica and they leave her pure voice alone I am sure I will grow to like it regardless.

Deepwaters · #3 02-12-2010, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by lefty12357

So does anyone think there is any significance to the fact that Alizée did a song in English, or is it simply a song that happens to be in English?

What's more interesting is that she led with a song in English. She's sung in English before.

I'm at work and can't download the song here so I'll have to wait until I get home to hear the whole thing. But it seems to me that leading with an English song may be a sign that she is interested in breaking into the Anglophone music market.

Which would be altogether

lefty12357 · #4 02-12-2010, 08:38 PM

But most of the English songs in the past were either covers she did for TV shows, or poor alternatives to a few of her French songs. This appears to be a song written in English from the ground up. I hope you guys are right that she is doing this in part, to possibly enter Anglophone markets. She might also have done it because it seemed a relevant thing to do considering the subject matter of the album and where the story takes place.

I hope, and I am confident that most of this album will be in French. I think most of us prefer that. But if nothing else, an English song could be seen as acknowledgment of her English speaking fans.