Reaction Videos and Vlogs

[Alizée-Nederland]

[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Bamagirl

This woman, called Sincerely K.S.O., does a favorable review of Alizée's song, "J'ai pas vingt ans." She has some problems with the translation. She is from Mississauga, Ontario and has 74,000 YouTube subscribers.

I think an important point here is that Mylène Farmer did such a poor job of writing some of Alizée's early songs into English.
You can see that, for Sincerely, K.S.O., the beauty of Alizée's voice and the music isn't enough. She has to understand the story to get full enjoyment.
That is why "I'm fed up," "I'm not twenty" and "Youpidou" (English version) failed at getting Alizée into the US market.

This is very recent, and is looking for help with the translation...I wonder if anyone in this forum could respond to her?

Originally Posted by Bamagirl

Edit:

Originally Posted by Alizée-Nederland

Wow, this is some pretty cool stuff, mainly because it's recent. The guys vlog was from January of this year and the Canadian woman's was from last month. The first one posted by Bamagirl shows how important it was to have good lyrics for her English songs and she didn't.

[Bamagirl]

Originally Posted by Scruffydog777

Wow, this is some pretty cool stuff, mainly because it's recent. The guys vlog was from January of this year and the Canadian woman's was from last month. The first one posted by Bamagirl shows how important it was to have good lyrics for her English songs and she didn't.

I agree. And I think the fact that these vlogs are so recent is really great. It shows people are still talking about her and discovering her.

I think it’s just ridiculous that MF didn’t take the time to get good lyrics composed or at least accurate translations. I know of other French songs with beautiful English lyrics that aren’t anything like the French lyrics. But in the end, both French and English versions sound great.