Translation and subtitles by nelehcem and wolfram0790
Today on Acoustic we receive Alizee with her album named Psychedelices.
Hello Alizee!
Hello! =)
This is your third album, it's the first time you produced an album.
Yes!
We can find back a collaboration with writers, authors and composers we know
like Oxmo Puccino, Daniel Darc, Frederic Lo
of course Daniel Darc and Frederic Lo work always together.
It's like their married in music!
And also Jean Fauque, how did you get in to contact with these people
we will start with Jean Fauque for example.
Well, yes!
He has worked with Ally D, Patricia Kaas, Alain Bashung so all beautiful artists!
Gold!!!
Well Jean Fauque I know from the collaboration with him
when he worked on the former album of Jeremy,
who has produced this album together with me.
I didn't know very well Jean's work before that,
but I decided to work with him.
He wrote a text that sticked to me so well
that I let him work on my entire album,
and I was lucky he was willing to!
He is the link with your former album.
I think he did good work keeping in mind what kind of music I used to make.
And I have grown in music, I was really in for something else,
but also to keep in touch with what I have already done.
Like playing with words and the possible meanings of that,
like my former album and like Mylene Farmer used to do.
Well the next one Oxmo Puccino is known for his real hip hop,
we already had him on stage here.
How did you get to the point for working on this album with him?
Well, that was a very nice first meeting,
it's not something that was asked by the studio,
but really something I wanted to do.
He's more the hip hop type, also rap and hiphop is not really my culture,
not something I used to listen,
But it was him that has the poetry and writing qualities to
give my album some songs that really brake with the former albums
I have met him like this and asked if he wanted to work on my album
and it was a challenge to work with somebody like him,
that has such a different style than me!
And Daniel Darc you went to see him live on the final date of his concert?
Yes, at Plan a concert hall with a mythic past!
I really adored his album, and listened to it a lot at home.
It is a personal side of me that I had never explored
a little bit more obscure.
I have days like everyone else that are a bit less,
I was seduced, he was so touching.
I have met him like this, that's a nice way to meet someone!
Yes.
And after that I was so lucky that he worked on two of my songs,
normally it would only have been one which was a little frustrating,
but he agreed to do two!
The second song where he worked on was lonely list?
That was lonely list yes!
Well done cause that's my preferred song of the album!
Thanks!
How was it that you were able to make an album
so personal without writing the songs yourself?
I myself choose the team that I worked with.
What did you tell them exactly?
Well on the level of the direction I wanted to go out,
showed them what I wanted.
Even if I'm not a musician, I could point them to some references,
the songs and albums I like and don't like,
something that I could see myself doing.
Also in the same time I was open enough to receive critics and other possibilities.
And the team which I worked with has also good advice!
I was just in for it for growing and not totally
change things around what I used to be.
Because even when it resembles me when I was 15 and 18,
I was just in for it for doing some music that fits me,
that I like, but now when I'm 23.
Well, we will go on with discovering this album,
another song is Par les paupieres.
Next we go listen to like we say a souvenir,
it's already 5 years ago,
it's called J'en Ai Marre. =)
So we will discover Alizee's third album
which is called Psychedelices!
Today on Acoustic we invited Alizee,
with this album Psychedelices.
We listened to a song of her second album,
which was a big success called J'en ai marre!
The first big success was Moi Lolita!
Yes!
That was a song that worked very well in France,
also because of this song you had a very impressive career in the world.
If I'm right you sold more than 4.000.000 copies of your first album?
With everything together I sold more than 6 million disks!
The first album more than 1,5 million.
That's more than acceptable!
2,5 million disks of Moi lolita!
You went on a promotion tour to Mexico!
Yes!
That was a couple of months ago,
you have a career that's very impressive,
how did that pass the promotion tour?
It was very surprising,
I wasn't expecting at all to see what I saw there.
I knew it was starting to work out there for me,
that was thanks to the internet,
so the internet doesn't have only bad sides for music!
And I arrived there and I had the impression
the fans already knew me from the beginning,
so for 8 years, and I received a welcoming in the news
I have never had in any other country!
You have a lot of concerts outside France,
you will go on an international tour to Russia, Latin America
where your songs do it well.
I can imagine with the cultural differences that
you must have marked something out of that,
like a special audience or something?
The public reacts very differently on each place
and also on the age level they're not the same.
When I was 15 in France it was a public
that corresponded well with my age!
Yes!
In Germany, where I was alot during that time, like 15 times!
because that was the country after France where my songs did best.
And the public was older than in France,
the majority between 25 and 30 years old!
They created a very hot atmosphere,
we have always the impression in the North it's less,
but that's not true.
In Germany it was more hot than in any other country!
In the hotels I went in Germany,
on television, on the street, they were so happy I was there!
Even in other countries it was great,
but Germany was like a class of it's own!!!
When are going to come to this album (Psychedelices)
it's very 1980's. And it's electro, it's pop,
it's rock we may say, it's pop with everything in it!
There is for sure a very 1980's sound in the album.
Yes.
How did you get to this sound?
I was born in the 80's, grown up with the sound of it,
and I was in for it for using some of the sounds they produced then.
There are good and bad sounds from then,
Daniel Darc allowed me to start of with
the good ones like
Taxi Girl.
Taxi Girl yeah. I didn't loved it that much when I was little,
but I was in for it for doing something like this!
Very well, a very long life for this album,
which is going around the world on a tour now, Psychedelices.
It was this song you just sang after Fifty Sixty.
Thank you so much Alizee!
Thank you very much! =)