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Originally Posted by Aragorn97
What I can't explain is how "5" was a flop. The songs are beautiful and accessible and she looked great. It is not the album that will stuck in your mind but it is above the average in my opinion. Is it always because of her management?
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I am going to combine my answer to this question and also a response to something that Scruffy said into a merged post since they are related.
The "5" album was good and I enjoy it. Because many of the songs are of a highly personal nature, I often have a hard time listening to it because it just makes me mad because of the things Alizee had to go through. I do like Boxing Club a lot.
Even if Alizee had the best management in the world, would it have made a difference for 5? Maybe a little bit. Who was her target audience? Her fan base only or did she want to expand beyond that? The album might have given a portion of her fan base what they wanted, but by the poor sales number, it showed it missed the mark on the remainder of her fan base and also on pulling in new fans.
Alizee has one thing working against her when it comes to her singing - she's French and sings in French. Unless your name is Mylene Farmer, it is very hard to make it big in France as a French musical artist.
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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777
I wanted to add one more sentiment. When Psych came out the people mainly of France who are so important to her success, were wondering what they were going to get with Alizee and I think they were deeply disappointed. They then felt all of her success was due to MF/LB. To prove them wrong, she had to come out with something way over the top good and she hasn't done that yet as far as an album.
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I've wondered if it would make any difference at all what kind of album she would have released in 2007? What was their expectation of success? The French seem to be really fickle about their home-grown artists. I've followed Lorie Pester, one of my favorite Les Enfoires singers, and she is continually promoting herself on FaceBook and other social media. She wrote a book. She supports good causes. She makes appearances at events often. Yet, she will always be a French musical artist with mediocre success.
I researched the concert history at the Olympia concert venue in Paris for 2007 at concertarchives.org. It's one of the big ones. I chose 2007 because that is when Psych was released.
Here is the list of the concerts for that year (I am assuming nothing is missing but might be wrong).
It is dominated by US/UK acts. There is not one French artist on there.
Unfortunately Alizee missed the mark appealing to her home country but it is not entirely her fault. Times were changing and I'm not totally convinced that a third album with Mylene would have saved her singing career. Mylene could not prop up Julia's career even with all those videos. It's like France moved on, and Alizee disappearing for two years did not help things either.