base talk Mylene Farmer should have kept Moi...Lolita, Alizee wasn't deserving of such a smash

[Antisocialites]

this classic

 

I remember my French teacher showing this song to our class when we were like 14-15 and we had to analyze it and translate it to Spanish and we didn't understand sh*t because we got lost in the metaphors. she kept saying if we ever got back to it one day we'd get what the song was about  

[NumbSoul]

1 hour ago, Sailor Moon said:

 

You know those songs that you hear on the radio as a kid and love them, but as you grow up you either cannot find them or you completely forget about them? I've been a Moi Lolita stan for years, but this song... Girl, you just unlocked something in me! I used to ****ing get my life to this song when I was young and I haven't heard it in years  omg omg omg thank you for posting this and reminding me of this masterpiece!!  

[Technicolor]

Nah. This song was meant for Alizée. Mylène has many classics herself so not a big loss

[Alongoria13]

10 minutes ago, playboi said:

None of Alizée's songs could've worked for Mylene they were clearly written for a young pretty ditzy girl

 

Fun fact: She tried to have another Alizée a couple years ago and flopped terribly, her entire catalogue sounds extremely DATED and some of her songs are sooo painfully trying to give I'm still in touch with gen Z slang, a mess.  

 

 

That one is a bop ngl

[bestfiction]

The song is very Mylene but I don't think it would've been able to smash outside of France and Belgium had she kept it for herself. I have a theory that Mylene considered retiring so she tried to make Alizee some sort of a protege anyway

Edited November 8 by bestfiction

[bestfiction]

2 hours ago, IBeMe said:

 

She apparently didnt like that Mylene and Laurent were controlling every aspect of her artistry...she also wanted to settle down with her puppy love boyfriend and lost ambition and Mylene and Laurent wanted to work her like a work horse because they literally envisoned her being the second coming of Mylene but more cutesy etc but she didnt have the ambition. I think she split from them and soon after that got pregnant if im not mistaken. It's kinda a shame that they didnt land on a girl who was crazy hungyry for success and as driven as Mylene was when she was young. They kinda wasted time, money and amazing tracks on an artist who just didnt want it at the end. Tho I do respect Alizee for taking a stand for herself nad knowing what she wants even tho it cost her her career and relevancy 

She did drop several albums with one curious venture into synthpop but she has ultimately lost her momentum

 

 

[gm4567]

Imagine mylenes 40 year old ass singing moi lolita lmao

 

Alizee was the perfect popstar in her first 2 eras, the fact that that she fumbled it afterwards wont change that.

 

They made magic with moi lolita tho, 24 years later and im still hooked. Alizees soft vocals, the production and video... nostalgia for a time when europe was happy and dancing.

[Kakihara]

[Ger]

1 hour ago, unclefloprry said:

In latinamerica we know Alizee we don't know the other so... no 

This is true, though, I am still surprised how Alizée broke through here when we are barely exposed to french artists.

[John Slayne]

the song and Alizee's delivery are so Mylene that you can barely hear any difference between the original and the AI Mylene demo lol

 

i don't think it would've been as big of a hit had Mylene sung it though, Alizee was young and new and it just made more sense for her. that's why Mylene gave her the song. i don't think i have seen any other pop star mentor and literally 'create' their successor in such a direct and literal way, Mylene is really legendaric and one of a kind

[getinthezone]

2 hours ago, Sailor Moon said:

they don't make pop stars like this anymore ...

 

shes so pretty tbh

 

Mylene wouldnt have made it a huge hit all over europe

[BnPac]

Hmm no, the song is about a young girl, she wrote with Alizée in mind (or at least someone like her), it actually made her even more of a legend when she and her co-writer succeeded in making Alizée such a star right off the bat and which such a song. 

[Bocanada]

It would've been weird regarding the lyrics, and she had already explored this topic with Libertine. Alizée has a nice voice and charisma, that's why the song was so successful too but at the end, C'est une belle journée was a better choice for Mylène. 

Edited November 8 by Bocanada

[John Slayne]

double post

Edited November 8 by John Slayne

[Imagine Dragon]

I just went through a rabbit hole about her, and how can she go from serving this

 

 

to this? 

 

 

 

[Sailor Moon]

1 hour ago, NumbSoul said:

You know those songs that you hear on the radio as a kid and love them, but as you grow up you either cannot find them or you completely forget about them? I've been a Moi Lolita stan for years, but this song... Girl, you just unlocked something in me! I used to ****ing get my life to this song when I was young and I haven't heard it in years  omg omg omg thank you for posting this and reminding me of this masterpiece!!  

you're welcome! i've been bopping to it for a few months now. a euro-smash! 

 

lemme add this gem too:

 

[popmusicisdead]

maybe if the title was Moi.... Brigitte Macron 

[BrokenMachine]

28 minutes ago, Imagine Dragon said:

I just went through a rabbit hole about her, and how can she go from serving this

 

 

to this? 

 

 

 

It's kinda the path of any child star tho 

 

Seems like she didn't like fame (and stalkers) that much, so nowadays she does... whatever

[BrokenMachine]

2 hours ago, unclefloprry said:

In latinamerica we know Alizee we don't know the other so... no 

That's because we turned her into a meme tho. She was mostly known as the 'pescadito' girl 

[LOTF]

2 hours ago, BrokenMachine said:

That's because we turned her into a meme tho. She was mostly known as the 'pescadito' girl 

But she was huge in LATAM before that meme anyway 🤣