The wait is over for Alizée fans...

Alizée is back on track !!!

I thought this would be a sad ending just like the way Mandy Moore ended her career. Still, I was hoping that Alizée would return. And now... the wait is over. Fans, you can already stop bracing yourselves. I say this especially to those who have ALREADY read the news. What a late bloomer I am !

The first album was "Gourmandises", the second one "Mes Courants Electriques" and MCE International... and now a third one is in progress ! This IS the moment we have all been waiting for... and then again, I am still waiting for the time Alizée goes online. I have a strong feeling that she - or the producers - is/are coming up with new links and [hopefully] a new outlook to the site. Well... it is going to be worth the wait, I know !

The translation of her comeback message goes like this :

Hello everyone !
Just want to let you know that I am currently in the studio... the new songs are great !
Kisses and I will see you very soon !
I promise...

Alizée 2006-03-31

So she is back. And just like Pink, she made the comeback after quite some time. After having successfully raised Anny-Lee for a year or so, our lil' Tinker Bell is ready to conjure something ! However, in the past, her party consisted of three people - Alizée, Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. Now her party still consists of three people, but Farmer is out of the party, and so is her recording label, Polydor : this time she is recording under Universal Studios... and lyricist Jean Faulques will be taking her place. It also seems that Boutonnat is out too, although nothing much is mentioned about him : Alizée's husband, Jérémy Châtelain, also a recording artiste ; will compose and provide the sheet music.

I went to Wikipedia, thinking about her and I came across these quotes. All of them are from Alizée from the age of sixteen till now (in red) :

I have always been shy.
I'm very fond of my name and it has a story behind it. My parents love windsurfing and chose to call me Alizée after a type of wind of the same name.
(To be more precise, Alizée is the feminine form of "alizé" which translates into "tradewinds". Well of course, I am fond of the name Alizée too... it may be common in France but it isn't common here, and somehow, this gives us material to write, too !)

I am, of course, delighted (on seeing her pictures in French and foreign magazines) but I don't like looking at myself. In fact, I'm very critical about myself.
I like boys to be gentle, kind and loving. But the most important quality for me is fidelity. An unfaithful boy is not a boy for me.
(Same here for all of us.)

I wouldn't like to say (of plans in the near future) because I am very superstitious. So, I hope things will carry on as they are now.
(I'm the total opposite, in a way. I usually don't mention about plans in the future unless I can conceive them in my head. And by the way, I'm not superstitious. I'm more of a religious person.)

My true pleasure in this business is singing before an audience. These are very happy moments. I'm always a little nervous before getting out there, but once I'm on stage I could never stop.
(Now I really wish the audience in my school would give ME a listening ear because I am just like you, Alizée ! I love singing but despite many positive remarks saying that "troisnyx* has a good voice", many turn a deaf ear to me.)

Hypocrisy! That really irritates me. When I'm very naive, I find everybody sympathetic.
I don't want to tell it (the most romantic thing anybody has done to her). It's a secret. It was my ex-boyfriend, the new one will not be happy to hear it!
My weakness is sweets. I love "winegums" in the shape of bears, especially the red ones. It is thanks to my desire for sweets that one of my songs is called "Gourmandises", which is also the title of my first album.
(And by the way, "gourmandises" means "delicacies". I miss gummy bears !!)

I'm very shy and reserved. But I'm also generous and very stubborn. It seems that I always have to be right in everything. I don't like to lie and either way I can't even lie.
I like almost every style of clothing: sports, skirts, Jeans. I like all colours. I especially wear colourful clothes with a clear preference for pink.
(OK - we all thought it was purple. Nevertheless, it is obvious - hey, pink ! Hey, I see a strong connection here... Well.. add the right stuff and it can be put to good use. But misuse it and you would get a colour disaster. Can you imagine, she and Wordsworth wouldn't cross paths : she hates green !)

I talk a lot about nature in my songs because I always think of my land of birth. The island is truly magnificent: one can go to the sea, walk in the mountains and ski on the high mountains.
(Well, if you are wondering... Alizee's hometown is in Ajaccio, Corsica - an island at the south of France... and people say it is magnificent ! So we can really say that people born in Ajaccio are rather fortunate to have sun, sea and sky almost the whole time ! But Ajaccio is also known for its frequent riots, so I guess the grass isn't always green... And oh yes, maybe she could cross paths with Wordsworth.)

I miss the sea (of Ajaccio, her homeland) when I'm in Paris.
In any case, being sexy includes being natural. Anything can be sexy, except vulgarity.
(Which reminds me... I am not Linkin Park. I should stop swearing, especially when I am mad. Here I am, dreaming of going to heaven when all that swearing can actually lead me to hell... I had better start fresh.)

(Regarding whether she believes in fortune) Yes, absolutely, I think I was born under a lucky star.
(Lilly, you're lucky alright ! I tried looking for chances to exalt my potential in music - singing, especially... but the doors have been closed on me three times already. So where do I go from here ? I'm not resolving to reality shows - make it real ! Exalting my potential in reality shows is just like someone who is desperate for a singing career !)

...now that my dream is fulfilled, that I'm singing and I do what I love, I dream of running away and traveling around the world.
A girl only has to be in a miniskirt to be treated like a tease.
(True enough - Alizee was wearing a really short pink dress for the hit vid "J'ai Pas 20 Ans" and the paparazzi caught her in that short dress and treated her like a tease. It is only a dress, pourquoi tristesse, janganlah STRESS !!)

Liking to seduce isn't a sin.
I want to get to know the arena, know the slightest little detail, the least little step, the slightest spotlight, so that I could sing and dance with my eyes closed. And so that from the beginning to the end, the people won't get tired of me.
I sleep (on what she does in-flight). No matter which place I land, I always manage to fall asleep.
(Reminds me of me - again !! As we grow older, sleep seems to be the most important THING in a 24-hour day - the reason being, we lack it. And now I'm suffering from lack of sleep. What will happen to me in a few years' time ? Even some of my relatives who are in university say the same thing !)

Certain magazines who have recently published photos of me accused me of intentionally showing my underwear.
(That's not all : some sites have shown "nude" pictures of her. But when the moi-Alizee.com site was online, we could quote her in one of her interviews, saying "I have NEVER posed nude. Ever. And I do not want to.")

That's absolutely false! So, to keep the bad tongues quiet, at the end of my song "J'ai pas 20 ans," I lifted up my skirt out of provocation. Having said that, I was wearing boxers!
(on defining what she feels of love) I don't just picture passion, even though I know that can destroy. But you have to experience it once in your life.

Well, the only way to get through to her is through e-mail : Lilly [Alizée's nickname] was quoted on the old official site, saying "I do not go on chatrooms : there are a whole bunch of impostors and sweet-talkers out there..."
There is a new movie in the making - Ridley Scott's upcoming movie, "A Good Year" starring Russell Crowe - guess what ? Alizée's hit song "Moi Lolita" is the theme ! Time to really rejoice. We still don't have any idea as to when it's going to be released in Malaysia... but we Alizée fans definitely have something to look for this holiday season !

Well, if you curious people want to know more, Alizée's official site is currently offline - there is always Wikipedia for you to refer.