I started dancing when I was 4
And that didn't disappoint me and I wanted to
Teach dancing and open my own dance school
And share dancing with children,
With adults, so I wasn't realy thinking about singing at all.
I started singing when I was 13
And so, my childhood life had more to do with dancing.
My dance school was turned into a school of performing arts,
So I took singing and theatre lessons to take part in mini-musical plays in Ajaccio
And also, singing has more life to it than dance.
Me, I have always listened to Madonna since I was very little,
Because I'm a fan and I admire a lot what she does,
All of Madonna's songs, they remind me of my childhood.
The French have been completely indifferent to me,
But I've always loved Patricia Kaas, since I'm a fan of her voice.
And the Arts Director of «Graines de Stars» came to Ajaccio
To organize a casting like they do in every town in France
And so I signed up for dancing with a friend of mine
Because, that's what I wanted to do
And that friend of mine also signed me up for singing
But without telling me. She only told me about it a few days before
The casting. In general, it's the winner of all the selected that gets to #1,
That can go to Paris to make an audition to be
in the show and I came in 2nd,
but everyone in the «Graines de Stars» team wanted it to be me who
Would audition in Paris. I go to Paris and then I was hooked,
I was taken; I made the first show,
I won the first show and then I made a 2nd.
Her name is Alizée, she comes from Corsica, she chose
«Ma prière» by Axelle Red. Alizée, singer #4
Seeing your daughter sing like that from one day to the next,
Since, well, we weren't used to it; it's true that gives you a great deal of emotion,
of intensity, and a lot of pride as well.
When you arrive like that in the show biz world,
It's surely impressive at the beginning.
I have some friends who live in Paris and had heard about a producer who was looking,
An anonymous producer who was looking for an interpreter
And they convinced me to send some material and since I didn't have any tapes
Where I sang, I never recorded myself at home,
The only thing I could send, where they could hear me sing,
Was the tape of «Graines de Stars», so I sent that tape
To that producer, who I then found out
Was Laurent Boutonnat, and Mylène Farmer
The first day I met Laurent I had no idea who it was,
I didn't know him, but since he presented me the song
He told me it was Mylène who had written the words
And that they would be my producers
And surely then, you don’t realize, you don't believe it much, you say: it's a dream.
I didn't tell my friends I had recorded a single
with Mylène and Laurent and so one day we were in a café where we stayed while I was in the 3rd grade
And then the song played on the radio, in fact the DJ announced
We were going to listen to a 15 year young girl named Alizée
And she's singing «Moi... Lolita», a song written by Mylène Farmer,
So my friends found it strange already, they said:
Well, Alizée, 15 years old, is it you? Isn’t it you?
and I said no, and changed the subject.
And when the song played, of course,
They had the habit of hearing me sing, so they recognized my voice
And I found it strange to listen to myself and if I was happy on one hand,
I was happy and in front of my friends ecstatic of having them throwing themselves in my arms,
While other cried,
And so, sure, I was very happy.
I love to make the clips because each time
Is something different, it’s a different experience
And my favorite moment is when I see the end result,
Because a clip demands a great deal of work.
When I did that clip, I may had been once or twice
In a nightclub. I'm really just starting to go out
Since I'm somehow forced by my friends, because while I'm in Ajaccio they don't want me to stay at home,
So that I see them a little,
So I’m just starting little by little, but I don't dance like I did in my clip, no.
I love the clips because you do things you wouldn't normally do
You don't necessarily do in everyday life
We can say I haven’t met them yet, because
I’m not on stage, so it’ll happen soon.
When I’m on the Internet, and I write on a search engine,
Just write Alizée and you can find dozens of sites
And I find that very touching, because I know a site...
How do you say it... building a site, caring for it,
That takes time and a lot of work,
I find it very touching because they love me very much, terribly.
They are all beautiful in their own way and I thank... I thank
The fans for dedicating so much of their time to me.
That’s something a lot of people say,
You have a day in the week, or a day in a month when you get up,
You say «I’m fed up», I don’t feel like going to work today,
Stuff like that. I made a list of the things
I’m fed up with for the song,
So you have to listen to it to know.
The last time I said I’m fed up, I was in Paris, because of the rain,
Because I’m not used to it,
I always lived under the sun.
I know that... I’m aware that Lolita will be with me forever
And I agreed from the beginning when
they offered me a song, they also warned me:
You know, Lolita will follow you all your life.
But that doesn’t bother me. Quite the opposite,
Because that’s what made me known.
I’m not against nudity in the clips
Or in photographs, as long as it’s not vulgar and it stays natural and pure.
Right now, I’m having dancing lessons because that’s my first passion
Ever since I was very little, and kickboxing
Because I love it as well
But I like football a lot, because ever since I was
very little, It’s strange for a little girl
But I love it a lot, not just since the World Cup
Much earlier. The first match I saw was in Ajaccio
And I mentioned it in a magazine
When I was interviewed in the beginning. So, an A.C. Ajaccio
Leader saw that magazine and to thank me for having mentioned them,
Even if I didn’t do it on purpose, asked me to be A.C.A.’ godmother,
And give the kickoff the following year for the first match,
But didn’t go further than the C.A.
I don’t know them personally,
There’s space for everybody
Because we don’t necessarily have the same kind of music,
The same kind of songs. We don’t dress alike,
So the public has the right to love several people.
It was the concert by Madonna I saw
Last June, since she’s someone I admire since I was very little.
It’s the first time I saw one of her concerts and came so close to her.
Worst musical souvenir? Oh, I don’t know!
It’s anoying to fall on a TV stage,
Missing a step, but so far it hasn’t happened,
Knock on wood.
A favorite clip, it’s one by Mylène,
It’s Désenchantée. For me, it’s a huge success,
a great hit, an dit carries a lot of emotions,
be it when you listen to it, or when you watch Mylène singing it.
I think if I went to a desert island
I’d take with me Robbie Williams’ latest album.
I’d turn myself to dancing like I’ve always dreamed of.
Apart from the artistic business, that would be computer science.
For my birthday, I got a gift I waited for
Ever since I was very little and that I dreamed of
For as long as I’ve been able to talk. I was given a little dog. That’s it.