She is in everyway like a big star and her career is already international.
It's a huge joy, an honor even, to welcome Alizée to this set.
I am fed up with many things. Alizée, but what temperament!
We have the impression that in this song, it was...
the desire and the unrest to show that...
well, you are twenty years old?
Yes, but not quite twenty years old. I think that I have my character...
...just like everyone else has their character and since the start of my career...
...we’ve shown but the lighter aspects of my personality and like everyone else,
...there are days when I don't feel like it, there are days when I'm fed up.
I'm fed up with the little sister that cries,
two ball extremists, of those who...
Because after all, society is not all roses.
I mean, singing, is it something that,
when someone is young like you, brings you happiness?
Mhm... definitely.
Yes, but for them, life is not always happy.
That’s why we must make the most of every instant.
Singing for me is a passion and I have the chance to live out my passion
and I see singing in a positive light.
Yes, and notably and evidently that meeting.
We will talk about it right away, with Mylène Farmer...
which was the starting point to this nice story.
Yes, definitely. I was lucky to be able to meet Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat...
...and it was like that that they took me under their wing and now they protect me...
and give me guidance. But I'm lucky to be able to continue with them...
...and it's already the second album now, that I've worked with them.
I hope this will continue.
Everything started with a television show.
In fact, I participated, yes, in a television show and...
- In "Graines de Stars" if I'm not mistaken. - In "Graines de Stars", yes.
You are right, aren't you? We didn't make a mistake, right?
Yes, in fact, I had heard about a casting.
I didn't know that it was Mylène and Laurent who were looking for a singer...
...and since I had nothing really to show them in the way of singing,
I sent my tape of "Graines de Stars"...
...and it's with that tape there that they were able to judge me. It was like that.
It's a little girl’s dream we’re talking about.
I know that you like Madonna very much.
Yes, I still like her.
The dream to finally be in the eyes of the public
which you were a part of when you liked Madonna, when you watched the others.
Now, there are others who look up to you in the same way.
Yes, definitely and when we are little, we can't imagine it.
For me, television, when I was little, was something inaccessible.
In addition, me, I live in Corsica so the world of Paris is very, very far away from us.
It's a little inaccessible and now I am there and I know that,
well I appear in the small television of when I was young so it feels a bit strange.
And you say that it's a delight to appear on the small television.
Alizée, "I'm not twenty!", you say.
And what a journey nevertheless! Not yet twenty but already, as we will see shortly,
the images on the big Paris stage. It's happened really, really fast.
Well yeah, it's been three and a half, four years now.
For sure I haven't seen time go by. Everything has been connected since the start...
...and I've been lucky to release my first single and it worked from the beginning, from the start.
You will see some images. They will refresh our memory because it's been a while
but at the same time, it feels practically like yesterday.
Yes, it feels like yesterday but I've done so many things in three and a half years
that even if it's recent, I have the impression that it's been a long time.
And already an actress... Look.
Those were specific memories... that shooting, for instance.
Yes, because that was my first video and as a first video, I acted for the first time
even if I had already taken some acting courses when I was thirteen years old.
I was nervous because I am much too shy to act
but that was nevertheless a good experience. My first steps in front the camera
and I felt a little bad because I had to do many re-takes
because I stuttered a little bit and...
Just as all big actors do too...
Yes, for sure. Although it's not really my thing.
I prefer performing in front of five thousand people and to be singing instead of talking.
Yes. Your first concert, it's also the biggest stage.
Yes, the most meticulous especially because at Olympia, the biggest artists like The Rolling Sones
have performed there, and for sure, when someone is there,
...they feel the energy of all the artists who have been there and in addition,
to be there during seven nights for the first location.
But for me, it's huge because I couldn't believe it.
It didn't seem possible. I thought I was going to faint.
And then at the end of the day, it went really well.
I keep it in my memory and I made the most of every minute of every show...
...as if it were the first and last time that I performed at Olympia.
I am going to make you re-live those magical moments, Alizée.
And you can tell us what you were feeling.
We are about to see you. Surely, the fans are waiting for you. No one has ever seen you on stage.
The curtains are going to open. Where are you at that moment?
I am behind the curtain. I am in my prop and so...
...in my giant shoe. It's my own Eiffel Tower and I am behind it...
...and no one can see me because I am hidden in the cavity and then, I breathe...
...before the few seconds that precede the start of the show.
And when the shoe starts turning, that's when I discover the audience...
...and it's at that moment that my heart beat the fastest.
And finally, it's happiness.
And in addition, it was the first time that I really saw such fans...
...such an audience because it's frustrating to be an artist...
...when we never hear what is going on.
In the room, you don’t really have the same feedback from stage.
We didn't really see the props. It’s only there
So once I saw the shoe turning...
You saw the audience. We are now going to listen to the electric currents,
another extract from this extraordinary concert.
You are going to feel that the public was waiting for you.
Yes, but in fact, even from the moment I first started...
I was receiving letters from fans who absolutely wanted to see me in concert...
but with only one album, I could not hold a concert.
I had to wait until I had many songs before I could hold a concert.
I would like us to watch another song, yet another extract from this extraordinary concert of Olympia.
Clearly it's your favorite song Alizée. And we will see the public.
We have the impression that this is it. This time, they almost got on stage.
We definitely feel, Alizée, evidently this love from the public but at the same time...
...this pressure because since very little, you have been put in the spotlight, in magazines covers, everywhere.
Yes, I think that I'm very well surrounded whether it's by the people...
...with whom I work or by my family.
I am well surrounded and I think that it's because of that that I can manage things...
...and keep my balance. For sure, there is pressure.
For sure, when I am going on stage, I have stage fright.
But I know how to manage it and to sufficiently make the most of things.
We say that love in your life is happiness.
For sure, nothing but happiness.
Happiness to give as well to others.
And people give it to me too. I think that ever since I was very little,
I've had a lucky star watching over me. Let's hope that it lasts...
...and let's hope that it follows me for some time to come.
Certainly. And not against the current.
No!
This song is the final extract from this very good record "Mes Courant Électriques"...
- Thanks. - ...the second one from Alizée.
The time which passes, which separates us. But the current is passing, Alizée.
And I also want to comment about this international career. You are one of the rare singers...
...to pass the barriers to Japan, to the Middle-East, everywhere
and that's also something that’s important.
It's like having found a sort of universal language to talk about love.
Yes, definitely. Especially to be able to sing in French abroad...
...not only to go there but to sing in French because some of my songs were recorded in English...
but foreigners have always preferred the French language so I'm lucky there.
I even had the chance to be able to enter into the Top 10 in England.
And to also make commercials for crackers?
For Japanese biscuits, yes. In fact, before, it was Catherine Deneuve...
...who presented the biscuits so, to follow after her, it's an honor.
Also, I am proud to present France abroad.
That means that there are still dreams for Alizée. So many things have occurred...
...but what is going to happen now still? In the eyes...
...we see that there are small stars that glimmer.
I still have dreams, of course, but many of my dreams have already been fulfilled for my age.
I don't like to talk about the future because I am superstitious
as are all the Corsicans elsewhere and so I'm afraid to talk about and to envision the future...
...for fear of being disappointed. I already live from day-to-day and that's good enough.
Go. The electric current. It passes well between us. Thanks.
Thanks, thanks a lot.
Thank you, Alizée, because it was rare to have you on a television studio.
It's nice of you to invite me and thanks a lot, thanks for everything.
- See you soon! - See you soon!