Alizee

After a few years of absence, the ex-Lolita makes a smashing return. At 23, without denying anything about her past, Alizee finally shows her real personality in "Psychedelices", an album that we aren't finished listening to... By Laurent Fialaix

An incredibly fast return

At the current time, Psychedelices has been released for fifteen days. Until then, I have only had good vibes and I feel pretty relieved. I wanted a disc that resembled me at 23 years old. Until now, I had the opportunity to meet Mylene Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat who have brought and taught me a lot. They have given me everything on a sliver platter; I sustained myself with this for four years. But, while growing up, I wanted to discover other things, to get out and meet other people. I stopped working with them in 2004, and then I had my daughter. Very quickly after her birth, I have started to work on this CD. In fact, I have never stopped making music.

Prestigious colloborations

When I thought about what this disc would become, I went to find authors and composers that I like (Daniel Darc, Bertrand Bergalat, Oxmo Puccino, Jean Fauque...) I believe that they were very surprised by the step I took. They must have thought that I wouldn't listen to them, that I was far from their world. I had to work also with Indochine. Alas, due to time, it didn't happen. With Jeremy [her husband, the father of her daughter, co-author and director of the CD, editor's note.] to work and to live together give great advantages: we understand each other immediately. The big difference between me and him is definitely not bothersome, because Jeremy prefers to produce, work in the studio, and stay in the shadows. To be in front of the cameras, he realized that it wasn't his cup of tea.

In the past

I started when I was 15. Musically, the world that I was working in was not the one that I listened to, but that didn't bother me because those were good songs. Certainly, one can feel a prisoner in a clip as big as Moi, Lolita. Not me. I am very proud of having a song that has moved people so much. That's not an opportunity that everyone can have! I have been criticized, at the time, for being an inaccesible personality. I must say I dealt well with that. I was a little bit nervous from all the things that were being thrown towards me. So, the distancing reassured me. I felt protected. I was able to live peacefully in Ajaccio, at my parent's house. I went to Paris three days of the week, and the rest of the time I was an adolescent like the others.

If you had to do it all over again?

I would do everything the same way. From A to Z. Before the release of the album, there was a lot of talk about a song in which I settled the score with Mylene. This song does not exist anywhere on the album or anywhere else for that matter. Mylene and I split on very good terms. There was neither a war nor a painful divorce. I don't have a score to settle with anybody. To the contrary, I am very grateful.

Alizee a mother

I know that I seem very young. Jeremy too. It has been frequently said that we look like two kids making kids... at the same time I have the impression of living this relationship with my daughter in a very close fashion. I have fun with her! I am a mother, I am living my passion... I am very happy!

Who are you, Alizee?

A young 23 year old girl who has had a lot of luck and continues to have it. A young girl, not a young woman. Definitely, being a mother gives you responsibilities, but its not for all that that I feel good in my shoes!