Melody Nelson

Well... you know...I get "these things" in my head and they have to come out somewhere...

Melody Nelson or more accurately, The History of Melody Nelson
Let's just go straight to Wikipedia on this one...
"Melody Nelson is the fictional subject of a concept album, Histoire de Melody Nelson, by French musician Serge Gainsbourg.

Similar in concept to, if not based on, the infamous Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita, the plot of the album concerns the protagonist's brief relationship with a teenage English girl named Melody Nelson, who he meets when his Rolls-Royce collides with her bicycle. They begin a passionate but short love affair, which ends when Melody dies in a plane crash."

The songs of the album tell a story, not unlike chapters in a book. Is one chapter meant to be greater then any other? or is just part of a story that someone is trying to tell us.

Is Alizée's "Une Enfant du Siecle" about the songs or about a story in songs?

A link to the Histoire de Melody Nelson samples at Amazon.
Was The History of Melody Nelson about any one of Serge Gainsbourg's 7 songs on that album or about the story those 7 songs told.


To anyone who is lucky enough to interview Alizée, this is what I want to hear about.
These thoughts may not be accurate, they may not even be what you want to hear...but perhaps it will make you pause for a moment...

Alizee Nation