Drop the Une

Une Enfant du Siecle has been on my mind. Today La Roux went on a little Twitter rant and so why not me...


Une Enfant du Siecle WAS something different. You can not accuse Alizée of not trying something new, not trying to give us a different sound. There is nothing wrong with this, as a matter of fact it should be admired.

Let's take a look at this from another angle. Les Collines has over 1 million YouTube views. Hold that thought.

Remember prior to the release we were getting the album tracks along with who wrote what and who produced what... Now when I hear things like the album has not been as successful as we liked the only name I hear is Alizée. Please don't take that the wrong way, and Alizée would NEVER say anything like that. (One of the most stand up people I have seen)

So let's talk about Les Collines. It is performed by Chateau Marmont. A quick glance of YouTube Chateau Marmont songs I see Beagle has 34,000 views, now a million plus have listened to them, up 966,000.

I read 30,000 albums of UEDS were sold. Take that entire collaboration of writers, producers, etc... and eliminate Alizée from it for right now and could you say that may have been their most successful venture to date?

From that perspective things seem more positive. It was different, it was a chance, it was working with new people and it all depends on how you look at things.

I would really like to see something more attempted by this group, but... it's been a while now and longer it is the less likely something would happen.

So what's with the Drop the Une? It's my "The Social Network" tweak for success. In the movie, Sean Parker who co-founded Napster and was played by Justin Timberlake, advises Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin during their first dinner meeting to drop the word “the” in the company’s name and web address, as in The Facebook and TheFaceBook.com.

Drop the Une... and have Enfant du Siecle :)
Now who is going to run out there and register www.enfantdusiecle.com first?
Oh yeah, I checked, it's available and I decided not to do it first :)
Alizée already has www.uneenfantdusiecle.com
:)

Alizee Nation