Mylene Farmer: Classique or dud?

"Désenchantée" most likely is her most impressive track, and reminds me of Blonde Amibition-type Madonna. An explosive dance track of epic proportions - again a memorable video, showing a workers' revolt circa La Commune de Paris - it might be her most instant classic.

Je je suis libertine!
Je suis un catin!

Classic.

^^^^

Those videos really are amazing. I'm kind of curious to see the 3-hour movie they made in the 90's, which seems to inspire reveries on IMDB:

How to summarize this film ? it is simply impossible. Why you should see it ? maybe for the story, very probably for the actors (Giorgio, Catherine...), above all for the universe and the poetry. This is a tale.

TBH, I know MY mostly as the svengali behind Alizee. But she started out exploiting herself. The aforementioned music videos with Laurent Boutonnat are remarkable cinematic period dramas: they could have but cut from Barry Lyndon or Reds were it not for all the fm synth and 80s drum sounds. From my sampling, Momus was right, the goto albums are Ainsi soit je.. and L'Autre.

Boutonnat is still cowriting and directing her videos, this most recent one from her 2008 album is calculated, beautiful, and fun (if a bit racy for work):

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Holy fuck, I just saw the video for "Libertine," and all I can say is "holy fuck."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZPZckwJrPY

WHat is worth seeking out of hers?

There's been another thread recently that had more info, I think.

(I don't know much myself)

I see:

RFI: Mylene Farmer

Pretty spare on info there too.

That's ok. I guess I will let serendipity guide my purchasing...I get the feeling I won't find her stuff around town, though.

I'd definitely recommend trawling thru a bunch of her videos, most of them are on youtube at any one time, many of them are terrific, "Désenchantée", "Je Te Rends Ton Amour", "California", and the 2006 Bercy concert are my favourites. The latter perfectly straddles the dividing line between awesome and super-cheezy. In it Farmer displays this, I don't know, star quality, glamour? something like that, way way beyond what any other contemporary popstar has anyway. She's amazing.

i have also been wondering what else to get. i randomly looked at a few singles of hers a few months ago (libertine, sans contrefacon, pourvu qu'elles soient douces) and like them quite a bit but wasn't sure what else to seek out. will give the above a listen though, thanks!

Mylene is doing a tour of France between September and November 2013. The only tickets left for Paris are 140 Euro but i just got one for Lyon for half that.

New album came out on Monday!

Is it good? I haven't really liked any of her albums since L'Innamoramento.

I tried to pick it up this afternoon but the shop was out of stock so I haven't heard it yet.

I'm a total fanboy but I've really liked her last couple.

She's back with Laurent Boutonna for her new video so that's exciting. Unfortunately, it's blocked in Canada...

Love French pop but I'm unimpressed!

I like the cover of that video collection of hers that showed her face with a tear of blood running down her cheek.

Mylene is doing a tour of France between September and November 2013. The only tickets left for Paris are 140 Euro but i just got one for Lyon for half that.

Eleven months of waiting, getting three hours sleep to catch morning flight to Lyon and an hour and a half's sleep to catch first flight back, queuing for four hours... all totally worth it, as always. Bearing in mind the show had a 40ft projection of Moby's head and an extended cameo from Gary Jules, it was as good as it could possibly have been. New material blends seamlessly with old. She still can't dance, still fake-cries like a pro during Rever and there's still nothing like being in a crowd of 17,000 people singing along to Desenchantee.