Gourmandises

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Gourmandises

Studio album by Alizée
Released	November, 2000 (France) March 13, 2001
Recorded	2000
Genre	World, Pop
Length	44:23
Label	Zeitgeist / Polydor
Producer(s)	Laurent Boutonnat and Mylène Farmer
All Music Guide link Daily Princetonian (Positive) link
Alizée chronology
	Gourmandises (2001)	Mes courants électriques (2003)

Gourmandises is the debut album by Alizée, which means "Sweets" in French. It was released in France in January, 2000, followed by an international release on March 13, 2001, though the first single, Moi... Lolita, was released in 2000 itself. The album was the result of a collaboration between Alizée, Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat. The featured single "Moi... Lolita" still holds the record for being the most famous French single released internationally. Thanks to the overtly Lolita marketing of the single, and consequently, this album, it became a huge hit, and Alizée became a national obsession in France.

The single, "Moi... Lolita", generated lot of buzz internationally, and the album was launched internationally to great applause and acclaim, and not to mention great success.

The album, whose songs are about teenage life, doubts, love and her greediness, was a huge success. It went Platinum in record three months, selling more than 300,000 copies in France itself. To date it has sold more than 1.300.000 copies in France, and over 4 million worldwide.

1 Track listing
2 Singles
3 Reviews
- 3.1 Amazon
- 3.2 Daily Princetonian
4 External links

[edit] Track listing

"Moi... Lolita" – 4:16
"Lui ou Toi" – 4:15
"L'Alizé" – 4:15
"J.B.G." – 3:55
"Mon Maquis" – 5:40
"Parler tout bas" – 4:35
"Veni, Vedi, Vici" – 4:20
"Abracadabra" – 4:00
"Gourmandises" – 4:10
"À quoi rêve une jeune fille" – 4:05

[edit] Singles

[edit] Reviews

[edit] Amazon

"...Gourmandises the French word for sweets (or candies) is the appropriate title of French pop princess Alizée's debut album. Like an aniseed ball, the mix of pop tunes and ballads are pleasant and consistent throughout, but at the same time never too adventurous. The French lyrics may sour the album for some but the catchy tunes and lyrics (even though they may mean little to your average Anglophile) highlight the universal language of pop..."