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[petronia]

Mylène Farmer - Peut-être toi: recently I had the brilliant idea of looking up Mylène Farmer PMVs on Youtube - those I haven't seen yet, that is. The first thing I found was a clip she did in 2005 with Production IG and Geneon USA. orz

It's not particularly entertaining, though, compared to gems such as the following:

L'ame-Stram-Gram: real WTFLOL!Japanphilia.
California: I once tried to write BL origfic loosely based on this plot.
Fuck Them All: Mylène Farmer's never acknowledged as a visual-kei j-rock predecessor; neither are Strawberry Switchblade. But they are. AND SHE IS.
QI: French - the NSFW language.
Que mon coeur lache: in which the Son of God kills Michael Jackson, but it's an accident. I think.
Je te rends ton amour: I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.

I could go on like this indefinitely but it's better to stop. XD

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You: it's surprisingly difficult to find Led Zeppelin vids on Youtube, because for every clip of actual LZ there are about 1,320 clips of tribute bands and/or "HAY GUYZ I TAPED MYSELF PLAYING LED ZEP ON MY GEETAR". ...Or maybe not surprising.

I've watched all of The Song Remains The Same - piecemeal, several times over - because T's dad puts the tape in whenever there isn't anything else on TV that's good (at least, more immediately compelling than Led Zep in concert). After a while you feel this surge of sympathy for Aoike Yasuko because yr avg Jimmy Page solo is enough time to AU the band three times over let alone the once. AND IT'S AWESOME. There's no way to be ironic about this stuff, not even when the tambourine comes out.

I figure a lot of you peeps my age or younger have never actually seen the young Robert Plant do the hands on hips hair flippy thing so you owe that to yourself at least. XD

EDIT (so I don't lose the link): Alizée - JBG (James Bond Girl). Noir anime fanvid. Best idea ever, or bestest idea ever?

Comments

[niche.livejournal.com]

i still listen to your mylene farmer old uploads with the baa-ing sheep and sexy lyrics to the great dismay of all those who understand french around me. (y) alsdjhfaldsf the videos, though. i CRY WITH THE LAFF.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which do you remember when I posted this: Alizée - J'en ai marre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeMymsy2s0o)

I need to write an essay about all this, really. XD

You can play a Mylène Farmer PMV drinking game: sip if you see her underwear, gulp if it's black, chug if the panties come off.

[meril.livejournal.com]

What, they still make peculiar fantasy videos in Europe? I swear I haven't watched American videos in ages, except the rap ones (blame work) and I kind of miss that sort of thing. This probably explains why I own two DVDs of Bjork videos.

And re LZ and more particularly Robert Plant, there isn't anything quite like it. :)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Europe in general, but Mylène Farmer (much like Bjork) can always be counted on. *g*

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah, Mylène Farmer. You just gotta love her music videos XD I can't quite remember, but didn't she have one with a Snow White theme too? ALSO, I'D TOTALLY READ THAT BL CALIFORNIA STORY.

"After a while you feel this surge of sympathy for Aoike Yasuko because yr avg Jimmy Page solo is enough time to AU the band three times over let alone the once."

Oh man, that is frighteningly true *dies laughing*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Snow White during the... Russian Revolution, I think. XD That was "Tristana".

Robert Plant has a lot to answer for. ♥

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

L'ame-Stram-Gram seems more wuxia to me; might be the flying with all that floaty silk. The very-obviously-CG tongue thing nearly knocked me off my chair XD

I would totally read your BL as well. Also props to her for inventing our new favourite genre: not so much f/f as me/me...?

I feel stupid, but...who is Aoike Yasuko again?

Thank you for these!

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

I feel stupid, but...who is Aoike Yasuko again?
Never mind, stupid question, the manga was on a shelf literally behind my head just now =_= Sorry for spamming...again, great videos.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

me/me! At first I thought it was just that one album, maybe, and there's something thematic going on poss. involving reincarnation (...), but then I thought about it and no, she's made PMVs with doubles of herself throughout her career.

Actually I haven't linked some of the truly disturbing/NSFW ones. XD; 'Nother post, maybe.

[simside.livejournal.com]

Much love for the Led Zeppelin video. I never would have braved Youtube for that one. I needed to see the Robert Plant hair flip thing though, if only because I can now visualize that as I read From Eroica with Love.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Yeah - before I saw Led Zep in concert I was like, oh haha mangaka, I see what you did there, that was pretty clever. After I watched the tape I was like, "...Whoa." XD