Alizée was 16 years old when her hit “Moi… Lolita” was released in 2000. Now aged 40, the singer has not escaped ageist comments.
Alizée unrecognizable at 40? Internet users are struggling
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Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in 2000, Alizée made us dance to her hit “Moi… Lolita”. Twenty-four years later, we still know the words of the song, we remember the clip where she runs away with her little sister to go to a nightclub as if we had seen it yesterday and we still have just as much fun to sway to this hit like when we had… like before. At the time when Alizée became a star, she was only 16 years old. But some seem to have remained stuck in 2000 and are surprised to see her age.
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Alizée victim of ageism
As we told you in this article, the 40-year-old singer had already been judged on her body, with Internet users believing that the one she had as a teenager was better. Let’s get over the fact that commenting on a teenage girl’s body is extremely disturbing, the comment is also extremely ageist. But the pill really doesn’t seem to work and the singer is once again the victim of these nauseating reflections.
On December 15, Pope Francis visited Corsica, Alizée’s native land. For the occasion, several singers including the singer of “Moi… Lolita” performed a Corsican song, “Terra Corsa”, on the square in front of Notre-Dame de l’Assomption cathedral. In a video published by Paris Match, we see Alizée speaking after her performance. “The emotion was present, even during rehearsal, because it is an intense and privileged moment to sing on the square in front of the cathedral in front of the Pope”she said.
Ageist reactions from Internet users
Commenting on the video, some Internet users are surprised to see that Alizée no longer has the same face as 24 years ago. “She has changed”writes one of them who seems to have taken the film “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” at face value. Others do not shy away from any indecency and simply indulge in inappropriate reflections. “She took a lot of money.”mocks an Internet user.
The world will be better off when these kinds of comments disappear from social media. While we wait for the idiots to educate themselves, let’s turn up the volume on Lolita.
