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 Mylène Farmer - Les Mots [Polydor - 2001]Finally a best of album of the famous french-canadian artist Mylène Farmer. She's a mega star in France since 16 years already but not much have heard about her outside of France.
Well, I know her since the beginning in 1985 and I always loved the music of the so-called "french Madonna".
She has only released 5 real studio-albums so far (1986, 1988, 1991, 1995 and 1999) some live-albums and some remix-CDs. But probably she's best known for her fantastic music videos. Most of them are done like small historic movies, about 15 minutes long and they all contain a heavy amount of violence and sex, of course... she's french... ;-)
I can only recommend everyone to check out her music videos on DVD. Some really great and dark stuff, such as one of her latest videos where she plays a blind woman who enters a church to make her confession and she gets raped by the priest and in the end of the video she lies on the church floor, naked in a pool of blood...But back to her new album. As I said it's a best of album but it also contains a CD with three brand new songs and 5 rare tracks on it that have been almost impossible to find anywhere.
All in all you get three CDs and one DVD containing the latest video "Les Mots". This is the special edition longbox, a box twice the height of a normal album, with a nice fold out and booklet with lots of erotic Mylène Farmer pictures (she always wants to provoke and she did it again!).
There's also a "normal" edition which just contains two CDs but I would really recommend the longbox, although you have to pay about 50 Euros for it. But it's worth it. I've never seen any album looking that good!
The first CD contains songs from her first three albums "Cendres de lune", "Ainsi soit je..." and "L'autre...". The second one gives you the best songs from "Anamorphosée" and "Innamoramento" and it adds one track from the 2000s Rugrats movie soundtrack "L'histoire d'une fée , c'est...".
All absolutely fantastic songs, reflecting all 16 years of Mylène Farmers career.It's not easy to describe her style but most of the time the songs are full of melancholy, pretty sad with lots of minor tunes. I guess every Gothic-Metal band out there trying to make sad music should listen to Mylène Farmer first.
Mainly it's pop-music, some slow tracks, some danceable tracks, lots of electronics, some guitars and always the quite thin but very melancholic and erotic voice of Mylène Farmer on top.
The new track "Les Mots" (meaning "the words", btw) is a duet with Seal. He's singing his lines in english and Mylène is singing in french of course. A pretty sad song again, maybe not her best but still very good.Most of her lyrics are very sophisticated, weird and hard to understand, dealing with extremely dark and sexual themes going to the very bottom of the soul.
Sometimes a slow song like "Ainsi soit je..." reminds me a lot of My Dying Bride. It's very dark and extremely sad and even the slow drum in the background is somewhat similar to MDB. But I'm talking about the atmosphere here, of course you shouldn't expect any metal in her songs. But it's a quite sophisticated form of pop-music in any case!So anyone who's interested in french music or would like to get caught in Mylène Farmer's melancholic universe should really check out this album.
For me it's one of the highlights of this year and I hope she will be back with another studio album soon.  Andreas Oelke
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