Re: Mylene Farmer

[kpd000@colum.edu (Keith DeWeese x422)]

My first encounter with Farmer was in 1992--I was in the Champs Elysees 
Virgin record store trying to find Kate items, as usual, when I saw a 
full-size, cardboard cut-out of Farmer as an advertisement for her album 
L'AUTRE (?).  Her outfit was white and high-collared and a raven was 
perched on her shoulder.  Immediately, I thought of Baudelaire and, of 
course, Poe.  Further, with her bright red hair and pale skin, I knew her 
to be the delight of retro-Decadent-Symbolists--very much like Kate.  I 
asked some patrons of the store if her sound, lyric content, etc., was 
anything like Kate Bush's to which one man answered, " Ha!  She wishes she 
was like Kate Bush!"  Well, anyway, I bought L'AINSI TOIT containing 
"L'Horloge," and, since, have found her to be a good entertainment. 
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