Post by davidhr on Jan 17, 2023 8:20:15 GMT -5
Pictures surfaced this past week of Lara taking advantage of her commitment-free existence by flying to Rome, and then going to a food market in Sicily. One can see on the board at the airport in Rome that the date is 11 January, so it is current. The pictures can be seen at:
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=135642896014986&set=pcb.135642949348314
Of course, Lara would want to start cooking when in Sicily! Whether she has any other business there other than visiting (primarily her husband’s) family, remains to be seen.
Perhaps associated with this, or perhaps not, is a beautiful picture of Lara and Lou, from the Lara Fabian - L'étoile des anges FB site, at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=651485263648185&set=a.257921906337858
In other news, there’s an article in ‘Charts in France’ with the title, “Madonna, Nirvana, Depeche Mode, Celine Dion... They all hate their hits!” It goes on to detail how each of these stars disdain their first big success. For example, Madonna’s first hit was ‘Holiday’ (1983); about that the article says, “On this subject, Madonna declares that she no longer wants to sing "Holiday" or even "Like a Virgin"... except against a nice check: "I just can't do it. Unless somebody pays me 30 million dollars or something".
And Lara is included in this category. Here’s what it says about her:
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Lara Fabian - "Tout" (1996)
The Canadian-Belgian singer confirmed it a few years ago: she no longer wants to sing her hit "Tout" on stage. “It's my first big success in France. But it's a song with which the connection is more difficult today. I have a little more trouble getting into it”, admitted Lara Fabian. The song, which revealed her to the general French public at the beginning of 1997 a few months before the huge hit "Je t'aime", therefore became a burden for her. Lara Fabian has often returned to the issue of weariness with certain songs: "In principle, I really sing everything with pleasure. I sometimes regret that we don't sing the songs that made an album, we mostly sing the hits. One day, maybe I will do a concert with the songs that I like so much but which are not hits”.
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To that sentiment, one would say ‘Bravo!”. There are so many wonderful songs Lara has produced that never get on her concert setlists – one can think of a number just from the album ‘Le Secret’ alone, and it would be wonderful to hear updated versions of them. However, it’s likely it will never happen, because fans go to the concerts expecting the ‘hits’, and if they’re not delivered, the concert feels incomplete. Lara has seen that when doing concerts for her new albums; the older songs get the most enthusiastic responses (partly because many people haven’t bought the new albums). So one shouldn’t hold one’s breath…
To make this relationship with “Tout” even worse for Lara, as we know, her cook book/memoir when released in France was retitled “Tout”, likely to match that first hit single for the French audience. Lara had to sit and endure a few bars of that song introducing the book on many of the promo TV and radio shows she was on – all with a happy (or at least neutral) face. Good thing they didn’t ask her to sing it!
In that regard, if you want to listen to Lara’s newest songs – and most all of them really - without buying them or searching for them on streaming sites, they can be heard on Lara’s youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/larafabianoff. Almost all the studio and live albums are available under the ‘playlist’ section, except for the latest live release, and the Russian release of Mademoiselle Zhivago. This site is in active use by Lara’s people – it’s been updated in the past few days. Yet it’s not well-publicized. The obvious place to put a link to it would be on her official URL, which is where people might reasonably go to familiarize themselves with her, but that is used (in effect) primarily as a place to link up with concert tickets.
Speaking of streaming sites: Spotify (free) has under ‘Lara Fabian songs’ hundreds of selections, including various rare ones, and those with other singers or from movies. (It too doesn’t have the Russian version of Mademoiselle Zhivago, hence one can’t find ‘Mama moya’ on either of those sites. Fortunately, one can find it on youtube itself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9n1sCfmVRQ) (as well as the music video from the movie), proof that almost everything lives on the web!)
Concerning ourselves with social media sites for a moment more: Lara’s Twitter presence is almost exclusively associated with one of two things: posts by the Lara Fabian Family site; or news associated with Dimash Kudaibergen, the Kazakh singer. Other fan sites might consider using it.
On youtube itself, the Lara Fabian Fan Espana channel, still with only 600 subscribers, has continued its monumental work of putting on Lara videos of all sorts. This has gone on now for the last 8 months, hundreds and hundreds of videos, with 210,000 views in all. The originator of the channel says the only goal is to spread Lara’s work, and encourage her to do a concert in Spain.
Also on youtube, you may have seen Lara The Ring Fabian’s self-promotion video,
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HekWYOJZVc)
noting all the translations she has done (French to English), and asking that Lara consider hiring her, in part to give her greater access to Lara’s work This would make perfect sense – the work Gaby has done is amazing, and of great use to non-French speaking audiences; unfortunately, when it comes to publicity, logic has never seemed to play a role in Lara’s decisions. [No need to replay all the horrendous amateur mistakes Lara and her team have made over the years]. So this is another thing it would probably be a good idea not to hold one’s breath about…
Interesting picture(s)/video(s) of the week: The Lara Fabian America FB site routinely posts a ‘weekend concert’ video of Lara, taken from youtube. We know how well Lara does in live performances, so these are always a real treat. The latest one is from April, 2016, in Bucharest:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-NFWaJUrVw
Much thanks to them for this service!
Lara Fabian The Netherlands FB site routinely posts pictures of Lara, often collections of one sort or another. To which readers of that site respond – with the most amazing gifs and emojis, so very highly creative! Check them out at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianTheNetherlands
Here's additional support for the service that Lara The Ring Fabian does for Lara and her fans: she presented again the beautiful version of Je t’aime from the June 16th Montreal concert,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXsw6PXnMs
Lara The Ring Fabian not only translates Lara’s interviews, she’s been very active in recording concerts from the audience, and making them available for fans worldwide to see. This latter activity might not be fully appreciated by Lara’s people, but it certainly is by Lara’s fans.
As noted earlier, what Lara is actually doing in Italy is not clear, and it may not have any professional implications. Lara has always wanted to release an album in that country, but she’s said that the way the industry is structured there makes it impossible for an artist to have sufficient control of the process. As we know, she’s never even given a full concert in what is one of her 'homes'. Alternatively, maybe there is the thought of doing some book promotion in Italy, as it does feature in various stories and recipes (though it’s written in French). Most likely she’s probably just visiting with family. Stay safe, everybody,
David
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=135642896014986&set=pcb.135642949348314
Of course, Lara would want to start cooking when in Sicily! Whether she has any other business there other than visiting (primarily her husband’s) family, remains to be seen.
Perhaps associated with this, or perhaps not, is a beautiful picture of Lara and Lou, from the Lara Fabian - L'étoile des anges FB site, at
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=651485263648185&set=a.257921906337858
In other news, there’s an article in ‘Charts in France’ with the title, “Madonna, Nirvana, Depeche Mode, Celine Dion... They all hate their hits!” It goes on to detail how each of these stars disdain their first big success. For example, Madonna’s first hit was ‘Holiday’ (1983); about that the article says, “On this subject, Madonna declares that she no longer wants to sing "Holiday" or even "Like a Virgin"... except against a nice check: "I just can't do it. Unless somebody pays me 30 million dollars or something".
And Lara is included in this category. Here’s what it says about her:
-----------------------
Lara Fabian - "Tout" (1996)
The Canadian-Belgian singer confirmed it a few years ago: she no longer wants to sing her hit "Tout" on stage. “It's my first big success in France. But it's a song with which the connection is more difficult today. I have a little more trouble getting into it”, admitted Lara Fabian. The song, which revealed her to the general French public at the beginning of 1997 a few months before the huge hit "Je t'aime", therefore became a burden for her. Lara Fabian has often returned to the issue of weariness with certain songs: "In principle, I really sing everything with pleasure. I sometimes regret that we don't sing the songs that made an album, we mostly sing the hits. One day, maybe I will do a concert with the songs that I like so much but which are not hits”.
--------------------------
To that sentiment, one would say ‘Bravo!”. There are so many wonderful songs Lara has produced that never get on her concert setlists – one can think of a number just from the album ‘Le Secret’ alone, and it would be wonderful to hear updated versions of them. However, it’s likely it will never happen, because fans go to the concerts expecting the ‘hits’, and if they’re not delivered, the concert feels incomplete. Lara has seen that when doing concerts for her new albums; the older songs get the most enthusiastic responses (partly because many people haven’t bought the new albums). So one shouldn’t hold one’s breath…
To make this relationship with “Tout” even worse for Lara, as we know, her cook book/memoir when released in France was retitled “Tout”, likely to match that first hit single for the French audience. Lara had to sit and endure a few bars of that song introducing the book on many of the promo TV and radio shows she was on – all with a happy (or at least neutral) face. Good thing they didn’t ask her to sing it!
In that regard, if you want to listen to Lara’s newest songs – and most all of them really - without buying them or searching for them on streaming sites, they can be heard on Lara’s youtube channel www.youtube.com/user/larafabianoff. Almost all the studio and live albums are available under the ‘playlist’ section, except for the latest live release, and the Russian release of Mademoiselle Zhivago. This site is in active use by Lara’s people – it’s been updated in the past few days. Yet it’s not well-publicized. The obvious place to put a link to it would be on her official URL, which is where people might reasonably go to familiarize themselves with her, but that is used (in effect) primarily as a place to link up with concert tickets.
Speaking of streaming sites: Spotify (free) has under ‘Lara Fabian songs’ hundreds of selections, including various rare ones, and those with other singers or from movies. (It too doesn’t have the Russian version of Mademoiselle Zhivago, hence one can’t find ‘Mama moya’ on either of those sites. Fortunately, one can find it on youtube itself (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9n1sCfmVRQ) (as well as the music video from the movie), proof that almost everything lives on the web!)
Concerning ourselves with social media sites for a moment more: Lara’s Twitter presence is almost exclusively associated with one of two things: posts by the Lara Fabian Family site; or news associated with Dimash Kudaibergen, the Kazakh singer. Other fan sites might consider using it.
On youtube itself, the Lara Fabian Fan Espana channel, still with only 600 subscribers, has continued its monumental work of putting on Lara videos of all sorts. This has gone on now for the last 8 months, hundreds and hundreds of videos, with 210,000 views in all. The originator of the channel says the only goal is to spread Lara’s work, and encourage her to do a concert in Spain.
Also on youtube, you may have seen Lara The Ring Fabian’s self-promotion video,
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HekWYOJZVc)
noting all the translations she has done (French to English), and asking that Lara consider hiring her, in part to give her greater access to Lara’s work This would make perfect sense – the work Gaby has done is amazing, and of great use to non-French speaking audiences; unfortunately, when it comes to publicity, logic has never seemed to play a role in Lara’s decisions. [No need to replay all the horrendous amateur mistakes Lara and her team have made over the years]. So this is another thing it would probably be a good idea not to hold one’s breath about…
Interesting picture(s)/video(s) of the week: The Lara Fabian America FB site routinely posts a ‘weekend concert’ video of Lara, taken from youtube. We know how well Lara does in live performances, so these are always a real treat. The latest one is from April, 2016, in Bucharest:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-NFWaJUrVw
Much thanks to them for this service!
Lara Fabian The Netherlands FB site routinely posts pictures of Lara, often collections of one sort or another. To which readers of that site respond – with the most amazing gifs and emojis, so very highly creative! Check them out at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianTheNetherlands
Here's additional support for the service that Lara The Ring Fabian does for Lara and her fans: she presented again the beautiful version of Je t’aime from the June 16th Montreal concert,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJXsw6PXnMs
Lara The Ring Fabian not only translates Lara’s interviews, she’s been very active in recording concerts from the audience, and making them available for fans worldwide to see. This latter activity might not be fully appreciated by Lara’s people, but it certainly is by Lara’s fans.
As noted earlier, what Lara is actually doing in Italy is not clear, and it may not have any professional implications. Lara has always wanted to release an album in that country, but she’s said that the way the industry is structured there makes it impossible for an artist to have sufficient control of the process. As we know, she’s never even given a full concert in what is one of her 'homes'. Alternatively, maybe there is the thought of doing some book promotion in Italy, as it does feature in various stories and recipes (though it’s written in French). Most likely she’s probably just visiting with family. Stay safe, everybody,
David