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The other singles from this album were J'ai pas vingt ans and À contre-courant. Like J'en ai marre, J'ai pas vingt ans, Youpidou and Amelie Natalie Portman as Alizee lolita M'a Dit also had English versions. The video for J'ai Pas Vingt Ans (I'm Not Twenty) resembles the ambience of a concert with Alizée dancing in the midst of several other dancers.^[11] À Contre-courant, the last single from this album, was shot in an abandoned coal factory.^[11] Unlike the other two singles, there was no English-language rendition of this song.

The single was from her debut album, "Gourmandises" (2000), which translates to "Delicacies" in English.^[12] The album, written by Farmer and composed by Boutonnat, sold over 850,000 copies in France. It went Platinum in just three months. In 2001, the album, most of whose songs featured "risqué lyrics", was launched internationally, and she became the highest-selling female French singer in 2001.^[3][13] The album went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide.^[14] Farmer and Boutonnat kept a tight rein how the album was marketed and controlled the image in which Alizée was portrayed. In the mean time, Alizée gave very few interviews, and even when she did, they did not sexy alizee-lolita lyrics stretch beyond 20 minutes per journalist. Neither did she agree to any photoshoots.^[3]

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