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“Moi... Lolita” meaning

Alizée · 2000 · 🇫🇷 France · Level A2

Alizée's 2000 debut: a teenage girl laughs off the "Lolita" label people give her. "It's not my fault!"

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What the song is about

“Moi… Lolita” (me… Lolita) was the debut single of Alizée, a 15-year-old from Corsica, in 2000. Written by Mylène Farmer and Laurent Boutonnat, it's sung by a teenager who knows people look at her and call her a Lolita; she shrugs it off — her name is Lolita, Lo, or Lola, and it's not her fault.

It was a huge hit across Europe and, years later, it found a second life in Latin America and online.

The French is short and catchy. The chorus's “c'est pas ma faute” (it's not my fault) is spoken French — the “ne” is dropped, as it nearly always is in conversation. And you'll meet a lovely idiom: “donner sa langue au chat”, to give up guessing.

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Level A2 · Short lines, a famous refrain

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