18-year old French pop diva Alizée Jacotey is featured here, live on March 3rd, 2003. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Laurette Fugain, a young woman who had died from leukemia in 2002. Alizée was part of a live performance that was for charity work, encouraging people to donate the precious gift of blood & to raise money in the fight against diseases of the blood. The mother of Laurette, Stéphanie Fugain, was in attendance for this show, featured here at 3:57 & at the very end, 4:17
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Alizée has an extraordinary reputation for selflessness. She offers a great deal of her time & energy towards charity work, helping in the fight against hunger as well as raising awareness for blood donations & the fight against blood disorders.
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This was one of only 6 appearances where she wears her unforgettable short skirt dress, knee-high boots, & thigh-high black stockings while performing her smash hit song, J'en Ai Marre. This performance was done en direct live on French HDTV .
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The music is composed by legendary composer Laurent Boutonnat while the lyrics are written by famed French singer & cultural icon, Mylène Farmer.
Alizée's popularity, thanks to spectacular performances such as this, has spread far beyond the borders of the great French Republic. -yt

Vai: I thought the same thing. Most people don't know him though. He's a virtuoso, but not a pop-culture icon for his music (unfortunately). A good example being that I grew up with all of this music, and while I know the name of David Gillmour, even I would have to go look him up to remind myself of his work.

In light of how awesome that was, I feel churlish bringing this up; but what is with Mike Tyson coming back into things these days?

The guy's a convicted rapist. Yes, he served his time and everyone deserves a second chance, but do we really have to embrace him as some kind of pop culture icon?

In an atmosphere where everything from Penny Arcade to Game of Thrones is being labelled as a "trigger warning", why is no-one questioning this? If my facts are wrong, please correct me, but honestly, it seems pretty fucked up to me.

"In the late 90s Scott Hall was as big maybe bigger..." than Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant? No he fucking wasn't. He was a sidekick and he will always be a sidekick. I'd really love it if someone who actually KNOWS shit about wrestling would talk about it rather than this idiot.

Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were cultural icons, people who didn't watch wrestling know about them, just like Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. No one knew about Scott Hall, no one cared about Scott Hall. And smarks would remember him as a completely crappy wrestler.

Crazy to think Koji Kondo just whipped this up for a 25 cent coin op machine back in 1985 and now it's an international cultural icon. Hope he didn't sign away the copyright.

People live together and culture evolves. A major portion of culture is the human expression of emotion and thought through art. Through their performances some artists rise above the rest and take part in defining a genre or a generation. These people become cultural icons or heroes because they have a major impact on how we express ourselves. They create points in history that help define us as a people, through our culture. It's a real impact. It's not delusional. Their music, their art and their value is not delusional. You're logic would mean there would never be a Heracles. Never a Superman.

You completely devalue art. I don't know how you live. Art is just disposable? When one artist dies don't care about it because another one will take his place? Is that just your way of coping with death or are you really so callous?

edit .. well fuck .. you just changed your post a lot .. whatever .. I have to just quote from now on.

^ Yeah, I've often thought what a shame it was that he turned into a nutcase. He is and was a cultural icon, and I would've loved to see his music evolve through the last decade without it being overshadowed by whatever it was that was making him do the cosmetic surgery and all the other insane things.

I watched Ned Kelly last night, it has Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Rush - brilliant film about one of Australia's cultural icons. Good acting all around.

MINK, I agree with you - the security apparatus in the west is so trigger happy right now that it's disgusting. That is a real issue. But someone who would either intentionally or stupidly antagonize them deserves no sympathy. There is no way this girl could not have understood the potential consequences of her actions. This isn't even close to the moonites debacle - that was a public display of a pop culture icon which had been performed in several other cities prior to Boston. This was a random person walking into an airport with a blinking breadboard on her chest. She's lucky she wasn't carried out in a body bag. If anything, it demonstrates at least a minimal level of restraint on the part of certain security officers. And given the wrong place and the wrong time, the right officer would not have been there, as in London.

Carmen Amaya is considered by many to be one of the greatest flamenco dancers who ever lived. During the peak of her career in the 40's and 50's, she was an international cultural icon who combined fury with tenderness—a wild, exotic woman with the fierce pride of Spain and the uncontrolled vagrancy of the Gypsy spirit. Flamenco today is deeply indebted to Carmen Amaya. Through her artistry and virtuosity, she effectively altered the history of flamenco dance forever. She crossed the traditional boundaries of flamenco by teaching herself the fast and furious footwork usually reserved for the male dancer.

It was beautiful. I've gotta go find the entire show. My jaw hit the floor during George Takei's turn (http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=8773). And Betty White was funny too (http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=8688)
But the Shat was pure gold. I have to say, I get some enjoyment seeing his career blossom and to see him get this recognition. It's a rare thing for an actor to see a character they play elevated to a cultural icon -- and not just a character but a character that is identified ONLY with them. Many actors have been Hamlet. Only one can be James T. Kirk. He could never have imagined this in his wildest dreams. It must be extremely gratifying for him. As a long-time Trek lover, I claim a tiny piece of gratification for myself, and my own long personal relationship with Captain Kirk.

The group is from Holland. The video makes numerous references to pop cultural icons. It may take more than one viewing to catch all of them because they fly by so quickly.


The Google Video description for this animated music video reads:

An excursion into 3/4 beats, with a delightful animation video full of little jokes. It also marks the end of Patrick's days with the Party Animals, being replaced by Thijs - the son of well-known Dutch folk artist Bob Fosko.