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Rating: When my mother starts criticizing (increasingly rarely now, poor woman) my multiple work activities related to music—which bring me so much joy but, in fact, very little funds to survive—she always says: "Couldn't you have been a DJ at raves, at least you’d make some good money?". Every time she puts me in a crisis, yes, because I tell myself she’s right and that if I could go back to my eighteen years, I would seriously consider it.
It is with great envy, therefore, that I follow the evolution of this small, great woman, the tenacious Miss Kittin, renowned French DJ who forcefully entered the Olympus of world djing. Caroline Hervé, alias Miss Kittin, is the 31-year-old queen of the nights at the best raves and clubs in Europe. A former art student, in the mid-'90s she began performing as a full-time DJ, and the meeting with Michel Amato, alias The Hacker, did the rest, bringing her to great international success and excellent collaborations with top people like Felix Da Housecat, Detroit Grand Pubhas, Sven Vath, and Golden Boy. Thus, we are facing a major entity in international club culture. Among the progenitors of what has been defined as electroclash (the '80s revisited in a techno-d'n'b key), her unmistakable style has contaminated a plethora of emerging emulators worldwide, yet she, a seductive witch in soft-fetish sauce, remains the absolute Queen.
But Miss Kittin is not just a fantastic assembler of rhythms and sound; she also has a very pronounced musical conscience and has decided to give us a record that proves it. Freshly printed in stores is ICom, her first solo album where she leaves the DJ decks for an hour to don the guise of a subversive and rocking electro-punk. The Miss justifies this drift: "I grew up in a family that listened to everything, from Supertramp to Miles Davis, from Genesis to Vivaldi, from Pink Floyd to Maria Callas. For two years, my parents even tried to make me study the piano. But I preferred dance. My adolescence was crossed by electronic music and new wave. In ten years, I have absorbed all the sounds around me. And this is the result." This is the reason for my envy! I also had parents like this; I also preferred dance to the piano; I also absorbed all the sounds around me. The difference is that she was cleverer than me, darn it!
Full of verve and emotion, class and savoir vivre, ICom is supported by her unmistakable voice, slightly affected, and her unique personality. In fact, it starts with the track, as well as the first single, that already says it all with the title, Professional Distortion. In this track Miss Kittin, amidst electronically modified guitars and captivating d'n'b, declares: "I have to sing, I have to tease, I have to kiss so many cheeks, I got the fave, I got the tricks, I have to put guest on the list…".
Everyone is invited to the party then, to the rhythm of these trippy songs, brimming with the best electro and refined rock-pop perspectives. Ballerina and feline in Meet Sue Be She, whispered and seductive in I Come.com, emotional and soft in Happy Violentine, cleverly retro in the new wave of Kiss Factory and Sountrack For Now, crystalline and lyrical on Dub About Me, elegantly persuasive in Clone Me, ambiguously panther-like and sensual in 3eme Sexe… Miss Kittin will know how to fascinate you relentlessly: a splendid "bad girl," all to be discovered... in a figurative sense, of course!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Professional Distortion (03:43)
It's so stupid
[ok before I start anything I have to say
I have to say that I am undercover
and I am not to appear anywhere ok
It's between you and me]
I have to smile
I have to show
I have to be nice all the time
I have to say hello baby
I have to wake up everyday
I have to write
I have to shout
I have to play records all night
I am in a loop
I am the loop
I have to make up dress up show up
I have to smile
I have to show
I have be nice all the time
I have to say hello baby
I have to wake up everyday
[yo]
I have to write
I have shout
I have to play records all night
I am in a loop
I am the loop
I have to make up dress up show up
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
I have to sing
I have to tease
I have to kiss so many cheeks
I got the flav
i got the tricks
i gave to put guest on the list
I have no right to complain
I have to pretend to pretend
I have to shine
I have to sign
I have to never trust you blind
smile show write shout sing tease shine sign
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
profession profession profession distortion
04 Meet Sue Be She (04:04)
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Look at this driver
Sue in a Rover
Tyres on fire
She is a manager
If you want me call her
I am on the roaster
Here is her number
She is my manager
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
Look at this driver
Sue in a Rover
Tyres on Fire
She is my manager
If you want me call her
I am on the roaster
Here is her number
She is my manager
Meet. Sue. Be. She.
She. Sue. Zoo. Key.
Be. Aime. Double. Double.
You. 1. 2. 3!
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
Autos y zure, ne! Zure u auto, ja!
Autos y zure, ne! Zure u auto, ja!
Autos y zure, ne! Zure u auto, ja!
Autos y zure, ne ne ne ne!
Zure u auto, ja ja ja ja!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Cars & girls NO girls in a car!
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You 1,2,3
Meet Sue Be She Sue Zoo Key
Be Aime Double You XYZ
05 Kiss Factory (04:38)
No kiss... no kiss... no kiss...
No kiss around the clock
Only French ones left in stock
You an oyster the world is not
New kiss factory on the block
2 kisses for the price of one
The delivery service has gone
You ask for more you ask for more
Big orders only at the door
You say you can’t forget about me
Find me at the kiss factory
Open when the boss says so
Pay the bill and let me go
Watching ourselves from above
We know how to rock and fall
Let the record spin
And click on the lip machine
Famous minute number 15
15 famous minutes kissing
Last second minute 15
15 famous kisses missing
You say you can’t forget about me
Find me at the kiss factory
Open when the boss says so
Pay the bill and let me go
You say you can’t
You say you can’t
Dial anti-hero line
You only can you only can pay me in kind
Dial anti-hero line
Asking are you really of my kind
You say you can’t forget about me
Find me at the kiss factory
Open when the boss says so
Pay the bill and let me go
06 Allergic (05:26)
Batteries exhausted but emotionally charged
The whole world can hear me as I think too loud
Unlucky gambling unlucky in love
Time to remote my velvet glove
Allergic. Allergic
I meditate in public day and night
As my positive thinking is on strike
Ego scratched under the sole of my sneaker
Feel like falling asleep with my head in the speaker
I'm allergic to myself
I'm allergic to myself
I'm allergic to myself
I'm allergic to myself
This is a free train station philosophy
Pain and compassion are on sale lately
It's OK to say it's all wrong
I got my 1st class one way ticket to the dawn
I'm allergic to myself(8x)
[cough]
allergic
[cough]
allergic
[cough, cough cough cough]
Allergic
I'm allergic to myself(4x)
08 Dub About Me (07:10)
I don't know what you want
I don't know what you need
Heaven and love
Know the answer
And baby what about me
And baby what about me
[repeat]
But babe, do u really want
do u really want to see me cry
do u really want to see me cry...baby
09 Clone Me (04:07)
Clone me maybe
Anyway it won’t be me
If my minds you can connect
With myself I will debate
Call me Double-Triple
Copies now are legal
Look at me myself and I
My world is mine so multiply
See me in a chain reaction
Caro's new world domination
I'll never be left alone
As the mother of my own
Here me I am talking to ourselves
Everybody knows my name
Hello Kittin you came to play
Hello Kittin you look strange today
Clone me maybe
Anyway it won’t be me
If my minds you can connect
With myself I will debate
Call me Double-Triple
Copies now are legal
Look at me myself and I
My world is mine so multiply
10 3ème Sexe (05:00)
Dans la rue des tenues charmantes
maquillé comme mon fiancé
garcon fille l'allure stupéfiante
cheveux longs cheveux blonds colorés
Toute nue dans une boite en fer
Il est bel il est beau décrié
L'outrage mais j'en ai rien a faire
J'ai pas envie de la voir nue
J'ai pas envie de la voir nu
Et j'aime cette fille aux cheveux longs
Et ce garcon qui pourrait dire non
Et on se prend la main
Et on se prend la main
une fille au masculin
un garcon au feminin
Des visages dans des cheveux d'or
Qui oublient leur vertue
Mais c'est pas vrai qu'ils ont l'air d'un conquistador
assexués une fois devetus
Quoi croire quand on les voit comme ca
Exicitant toutes les petites filles
pourquoi on y croit plus comme ca
Isolé dans un corps presqu'il
Et on se prend la main
Et on se prend la main
une fille au masculin
un garcon au feminin
Des robes longues pour tous les garcons
Habillés comme ma fiancée
Pour des filles sans contrefacon
Maquillées comme mon fiancé
Le grand choc pour les plus vicieux
C'est bientot la chasse aux sorcières
Ambigüe jusqu'au fond des yeux
Le retour de Jupiter
12 Neukölln 2 (05:36)
Fenster, b'ume tiefe nacht
U-Bahn, ufer, lebens kraft
Von raum und Zeit
Das ist Neukölln 2
Das ist Neukölln 2
I know where you live
I know your at home
I can feel
I can smell you
I have every information of you
This is a real game
And there are only two persons
You and me
This is the game
I don't have a name
I'm something like invisible
A stalker
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