"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record"
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The context matters: Paradis isn’t just any singer describing a debut. She was a teenage breakout in late-’80s France, a pop phenomenon shaped quickly by industry machinery, tabloid fascination, and later the high-gloss international ecosystem of fashion and celebrity. “Since I made that first record” compresses all of that into one causal switch: before the record, gravity; after it, perpetual suspension. The subtext is both gratitude and self-protection. She frames fame as a sustained feeling rather than a set of deals, pressures, or compromises. That’s a neat rhetorical dodge, but also a real artist’s shorthand for a career where the first public artifact becomes your origin story forever.
Intent-wise, it’s a way to narrate success as wonder instead of calculation: a charm offensive that preserves her as the amazed girl who made a record, even after the world turned her into a brand.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Paradis, Vanessa. (2026, January 16). It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/
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Paradis, Vanessa. "It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-has-been-extraordinary-wonderful-ive-been-135428/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.




