History YMMV / JeanMichelJarre

** Most fans agree that Jarre had one after ''Metamorphoses''. It started when he fell out with his publisher, Francis Dreyfus. He tried to get out of his contract, but he still had to deliver three albums, so he churned out ''Sessions 2000'', an electronic jazz improvisation album that saw him in a genre and a way of playing that wasn't his, the mediocre-at-best ''Geometry Of Love'' and finally the more-than-controversial ''Téo & Téa'', most of which he didn't even make himself, but which at least delivered two tracks that work well live. His concerts went from nice to behold but weird to listen to straight to way too obvious miming fests. He eventually got out of it when he took the re-recorded and expanded ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' to live stages from 2007 on.

** Alleged collabs between Jarre and Music/{{Vangelis}} and/or Music/MikeOldfield. They're obvious fakes. Jarre expressed an interest in collaborating with both artists, but came to view Oldfield's style as "too acoustic" (despite being a fan of his work) and has yet to approach Vangelis.

* DorkAge:

* FandomEnragingMisconception: There are several ways to trigger Jarre fans. For example:

** Alleged collabs between Jarre and Music/{{Vangelis}} and/or Music/MikeOldfield. They're obvious fakes. Jarre said he'd love to collab with at least Vangelis on a future ''Electronica'' album, but this hasn't happened yet.

* MisattributedSong: Gershon Kingsley's "Pop Corn" is often attributed to Jean Michel Jarre. Jarre did cover it in 1973 under pseudonym, but he isn't the original artist.

** Also, the common reaction of everyone who got to know Jarre through ''Oxygène'' and ''Equinoxe'' back then when hearing [[NewSoundAlbum any of his later music]].

* VindicatedByHistory: Jarre's signature albums ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' and ''Équinoxe'' received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release, as the contemporary music press was more interested in the developing UK punk scene and thus hostile to most electronic music; one review of ''Équinoxe'' outright called it boring. Today though, both albums are considered electronica classics.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: On ''Electronica 1'', Jarre collaborated with Music/TangerineDream, the number one Berlin School group and one of the most famous German classic electronic music acts ever. It seemed like a collaboration of titans. And it became Music/TangerineDream's last production with Edgar Froese who passed away not much later.

* VindicatedByHistory: Jarre's signature albums ''Oxygène'' and ''Équinoxe'' received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release, as the contemporary music press was more interested in the developing UK punk scene and thus hostile to most electronic music; one review of ''Équinoxe'' outright called it boring. Today though, both albums are considered electronica classics.

* EarWorm: "Fourth Rendez-vous".

* VindicatedByHistory: Jarre's signature album ''Oxygène'' received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release, as the contemporary music press was more interested in the developing UK punk scene and thus hostile to most electronic music. Today it's considered a classic of the genre.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: On ''Electronica 1'', Jarre collaborated with Music/TangerineDream, the number one Berlin School group and one of the most famous German classic electronic music acts ever. It seemed like a collaboration of titans. And it might have become Music/TangerineDream's last production, at least with Edgar Froese who passed away not much later.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It's incredible how many fans Jarre has in the United Kingdom and in Poland (even before 2005's ''Space Of Freedom'' concert).

** In 1996, when ''Oxygène 7-13'' was heavily discussed but far from its release date, it was often referred to as ''Oxygène 2''. 20 years later, along with the release of ''Oxygène 3'', it was actually renamed ''Oxygène 2''.

* CrackIsCheaper: Collecting Jarre releases can become horrendously expensive. Once you have everything that was sold on CD at some point, the next step are the promos, and especially those on vinyl can get costly. Once you're pretty much done with these, you've reached the point when all that's left to buy are the actual rarities. These are both expensive and numerous, but they still contain material that has never been made available on CD (or even on record) in stores.
** It was worse before the release of ''Essentials & Rarities'' and even worse before the CD re-issue of the ''Les granges brûlées'' soundtrack that made pre-''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' material more easily available. Nowadays, you don't have to pay ridiculous prices for one of 117 sold "La Cage"/"Erosmachine" singles anymore to get these two pieces. Of course, it's different when you absolutely have to own that one particular record.

* VindicatedByHistory: Jarre's signature album''Oxygène'' received mostly negative reviews at the time of its release, as the contemporary music press was more interested in the developing UK punk scene and thus hostile to most electronic music. Today it's considered a classic of the genre.

** In a 1997 interview about ''Oxgène 7-13'', when asked which ''Oxygène'' he preferred, Jarre answered, the third one, the one he'll make in another two decades. In 2016, he released ''Oxygène 3''.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Common fan opinion on almost all of Jarre's live releases ever because most of them have been heavily edited, shortened, overdubbed, remixed, even reordered which is the very reason why there are so many bootlegs of Jarre shows. Jarre's first concert to ever find a wide release unshortened was the show in Beijing 2004, and even this only after fans complained and sent masses of mails to the publisher, demanding a full release of the concert. They succeeded—the single DVD ''Live In Beijing'' was replaced by the THX-certified double DVD plus CD ''Jarre In China''.

* MisattributedSong: Gershon Kingsley's "Pop Corn" is often attributed to Jean Michel Jarre. Jarre did cover it in 1973, but he isn't the original artist.

* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Seems not to have happened although "Oxygène 4" can be heard in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''.

* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Seems not to have happened although "Oxygène 4" can be heard in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''.

* GrandTheftAutoEffect: Seems not to have happened although "Oxygène 4" can be heard in ''GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''.

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* TearJerker: "Souvenir Of China", "Oxygène 13", and the live performance of "Ron's Piece" at the Houston concert, completely with a Ronald Reagan speech following the Challenger disaster. In fact, "Ron's Piece" itself.