Posted on 06/11/2008 11:36:15 PM PDT by Cincinna
Le Figaro newspaper was given a sneak preview of Comme si de rien n'était (As if Nothing Happened), her first album since marrying Mr Sarkozy, ahead of its official release on 21 July.
In lyrics playfully mocking her reputation as a man-eater, the Italian former model sings: "I am a child. Despite my forty years. Despite my thirty lovers. A child."
The First Lady, who has dated in the past Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Donald Trump and Kevin Costner, once infamously claimed to find monogamy "boring".
Among the 14 tracks is a song called Ma Came (My Junk) – equating her intense love to a class A drug. Written two years ago, before she met Mr Sarkozy, it is nevertheless dedicated to her husband.
"You are my junk. More deadly than Afghan heroin. More dangerous than Colombian white (powder)," she sings, adding: "My guy, I roll him up and smoke him."
The first single to be released from the album will be called L'Amoureuse (Woman in Love), although it is unclear whether this refers to her whirlwind romance with Mr Sarkozy, which began last November before they were married on February 2.
It also includes the song Péché d'Envie (Sinned by Desire), co-written with philosopher Raphael Enthoven, the father of her son.
The only cover is of the ballad You Belong To Me, which contains clear references to exotic places she and the French President visited last year, notably the Pyramids, where they were photographed strolling hand in hand.
The former model's first album Quelqu'un M'a Dit (Someone Told Me) released in 2002 was a hit with 1.2 million copies sold in France and 800,000 abroad.
But No Promises – her second album released early last year featuring English poems set to music – was less successful with only 80,000 copies sold worldwide.
In a flattering review, Le Figaro – which dubbed the album "the most awaited recording in France for decades" - said the new work successfully merged the "magic" of her first songs with the "artistic integrity" of the less accessible second album. She has toned down the folk style in favour of the "chanson française" and the "flamboyant sixties", it wrote. "In a word, it's less America, more France, more Beatles."
Above all, the album underlines Mrs Bruni's desire to maintain her independence despite her official position. "Let them curse me and damn me. I don't give a damn," she sings.
But despite her devil-may-care approach, the 40-year old said she was worried about how the public and critics would react.
In an interview with VSD magazine, she said: "(People's) perception will not just be musical. The critics ... risk getting mixed up because of the fact that I'm the President's wife ... I'm aware of that," she said.
Judging by a poll published last weekend, she need not worry about how the French perceive her as a first lady: 64 per cent think she is doing a good job. Her husband's lastet approval ratings suggest he is finally clawing his way from a 30 per cent low point to the low 40s, thanks to his renewed focus on economic reforms and a lower-key style that observers say is in large part down to his wife.
Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy revealed last week in a book that she fell in love with the President for his good looks and his "five or six brains," saying her attraction to the President at a "blind date" was "immediate".
"I didn't expect someone so funny and so alive," she told the authors of La Véritable Histoire de Carla et Nicolas. "I was seduced by his looks, his charm and his intelligence. He has five or six remarkably fertile brains."
In her interview with VSD, she showed she was no intellectual pushover by quoting Nietzsche, who said: "Without music, life would be a mistake."
OOh La La!
Let's see what happens when the Sarkozys are visited by George W. Bush in Paris on Friday and Saturday.
....... and Carlita isn't even French, she is Italian!
What a flake! Just letting it all hang out! This is her “I gotta be me” moment in the sun.
I'll bring the Coppertone!
I'll bring my little dog, too!
I like that old Coppertone advertisement!
Cheers!
yitbos
"Carla est le violet personnes mangeur."
Somehow I never pictured someone like her all those years ago when Sheb Woolley sang the song. LOL!
BTW, welcome back. :’)
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