France's First Lady: Her Music Sucks!
Filed under: Anglophilia > Music Minute > Francophilia
Former supermodel and French folk/pop music star Carla Bruni's (France's first lady) latest album drops in the UK on Monday. This is her third album.
Can you imagine the hell an American president would get if he brought a model or pop star into the White House?
Anyway, the British press corps were sent advance copies of the CD and boy did theyhate it!
Let's call it a pretty unanimous thumbs down from the country's most respected media outlets.
Here's a little sampling of what the Brits had to say…
- The Independent newspaper was unimpressed with her music, saying the former supermodel came across as "simpering and weedy". Headlining its two-page review "First lady… of schmaltz", the reviewer said it was "all very pleasant, and unsurprisingly inoffensive… but none of these arrangements, despite perhaps stretching Bruni's personal envelope, exactly breaks new ground."
- The Guardian said the listener may have trouble separating the memory of the stately presidential wife on show in London from the singer expounding on multiple lovers and alluding to cocaine.
(Sidenote: Carla received rave reviews in Britain for her beauty and clothes when she accompanied Prezzie Sarkozy on a state visit in March.)
- The Guardian went on to say, "The hardest part about listening to Carla Bruni's new album is somehow erasing from your memory that woman in the demure, dove-grey Dior coat, flat shoes and little black hat who had us all swooning back in March…When she sings, in 'Je Suis une Enfant', that she remains a little girl 'despite my 40 years, despite my 30 lovers', for instance, that doesn't exactly sound what you might call presidential."
Why aren't any of our first ladies ever that 'interesting'?
[Image by Stephanie Methven via WENN.]
It is sure Arnold Schwarzenegger is much more credible
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More inept reporting from a jealous and insecure man who is a poor excuse for a human being. A cursory reading of the reviews that were quoted (and appropriated from a Yahoo News article) shows that there was no reference to "hating" the album. In fact, had the entire set of quotes from The Guardian been used in an effort to present fair and balanced reporting rather than slanting towards the negative, you would see that they referred to the songs on the album as "for the most part, simple and moving."
La France vous EMMERDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Americains de mon cul même pas foutus de voir plus loin que votre pays pourris au plus profond!
Apprenez aussi choisir vos présidents avant de chier sur notre première dame! 2fois la même erreur… 3 même en pensant qu'avant Bush, il y a eu son père… C'est un peu beaucoup non?
Soit dit en passant : Sa musique est merdique! Si tant est que l'on puisse appeler ça de la musique.
Vous ne comprenez rien à ce que je dis? Ben ce n'est pas étonnant puisque vous n'êtes pas foutus de vous ouvrir!
Allez… A l'arvoyure!
Re: Frenc –
looooooooooool
ENOUGH, ENOUGH…please let's have a day without having to hear / read from her or her ******* ******* husband! i'm French and i'm oh so tired of seeing them in the press. she wasn't such a great model, she is a crap singer and she doesn't look the part of the first lady…so could you pppppppppppplease, i'm begging you, not mention her / him & her? a small initiative in the media world, but such a great change for me!!
shes pretty, she should just not sing lol
she isnt french, shes italian…..at least thats what i heard when i was in france in january.
Re: Sonia – hmmm she moved to france as a child and im pretty sure shes a french citizen, mischa barton was born in london but moved to the usa as a child but shes not refered to as british, is she?
She is ITALIAN not French!!!!!
i love yu perez!
She was Italian but she recently change her nationality she is just French now.
Dude, your current president and leader of the free world (aka The Chimp) brought a hoker into the White House. His name is Jeff Gannon. Whil he was busy "servicing" the White House, Jeff had time to hook on the side too.
To reiterate, Jeff Gannon, a male prostitute, was a frequent INVITED guest at the White House. Any random search on Google would have turned up his real credentials as a hooker.
Your shitty media refused to give it much cover. As we all know, being a REthuglican you get bonus points for being a lying murdering fuckwit.
Google Jeff Gannon - see what I mean.
ok perez…i kinda love reading ur blog everyday yeah everyday… andits ok all the hor gossip and all u say…but u should better make research before u write about someone…im from mexico, and i have traveled around the world…and last 2 years i was in europe…and brunis music was a smash hit…even when i was in barcelona…. sooo shut the eff up…read first u fatty boy
italian hottie !
yes she took the french passport , but she's born in italy, her parents are italian , grown up in italy , she's ITALIAN
only 30?
eh ben, frenc, on dirait que tu connais très peu à l'amérique… on comprends beaucoup plus que tu ne le penses!
mais je suis d'accord, j'avoue que c'est drole de parler français parmi les abrutis dans ce forum (exceptant notre très cher perez!) qui ne parlent meme pas ce qu'on puisse appeler anglais.
yes, her music sucks!
i'm french and i don't like it !!
She's not a 1st lady, she's juste the president's wife! and when we look the president, we have all understood…
(please excuse me, my english is bad!)
I'm french and i dont give a sh*t about sarkozy and his "singer-model" 1st lady. But i think that's saying her music sucks is not fair, the problem is that hearing other countries' songs is unusual for you. So, in spite of the fact that i hate my president, i have to admit that carla bruni has got talent! Sorry, our singers don't act like sheeps by singing like Rihanna and Chris Brown!