France’s First Lady is a Certified Music Idol
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the Italian born model turned pop icon turned First Lady to France, has just released her album last July 11. And according to Reuters, its enjoying a brisk sales, shooting at the top of the charts only on its first week.
Entitled “Comme si de rien n’etait” (As If Nothing Had Happened), the album has been of great interest to the public not only because of Carla Bruni’s stature as a Paris pop star. The public is keen on whatever she’s doing ever since she married the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, last February, three months after a whirlwind courtship.
Carla Bruni is reported to have written the lyrics to some of her songs. Many of this songs are about her love life, which is why the media has become more obsessed with her and her songs.
Excerpts from Reuters:
“You are my drug, more lethal than heroin from Afghanistan and more dangerous than Colombian cocaine,” she sings in one of the songs that caused a minor diplomatic incident between France and Colombia.
In another song, she seems to dismiss criticism from some of her left-wing friends who were bewildered by her romance with the right-leaning Sarkozy.
“It’s not correct, but it’s good nonetheless. Let them curse me and I don’t give a damn. I couldn’t care less, I take all the blame, you need to know, you need to understand, you are my lord, you are my love, you are my orgy,” she sings.
