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La Bruni turns out to be no celeb dilettante but far from formidable
Well, it's more fun than Cherie Blair's memoirs. This infamous album (the title means As If Nothing Happened) by The Artist Nowadays Known as Madame Sarkozy is not the vanity project you might expect. Long before becoming France's first lady, Italian supermodel Bruni released an album, 2003's Quelqu'un Ma Dit, which won rave reviews and even saw her described by one excitable critic as a female Serge Gainsbourg.
Nevertheless, Comme Si De Rien N'Etait is sadly more likely to excite comparisons to a Gallic Norah Jones. Musically, it's a sweet but unexciting melange of acoustic strum, supper-club jazz and flute doodles, and while Bruni's husky, Gauloise-driven whisper is alluring, songs like L'Amoureuse and Je Suis Une Enfant sound like musical shrugs. In the week that we learn that Lembit Opik has been dumped by his Cheeky Girl, maybe this is yet more proof that pop and politics just don't mix...
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Edith Piaf: Live At Carnegie Hall
Francoiz Breut: Francoiz Breut
Anne Pigalle: Everything Could Be So Perfect
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