Carla Bruni croons her way to #1, knocks Coldplay off top spot.
Posted by v on July 23, 2008
Carla Bruni Album - Comme si de rien n’etait
Probably the best record ever made by a first lady, better yet probably the only record ever made by a first lady.
The album has generated massive interest because it is the first by the Italian-born former model turned pop star since her whirlwind romance with President Nicolas Sarkozy, whom she married in February less than three months after they met.
The new record, entitled Comme si de rien n’etait (As if nothing had happened) and released under the first lady’s maiden name Carla Bruni, hit the shelves on July 11 in a blaze of publicity.
The SNEP, an industry group that tracks record sales, said that in the week starting July 13 the album knocked Viva la Vida, the latest offering from British band Coldplay, off the top spot in the charts.
Bruni-Sarkozy has said she wrote the lyrics of the new songs partly before she met Sarkozy and partly since they fell in love. This has prompted intense scrutiny of the lyrics by French media obsessed with the presidential love life.
“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.
