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Comme si de rien n'était | 
| Artist: Carla Bruni
Label: Dramatico
Category: Music
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1190
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 802987011822
EAN: 0802987011822
ASIN: B001B9ZSO2
Release Date: July 14, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Ma jeunesse | | • | La possibilité d'une île | | • | L'amoureuse | | • | Tu es ma came | | • | Salut marin | | • | Ta tienne | | • | Péché d'envie | | • | You belong to me | | • | Le temps perdu | | • | Déranger les pierres | | • | Je suis une enfant | | • | L'antilope | | • | Notre grand amour est mort | | • | Il vecchio e il bambino |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
She's the real thing September 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
2007's No Promises, made before Carla Bruni became Mrs Sarkozy, was a surprisingly good album considering it's concept. A French-Italian super model setting music to 11 classic poems, including works by the likes of WB Yeats, Emily Dickinson, WH Auden and Dorothy Parker...who wouldn't want to avoid that like the plague?
But here we are, 12 months down the line and Bruni has done it again. Only the one song is in English this time, You Belong To Me, and this proves to be a wise move. The bubbly Je Suis Une Enfant is one highlight, the breathy and sophisticated sound of Le Temps Perdu is another. But in reality there's not really much on the album that you wouldn't want to listen to again and again.
But there is no way that Comme si de rien n'etait can be seen in any other context that being by the wife of the French president, if only to consider the sheer horror of Cherie Blair trying the same after her attempt at a Beatles song in the far east that time. Few will probably care about any political context if we're being honest, unless they are a broadsheet music critic with an agenda, and tackling the album from this perspective does it a disservice. On it's own merits, away from the context of Bruni's very public private life, you can accept it for what it is - another surprisingly good album that will delight and charm you in equal measures.
 cant sing September 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
as "mod" said I like the music and the songs - but Carla tends to be flat and out of tune
 ohhh wow I am in love now! September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am in love with a voice and though I sadly don't understand the words the emotion touches my heart. Carla could be singing about cleaning out the cooker but I doubt it. This is so wonderfully french; stylish, sexy, gorgeous. I'm wandering the narrow streets of Montmartre from the comfort of my sofa and loving every moment. What lovely music. What a singer. My wife now plays this CD more than me. She adores it.
First Lady, First Class September 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Has hardly been off my player since I bought it.
A journalist commenting on her recent UK television appearance with Jools Holland said a beautiful woman in a Chanel trouser suit could recite a telephone directory in French and still sound good. But these lyrics are not from a directory. Sometimes childlike, sometimes mature, they are delivered in a breathy voice that at times can sound diffident, but that only adds to its charm.
I speak reasonable French so can understand most of the lyrics, though I did have to look up "Tu es ma came" (something like "you are my drug") but I think even non-francophones would enjoy this collection's ambience, intimate delivery and pared down accompaniment.
Seductive sophistication August 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Each song is a gem. The voice is low, seductive and disarmingly charming. One can listen to this selection again and again...and again without tiring of it. That Carla Bruni should be France's First Lady only adds to the frisson.
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