Unstressed » carla bruni http://linebreak.org/blog A weblog from the editors of Linebreak Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:16:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Le mixtape est mort! Vive le mixtape! http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/01/22/le-mixtape-est-mort-vive-le-mixtape/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/01/22/le-mixtape-est-mort-vive-le-mixtape/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:50:53 +0000 Jennifer http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=595 I’ve been a fan of Carla Bruni since a classmate at UMass-Amherst put a few tracks of hers on a mixtape– fine, fine, it was a mix-CD.  If Mme. Bruni’s name sounds oddly familiar, that’s probably because she’s the first lady of France as well as an international pop-star/former model.  That’s got to be one hell of a resume.

Before you wonder where the poetry is in all of this, the lyrics on her 2007 album “No Promises” are credited to the venerable W.B. Yeats, Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare,W.H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, and Emily Dickinson.

Does it always work?

Well, what do you think?  The chosen texts are undeniably rhythmic, if not inherently musical.  Bruni’s voice itself has all the fidelity of an old record (which is actually quite cool, considering how clear and worked so many songs come off these days), and part of the allure of the whole collection is that someone visible on the international/political stage has written a sloppy love letter to verse.  In any case, it was a cool find.  Hope you enjoy it.

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