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Comme Si de Rien N'Etait
by Carla Bruni
from Downtown

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Dull...
  I was curious to hear this CD given Bruni's notoriety over the years. Overall it's a dull outing. The production is virtually identical from song to song, with Bruni's average voice (sounds like a French Dido) mixed far forward with almost no reverb in every song. And there's nary a backing vocal or harmony track anywhere on this CD. Just the same presentation song after song. Was the producer asleep?
  And the writing? Well the first tune, "Ma Jeunesse", grabbed me until I realized it's a virtual carbon... more info

• good come-back
  carla bruni said in a recent interview that she hopes people will love her music; but if they don't listen to her because she's the first lady of France, she will also understand.
  This album is in my opinion, less straight forward than her previous two. Carla experiments with more instrumentations and new sounds. There is a good variation of tunes and some of them take time to really delve into. My favorite is still her first album- simple, unpretentious. This one feels a bit hurried and unpolished.

• Does not disappoint
  Nice overall record. Even though I don't speak the language, Carla Bruni is just so much more in French to me. "No Promises" fell short of my expectations because most of the songs were in English. This one is good, though nothing compares to the sexiness of "Quelu' un m'adit".

• Good stuff
  This album doesn't live up to Carla's previous ones, and though I certainly preferred Quelqu'un M'a Dit, this is a pretty good listen. Her voice is deep and sultry, as always, and at least three of the songs will stay in your head and keep you humming after you're finished listening. A pretty good buy.

Tracks:

1. Ma Jeunesse
2. La Possibilité d'Une Île - Carla Bruni, Houellebecq, Michel
3. L' Amoureuse
4. Tu Es Ma Came
5. Salut Marin
6. Ta Tienne
7. Péché d'Envie
8. You Belong to Me - Carla Bruni, King, Pee Wee
9. Le Temps Perdu
10. Déranger Les Pierres - Carla Bruni, Clerc, Julien
11. Je Suis une Enfant (Sur Les Motifs du Lied Robert Schumann)
12. L' Antilope
13. Notre Grand Amour Est Mort
14. Il Vecchio E il Bambino - Carla Bruni, Guccini, Francesco

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