L'amour

~ L’amour, hum hum, j’en veux pas. Je préfère de temps de temps. Je préfère le goût du vent, le goût étrange et doux de la peau de mes amants. Mais l’amour, hum hum, pas vraiment. ~

"L'amour", Carla Bruni

A few weeks ago when I saw the movie (500) Days of Summer, I was delighted with this first lady's voice, who's featured in the soundtrack. I immediately searched for the song and I heard her entire first album (she has one in french, Quelqu'un M'a Dit, and one in english, No Promises) and I was sold. Her sweet and hoarse voice, her honest lyrics, some of them scarily true and descriptive, the relaxing melodies. I have no doubt that her first album, mostly sung in french but also in her native language, italian, is the most delicious one.


So, when I saw that Portuguese magazine Elle featured a report on her, I was overjoyed. The photographs with her husband, french president Nicolas Sarkozy, her classic and elegant looks and "politically chic" in front of Queen Elizabeth II and spanish Princess Letizia, for example, left me smiling and wanting more. What left me even more happy was the news that she's going to participate in Woody Allen's new movie and is going to launch a new album.


I feel proud that women like this one exist. Able to express their love for their sweetheart in public, but also able to go on and follow their dreams, never losing their responsibilites, and always with that chic and feminine factor. Definitely an example.


Sexy: Listening to Carla Bruni while it's raining.
Unsexy: Not being able to block the word "University" from my mind.


102 days to the John Mayer concert.