Carla Bruni Sings of 30 Lovers
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France's First Lady and folksy chanteuse, Carla Bruni, has made a Nick Clegg-style confession on her latest album, apparently revealing that she has enjoyed 30 lovers. The album, Comme si de rien n'était (As If Nothing Had Happened), is alarmingly frank. On You Are My Drug, the former model sings about someone "more lethal than heroin from Afghanistan, more dangerous than white Colombian [cocaine]. My guy, I roll him up and smoke him", but it is the lyric "I am a child despite my 40 years and 30 lovers" that has attracted the most attention in the French media.
Bruni, of course, had a number of highly publicised affairs with famous men before she wed Nicolas Sarkozy in February, among them Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Kevin Costner and even Donald Trump. Well, that's four. Ascertaining the names of others could become a popular new parlour game.
While she insists the songs were mostly written before she met the president, in the days when she found monogamy boring, the first single to be released from the album, L’Amoureuse (Woman in Love), is thought to be about her present state of wedded bliss. Discussing the album, which has been described by Le Figaro as the "most eagerly-awaited disc for decades", she says: "Perceptions will not only be musical. Criticism, which is useful, risks being blurred, for good or for bad, by the fact that I am the President's wife."