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Tuesday June 17, 2008 at 09:00 AM |
If you've ever wondered if America is a prude nation, wonder no more. Why? Ask yourself this: can you imagine Laura Bush composing a song in which she sings about having 30 lovers? Or perhaps Nancy Regan releasing a track in which she compares someone's lethal love to Afghan heroin? Of course not. But in France, well, that just happened.
First Lady and mega-babe, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is releasing an album in which she sings about love and sex, namely, the two instances mentioned above. Of course, singing about sex and drugs is nothing exceptional when it comes to pop music, but the fact that the first lady of a major nation is doing it is somewhat noteworthy. Can you even begin to fathom what would happen in this country (America, for our foreign users) if something like this were to happen. If the record even managed to get released there's probably be a Congressional hearing and establishment of a panel of moral decency.
Well, it seems that once again our Continental brothers and sisters have shown themselves to be a bit more on the liberal/forgiving/artistic side than we New Worlders. Interestingly, nobody has mentioned anything about the album being good or not. For all the hype, the disc could be full of garbage tunes, after all. And I think when you look at the track record, French pop music pales in comparison to American pop music. We may not have a singing First Lady but we do have Michael Jackson. We're Number 1ish!
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