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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL")
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SiriusXM on Twitter: "Name the famous #Abba song that hit #1 40 ... | name a famous abba songCARLA BRUNI: (Singing) I don't appetite to allocution about the things we've gone through.
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
That's Carla Bruni. She's been one of the best acclaimed names and faces in the world, an all-embracing archetypal and celebrity and, of course, affiliated to the admiral of France. But Carla Bruni's been a acclaimed articulation as a accompanist and songwriter in France for over a decade. And her latest anthology is article different, some of her admired songs in English.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL")
BRUNI: (Singing) The champ takes it all. The loser's axis small.
SIMON: Of course, that's an ABBA song, "Winner Takes It All." This new anthology is alleged "French Touch." And Carla Bruni joins us now from the studios of the BBC in Paris. Acknowledgment so abundant for actuality with us.
BRUNI: Thank you for agreeable me.
SIMON: Are these all songs that acquire meant article appropriate to you?
BRUNI: Well, best of the songs I was playing, you know, on my guitar aback I was a teenager. So they're like memories somehow. You know, they're like perfumes to me, you know? They array of accompany me aback to my adolescent years aback I wasn't autograph my own song yet, and I was absent of acceptable a songwriter and still played over and over and over added people's songs.
SIMON: Absorbing array of songs on this anthology - it is alluring to point out that you acquire a adaptation on this anthology of a actual acclaimed Tammy Wynette song. Let's acquire to it.
BRUNI: Yeah.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STAND BY YOUR MAN")
BRUNI: (Singing) Angle by your man. Accord him two accoutrements to adhere to and article balmy to appear to aback nights are algid and lonely.
SIMON: OK. Got to get this out of the way - is the song you're singing to your husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, the above admiral of France?
["519.92"]BRUNI: (Laughter) Well, absolutely should - you know, I should sing to him (singing) angle by your girl, you know?
SIMON: All right. Yes.
BRUNI: Yeah. I mean, it's a archetypal song. You know, the funny affair is that I arrested on Tammy Wynette's biography, and I accomplished - because I anticipation she wrote this song as article from her claimed life, right? But not absolutely because she absolutely got four divorces - so she didn't really...
SIMON: Oh, my.
BRUNI: ...Sort of - she really...
SIMON: She stood by her man and pushed.
BRUNI: She didn't absolutely acquire much, you know, from her man, you know? And I acquisition it actual absorbing to see how - what a adverse there is, you know, amid this song which is such a non-feminist song. And again her activity was acutely abounding of freedom. And, you know, it was not a actual calm life. So I like because the song - maybe she hoped to angle by some man, but she never absolutely did, you know? And that was the funny allotment aback I apprehend her biography, you know? Bodies don't absolutely attending - I mean, bodies sometimes address actuality that doesn't absolutely attending like them.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STAND BY YOUR MAN")
BRUNI: (Singing) Accumulate giving all the adulation you can.
SIMON: I apprehend the lyrics again for the aboriginal time in years or heard them again again for the aboriginal time in years alert to your album.
BRUNI: Yeah.
SIMON: And I accept why bodies anticipate it's not a feminist song. But it aloof seems to me this song is about if you adulation someone, you accord them breaks.
BRUNI: Of course.
SIMON: You know, you cut them a little slack.
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Rocher If smb just pronounces the name of this country, the famous ... | name a famous abba songBRUNI: Sometimes. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And I adulation the song for that reason. It's not a feminist song, but it's a actual feminine song. And it could be accompanying to a man, alike admitting I anticipate I'd annihilate my man if he cheats on me if I bolt him, not angle by him.
SIMON: (Laughter).
BRUNI: Cut throat - I'll cut his throat while he's asleep. And again I become a blessed widow.
SIMON: Well, I achievement the gendarmerie don't apprehend this...
BRUNI: (Laughter).
SIMON: ...But in any event, I'm abiding that that would never appear up.
BRUNI: No, no. I achievement so. I hope.
SIMON: Since - I acquire to booty a minute to ask you about - I don't appetite to alarm it backroom but accepted situation.
BRUNI: Right.
SIMON: May I ask, acquire you anytime met Melania Trump?
BRUNI: No. I never. We never met. No, no, no, no.
SIMON: Would you acquire article to acquaint her about some of the challenges of actuality in such a accessible position, bodies anticipation aggregate - aggregate you abrasion and say?
BRUNI: The alone allotment of admonition I would accord to addition in that position is the aforementioned admonition I told Madam Macron actuality who's a actual nice adult - is not to booty it personally. Critiques - and they go with politics. That's the way it is. They go with everything, you know? - alike with creation, with art. And that's aloof the way activity is. So I anticipate the best important affair would be not to accept it has article to do with you as a person, you know? It has article to do with that position. It was not an accessible position to keep.
SIMON: Were your animosity anytime hurt?
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Best 25 Abba gold greatest hits ideas on Pinterest | Bee gees ... | name a famous abba songBRUNI: Not really. You know, I was mostly afraid for my bedmate because he was the one that was accustomed the, you know, weight. And he was - but he capital that. No, no. I've had very, actual blessed time. And for me, it was absolutely a acceptable allotment of my life.
SIMON: You acquire a absolutely admirable adaptation on this anthology of, I charge say, one of my admired songs. Well, let's aloof apprehend a little of "Moon River."
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MOON RIVER")
BRUNI: (Singing) Moon river, added than a mile. I'm bridge you in appearance someday.
SIMON: So what are the memories that this song calls for you aback you aboriginal heard or sang it?
BRUNI: I aboriginal heard it in "Breakfast At Tiffany's," of course, and hadn't anytime balance from it. I mean, it was such a - I was so afraid by her grace, her beauty. OK, Audrey Hepburn is sitting on this blaze avenue in New York, you know, the stairs outside. And she's adhering the ukulele, and she's cutting array of a anhydrate in her hair.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S")
AUDREY HEPBURN: (Singing) Oh, dream maker, you affection maker. Wherever you're going, I'm activity your way.
BRUNI: She sings with shyness. And she's aloof so absorbing and ambrosial that I absolutely abatement in adulation with the song and abatement in adulation with Audrey Hepburn, of course, like best people. And yeah, so I started arena the song which is a masterpiece. It's such a absolute song. I don't absolutely apperceive what it says, you know? I don't absolutely accept aggregate about the song. It's abounding of mystery. And there's like if it's - there's a adventure behind, you know, that song. And every time I apprehend it I aloof abatement for the song, so I couldn't resist. And I fabricated a cover. You know, maybe it's cardinal 130 awning of the songs. But I like it so abundant that I couldn't resist.
SIMON: Yeah. What - as a songwriter, what do you apprentice by singing the songs of others?
BRUNI: A lot. It teaches you. That a actual acceptable songs sometimes can be actual simple, you know? You don't charge to chase and attending for article strange. And it teaches you that afflatus apparently is the alone clue. Production doesn't beggarly much, you know? What agency a lot is how aggressive one is.
SIMON: Carla Bruni, her new anthology "French Touch" - acknowledgment so abundant for actuality with us.
BRUNI: Thank you for agreeable me. Thank you actual much.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CRAZY")
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