The fashion world is not made of melancholy and nostalgia but it was a bit of melancholy for me.īruni, far left, with Claudia Schiffer, Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Helena Christensen walk the Versace runway in September 2017. Gianni was gone and George Michael was gone and my youth was gone. We were walking to that George Michael song that Gianni used a lot at his shows and I sort of realized that everyone was gone. We felt a wave of emotion and a wave of memory and a wave of past. We were behind the curtain the whole time so we heard the music and then all of a sudden this curtain is opening. We were surprised by the reaction of the people at the show. You walked the Versace runway this summer as part of an iconic group of supermodels. How do you take a jacket and try to make it suit you? As if it was trying to get into some outfit that is not exactly yours but that you have to try to make it look good.
But all the other songs, we tried to adapt them. Not Moon River and not the Tammy Wynette song Stand By Your Man-those are very hard to change.
Also we tried to change most of the songs. I know these are famous songs that sort of belong to everybody and everybody has memories about them but what we tried to do was to make them as if they were my songs and we’d be sitting by a fireplace in the winter and just sing them in the most simple way. Leonard Cohen: he wrote songs like they were prayers. Of course I’ve been listening to these people over and over, but as a songwriter if I had to choose I would choose Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen because they make songs that I just can’t forget. I also love older soul ladies like Billie Holiday. I like simple writing and I also like blues. Well my favorite, as writers, would be Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and also country music people. Even reading the menu sounds like a song. Italian is also fantastic for singing because it’s very vocal. It has a lot of rhythm and a lot of strength. You can keep something naive and simple about it and it just sounds grand. No matter how simple the song, the lyrics, it just sounds fantastic in English. It has to be sort of sophisticated or it sounds stupid. You have many ways of saying the same thing so it’s a very rich language for poetry, for literature. French is a very literary language and it’s fantastic to write because it has a very strong literary power. And english is the language for pop music, it’s very different from French. I tried to sing them as if they were my own songs. Yes, they’re covers but I feel like I wrote them somehow. This album is all covers and it’s also the first album you sing in English. But it doesn’t really help me to go on stage and neither did that time when my husband was President of France, because when you go on stage, it’s all about your voice and your lyrics and your style and it’s very different from modeling-it’s much more emotional and personal than modeling and the political world. The modeling helped me very much when I was first lady because it helped me to cope with the pictures, to cope with having such a public life. I try to get into the music and concentrate on it and try to give my emotion to the audience, and to feel my emotions but not too much.ĭid modeling help you feel more comfortable in public-as First Lady or as a performer?
There’s something about the music that carries you away.
Music is more than words, it says more than what one writes. I try to get into the music because it brings you somewhere else. I’m not so crazy about touring life, which is away from home, but being on stage and going from city to city is just wonderful.ĭo you have a trick for dealing with stage fright? Finally now, not only do I like it, but I adore it. You think you’re going to die but you’re not.
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But little by little I learned and how to stop my fear. I thought I was going to die every time I went up on stage. I’m not that kind of person that would run on stage-I felt always very scared. I was very, very shy even though I was already 34 years old. You know when I started writing my songs, I thought I would actually give them to other people to sing them. I asked her about overcoming stage fright, her favorite language to sing in, and what it was really like working with Gianni Versace. On her album (and her set list) is the Tammy Wynette classic "Stand by Your Man." And Bruni always has done just that-but never at the expense of her own career and visibility.
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