The Daily Swarm

Daily Mail:

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has released her first album since becoming France’s First Lady, dedicating a song to her President husband.

But she insists her album, in which she sings of 30 lovers and hard drugs, was not inspired by her whirlwind romance and marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy.

In one track from As if Nothing Had Happened, which is due for release on July 21, she sings: ‘I am yours, if they diss me or damn me, I don’t care a hoot.’

Sarkozy’s political aides hope the album will be a major boost for her President husband Nicolas Sarkozy.

And rather than embarrass her husband, her work is likely to give him a boost due to ‘the Carla effect’, following the couple’s successful state visit to London in March.

France’s First Lady sings lyrics which include: ‘You are my dope, more lethal than Afghan heroin, more dangerous than Colombian powder,’ and ‘I am a child/Despite my 40 years/Despite my 30 lovers/A child.’

AP:

Colombia’s foreign minister says a new song by the wife of the French president is “very painful for Colombia.”

The song reportedly appears on the third album of model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, which appears in stores on July 21.

The French daily Le Figaro reports that the song includes these lyrics: “You are my drug / More deadly than Afghan heroin / More dangerous than white Colombian.”

Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo said Thursday that “coming from the mouth of the wife of the President of France, this type of statement is very painful for Colombia.”