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Belinda Carlisle - Voila Audio CD

Band: Belinda Carlisle Title: Voila Rating: Release Date: 2007-02-06 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp 2: Bonnie et Clyde 3: Avec le Temps 4: Sous le Ciel de Paris 5: Des Ronds Dans L'eau 6: Pourtant Tu M'aimes 7: Ne Me Quitte Pas 8: La Vie en Rose 9: Contact 10: Merci Cherie 11: Jezebel

Voila
For the first time this is her best vocal perfomance to date. Voila being Belinda Carlisle's 2007 release and her 7th studio album is a big departure from her prior albums in many ways. She sounds absolutely amazing on this album. The entire album is sung in French and she manages to do this quite well. The booklet is very nice with beautifull photos of Carlisle looking debonaire. No lyrics are included but we get a very nice listing of whom played what on the album and to imagine she got Brian Eno to play keyboards on this album is quite impressive. 5/5.
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Sacre Cerise!
You were expecting maybe Edith Piaf? The former Go-go-in-Chief gives French pop a spin and the result is just good fun. Oh lighten up.

one of her best
I own all of her CD's and this one is one of the best - the French lyrics add a different, interesting effect!.

Tu me pèles le jonc, Belinda!
But one doesn't need to comprehend the idiom to instantly recognize the tinny vocal styling (pure Piaf thievery), her clunky French diction (moving to Paris hasn't helped the argot) or dizzyingly ditzy arrangements (e. Bearable as the muse for the grooviest all-girl band to ever come out of LA, she's given us one dishrag album after another in years that she's become a menacing solo `artiste'. g. "La Vie En Rose" as Euro-gay camp disco? Mon dieu!!). I surmise this could all be a lot worse (it could be "Heaven On Earth" or "A Woman And A Man" or "Live Your Life Be Free" or, worst of all, heaven-help-us, "Runaway Horses") but rather than Château Lafite, we are left with escargot on the breath. My grade: C.

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