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While she has been in the news this week for her possible breakup with Captain Jack Sparrow, perhaps many of you are unaware of Vanessa Paradis.
I have long been a fan of her as actrice. Between her and Brigitte Bardot I would have to call it a draw. I'm not talking about Brigitte in her "Save the Seals" role, but rather as Juliete Hardy in Roger Vadim's Et Dieu...crea la femme. Over 30 years later Vanessa played Mathilde Tessier in Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche - which was my first exposure to (and of) Ms. Paradis. I encourage you to check it out.
But I digress with movie talk in a music section of the forum...
Vanessa Paradis is also an accomplished chanteuse. Of late I have been assembling a collection of all of her studio and live recordings. The task should soon be completed. For now my vote's in: as she beguiled and allured viewers visually in films such as Noce Blanche, so too does her voice draw you aurally into her recordings.
Sulty, alluring, kittenish (a la Brigitte)... I could go on.
You don't need to know French to appreciate it. It's pop. It's mindless. But it doesn't matter. Just let her voice latch on.
Tandem off her Variations Sur Le Meme T'Aime (nice play on words) album would be a suggested track. (You can find the music video for it easily enough on YouTube.)
And if you want a bit of chuckle, check out her cover of Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side off that same album.
Ignoring that one, so far I have been pretty impressed with what I have heard so far.
I'm not suggesting that you rush off to Amazon to order a bunch of her stuff, but if you happen to see any of her CDs in the discount bin, it's well worth the buy.
(I was going to close this post by making a remark to effect that "It's pretty easy to see how Captain Jack's parrot would want that cracker" but I'll be more discrete than that.)
Jeff
I have long been a fan of her as actrice. Between her and Brigitte Bardot I would have to call it a draw. I'm not talking about Brigitte in her "Save the Seals" role, but rather as Juliete Hardy in Roger Vadim's Et Dieu...crea la femme. Over 30 years later Vanessa played Mathilde Tessier in Jean-Claude Brisseau's Noce Blanche - which was my first exposure to (and of) Ms. Paradis. I encourage you to check it out.
But I digress with movie talk in a music section of the forum...
Vanessa Paradis is also an accomplished chanteuse. Of late I have been assembling a collection of all of her studio and live recordings. The task should soon be completed. For now my vote's in: as she beguiled and allured viewers visually in films such as Noce Blanche, so too does her voice draw you aurally into her recordings.
Sulty, alluring, kittenish (a la Brigitte)... I could go on.
You don't need to know French to appreciate it. It's pop. It's mindless. But it doesn't matter. Just let her voice latch on.
Tandem off her Variations Sur Le Meme T'Aime (nice play on words) album would be a suggested track. (You can find the music video for it easily enough on YouTube.)
And if you want a bit of chuckle, check out her cover of Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side off that same album.
Ignoring that one, so far I have been pretty impressed with what I have heard so far.
I'm not suggesting that you rush off to Amazon to order a bunch of her stuff, but if you happen to see any of her CDs in the discount bin, it's well worth the buy.
(I was going to close this post by making a remark to effect that "It's pretty easy to see how Captain Jack's parrot would want that cracker" but I'll be more discrete than that.)
Jeff