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Madonna literally hates Trump! She must have had a heart attack!”

“And we could hear in the recording that so many women were after him, like me, Kim Basinger, and Madonna. And he talked as if he was his own press agent!” says Bruni, giggling. “I watched this Netflix documentary, and called that woman that was a journalist and she recorded that. I met Donald Trump very rarely, maybe twice,” she maintains.īruni didn’t really give the whole curious episode much thought until recently when she watched the Netflix documentary Trump: An American Dream, and saw scenes of Trump impersonating his own press agent and phoning the tabloids to claim he was dating everyone from Kim Basinger and Madonna to Bruni. Trump at the time if I could get a room there. My friend went to the Plaza with her boyfriend for a week in New York, and I did ask Mr. When I recite the book passage to Bruni, she laughs hysterically. Impossible things are very inspiring-even more than possible things,” she coos. The chanteuse says she’s most inspired by “being sensitive,” and harbors a borderline obsession with amour fou-as on the track “Your Lady,” her first tune in English. We did it all at the same time,” recalls Bruni. “Everyone is playing at the same time, so there’s a movement that you don’t have where you do it like a cheesecake, where it’s layer-by-layer-the piano, the guitar, the vocals. The effect is intimate and sweeping at once.

#Carla bruni series

Once the quarantine was lifted, Bruni and her band convened at a recording studio in Paris, where they recorded the album live in just six days-wearing masks in-between sessions, with musicians separated by a series of rotating walls. “It takes a lot of potatoes to make a very pure, small glass of vodka,” she says. Bruni wrote nine of the 15 songs on the album during COVID confinement, and 30 in total.