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Carla Bruni rides on

PARIS: She charmed the Queen of England, captivated Israel, impressed President George Bush and won over the hardest sell of all — the French.

But can France’s first lady, an Italy-born top model turned songstress Carla Bruni who married President Nicolas Sarkozy in February, keep spinning the magic once her new album comes out July 11? Its success, or failure, could be an affair of state.

The title of the new album, which is her third, is revealing: Comme si de rien n’etait (As If Nothing Had Happened). It comes out in numerous European countries July 11, sandwiched between the G-8 summit in Japan and a July 13 summit of world leaders in Paris. The album is to be released in the U.S. in August, under its French title.

Ms. Bruni, from a wealthy Turin family of industrialists and musicians, made her name as a guitar-strumming singer in 2002 with her hit first album, Quelqu’un m’a dit (Someone Told Me).

Featuring folksy tunes and Ms. Bruni’s cracked, softly sexy voice, it was a hit, selling two million copies. A second album, ‘No Promises,’ was not.

One of the 14 songs on her new album, Ma came (My Drug), has already received one bad review — from Colombian Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo who took offence at the lyrics: “You are my drug/ More deadly than Afghan heroin/More dangerous than white Colombian.” — AP

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