Search - Valerie Lemercier :: Chante

I could listen to this all day.

Josh Rothman | Princeton, NJ | 02/12/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"While I can't say this cd has made _me_ want to put on a little waitress dress, I can say that it's more fun than any other record I own. It is the aural equivelant of a bubble bath. Buy it! Now!"

Tongue in cheek gem

Caballero del febo | Antony, France | 08/26/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is basically a concept album: a musicological pastiche of 1960s French pop sung by a popular comic actress (seen in "les Visiteurs"). As always in French song, the wordplay is more important than the tunes, but here there are pearls of satire, as in the parody of Club-M*d holidays ("Bungalow"), and the music by Bertand Burgalat is a spot-on recreation of various familiar French musical climates. It's typical of French music that an actress should release an album of song and not expect to be roasted over the coals for her lack of singing talent: the persona is more important than possession of a voice. Valérie Lemercier was carefully trained to sing here in a toneless "head" voice to recreate the girlish timbre of Françoise Hardy and her ilk. An acquired taste, perhaps, but a masterpiece in its genre."