French beauty Carla Bruni performed music from her latest album in her first live New York show — and even sang about her husband, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, with lyrics such as, “He’s the boss.”
With a beaming Sarkozy in the audience, Bruni took to the stage at Town Hall on Thursday night to sing in French to a packed house. Introducing her song “Mon Raymond,” she said, “This song is about my man. I had to change his name and give him a nickname.”
The translated lyrics include, “My Raymond is the big gun, he is the atomic bomb/When he lets loose . . . the air turns electric,” and, “Though he wears a necktie, my Raymond is a pirate . . . He storms aboard for his prize . . . Whatever fools may say, Raymond is dynamite.”
Before the show, Sarkozy, wearing a suit and tie, was practically mobbed by concertgoers demanding selfies as he took his seat for the show. According to an onlooker, “He was friendly and posed for pictures with everyone, but he smiled and remained coy when a few people encouraged him to run again for office.”
Sarkozy, 59, who was the French leader from 2007 to 2012, is rumored to be preparing for a comeback, and could defeat scandal-rocked president François Hollande in 2017.
But should she become France’s first lady again, Bruni told the audience that she cannot bear being called “madame.” “I hate it,” she said before singing the track “Pas une Dame” (“Not a Lady”).
One audience member tells us of Bruni, “Her performance was beautiful, she sang for over an hour, and was so hypnotic that by the end of the night everybody was in love with her.”
Another spy said that after the show, Sarkozy came backstage to congratulate his wife, and “there was a crowd of up to 30 people outside her dressing room and, I kid you not, she and he both must have personally talked to and took pictures with every single one of them.”