NOUVELLE VAGUE (HELENA NOGUERRA) - THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG

NOUVELLE VAGUE (HELENA NOGUERRA)

SONGWRITERS: JOHN LYDON; KEITH LEVENE & MARTIN CLIVE ATKINS

COUNTRY: FRANCE/BELGIUM

ALBUM: NOUVELLE VAGUE

LABEL: PEACEFROG RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 2004

 

    Nouvelle Vague is a French cover band led by musicians Olivier Libaux and Marc Collin. Their name means "new wave" in French, and refers simultaneously to the French New Wave cinema movement of the 1960s, to the new wave music movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which provides many of the songs that the band covers, and to bossa nova(Portuguese for "new wave"), a musical style that the band frequently uses in its arrangements.

    The group's recordings and live performances have featured a large rotating cast of mostly female vocalists. Several of the artists who have performed with the band have also had successful solo careers, including Camille, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, and Nadéah Miranda.

      Nouvelle Vague is the debut studio album by the French band Nouvelle Vague. It was first released on 9 August 2004 on Peacefrog Records.

      The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague, which is itself a reference to the French cinema movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The songs were recorded with female vocalists who had not previously heard the songs they would be covering.

        Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux began work on the project in 2003, after Collin had the idea of covering Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in a bossa nova style. Libaux later explained: "I met Marc Collin during the 90's, at a friend's place. Marc was the first musician I met in years who I could talk [to] about new wave music. For some reason, at the end of the 80's, punk and new wave music had turned into a sort of old-fashioned music, which nobody was talking about anymore. Meeting Marc, I could talk about The Stranglers, The Cure and The Sisters of Mercy again. We then have worked on a couple of albums he was producing ... Starting Nouvelle Vague was sounding obvious for us, as our ideas were matching, and the songs were happening well and quickly." The album was produced and recorded over a period of eight months.

This is not a love song

Happy to have, not to have not

Big business is very wise

I'm crossing over into

Enterprise

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

I'm adaptable now, I like my new role

I'm getting better and better

I have a new goal, I'm changing my ways

Where money applies, this is not a love song

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

I'm going over to the other side

I'm happy to have not to have not

Big business is very wise

I'm inside free enterprise

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

 

That television, behind the curtain

Out of the cupboard, you take the first train

Into the big world, are you ready to grab the candle?

That tunnel vision

 

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song

This is not a love song.