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.
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