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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Rykodisc
Salesrank: 44991
Released: February 6, 2007 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Voila Track Listing:
1. Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp
2. Bonnie et Clyde
3. Avec le Temps
4. Sous le Ciel de Paris
5. Des Ronds Dans L'eau
6. Pourtant Tu M'aimes
7. Ne Me Quitte Pas
8. La Vie en Rose
9. Contact
10. Merci Cherie
11. Jezebel
Editorial Review:
Belinda Carlisle's "Voila," her first new album in a decade, and her first sung entirely in French, is a radical departure for the pop diva and leader of the Go-Gos. Carlisle has fashioned an album that pays tribute to classic French songs of the `40s, `50s and `60s and proves good songs are universal and need no translation to work their exhilarating magic.
"Voila" contains a bonus disc with English versions of four tracks from the album. Bonus tracks include "I Still Love Him," "La Vie en Rose," "Bonnie and Clyde" and "If You Go Away."
Description of Voila:
Taking a page from the Marianne Faithfull playbook, Belinda Carlisle exchanges exuberance for sophistication on Voilà. Sung entirely in French, Carlisle's first CD in a decade celebrates the sturdy song form known as chanson. From the legendary Edith Piaf ("La Vie En Rose") to '60s songbird François Hardy ("Ma Jeunesse Fout Le Camp") to playful provocateur Serge Gainsbourg ("Contact"), Carlisle tackles 11 favorites. If Faithfull's Strange Weather, a torched-up collection of covers, makes perfect sense in retrospect, Voilà also seems like a natural progression for Carlisle, though some Go-Go's devotees may be startled by the departure. More surprising than her accent, which is actually quite good, are the arrangements, like Gainsbourg's "Bonnie et Clyde" reinvented as echoey electronica or Hardy's "Pourtant Tu M'aimes" as hard-driving pop. Carlisle's versatile collaborators include Brian Eno (keyboards), Natacha Atlas (vocals), and Fianchna O'Braonain (guitar, vocals) from the Hothouse Flowers. Traditionalists may balk at the Irish and Middle Eastern touches, but Carlisle's genuine affection for the material should win over most skeptics. Her distinctive vibrato, particularly on Jacques Brel's heartbreaking "Ne Me Quitte Pas" ("If You Go Away") and Charles Aznavour's flamenco-flavored "Jezebel," has never sounded quite so full and throaty. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Voila Reviews:
Another 5 star classic from Belinda Carlisle 
2009-03-28 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3Q8XT8FGHFA4J
Voila
2009-03-09 - Voila being Belinda Carlisle's 2007 release and her 7th studio album is a big departure from her prior albums in many ways. For the first time this is her best vocal perfomance to date. She sounds absolutely amazing on this album. The entire album is sung in French and she manages to do this quite well. The booklet is very nice with beautifull photos of Carlisle looking debonaire. No lyrics are included but we get a very nice listing of whom played what on the album and to imagine she got Brian Eno to play keyboards on this album is quite impressive. 5/5.
Sacre Cerise! 
2008-10-16 - Oh lighten up. You were expecting maybe Edith Piaf? The former Go-go-in-Chief gives French pop a spin and the result is just good fun.
one of her best
2008-10-02 - I own all of her CD's and this one is one of the best - the French lyrics add a different, interesting effect!
Tu me pèles le jonc, Belinda! 
2008-08-23 - Bearable as the muse for the grooviest all-girl band to ever come out of LA, she's given us one dishrag album after another in years that she's become a menacing solo `artiste'. But one doesn't need to comprehend the idiom to instantly recognize the tinny vocal styling (pure Piaf thievery), her clunky French diction (moving to Paris hasn't helped the argot) or dizzyingly ditzy arrangements (e.g. "La Vie En Rose" as Euro-gay camp disco? Mon dieu!!). I surmise this could all be a lot worse (it could be "Heaven On Earth" or "A Woman And A Man" or "Live Your Life Be Free" or, worst of all, heaven-help-us, "Runaway Horses") but rather than Château Lafite, we are left with escargot on the breath. My grade: C
