Honesty And Integrity

Lara Fabian: The Nue Album – Honesty And Integrity In The Purest Form
By Coenraad De Beer

Lara started her career with a self-titled album, showing to the world that she is the essence of her own music. Her “Pure” album also contains the theme of honesty, pure music means honest music. Her English career also started with a self-titled album that contained a track called “I am who I am”. Lara stated that this would have been the title of the album if it wasn’t self-titled. Being the person who she is and being true to herself means that her music will always portray honesty and integrity to her audience. Nue followed after her self-titled English album and in 2005 came an album entitled 9. 9 was the rebirth of Lara’s music, a process coming to full circle. Again you could witness her honesty and the purity of her music throughout this album. Now Lara is working on a multilingual album. Lara has always emphasised that music (and to me especially her music) is a universal language that can’t be barred by language gaps. I believe that Lara will prove this philosophy with the release of her next album.

I have illustrated to you that Lara applies the central theme you find in the Nue album in most, if not all, of her music. Lara is one of the very few artists I know who is able to develop an album where almost every track is a smashing number one hit. So many artists these days focuses on one single track to promote their album with, that they tend to spend less time with the other tracks on the album, which results in an album failure. This is what makes people hesitant to buy albums from unknown artists. You might have heard one or two songs from the album over the radio, but you have no idea what to expect from the rest of the album. Once you buy it, you find that the other songs are not nearly as good as the singles you heard over the radio. When this is the case you will most certainly not buy another album of this artist again. Lara has the ability to keep her audience interested in her music by making each song on her albums a special song, as if each song is an advertisement of her music. After going through a whole album you cry for more when you finish the last song. This is why fans never can wait for her next release, there is always something new, something pure, something honest to look forward too.

Allow me to walk with you through each song on the Nue album and show to you how wonderful this album really is. To me, this is Lara’s best French album. I think my motives for rating this album as the best so far, is because of the success of her Nue concert. This was an amazing show with passion, power, excitement and one of the best performances by a band I have ever seen. Although the show was about her Nue album she also combined it with songs from her Pure album. This is what made this show a winner.

J'y Crois Encore (English: I Believe It Again). On her album “A Wonderful Life”, Lara wrote an English version of this song entitled: “I’ve Cried Enough”. Lara is an amazing songwriter. When you compare the lyrics of the French version to the English version, you will see that the content of both songs are identical even if the lyrics are not a literal translation of each other. The song speaks of pain and despair and dealing with it through faith and endurance. The song brings you to the realization that you cannot change what happened in the past. Lara sums it up beautifully in the English version of the song when she sings: “Though I believe in the future, I keep in mind all the past, now that I live in the present I don’t care about the rest…”