Common Holly Reimagines Michel Legrand's 'Amour, Amour' with Intimate Indie Folk Rendition

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Common Holly, the musical project of Brigitte Naggar, has released a stunningly intimate cover of Michel Legrand's 'Amour, Amour,' originally featured in the 1970 French cinematic fantasy 'Peau d'Âne' (Donkey Skin). This reinterpretation arrives following Naggar's recent album 'Anything glass,' her first full-length Common Holly release since 2019's 'When I say to you Black Lightning.' Naggar transforms Legrand's baroque, orchestral original—memorably sung by Catherine Deneuve—into a minimalist indie folk meditation. The cover strips away the cinematic grandeur, centering on Naggar's haunting, breathy vocals and sparse acoustic arrangements that highlight the song's poignant lyrics about love's consuming and sometimes foolish nature.This release places Common Holly among a growing cohort of contemporary indie artists, including Weyes Blood and Angel Olsen, who are drawing inspiration from the emotional depth of 60s and 70s French pop and film music. For Naggar, whose own songwriting meticulously explores psychological fragility and human connection, 'Amour, Amour' serves as a perfect thematic vessel, its melodramatic sincerity aligning seamlessly with the introspective world of 'Anything glass. ' The cover not only showcases Naggar's refined musical palate and skill as an interpreter but also reinforces her position as a thoughtful curator of sound, capable of resurrecting a classic and imbuing it with new, resonant life for the modern listener.

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