Carla Bruni hits sour note with Colombia

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: model, first lady, and singer. The thirty-year-old has an album coming out next month and in it she sings of her love to her recently-wed hubby:

Among the 14 tracks is a song called Ma Came (My Junk) – equating her intense love to a class A drug. Written two years ago, before she met Mr. Sarkozy, it is nevertheless dedicated to her husband.

“You are my junk. More deadly than Afghan heroin. More dangerous than Colombian white (powder),” she sings, adding: “My guy, I roll him up and smoke him.”

With so many important problems to tackle (e.g. conflict with guerillas, corruption allegations, free trade) one would assume that Colombian officials would ignore Bruni’s little metaphor. In the grand scheme things, her silly love song is of no importance. Right?

Guess again:

"Since this is coming from the mouth of the president's wife, we consider this statement very hurtful to Colombia," said Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo. "These kinds of things happen when you mix politics with art; we deeply regret it"…

"Instead of offering an apology for consuming, we hope that the whole world joins us in the fight against drugs," Araujo said.

Afghani officials have yet to respond to Bruni’s quip on heroin, probably because they have bigger fish to fry.

Sources- Wonkette, AFP, Xinhua, International Herald Tribune, Reuters, Reuters UK, Bloomberg

Image- CBC