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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 are recorded with female vocalists who had not previously heard the songs they would be covering. 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The gambit paid off, with sales of over one million records over four albums released between 2004 and 2010, and world tours that included stops at venues such as London’s Royal Albert Hall, L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl and Paris’ Olympia. Since 2011, Nouvelle Vague had stopped recording, focusing on an innovative live show created in collaboration with the mythical Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (Ceremony and Dawn of innocence,) and branching out into different projects: Olivier’s Uncovered Queen of the Stone Age, and Marc’s Bristol, along with his Kwaidan label. The time seems right to write a new chapter in the Nouvelle Vague saga: with a new album \u003ci\u003eI Could Be Happy\u003c\/i\u003e and live show, the band and its coterie of female vocalists continue their time travels with a renewed alegria. Nouvelle vague by Nouvelle Vague and Some Friends is thus more of a nexus of forthcoming projects: a new album comprised of punk and post punk standards imbued with the inimitable Nouvelle Vague touch, and, for the first time, a bevy of surprising Collin \/ Libaux which prove that the two producers are more than prodigious arrangers. 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Written by artists sometimes known as \"the modern young people\" and including faux naïf electropop nursery rhymes by Elli and Jacno (\u003ci\u003eAnne Cherchait l'amour,\u003c\/i\u003e 1979), Lio (\u003ci\u003eAmoureux Solitaires,\u003c\/i\u003e 1980) and Etienne Daho (\u003ci\u003eWeek-end à Rome\u003c\/i\u003e, 1984), along with Lili Drop (\u003ci\u003eSur ma Mob\u003c\/i\u003e, 1979) and Taxi Girl (\u003ci\u003eJe suis déjà Parti,\u003c\/i\u003e 1986), the songs clearly express the hopes and disappointments of the day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sense of melancholy suggested by the disenchanted lyrics of \u003ci\u003eDéréglée\u003c\/i\u003e - performed in 1977 by Marie-France, an icon of Paris nightlife - is even more noticeable on the 1981 hit by The Civils, who cynically sang, \"Tonight, they're dying in Chad, but l'm buying my dream Walkman\" before taking it to the chorus: \"The economic crisis is fantastic, decadence is the right feel\". \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe punk shockwave con also be felt in the music of bands who radically shaped French culture and song. 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