
If I'm not mistaken, a ripoff of La Vitesse Superieure by darkhaired, hotlipped gal Carine Erseng is used in a Dutch Suzuki-commercial. The guy behind the wheel is a well-known improv-comedian and tv-host. At first I thought they did use Carine's song, but no. Same thing happened with a fake-Carla Bruni, see here . Carine Erseng - La Vitesse Superieure
So why did it take until 2009 for me to post this? Because, in my mind, you can't call a "best of 20083 before the end of 2008! That, and I was anticipating a rush of new, 2008-vintage music that would fill my stockings on Christmas, so I couldn't really call 2008 a done-deal until I had a chance to process the new stuff. I'm not on the receiving end of the review copies of things, and my musical horizons are defined by very odd influences, so I take a while longer to get [...]

The story of Carine Erseng starts off pretty standard. She writes songs from a young age, tried her luck in the cafés around St Germain des Pres and played several cabarets. Little by little, she grew more famous. The stages got bigger, her first 'autoproduit' album sold well, and then she bumped into the right person. Who let her play the world famous Olympia, home of Brel, of Piaf, of so many big names. And then she kept bumping into the right people: Michel Boulanger, who worked with Jacques Dutronc, is now her manager. She met with Alain [...]