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...album 5:55, a collaboration with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, topped the French charts, with critics praising her as a true chanteuse. For her latest album IRM - which will be released on Jan. 26 in the U.S. and most of Europe - she teamed up with eclectic alt-rocker Beck. "He wrote all of the music and lyrics, but we really had an exchange. The album is very close to me," she says. In sessions at Beck's studio in Los Angeles, Gainsbourg tried to inspire him with books like Through the Looking-Glass. He played her beats, watched her react...
...typical Beck style, the collaboration cuts across a variety of different musical styles - blues, electronica, rock and folk. And Gainsbourg proves she's more than just his muse. Although her vocals sometimes sound like mere whispers, she conveys intense emotion throughout the album. On "Le Chat du Café des Artistes," - the only song sung entirely in French - her dark intonations complement the song's haunting strings. On "Voyage," she channels Enya at a drum circle - and somehow manages to give the song a spiritual quality. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
Describing the U.S. as being turned "upside down," Beck said in the taped appearance, "This is not a country that I recognize as America. It's not going to last, because Americans are not this stupid." The crowd erupted in deafening cheers. When he described Sarah Palin as a character "so many people gravitate toward because she's real," one woman in the theater called out, "Yeah, she is!" Several heads - outfitted with Bold and Fresh baseball caps - bobbed up and down in agreement. (See TIME's cover story on Glenn Beck...
...hour show, Beck and O'Reilly finally appeared together to banter lightly. Audience members ranged from 30-somethings to retirees. Steve Davio, 55, a scientist from the Rochester area, watches The O'Reilly Factor nearly every night. The current "progressive agenda, [with] each incremental step, takes us further and further from an America of self-reliance, land of the free and the home of the brave," he says. "It makes us the land of the weak and the home of the helpless...
...Winthrop, 56, from Chili, N.Y., who works for the state's Department of Transportation, says he agrees with Beck's and O'Reilly's concerns over too-big government. "'We the people' - that's the Constitution, not 'we the government,'" he says. "We're the ones who run the country." Martin Michaels, 53, a former electrician, attended with his wife of 28 years, Sarah, who gushed, "Oh gosh, yes," saying she was a huge fan of both Beck and O'Reilly. "They're honest and they're real, and they report everything. They don't leave things out." Her husband...