Talk:Nouvelle Vague (band)

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Nouvelle Vague seems to have at least a superficial resemblance to Sergio Mendez and his long-term Brasil 66/77/88/?? project. Both are bossa nova bands featuring imaginitive cover songs performed by talented and photogenic female singers. Nouvelle Vague seems to have the edge in its artistic intent and its execution, in my humble opinion. Cranston Lamont 02:00, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

interesting choice of words[edit]

Does any one else feel that the section of the second paragraph "....to sex up everyone from...." reads a little un-wikipedia-ish? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.189.146.92 (talk) 18:30, 12 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, agreed. Most of the article reads like a record review rather than an encyclopedia. Not NPOV, and frankly a bit condescending. Lpslogan29 21:48, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nouvelle Vague's cover of "Melt with You" is being heard in the US on a GMC commercial.Kgilstrap 07:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Names of the singers[edit]

Could we get the names of the singers who sing on each song included in the discography? Funkynusayri 17:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Songwriting credit[edit]

"Dancing With Myself" was written by Billy Idol and originally recorded by his band Gen X. It is not Nouvelle Vague's song. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.171.223.243 (talk) 06:45, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Nouvelle Vague is strictly a cover band, so it should hardly come as a surprise. Funkynusayri (talk) 07:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bossa Nova[edit]

"[...] Their name is a play on words referring simultaneously to their "Frenchness" and "artiness" (the '60s new wave of cult French cinema), the source of their songs (all covers of punk rock, post-punk, and New Wave songs), and their use of '60s Bossa nova-style arrangements (bossa nova meaning "new wave" or "new beat" in Portuguese).[...]"

I think "Bossa Nova" means somthing like "big new star" and "Nouvelle Vague" menas "new wave"?!? Anyone? Amsagen (talk) 20:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the current wording is fine: dictionary.com has the translation as "new trend", Wiktionary has "new trend" or "new wave" and the Oxford Dictionary has "new tendency" - either way, "new wave" is a perfectly servicable interpretation Dom Kaos (talk) 22:36, 25 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Amsagen, I think I've just realised why you're confused: yes, for English speakers the word "nova" has indeed come to mean a new star (as the Wikipedia page has it) - but the word is actually just Latin (and Italian, Esperanto etc.) for "new". So it can mean a "new" anything. Hope that helps Dom Kaos (talk) 19:47, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]