Video of the day: "Sprout and the Bean"
I hesitate to mention Joanna Newsom to those who aren't familiar with her, because her little-girl voice can make one homicidal. Plus, she plays the harp, which is kind of a goofy instrument to most (but I think it's kind of cool). But when I opened my iTunes today, and couldn't decide what to listen to, I plunked a virtual finger down in the middle of my library and hers is the album that came on. Call it fate.
Newsom often has baffling lyrics, which she and her contemporaries in the New Weird America (I'm looking at you, Devendra) seem to think is hip rather than Tolkien-nerdy. Fair enough. (I'm guessing Newsom also thinks that dress is attractive.)
I think the whole package comes across better when you see Newsom live. This video is undeniably charming.
Comments
i like the chalk board. i think stop-motion felt art would be better suited for a silly harp player that sings like a baby... a little-bitty baby. bible felt is creepy and so is she.
Posted by: carter albrecht | October 31, 2006 02:06 PM
You know what? This is exactly why I never read any analysis by anyone else of anything I enjoy. God help me I was just looking for pictures of the girl to copy her bangs. The sheer amount of conditions and caveats you threw in here and the perverse need to label and distance yourself from this artist and everything she represents is just ludicrous. Whatever happened to just liking things? I don't know who you are and I don't care that this entry is old as hell, my irritation with people who are threatened by youth culture is perennial. So you LIKE her music! Why be catty and awful about it? Because it makes you look "weird?"
Posted by: Who makes up the names for these "movements???" | June 13, 2007 03:24 PM