Hot in Herre

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Depts. of Advocacy & Cover Versions. Jenny Owen Youngs (leftfield indie pop guitar girl) cover of "Nelly's Hot in Herre". With breakdancing penguins!

See also
http://www.myspace.com/jennyowenyoungs

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I shall listen to that tonight but the Department may have its work cut out for it given that I have just learnt of something which can only be an atrocity and desecration - JACK KNOBHEAD PENATE covering DUB BE GOOD TO ME :////

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Man, that's just wrong.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Of all the shite to have come my ears' way this year Jack Penate is perhaps the shiteiest.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Quite. Plus he had the nerve to slag off ABBA earlier in the week.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of when that Veruca Salt chick did 911 is a joke.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Here's my question about covers like this (I actually kind of liked this one): why can't any of these people write a "Hot in Herre" of their own?? How come the only way to do a dumbass novelty is to appropriate it from a source that wasn't ashamed of itself for doing it in the first place?

I was listening to Jewel's 0304 the other day, and I kind of respect her more in a general sorta way for making it -- she actually sat down and wrote herself some pop songs, rather than simply doing the Jewel version of "I'm a Slave 4 U" or something -- sometimes it takes guts to "sell out"! (And re: Jewel specifically, I'll bet 0304 sold pretty poorly compared to her other albums.)

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

What else could she do? She was living in America. She was giving in America!

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Oohhhhh, she's in an igloo. And it's hot in herre. I get it!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

She didn't want to do a direct interpretation of the lyrics for the video, or a parody of the original video. So she came up with this.

Apparently there'll soon be a video for her song "F*ck was I" which was on the Weeds soundtrack and on her album.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

(I somehow actually didn't get the joke for several minutes!!)