Nellie McKay, What Were You Thinking?

Nellie, I love you dearly. Your sophomore effort, Pretty Little Head, was my second favorite album of 2006. I waxed poetically about you on The DL, I even went to see you in The Threepenny Opera, but why in the hell did you team up with this local street rapper to make the worst music video I've seen in a looooong time? Check out the clip below and don't tell me this is not worthy of a Public Access gold medal!



Yikes, right? On a more positive note, Nellie is featured in the latest issue of Out magazine (page 17). In it, she answers 5 oddball questions including 'What topic would you never write a song about?'. Her response: 'I'd never write a song promoting hunting, racism, or encouraging torture, except in the case of Alan Cumming'! The claws are out, don't mess with Nellie! She brings her twisted sarcasm to Carnegie Hall on 4/27.

UPDATE: The video is from '03, it's not indeed new. Phew!