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Feist Does Sesame Street
21 Jul 2008 06:22 pm
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I set out to be critical and mock this... but it's... too... charming...
must...
resist....
She is a charmer. I loved her on Colbert and now even more.
First: Where is The Count? Someone else asked this on the internets, but seriously - how can The Count not be in this?
Second: This video works on so many levels. First, she is obviously lampooning herself even while reinforcing all of those things we love (hate) about her. Second, as a teaching tool, it invokes the number 4 both by example (four monsters) and in the abstract (the number 4 in her hand). This is great because rumor has it that young children may have difficulty distinguishing between numbers in the abstract and numbers-as-counted-items.
I'm still waiting for Doug Feith to do Sesame Street.
We've had this on our iTunes for the last week or so (after I downloaded it, the wife gives me the WTF? look). Let me say that I had never thought my 2-year-old would be a bigger fan of any indie rocker than I am, but my son rocks out to this!
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This is great! As celebrity "Sesame Street" appearances go, I feel it ranks right up there next to Leonard Cohen's 1975 "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" duet with Cookie Monster.
Cookie Monster later revealed that the song was about his liaison with Janis Joplin.
With Feist, it was always a question of whether she'd hang around long enough, sustained by Brave New Waves and CBC Radio 3 and the foreign outings, for one of her college fans to graduate, become a twentysomething ad creative, and give props. After that, the road to Sesame Street was clear. Then comes the point at which all those hipster fans who stuck with her through the touring-in-a-van years have the choice of being oh so happy, or sniping at the new crowd while reminiscing over fleapit gigs where yer band was living off the riders.
Count me in the former group (though I fail on the hipster thing), and more power to her.
Good point pseudonymous, now that she has cashed in by appearing on Sesame Street, no more living off the riders for Feist.
1) Note the Oscar the Grouch cameo at 0:10.
2) That pink-magenta monster is totally in love with her.
Sell out.
Pink-Magenta Monster? That's Tully, you rube! You're in over your head here.
And he's kinda in love with everyone. You know . . . clingy.
man I hate that song. images of hoards of cute little kids singing it out of sync race through my mind.
I prefer the old one that Kieran Healy held up the other day
http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2008/07/09/the-anxiety-of-cookie-monster-i-mean-influence/
You know what I mean, minderbender: there are indie types who have their faces screwed up because Feist isn't playing the 900-seat venues where they saw her back in blah blah blah.
Tangentially, I'll confess that I was creeped out by the Sesame Street '4' as a child. That ascender is just wrong. If I wanted an upside-down h, well, it's ɥ ... aargh.
Talk about the dumbing-down of our youth...back in my day we counted to twelve.
I think conservatives & liberals everywhere can put aside their differences for a moment & come together on teh awesomeness of Sesame Street.
Say what you will about Feist (I like her... as a Canadian, I'm legally required to), this video put a smile on my face at the end of a very long day.
Your mileage may vary.
I think conservatives & liberals everywhere can put aside their differences for a moment & come together on teh awesomeness of Sesame Street.
Say what you will about Feist (I like her... as a Canadian, I'm legally required to), this video put a smile on my face at the end of a very long day.
Your mileage may vary.
I too am somewhat charmed BUT, did anyone notice how gentrified Sesame Street has become? I mean, I knew it kinda jumped the shark when Cookie Monster became a role model for healthy eating habits ("A Cookie is a Sometimes Food" - I'm not kidding).
But this is nuts! Just compare to this Stevie Wonder appearance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
Does Bob sell endive and buffala mozzerella at Mr. Hooper's old store? WTF? These guys seem to have forgotten the original point.
This is why my daughter only watches the Sesame Street Old School DVDs - despite the "not appropriate for today's pre-scholler" warning.
Sorry for the double post... my first try resulted in a ' connection timed out' message, so I paged back & reposted.
One can only hope that such glitches (including The Atlantic's inability to "Remember [my] personal info") will be absent at Matt's upcoming new home.
I too am somewhat charmed BUT, did anyone notice how gentrified Sesame Street has become? I mean, I knew it kinda jumped the shark when Cookie Monster became a role model for healthy eating habits ("A Cookie is a Sometimes Food" - I'm not kidding).
But this is nuts! Just compare to this Stevie Wonder appearance:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
Does Bob sell endive and buffala mozzerella at Mr. Hooper's old store? WTF? These guys seem to have forgotten the original point.
This is why my daughter only watches the Sesame Street Old School DVDs - despite the "not appropriate for today's pre-scholler" warning.
Oops! I had the same "Timed out" message as raff. Apologies for the double post.
did anyone notice how gentrified Sesame Street has become?
Well, it is set in a brownstone neighborhood--presumably in New York. Therefore, the populace is probably a lot richer and whiter than it was in 1970 when the show first appeared.
"C" is for "Co-Op" and "G" is for "gentrification." I'm assuming Oscar's trashcan is rent-controlled, or else he would've been long gone.
James, you just blithely accept this? I mean, look! Susan and Gordon's house has been taken over by four Tuxedoed flightless birds. What would Gavin Newsome say?!
Watching this, I really wanted her to go above four. Going higher than four was an itch that would never be scratched.
Hey Matt, I'm sure you're aware of this, but others may not be. Samantha Power reviewed Heads in the Sand' in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21670
Feist is great, but I like Norah Jones' appearance on Sesame Street better - "I don't know why Y didn't come".
I hope for the sakes & souls of commenters trying to politicize Sesame Street that they're just being sardonic.
To mrtimbo: yeah, I was also waiting for her to progress past "four"... it was like an unresolved dim/sus 7th chord, waiting for the finishing note to drop.
I can't seem to find a link on youtube, but Counting Crows were on a few years ago. They also did a song about counting... as crows (of the puppet variety). I always thought that was kind of cute/clever.
The greatest since the legendary REM "Furry Happy Monsters" video
This is cute and everything, but nothing tops when 2 Live Crew did "Hey, Me Want Some Cookie" with Cookie Monster.
pseudonymous is like Extreme Allah.
Better than the original, in which things go horribly wrong as she approaches ten.
Rob Mac wins the thread.
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Heads in the Sand
Whatever, public TV doesn't have anything Colbert doesn't have.
Except a lack of balls.
Posted by minderbender | July 21, 2008 6:31 PM