Scarlett Johansson Churns Out Her First Single
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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celebs, video
3:30PM, Tuesday April 29th 2008
Catherine and I disagree on very few things—the musical talent of The Counting Crows, meat, this song, and perhaps the notion of Scarlett Johansson fancying herself a popstar all together. This is the video for the first single off Scarlett’s upcoming album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, in which most of the songs are Tom Waits covers. I love Tom Waits so I should hate this whole stupid idea. But I don’t.
I think Scarlett has a pretty, sexy, and kind of haunting voice and I don’t think she’s trying to do anything other than sing songs written by her favorite artist. In other words, she’s not impersonating him, which would be hard anyway, because in order to do that she would need 30 years of smoking Marlboro Reds and drinking whiskey. That said, I like this first effort and the video.
Catherine thinks it’s meh. She was going to do the “He Says/She Says” about it, but when her partner in crime, Jon, couldn’t get the vid to work on his computer, she went with another choice and I seized the opportunity to put it up with a little praise. But to be fair, Catherine got her say. So once again, that would be, “Meh.”
What do you all think? Should Scarlett stick to acting or do you like what you hear?
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Elle
wrote on April 29 2008 @ 04:26 pm: [report]
You know what? I don’t hate it. Her voice isn’t very good, but I think it lends itself pretty well to the music and lyrics. I definitely would not give it a meh. Sorry Catherine!
Shannon
wrote on April 29 2008 @ 08:02 pm: [report]
I thought it was beautiful. I’m impressed!
atlgirl
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 06:42 am: [report]
I think the song is meh—but to me, that means, not awful and not great. What does meh really mean to you, Catherine? It was pretty cool to see Scarlett’s transition with the makeup. She’s definitely not meh.
amanda lynn
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 08:04 am: [report]
i was expecting something much more “poppy” and standard. not sure why i was thinking that having known that she was working with Tom Waits. i picture this CD as something that would be great party background music.
collier
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 08:44 am: [report]
i love it. sounds very euro.
Catherine
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 08:57 am: [report]
“Meh” means it didn’t move me. I can listen to it, but if it came up on when my iPod was on shuffle, I’d probably move on to the next song. Also, I don’t like how her voice has no emotion. BUT I can totally see why you guys like it. It might be good background music in a coffee shop or something.
Kiki T
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 09:59 am: [report]
Famous people + karaoke = record deal = not a good idea
Deirdre
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 10:57 am: [report]
Sounds like a watered down American version of Nico (velvet underground kiddies).. Not sure what I dislike more- the boring video or the meh song..
Amelia
wrote on April 30 2008 @ 11:02 am: [report]
Dude, I know who Nico is! “I’ll Be Your Mirror”?
toyen
wrote on May 2 2008 @ 02:14 pm: [report]
The song is not bad at all. And she’s getting a lot of good press, I think. The video—meh. It’s kind of weird and I don’t think it fits the song. It makes me wish I could get hair and makeup though.
ZZZ3
wrote on June 29 2008 @ 12:35 am: [report]
Naw ya’ll Marble INdex!