Jesca Hoop, Summertime, from Kismet
VH1 is more than just bad celebrity-driven Reality TV. Every now and then, the network pushes forth a new and exciting artist who I wouldn’t have heard of otherwise, so… thanks for that. One such artist is Jesca Hoop, a quirky, dippity-do, hippy from California. There isn’t much out there about her, other than she used to be a nanny for the brood of Tom Waits, and her new album, Kismet, hasn’t received a lot of buzz. But the single, well, I love it. It’s called Summertime, and it’s so evocative, both lyrically and musically. It’s perfect for today, because today feels like the first official day of summer here in the Kackalack – the heat is suffocating, the air smells like melting black-top, and I turned on the air conditioning for the first time. I would love to be wherever she is, where summertime means playing in the rye and swimming in the lake at night. That sounds better than what I’m dealing with, which is all about the sweat making my underwear ride up. Not fun.
An "unplugged" version after the jump...
2 comments:
Thats a noper sorry. -C
yeah I don't love it either. She has a great voice, and it's not altogether UNpleasant, but I can't see this working on the radio so much as at an African campfire dance or a yodeling conference in the Alps. The second half is a little more poppy, but I just don't think it works, talented though I'm sure she is.
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