Nude as the News
"Nude as the News" | ||||
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Single by Cat Power | ||||
from the album What Would the Community Think | ||||
B-side | "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" | |||
Released | December 12, 1996 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, punk blues, southern gothic | |||
Label | Matador Records OLE-240 (Europe only) OLE-202 (Europe only) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Chan Marshall | |||
Cat Power singles chronology | ||||
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"Nude as the News" is a song by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall). It is the fourth song on her 1996 album, What Would the Community Think. It was released as a single, and a music video shot entirely in black and white and directed by Brett Vapnek.
A review in Vulture called the song both eerie and propulsive, saying that "it rolls like a long snarl."[1] The song is autobiographical, telling the story of an abortion that Marshall had when she was twenty. The chorus lyric, "Jackson, Jesse, I've got a son in me", does not refer to the Reverend Jesse Jackson but rather the first names of the children of Patti Smith, one of Marshall's heroes.[2]
The B-side "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" is a composite of the two songs "Schizophrenia" by Sonic Youth and "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" by Skip Spence.
Track listing
- "Nude as the News" (Chan Marshall) – 4:23
- "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" – 2:49
- "Schizophrenia" written by Thurston Moore
- "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" written by Alexander Spence
References
- v
- t
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- Dear Sir
- Myra Lee
- What Would the Community Think
- Moon Pix
- The Covers Record
- You Are Free
- The Greatest
- Jukebox
- Sun
- Wanderer
- Covers
- Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert
- eMusic Session EP
- Dark End of the Street
- "Headlights"
- "Nude as the News"
- "He War"
- "Could We"
- "Woman"