Frigid ‘Sesame’
Norah Jones sang about the sexual dysfunction of the letter ‘Y’ on Sesame Street (shouldn’t it have been the letter ‘X’?) Somehow it seems lip-synced, I don’t know why I didn’t know:
Leslie Feist also leveraged her iPod ad into a spot on the kids’ show:
Other celeb cameos include Alice Cooper, R.E.M., Andrea Bocelli, the Goo Goo Dolls and Johnny Cash, but I’m still holding out for Bappi Lahiri.
on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008, 7:06 pm in Humor, Music, Norah Jones, TV › 
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thanks Manish and Khoofia, Iam a big fan of Norah and that song too..this one is so so cute.. I think I have to watch sesame street and muppets now, they make me laugh like a kid more than anything else.. these days I like cartoon movies like surf up, eddie murphy as cute donkey…thanks for posting on muppets singing hindi songs and this one..supercute.
Okay, I took me a until the end of the song to get your “sexual dysfunction” / “frigid” joke.
Then it clicked.
I feel dirty now.
Manish-Dada, you are so crude. The NJ bit was sweet! The Feist bit? Laaaaame.
The Fiest song on Sesame Street is as catchy as her original.
Who the hell is Feist? I love Peaches and I don’t even remember what she did on Peaches’ album.
(NJ obviously is lipsyncing.)
I think it was Roger Ebert who said he judges kids’ movies by the same standards he judges other movies…they have to keep his attention as an adult, ie they have to entertain, stimulate, educate, or inspire etc…(my words, not his)
By that standard Sesame Street suceeds. I saw the Feist clip last week and loved it and love the original song and its lyrics. I wonder tho’ is it wasted on the children. I’m not suggesting we provide crap (Barney etc) for our young ones, though obviously that happens anyway. But I wonder just how much are the kids appreciating this stuff, how much of this gorgeousness the young ones are processing and absorbing.
Most kids love the cardboard boxes as much as the toys right?, so are NJ and Feist covers more for us than the childen??
I hope i’m still making sense.
And the feist song is a nironic pick for teaching kids to count because the original lyrics are:
When the song came I remember someeone saying, well they’ll never use this song on Sesame Street to teach kids to count…ha, wrong!
Uno, dos, tres, catorce!