Oct 28 2007
New Jenny Owen Youngs video: ‘Was I’
It was March of last year that I first wrote about Jenny Owen Youngs on this blog. That was around the time I first discovered her wonderful song called Fuck Was I, a gentle, haunting song about regret. It was one of my favourite songs of last year, despite me never really getting into the rest of her material.
Since then, she has been signed by majorish record label Nettwerk who have reissued her first album, Batten the Hatches. In recent months she has toured the UK, released a split EP with Dave House and recorded a cover of Nelly’s Hot in Here, the video of which you’ll find further down.
Convinced that the original album hasn’t been milked enough, we now have the video for Was I, which seems to be a variation of the original song I wrote about a year and a half ago. To be perfectly honest, I’m not a huge fan of it’s rather non-sensical “What the was I thinking?” chorus, but hey, the violins are still nice.
And here’s the Hot in Here video that I never got around to writing about a few months ago:
Batten the Hatches was released in the UK about a month ago via Nettwerk. Was I is presumably being released as a single, but I have no idea when.
One of the classics..
MP3 Jenny Owen Youngs - Voice on Tape (expired)
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O dear.
This is the first time we’ve seen this video. It (the song) simply doesn’t work, does it, without the “fuck”? & the video is far too gay (as in skippy, not homosexually charged) & un-angry. Dear, dear me.
The original video for “Fuck Was I” is far better &, by default, we concur: they is milking a now very skinny cow.
This was my favorite song from your site, but I have to agree with D.C. - the lyrics and the visuals are completely at odds. Very strange. :)