The Playlist passes along word that Sonic Youth’s cover of The Carpenters’ “Superstar” has made it onto the Juno soundtrack album. The song plays a key role in my favorite part of the film, the friendship between Ellen Page’s pregnant teen and Jason Bateman’s 30-something would-be adoptive father, through which Juno learns perhaps the most important lesson of being a wise-beyond-your-years teenage girl: you can only be precocious and adorable and interested in some older dude’s past life as a minor rock star for so long before said older dude starts getting That Look in his eyes every time you come ’round.
Still, it seems a *little* weird that a song that was originally recorded for a compilation disc would now end up on another compilation disc. Or maybe it doesn’t. I don’t know. The whole point of this post was to have an excuse to embed Dave Markey’s video for the song, which I love, and have loved since I was Juno’s age.
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Great video.
Question: If Thurston Moore’s golden microphone turned up on eBay, how much would you pay for it?
This is going to sound totally insane, but I would save my money, because I have this dream of somehow hiring Sonic Youth to play at my wedding. In fact, I’m totally afraid of marriage, so it would be pretty much the *only* thing that would make getting married worth it to me.
SUPERSTAR is one of the best songs ever written, and this cover is tremendous. My dad (what?!?) bought this compilation because he loved the Carpenters, and I’ll never forget him playing the Sonic Youth SUPERSTAR for me, asking if I had ever heard of this band before. The look on his face when I played TEENAGE RIOT for him broke my heart.
Great song. Thanks for this.