The soundtrack for Juno is a huge hit, currently holding the #2 spot on the Billboard 200 Chart (and the #1 spot on Amazon and the #1 spot on iTunes), and I’m just waiting patiently for the outcries that come afterward when some housewife in the Midwest gets turned on enough by Kimya Dawson and the Moldy Peaches to buy the band’s first, self-titled album. You know, the one that already had enough troubles when it hit stores on September 11, 2001 with a track called “NYC’s Like a Graveyard”. The one that has lyrics about porn and crack and wondering “whose pussy hole needs filling.” Yes, it should go over well with the folks who think “Anyone Else But You” is just the cutest song ever.
Speaking of “Anyone Else But You,” the Moldy Peaches (Dawson and a very unenthusiastic Adam Green) performed the song on The View last week, and one of the lines in the song was altered. Of course, you’d expect that for daytime television a possibly offensive lyric would be changed, censored or deleted. But here the original words (”you shook a little turd out of the bottom of your pants”) were substituted with something seemingly far less kosher (”you blew a little load out of the bottom of your pants”). Perhaps “load” is technically a safer word than “turd” but in the context it goes from being about poop to being about ejaculation. Can that be appropriate for ABC’s daytime audience?
I guess as I haven’t yet heard or read about any fuss regarding the Moldy Peaches’ more R-rated songs, I shouldn’t be bothering to speculate that there could be. But the whole matter made me think back to Karina’s post from a month ago about people (her sister, specifically) being turned on to bands courtesy of hit soundtracks. So, I’ll just sit here and wait for the backlash … any day now … (cough) …







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that clip is surreal. it looks like that set is in the middle of a dark, empty airplane hanger.
not from these guys apparently
http://www.thelmagazine.com/print.cfm?content_id=3736
you guys are big duplass bros. fans…wasn’t “anyone else but you” featured in THE PUFFY CHAIR? can you confirm?
The best part of the video is Adam’s reaction to the “blow a little load” line.
@treeboy: I’m not absolutely sure, but there’s a page on the Duplass’ website where they’ve posted songs used in The Puffy Chair, and that’s not one of them:
http://duplassbrothers.com/bands.html
There was a reference to JUNO in the BAGHEAD press notes, though. It was something like, “With all due respect to Diablo Cody, we watched THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on Starz about 500 times.”
my bad…it was used in MURDERBALL…i knew that i had heard it used in a film…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moldy_Peaches
Thanks for reminding me about this — or perhaps I should be thanking carpetbagger — anyway, when I heard I’d missed the Moldy Peaches on the view I knew I had to catch it on youtube to soak in all the surreala wesomeness that it would surely bring. And boy howdy, does it ever. My favorite being that you can pause it at 3:42 and see Kimya get mistaken for Colin Powell.
That backdrop is pretty darn weird as well.
That’s really exciting. I don’t care much for Juno but The Moldy Peaches were a major thing in my life back in the day. Shame it takes an overrated pseudo-indie film to get people to notice them…
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