Zooey Deschanel is so adorable that even I––usually such a knee-jerk skeptic when it comes to Things People Think Are Adorable––have to just give myself over to her absolute adorability. The indie actress, who sang in Elf and recently in a teeny role in The Assassination of Jesse James, is releasing an album with M. Ward under the name She & Him this March. The two will be playing at SXSW on March 14; in the meantime, Stereogum has an MP3 from the album, for a track called “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?” It’s totally 60s, like something Serge Gainsbourg would have produced, but a little less breathier and a little more garage-ier. Above: She and Him perform the Ricky Nelson classic, “Lonesome Town.”
My goodness I love Zooey Deschanel. I introduced myself to her once, after a screening of All the Real Girls at Sundance…I could barely speak though. She destroys me.
Ah stereogum. Why do people follow these guys? We - and the rest of the internet - have had around 5 of the tracks from that Deschanel album for months now.
Sure, whateves, but we’re sort of irked when people report Stereogum stuff the day of like it’s news when the info has generally been out there for months.
Especially a keen-eyed and fresh blog like this one. Just sayin’, a lot of Stereogum material is tres stale, but they still get tons of traffic and credit, sigh…